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True Detective is a television series broadcast on HBO since January 2014. The series follow two detectives on an investigation on several murders from 1995 to 2012. We hear then describe separately during a interrogatory how they hunt a serial killer and how this criminal investigation have influence their life somehow.
I’m here to talk about movies and True Detective isn’t but I just want to emphasize the fact that since 10 years, maybe more, the quality of TV Series is quiet good, so good that it can compete with the cinema and the movies. And True Detective for instance is one of the best series I ever watched. Each episode is like a very good short movie. And it is magnificent and the story can be spread in every episode, the details are work through a story who keep you amazed. The actors come from the cinema industry, the resources made available create a cinematic performance.
One thing made me realise it was definitely really good during the first season, episode 4: the six minutes long take where we follow Rust during a violent scene. (I won’t say too much about this). It start at 1’58.
How incredible is this?
Also the character played by Matthew McConaughey could just have been boring, cliché, his lines are very dramatic, it could have been just ridiculous but the director, the scenario plus McConaughey have just made Rust’s characters powerful, kind of creepy probably, but true, direct, strong and besides the fact that he is somehow a little bit crazy, one of the most memorable and well played character in the TV history.
But beside the oppressive atmosphere, the visual intensity and the remarkable work of the writers and director Cary Fukanaga, the show is based on the two main characters, the ensemble performance made the show unforgettable. McConaughey and Harrelson’s performance together (and not just as separate actors and characters) is pretty amazing. Friends in real life, the chemistry on screen is here and the relationship between those two is a perfect match. They don’t play ‘good cop, bad cop’ they play something who look like a real relationship between two cops, struggling with their investigation and private life.
We are now waiting for the second season, it should be broadcast during summer 2015 starting a very interesting cast (including Colin Farrell who might know the same success as McConaughey who needed to revive his career after some bad movies, not as promising as the critical success of his first movies). The action should take place in California and be different but keeping what made it successful though.
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