There are a lot of mysteries on HBO these days. Even when a show isn’t about getting to the bottom of crimes or catching murderers, the interactive element of getting an audience to “solve” what’s happening onscreen is a vital part of the entertainment landscape. Look at Westworld, a show that has ten times more mystery than it actually has plot, or Game of Thrones and its hundreds of fan theories, or Sharp Objects and its laundry list of dead little girls.
At the center of these is True Detective, a show that is outwardly about mystery but in its three seasons has used the framework of crime to explore the interiority of its characters and the effects that One Big Case had on their lives. Most of the characters in previous seasons are left worse off by the time their story is done, which tracks as far as they’ve been dealt awful hands and witnessed terrible things. But True Detective Season 3 did something different. It gave its characters, all of them that are still alive, a happy ending. Read more…
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