TMC
05-09-2015, 01:12 AM
https://medium.com/@TrueDetective/q-a-with-true-detective-creator-and-showrunner-nic-pizzolatto-8cc72b62c1a
"There's definitely bad men and hard women," says creator Nic Pizzolatto, "but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system (as he earlier promised). That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that."
"There's definitely bad men and hard women," says creator Nic Pizzolatto, "but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system (as he earlier promised). That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that."