Love the third season of True Detective so much! I think, if the ending doesn't collapse, this season is completely better than the first season (and the second season, which is not a success, can't be compared). The first season of "True Detective" is a bit too magical. At first glance, it is a made-up case. It is deliberately made mysterious and mysterious. Although the setting of the king in yellow robe is quite cultural, it belongs to the concept derived from the concept, which makes me think The whole show is a bit of a castle in the air.
Although the case in the third season is also very mysterious, it is not a mystery. The story revolves around the people around the case: there are desperate and confused bottom-level couples (parents of children); there are detectives who have devoted their whole lives but are excluded by the police; there are Indians The history of being discriminated against with blacks; there is also the sloppiness of blacks; there are also various conflicts with religion and morality brought about by the times...
In just four episodes, at least five or six of the protagonists and supporting roles have clearly explained their life trajectories and inner conflicts! The method is really delicate! Not to mention that the series uses the three-line narrative to perfection, while maintaining a good sense of suspense and rhythm!
The two detective partners, one black and one white in the center, and the black detective's girlfriend, these three actors are not very big names, and they can't compare with the lineup of the first season. But the performances of the three are very good, and the heat is very good - in fact, Woody and Matthew in the first season have a tendency to overact. Especially Mahershala Ali who plays the male lead, the three age groups are as stable as Tarzan!
Needless to say, the soundtrack and the like, "True Detective" has always been of high quality!
Back to the story of the play. This three-line narrative is simply brilliant! By juxtaposing the three eras, it first makes the narrative and character shaping very full and thick, avoiding the problem of event-driven greater than character-driven that may be caused by a single-line narrative, and allowing the audience to repeatedly agitate between events, roles, and emotions, which greatly improves space for dramatic performance. At the same time, it can also wrap up the suspense very well, and change the channel at a critical time! As a suspense drama, except for the lack of information provided (deliberately hiding a lot of useful information and releasing it slowly), there is really nothing to complain about. The three-line narrative also provides a multi-perspective, based on the case, through the restart of the case in the 1990s and the current (2015?) aging protagonist, repeatedly reviewing the process of solving the case in that year, forming an "intertext" in the episodes . At the same time, we can also see the imprints left by the changes of the times on the roles and people's concepts. My only question is: How popular is this narrative in North America? How much acceptance is it in the country?
Lastly, a little plot discussion: the heroine in episode 4 mentioned that the boy may have died in an accident rather than a murder, and I have that speculation too. I look forward to seeing the last episode very much, and hope to witness the completion of another classic American drama!
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