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True Detective - Season 3
In the third season, investigations are reintroduced through many new puzzles, where Hayes, following the 1980 Purcell case in West Wenger, AR, including potential evidence left at Devils Dean, sees an outdoor break for local children. With attention focused on two prominent suspects - Brett Ward, a single veterinarian, and Ted Lagrange, a previous relationship with the fondness of children - the parents of missing children, Tom and Lucy Purcell, receive an encrypted memo from an anonymous source.
12 May 1970, Columbus, Ohio, USA
15 July 1961, London, Ontario, Canada
21 July 1980, Manchester, Massachusetts, USA
9 November 1947, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 November 1975, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
January 14, 2019
Saulnier's influence will be missed, but still, with Ali's compelling lead performance and a captivating new mystery, True Detective has its mojo back.
January 11, 2019
Despite the shadowy distractions, "True Detective" is a solid procedural led by a faceted leading performance.
January 11, 2019
The long-awaited third season... re-commits to the mood of the first - in ways that both satisfy and frustrate.
January 02, 2019
"True Detective" is good again, and that alone is worth celebrating.
January 14, 2019
People aren't going to freak out about this the way they did about the first two seasons, for better or for worse. But judging from the Season's Three opening one-two punch, they're apt to quiet down and listen.
January 13, 2019
Season three marks a quasi-return to safety, albeit one that's needlessly more complicated and predictably dour.
January 14, 2019
A show as distinctive as this is easy to parody; and easily falls into self-parody. Time is a flat circle, and so on.
January 02, 2019
But despite a tremendous lead performance from Mahershala Ali, it doesn't quite reach the heights of Season 1, either. More than anything, it feels unnecessary, hitting the same self-consciously grim notes we've seen plenty of times before.
January 13, 2019
While I appreciate Mahershala Ali's solid performance and the technical excellence of this gorgeous production, there is no sense of urgency or connection. Everyone is sleep walking through the case.
January 10, 2019
I wondered what I would think if neither of the previous seasons had existed, and I realized-I probably wouldn't be thinking about it at all.

