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MistaT wrote:
Loving True Detective though I enjoyed the first three episodes more than the last two, my roommate is the opposite. Really comes down to your desire of dialogue/story vs action and what balance you enjoy.
Cole's ramblings finally started to bore me for this one but I think that might have been the point? Is he saying anything he believes to the modern day detectives or just trying to wind them up? The first and last 15 minutes were outstanding though.
And really don't think I can praise it enough, it's exactly the sort of story I love. Reminds me a lot of James Ellroy's darkest stuff - The Big Nowhere especially (any fans?). Similar pace and tone.
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Love what Ellroy I've read, but I've not read the Big Nowhere, just LA Confidential and the Underworld USA trilogy.
Feels like the two contrasting cops premise of True Detective owes a bit to LA Confidential specifically among noir influences, although Cohle and Hart are a bit more layered than Ed Exley and Bud White.
It won't really be like any Ellroy I've read unless the chase starts to turn back onto the structures of government and law enforcement pretty soon, though.
I've seen the first three eps, so I've just been treated to a brief glimpse of a (the?) possible perp at the end of ep three. It's been terrific so far, but ... I'm feeling like this might be the last southern Gothic thing I can watch for a while after True Blood, Justified, Rectify, and other shows and many films as well over the past few years. Aesthetically it's a well trodden road, albeit with superlative production.
