Season one of True Detective was one of the rare series to earn a place in this pantheon. But when they do – The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and only a few others – you always feel the small screen channeling is the big screen. The shows that look and feel like movies, that have the daring and ambition and visual complexity – and the darkness – we associate with great films, don’t come along all that often. Big mistake! In the renaissance era of television, it’s now trendy to say that TV is superior to film, but the irony of that statement is that it’s based on a standard of quality derived almost entirely from the cinema. There are many ways to describe what’s wrong with the second season of HBO’s True Detective, but after five episodes (out of eight), the simplest way to put it is this: the show forgot to be a movie.
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