True Detective, Season 3 (spoilers ahoy!)
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- Jun 23, 2014
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Agreed, he's such a great villain.
Not much to say about episode 7, the story is developing pretty much as expected from all the fan discussion.
The finale will be interesting, though. Exactly what happened to Julie? Did she escape? Was she let go? Is she alive in 2015? What did Hays and Hoyt talk about? Did Hays give up on the investigation because Hoyt threatened his family?
Quite a few loose ends to tie up in the last episode.
Not much to say about episode 7, the story is developing pretty much as expected from all the fan discussion.
The finale will be interesting, though. Exactly what happened to Julie? Did she escape? Was she let go? Is she alive in 2015? What did Hays and Hoyt talk about? Did Hays give up on the investigation because Hoyt threatened his family?
Quite a few loose ends to tie up in the last episode.
- Aug 12, 2014
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I specifically remember season 1 being slow to develop but once you got to the end you were like “holy crap”. Then everything from point A to point Z all makes sense and the show just blows your mind. That’s how this season is making me feel. Idk if it’s better than the first, that’s purely personal judgement based, but it’s damn good regardless. You really feel for these characters
- Jun 12, 2014
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The Mrs and I found it to be disappointing.
- Aug 12, 2014
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It loses its strangeness and darkness at the end. Just became one mess up that blossomed out of control and ruined a lot of people’s lives. Not a lot was unexpected. Yeah, the ending was pretty disappointing. The season had a ton of promise and this could have gone a million ways and they went bland with it.
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i just watched the entire season yesterday and today (took a sick day today) i enjoyed it , wrapped it up nicely . i really liked the time hops and the reference to season 1 ( now i gotta rewatch that). why the nam snippet at the end? were they just being artsy?
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The wife had a theory right after it, that the whole season was a dilusion that he was killed in the brush in 'Nam.
- Jun 23, 2014
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Plus Jessica Biel.
- Jun 23, 2014
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The creator has said no, he's not dead.
True Detective Season 3 Finale Ending Theories Explained By Creator Nic Pizzolatto
- Jun 13, 2014
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In the end this was a fairly formulaic story. I didn't like the season much at all. Way too much unneeded relationship/character development between the cop and his wife that got boring and ate up time and not enough actual things to keep my interest. And am I the only one who couldn't understand half the stuff the black cop was saying? He mumbled and made hrrumphing noises all the way through the series. o_O
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This comment kinda sums it up for me. What made Season 1 so epic was the unsettling mood for most of the season, utilizing the landscape as a character in and of itself, and the excellent character dialogue.
This season did its best to incorporate those elements, but ultimately failed to truly hit the heights of the first one. As much as they tried, the overall creepiness vibe was never truly there (Season 1 was generally unsettling at times in a suspenseful way, not a horror way); and the dialogue between the central characters was also not quite there. I get that many crimes out there boil down to some form of accident; but on a true crime show--that doesn't make for riveting entertainment.
