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What is it, really?
Does its creator even know?
The locale shifted from a Flannery OConnormeetsH.P.
The humor-impaired scripts doubled down on despairing machismo even when dealing with the main casts only prominent female character.
In the end, the series exemplified the most extreme sophomore-season qualitative free fall sinceHomeland.
This proved to be one of two masterstrokes, along with making Hays a more introspective and reactive character.
True Detectivefalls prey to a slightly milder case of misogyny than afflicted it in season one.
The suspect is resentful from the start, and not without reason.
White children, he says, after Hays explains the case was covered by local media.
If it was in the papers, it was white children.
(Would you like to confess now?
a local priest asks him.
I reckon Ill let it pile up a little more, Hays replies.)
