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True Detective Season 1 (8.5/10) - "This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but a jungle."

Review by @dedicatedguy · 2061d · of True Detective

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I have known about this series for a few years and watching some parts of some episodes of this season but never decided to properly watch it. This is an anthology series from HBO where each season has a different story and different cast. As the name implies, this is about detectives investigating bizarre crimes that are very hard to solve.

Season 1 was released in 2014 but I just watched it in its entirety for the first time last week and it was a very good show. The season has 2 excellent actors as the main ones, as you can see in the poster above, and the creepy crimes being when they discover a sort of ritualistic murder that ended with a naked woman wearing horns in some strange position under a big tree.

One of these detectives is a married man who cannot stop himself from being unfaithful, but at least he is a good and correct cop. The other one is weird. He isn't married and appears to have no family, he has strange thoughts about life and is simply not a normal guy.

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The story is shown in 2 different periods. 1 of these is when the detectives discover this bizarre crime and start investigating it, and the other one is much later when they are being interrogated by younger detectives and it is here when we can see how much has Rust, the weird detective, changed with time. He looks like a completely different person. The other detective is just the same but older. This makes one wonder what happened to Rust even though he was always weird.

As the current interrogation is taking place, the series will show us the corresponding events that happened more than 10 years ago, we will able to see how they describe now what happened then. Throughout several episodes, it will be clear the show wants to make the viewer suspect about a certain character, which will cause recent events to be a bit tenser.

I thought for some time there was something paranormal going on in this place, and this will be cleared up by the end of the series. The mystery remains intriguing until the very final episode but I was expecting something even crazier. There is a conspiracy going on in this little town, and yes, it is a dark one. But in the end, it wasn't as impactful as I was hoping, let's just say I enjoyed the cooking more than actually eating the food.

Nevertheless, this was a totally awesome show and one I really recommend watching if you enjoy the mystery-thriller genres. I might watch another season of True Detective, however, this one appears to be the best of the 3 seasons released so far.

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The best

  • Excellent performance from the entire cast.
  • Intriguing story.
  • Good cinematography.
  • I enjoyed how the story takes place over several years and seeing how these characters changed with time.

The worst

  • Given the fact the entire series implies there is something super crazy going on, I was expecting a very explosive ending. Much more than what it actually was.

More information: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/episodes?season=1 Review: AAA In numbers: 8.5/10

Comments · 2

  • @salexa5(51)· 2057d

    I would enjoy seeing this series.

  • @nameless16(75)· 2060d

    I don't know if you're going to see the third season and I don't want to make some kind of spoiler either, but the phrase he used for the title describes very well what the third and what seems to be the last season of this anthology series.

    The first season was the best and very difficult to overcome, I remember all the theories that existed on the Internet when each chapter was released, the many references to the Yellow King and other things. There is always a rumor that these characters may come back to close the case and I hope it will be so, someday.