Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

midnightowl-01681 Great actors, great story and great tv! A must see

dtaggart-395-876626 The production, directing, acting was incredible-flawless. It's been a very long time since I've watched a series of any kind, where I was truly excited to get through the next week, to the next episode. So many thought provoking situations and hair raising wow moments, it's literally impossible to put a finger on just one single moment, comment, situation, symbolic meaning ... Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were spot-on perfect. The director was masterful. True Detective is a 10/10 without question!Oops, I forgot about second season ........ OUCH! True Detective = OUTSTANDING until ... season number 2.

mazzyfred To be honnest, I was slightly afraid to watch the season 2 of this show after the dreadful reviews I read almost everywhere. I liked season 1, very solid TV show and entertaining. Very solid mistery too. Season 2 though is a true delight if you enjoy Noir novels set in corrupt LA, and James Mc Elroy is a clear and obvious influence to be honnest, where the end game is not really to solve the mystery but to show how broken and hopeless the system is. Even though I quite understand why some/many would rate season 2 much lower, I like it more than season 1 for the gritty, dark and desperate situation the protagonists are slowly drown into.

lavatch As a crime story, this "True Detective" series was only average. The pacing was laboriously slow for the first three episodes. And the narrative design was clumsy with an over-reliance on flashbacks and recurring interviews.For an intricately plotted, eight-program series, the filmmakers were sloppy on details. For example, it was not clear how both detectives could retire from the police force and afford to rent a large office space in a strip mall to continue as private investigators working pro-bono on the Dora Lange murder case. For Marty Hart, how was he able to continue supporting his estranged wife and two daughters who lived in a beautiful home with their only income her salary as a nurse? Indeed, the women's roles in this film were all under-developed and bore little resemblance to women in the twenty-first century. It was difficult to imagine that Marty's wife, Maggie, would return to him after his serial adultery. It was an even greater stretch to believe that the two younger women, Lisa and Beth, would give the time of day to an older, married, seedy detective. Lisa worked as a court reporter and should know something about the law. Why wouldn't she report Marty for breaking and entering her apartment and assaulting her boyfriend? Instead, she plays the role of scorned woman and "reports" him only to Maggie. It was almost as if the women's characters were conceived in a detective film of the 1940s or '50s.Another shortcoming was the standard suspense film technique of making the police appear incompetent. In a crime story, the expectation should be some degree of realism. But in "True Detective," it seemed as though Marty and Rust were the only members of the police squad assigned to investigate a string of murders. As for their fellow officer Steve Geracy, it was incredulous that he could have been both incompetent and unprofessional in taking a false deposition in the Marie Fontenot killing. That detail seemed like another plot device in the film, not the action that would derive from a veteran cop.The best part of the film was development of the two detectives and the good performances, especially Woody Harrelson as Marty Hart. The banter between the two detectives was crisp, and the differentiation of their characters made them a compelling pair. It is unfortunate that the film was not tidier or not include a more creative approach to the two rogue detectives.Regarding Season Two, the same problems from the same screenwriter abounded in spades: good characters, but weak narrative design.