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The third episode of True Detective's third season continued the show's promising start from last week, when we saw the first two episodes air back to back. This week we saw relationships take center stage, really allowing us as an audience to see Roland West in particular in a better light and ending any worries …
It has been four long years since True Detective last appeared on our screens, having been almost damned into non-existence by the mixed reviews of Season 2. While it is true that the second story did not capture that same Southern Gothic feel or the perfectly difficult charm of the relationship between Season 1's Rust …
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Fresh off his win for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, previous Academy Award winner (Moonlight) Mahershala Ali anchors the highly anticipated third season of HBO’s crime thriller anthology True Detective. After a highly divisive second season that saw many fans and critics wondering what had gone wrong, the …
Part 3: Dreams, Symbols, and Soul Retrieval “Wherever the mythological mood prevails, tragedy is impossible. A quality rather of dream prevails. True being, meanwhile, is not in the shapes but in the dreamer.” (Campbell, 1949/2008, p. 231). Louisiana is Dreaming Louisiana is the mythological matrix of True Detective. People have inhabited her land for thousands of years, long …
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The Awakening of a Mystery Part 2: The Psychopathology of True Detective The etymology of the word psychopathology is quite illuminating: Psyche, meaning mind or soul; Pathos, meaning suffer or grief; Logos, meaning discourse, word, or logic. Rather than imagining "psychopathology" as a dry, clinical term, we can define it as the speech of the …
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The Awakening of a Mystery There are countless ways to tell a story, but a good detective story usually begins with a dead body. That’s not actually where the story begins, but it is when we-the-viewer often enter the narrative. As the story progresses, we follow living characters as they retrace the past, until …
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