Law enforcement breaks rules to crack cases in True Detective Season 3. Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff get under the skin.
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective: Season 3 Episode 1
"Yeah, of course I remember," retired Arkansas state detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) says at the very beginning of True Detective season 3 episode 1, "The Great War and Modern Memory." He is giving a deposition, dated May 12, 1990, on a case from a decade prior to that.
It was a full moon on Friday, November 7, 1980, the day Steve McQueen died. Hays and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) were called to investigate two missing kids, a brother (Phoenix Elkin) and his sister (Lena McCarthy). The deposition scene follows an establishing shot of a kid's bicycle tires, complete with a clothes-pinned baseball card rattling the spokes, happily careening up a quiet street on its way to what must be an unhappy destination. It...
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective: Season 3 Episode 1
"Yeah, of course I remember," retired Arkansas state detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) says at the very beginning of True Detective season 3 episode 1, "The Great War and Modern Memory." He is giving a deposition, dated May 12, 1990, on a case from a decade prior to that.
It was a full moon on Friday, November 7, 1980, the day Steve McQueen died. Hays and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) were called to investigate two missing kids, a brother (Phoenix Elkin) and his sister (Lena McCarthy). The deposition scene follows an establishing shot of a kid's bicycle tires, complete with a clothes-pinned baseball card rattling the spokes, happily careening up a quiet street on its way to what must be an unhappy destination. It...
- 12/30/2018
- Den of Geek
Tony Sokol Jan 12, 2019
True Detective Season 3 is coming to HBO in January. Here's everything you need to know!
For a long time, it seemed that True Detective Season 3 was in doubt. A rough second season nearly killed off a franchise that seemed poised for greatness after debuting to much fanfare in 2014. You can't keep a good detective out of the game for long, though. Come January, True Detective returns to HBO with new detectives, a new case, and a fresh location.
read more: Watchmen HBO Series: Everything You Need to Know
Nic Pizzolatto, who also serves as showrunner, is the sole writer of the third season with the exception of Episode 4, which he co-wrote with David Milch (Deadwood), who signed on to help Pizzolatto prepare the third season. Director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), was slated to direct three episodes, but according to a report from Variety, left the project after completing two of them.
True Detective Season 3 is coming to HBO in January. Here's everything you need to know!
For a long time, it seemed that True Detective Season 3 was in doubt. A rough second season nearly killed off a franchise that seemed poised for greatness after debuting to much fanfare in 2014. You can't keep a good detective out of the game for long, though. Come January, True Detective returns to HBO with new detectives, a new case, and a fresh location.
read more: Watchmen HBO Series: Everything You Need to Know
Nic Pizzolatto, who also serves as showrunner, is the sole writer of the third season with the exception of Episode 4, which he co-wrote with David Milch (Deadwood), who signed on to help Pizzolatto prepare the third season. Director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), was slated to direct three episodes, but according to a report from Variety, left the project after completing two of them.
- 7/31/2015
- Den of Geek
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