True Detective, Season One: Good Cliche, Bad Cliche
“I seen all the different types – we all fit a certain category. The bully.…
The Art of the Minor Character
A story doesn’t need to address every kind of morality; in fact, it may be…
Taco Break: a Question of Tone
In Wednesday’s article on the 10 worst films of 2015, there appears an interesting exchange…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 8: “Omega Station”
True Detective‘s final episode this season comes close to double-length, and it divides neatly into…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 7: “Black Maps and Motel Rooms”
There aren’t a lot of ways a complex, Los Angeles-based story of crime, cops, and…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 6: “Church in Ruins”
Comparing the classical, effective opening scene of “Church in Ruins” to the largely weak rest…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 5: “Other Lives”
So, how do you top something like the all-owning, status-quo destroying shootout of last week?…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 4: “Down Will Come”
In the South they believed they had bloodied their land with history. In California we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 3: “Maybe Tomorrow”
Storytelling is lying. What we hear, what we see, is not actually happening. What we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 2: “Night Finds You”
Review of minutes 1-58: here, in the tenth hour of Nic Pizzolatto’s television works, we…