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Where does that leave season three?
How do we talk about a show thats been talked damn near to death two seasons running?
Creatively speaking, the shows in a pretty good place.
A friends description of the seriess overall arc has stuck with me.
Imagine a big-ass equalizer knob on a stereo.
First, it wobbles all the way to one side the heady, reference-laden metaphysical season-one stuff.
True Detectiveseason three is about the fate of the Purcell children, yes.
Its about Tom Purcell, driven to alcoholism to dull the pain of life in the closet.
And its learned the right lessons, too.
Harry Dean Stantons Carl Rodd, wise and sad in his trailer park.
Alicia Witts Gersten Hawyard, a onetime child prodigy clinging to her suicidal and abusive junkie lover.
Lenny Von Dohlens Harold Smith, the shut-in with thelonely soul.
Catherine E. Coulsons Log Lady, whose prophetic gifts couldnt save her from dying of cancer like anyone else.
Addicts, adulterers, crooked cops, scheming hoteliers,lonely gas station operators.
Others have no connection at all except geography.
All of them float around in the dark and icy waters of the American underclass.
Wayne Hays, Amelia Hays, and Roland West may well be the truest detectives weve met yet.
