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Behind the scenes of 25YL, many of our writers enjoyed discussing True Detective Season 3. Our Editor in Chief Andrew Grevas recently hosted a roundtable discussion where four members of the team shared their thoughts, theories and ideas on what was undoubtedly a tremendous season of television. Joining Andrew for this discussion were Content & …
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Throughout Season 3 of True Detective, Andrew Grevas (Editor in Chief) and Laura Stewart (Content and Experience Manager) alternated weeks covering the show. Their styles were distinctly different, with Laura chasing theories and Andrew diving into the characters and social aspects of the show. With Season 3 now over, the two recently sat down to …
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Welcome to What’s the Buzz, 25YL’s feature where members of our staff provide you with recommendations on a weekly basis. In our internet age, there is so much out there to think about watching, reading, listening to, etc., that it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, filter out the noise, or …
Season 3 of True Detective has come and gone. Just like with the end of any story, there are bound to be any number of opinions and reasons to justify those opinions circulating the internet by now. There will be those that wanted plot twists. There will be those that wanted a larger conspiracy or …
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So here we are, the penultimate episode of the outstanding Season 3 of True Detective. I am going to be genuinely sad when it's over. This week's episode, "The Final Country," seemed to lay everything out, solve the majority of the mystery, and in a sense wipe the slate clean in preparation for what I …
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True Detective Season 3 just keeps getting better and better. On the surface, Episode 6 appears to dish up several answers to this mystery on a plate, but I don't buy that for a minute---what we don't see may be more important than what we do. The title for the episode, "Hunters in the Dark," …
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The act of confession is a cinematic trope as old as they come. Whether it be to a priest, to a friend or confession in a legal sense, there's something quite powerful about a person relieving themselves of their emotional burdens to another person, often making for very powerful moments on camera. What happens to …
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 …