True Detective
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With other series it takes a while.
The bits that dont feel clumsy stir a sense of deja vu.
(An incident thats come to be euphemistically referred to as the Woodard Altercation by 1990.)
Motherfucker, he says.
So whats going on?
Has Julie Purcell/Mary July been brainwashed into believing Tom is not her father?
Or could it be something else?
Apparently related: the disappearance of Harris James, one of the officers who processed the Woodard Altercation scene.
He disappeared in 1990, as Elisa Montgomery tells Wayne during one of theirTrue Criminalinterviews.
Its all fairly intriguing, but its hard not to feel strung along.
Wayne and Roland question a now-grown Freddy, whos no less the self-pitying a-hole than he was before.
Yet sometimes it plays as if thats why Pizzolatto built this season ofTrue Detective.
Still, the moments that work make the effort seem worth it.
From the start, season three has played with the flow between past and present.
Sometimes its done this clumsily.
Besides, something he and Wayne did clearly unsettled him big time at some point.
Piecing it together, they seem to have killed Cousin Dan OBrien.
This all clearly means something, though what it means remains unclear.
Does it have something to do with why Wayne and Roland havent spoken in 24 years?
Was itlast episodesroundly criticized soul of a whore phrasing?
