TMC
08-11-2015, 01:07 AM
http://time.com/3990805/true-detective-finale-louie-tv-auteurs/
"Pizzolatto had the classic songwriter’s problem,” says James Poniewozik. "You have your whole life to make your first album, and a year to make your second. He didn’t do it entirely alone (the fourth episode was the series’ first to feature a co-writer), but he mostly did. And it showed.There were flashes of beauty–YMMV, but Ray’s final, unsent recording to his son was lovely–but a whole lot of notebook-emptying. Many of the season’s weaknesses might have been improved by an empowered room of writers to talk back, cut the fat, handle fundamentals like breaking a coherent story. Yes, that would diluting the voice, but the 180-proof Pizzolatto we got this year could have used it.” PLUS: The plot was too messy (http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/true-detective-what-went-wrong.html) to be characterized as dense, but coherent, and True Detective gets mashed up with Star Wars (http://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-true-detective-mashup/).
"Pizzolatto had the classic songwriter’s problem,” says James Poniewozik. "You have your whole life to make your first album, and a year to make your second. He didn’t do it entirely alone (the fourth episode was the series’ first to feature a co-writer), but he mostly did. And it showed.There were flashes of beauty–YMMV, but Ray’s final, unsent recording to his son was lovely–but a whole lot of notebook-emptying. Many of the season’s weaknesses might have been improved by an empowered room of writers to talk back, cut the fat, handle fundamentals like breaking a coherent story. Yes, that would diluting the voice, but the 180-proof Pizzolatto we got this year could have used it.” PLUS: The plot was too messy (http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/true-detective-what-went-wrong.html) to be characterized as dense, but coherent, and True Detective gets mashed up with Star Wars (http://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-true-detective-mashup/).