(This post contains full season spoilers for True Detective Season Three. On Sunday night, Sean T. Collins recapped “Now Am Found,“ the season finale.)
“You write the story, you get past the start, it’s important to know how you want it to end,” Amelia Hays declares midway through the concluding chapter of True Detective Season Three. This is perhaps the most self-conscious bit of writing about the process of writing in an episode full of it. The series’ two previous iterations each stumbled at the finish line in ways...
“You write the story, you get past the start, it’s important to know how you want it to end,” Amelia Hays declares midway through the concluding chapter of True Detective Season Three. This is perhaps the most self-conscious bit of writing about the process of writing in an episode full of it. The series’ two previous iterations each stumbled at the finish line in ways...
- 2/26/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
“What if there’s another story? What if something went unbroken? All this life, all this loss — what if it was really one long story that just kept going and going until it healed itself? Wouldn’t that be a story worth telling? Wouldn’t that be a story worth hearing?”
These are the words of Amelia Hays to her husband Wayne … sort of. The late writer is just a figment of the aging detective’s senile imagination when she says this to him, providing the final piece in the...
These are the words of Amelia Hays to her husband Wayne … sort of. The late writer is just a figment of the aging detective’s senile imagination when she says this to him, providing the final piece in the...
- 2/25/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Harley Feb 25, 2019
The central mystery of True Detective Season 3, the disappearance of Julie Purcell, is finally solved.
The following contains spoilers for True Detective Season 3.
In the end, True Detective Season 3 was a long story that healed itself. When Julie Purcell disappeared, when her brother Will was found dead in Devil’s Den, a wound opened up in the center of a small Arkansas town that proceeded to swallow the lives of Wayne and Amelia Hays, Roland West, Lucy and Tom Purcell, and many others. In particular, Wayne’s work, his marriage, and his memories were so intertwined with the case that the mystery of Julie’s disappearance was all that held his mind together to keep it from unraveling. But all of the lives that were consumed, the tears shed, and the hours spent combing through the evidence eventually lead to something growing out of all that misery.
The central mystery of True Detective Season 3, the disappearance of Julie Purcell, is finally solved.
The following contains spoilers for True Detective Season 3.
In the end, True Detective Season 3 was a long story that healed itself. When Julie Purcell disappeared, when her brother Will was found dead in Devil’s Den, a wound opened up in the center of a small Arkansas town that proceeded to swallow the lives of Wayne and Amelia Hays, Roland West, Lucy and Tom Purcell, and many others. In particular, Wayne’s work, his marriage, and his memories were so intertwined with the case that the mystery of Julie’s disappearance was all that held his mind together to keep it from unraveling. But all of the lives that were consumed, the tears shed, and the hours spent combing through the evidence eventually lead to something growing out of all that misery.
- 2/25/2019
- Den of Geek
In a True Detective hour where familiar symbols make a big, mind-blowing comeback, there’s a morbid and marvelous shot near the start of this week’s episode — “The Final Country” — that serves as a signifier all its own. It’s 1990, and detective Wayne Hays arrives at an unspecified crime scene, seemingly right near where Will Purcell was killed and his sister Julie potentially kidnapped one decade earlier. With the camera locked on him, the policeman makes his way up the twisting stairs of a tower near the woods, slowing...
- 2/18/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
(Spoilers ahead for Season 3, episode 6 of “True Detective”)
It took a while for “True Detective” Season 3 to get to the point, spending the first five episodes ambling through this mystery with very few clues to help viewers figure out what in the world is happening here.
But I had an idea, after that first Sunday when the first two episodes of the season aired. I suggested that the kidnapping of the Purcell children was part of a conspiracy involving the Hoyt family of Hoyt Foods. That would be a very “True Detective” direction for this story to go, and with nothing that really firmly pointed at any suspects, that seemed like the most logical guess at the time.
And as the season went on, continuing to avoid presenting a plausible list of suspects, I couldn’t help but assume that the Hoyt family had to be involved. And, finally, the...
It took a while for “True Detective” Season 3 to get to the point, spending the first five episodes ambling through this mystery with very few clues to help viewers figure out what in the world is happening here.
But I had an idea, after that first Sunday when the first two episodes of the season aired. I suggested that the kidnapping of the Purcell children was part of a conspiracy involving the Hoyt family of Hoyt Foods. That would be a very “True Detective” direction for this story to go, and with nothing that really firmly pointed at any suspects, that seemed like the most logical guess at the time.
And as the season went on, continuing to avoid presenting a plausible list of suspects, I couldn’t help but assume that the Hoyt family had to be involved. And, finally, the...
- 2/18/2019
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
“It’s terrible what this work makes you ponder, isn’t it?”
At a 1990 reading from Life And Death And The Harvest Moon, Amelia Hays concludes, “A lost child is a story that’s never allowed to end,” and her rapt audience nods along. New evidence (and fresh publicity) in the Purcell case means renewed interest in her…...
At a 1990 reading from Life And Death And The Harvest Moon, Amelia Hays concludes, “A lost child is a story that’s never allowed to end,” and her rapt audience nods along. New evidence (and fresh publicity) in the Purcell case means renewed interest in her…...
- 2/11/2019
- by Emily L. Stephens on TV Club, shared by Emily L. Stephens to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Intense, frightening, revelatory: Without losing the melancholy tone and pointedly un-stylized writing that has characterized this season from the jump, True Detective hit a new high with this week’s episode, aptly titled “Hunters in the Dark.” It follows our suite of protagonists — retired cop Warren Hays, his old partner Roland West,the late novelist Amelia Hays, grieving, alcoholic father Tom Purcell — as they journey deeper into darkness surrounding the death of Will Purcell and the disappearance of his sister Julie. Whether they’re running down clues, discovering literal torture...
- 2/11/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
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