![]() (Harrelson also had a terrific, alternately comic and tense scene with McConaughey, where they are driving and discussing his ex-wife.)Īs for those wasted years, they were summoned most powerfully in the brief glimpse we see of his ex-wife and daughters visiting him in the hospital. (He also knows just what to say to McConaughey once the latter starts crying in the final scene of the show.) Marty emerges, then, as a deeper creation than we were at first led to believe: wounded, wasted, but ultimately not a total stick. ![]() The wonderful scene in which he stumbles upon the house clue was invigorating but also bittersweet for just a moment, we see that he would have been a good cop if he hadn't wasted his prime years on sex and booze. (McConaughey, I believe, eventually yells "L'chaim, fat-ass" at the sheriff.)įor me, however, the best part of the show was Harrelson's performance. Even the kidnapped sheriff has an amusing line, asking what on earth McConaughey, in the midst of a strange comment, actually means. One of the especially nice things about the episode was the humor. The early scenes with the bizarre killer and his lover/half-sister were creepy, but also more familiar from other serial killer shows and movies. It's true that the lead which Marty discovered to crack the case was flimsy in the extreme-green paint on a house? really?-but it didn't upset the dramatic course of the episode. Not only did these scenes add an extra layer of depth to a convoluted but powerful series, but they also called for a reappraisal of Woody Harrelson's character, Marty Hart.īut first, the other stuff: the mystery was solved in just about the way it seemed that it would be after episode seven, thus putting all the more colorful ( and enjoyable) theories about surprise killers to rest. Indeed, what was so striking about Sunday's show was that despite having to wrap up a big mystery and explain some of the things that have been hinted at over the past seven hours (and 18 years), the creators of the show afforded plenty of time to quiet scenes of the two protagonists talking. It may disappoint people who were hoping for earth-shattering relevations, but this was a brilliant hour of television with the best-written dialogue of the series. After eight weeks, two great performances, brilliant direction, and endless speculation, True Detective came to an end tonight with a superb episode.
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