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True Detective season 2: news and episode reviews
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August 10, 2015
7 reasons why True Detective season 2 was an utter disaster
They all come back to one thing: the writing.
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August 3, 2015
True Detective answers your many, many questions in a jam-packed episode
Who is Bird Head? Who killed Caspere? Who's in on the conspiracy? We have some answers — we think.
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July 27, 2015
6 simple reasons this was True Detective's best episode since the middle of season one
By getting back to basis, "Church in Ruins" made for a solid episode of TV.
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July 20, 2015
True Detective season 2, episode 5: The show has made it so hard to care about this season
The series simply assumes we're going to care about it. That's a dangerous thing for any TV series to do.
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July 19, 2015
True Detective's big shootout doesn't make up for season 2 being pretty bad so far
The whole ordeal was an empty exercise in doing something cool that was ultimately devoid of meaning.
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July 13, 2015
True Detective season 2, episode 4: dad problems, sex problems, and a great shootout
Maybe the worst True Detective is the best True Detective.
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July 10, 2015
True Detective’s biggest problem right now is that it’s unwilling to have any fun
Why so serious, show? Would it kill you to throw a pizza onto a roof or something?
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July 6, 2015
True Detective season 2 is all penis problems, all the time
Creator Nic Pizzolatto is both interrogating and celebrating masculine ideals.
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July 5, 2015
True Detective season 2, episode 3: A huge letdown leads an otherwise solid installment
"Maybe Tomorrow" contains some brilliant moments, but it's hard to escape the disappointing resolution the hour opens with.
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July 5, 2015
The True Detective theory that could change everything
If this happens, it could be one of the best moments in TV history.
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July 1, 2015
True Detective’s big cliffhanger is majorly flawed, no matter what happens
The show tried to serve up a shocker, but there’s not much weight to it.
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June 30, 2015
True Detective season 2 continues the tradition of Chinatown and Roger Rabbit. Here's why.
Welcome to pop culture's latest iteration of the California noir story.
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June 28, 2015
True Detective season 2 responds to the biggest criticisms of season 1
It wants to have more vivid women (great!), but it also wants less supernatural weirdness (boo!).
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June 26, 2015
True Detective's second season isn't bad — it's too familiar
We've been down this road before. Remember The Killing?
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June 26, 2015
True Detective season 2 isn't a lost cause. Yet.
Even after a less-than-stellar premiere, it's not too late for the show to turn itself around.
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June 23, 2015
I didn't watch True Detective's first season and I still didn't like the season 2 premiere
The series' return has revealed a major challenge of anthology TV: pleasing existing fans while courting new ones.
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June 22, 2015
True Detective's season 2 premiere was a new pilot. That's why it was so bad.
Maybe it's time for the show to hire a proper writers' room.
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June 22, 2015
The 31 most ridiculous moments of the True Detective premiere
The episode had no story, which doomed it to seem weird and disconnected. So let's pick out its dumbest bits!