Another 'True Detective', another disappointment | TV
The third season of True Detective I had a difficult challenge ahead: to erase the memory of that battered (and rightly so) second delivery and recover the essence of the first. And he did it without dissimulation, almost copying himself, with a story told in three different moments and many links in common with that first installment. So many that in a chapter, a character referred to the case investigated by detectives Rust Cohle and Marty Hart, whose photo appeared on the cover of a newspaper. It was the certification that True Detective 1 and True Detective 3 occur in the same universe. And it is not the only similarity between the two.
The recently finished third delivery has wanted both look like the first that has ended up being a series of five years ago. Whether that is good or bad is relative. Its creator and screenwriter, Nic Pizzolatto, is obsessed with men with problems, those who dominated the recent golden age of television and who, in the current peak tv, They have already been left behind to make way for a more diverse world. Here, that man with problems has been very well interpreted by Mahershala Ali, who last Sunday, while HBO was broadcasting the last chapter of the season, picked up his second Oscar, in this case Green Book. Stephen Dorff has accompanied him on the tour, whose interpretation has gone further as the season has progressed.
As it happened in the previous deliveries, the investigation of the case is not more than an excuse to delve into the characters. In this case, the ghosts of detective Wayne Hays (Ali) were related to the complicated relationship he has with his wife in the different moments of his life, the obsession with the investigation into what happened with two brothers (the death of the child and the disappearance of the girl), and the Alzheimer who suffers when he is older and that is making him lose his memory.
Without going into details, the season has responded to the case revealing that, in reality, there was not much mystery behind. The plot could have been told in two chapters. The end has also been a bit hasty because the answers were simpler than we had been led to believe. In any case, has been consistent with the rest of the season and has shown that the least was the case and what interested Pizzolatto most was the incursion into the psyche of Hays.
Was it worth the season? It depends. For the performances, yes. For the argument and the proposal in general, no. He has lacked novelty, ambience and chicha to a story that became boring at times and did not take off (and did not do too much) until several chapters passed.
Should there be a fourth season? Seen the seen, maybe better not. Better let's move on to other things and let the tormented detectives rest.
