Well, that escalated quickly. An index card on a police bulletin board in 1990 calls the cliffhanger at the end of “True Detective’s” fourth episode the “Woodard Altercation,” in the understatement of the decade.
Sam Eifling
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‘True Detective’ episode 4 recap: Picking up speed
In the fourth episode, we’re edging away from a meditative gaze into the soulful navel of the gothic South and moving toward more of a beach-read, a page-turner. And we’re getting there because for the first time, multiple characters are jousting to control the narrative.
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‘True Detective’ episode 3 recap: Follow the haircuts
We’re now moving with a bit more confidence around the three time periods: 1980, 1990, 2015. You’ve got to follow the haircuts if you want to follow the plot, a mirror of the increasingly fragile mental state of 70-year-old Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) in 2015. The episode is short on bombshells, but gets deeper into what do we know, and why.
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‘True Detective’ episode 1 and 2 recap: Bottling up ghosts
So far, “True Detective” gets a lot right about its Northwest Arkansas setting.
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‘Vice’ is daft, dark and dadaistic
Bale’s Cheney is a quiet, calculating emperor on the rise.
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‘Into the Spider-Verse’ is a hallucinogenic web of pulpy styles
More is more.
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The Great British Baking Show’ is both competition and confection
The sponge also rises.
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‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ lacks the joy of its predecessor
Same song, darker verse.
