True Detective’s third episode was Season 2’s best yet, despite a “BS” twist

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As Todd VanDerWerff points out, “True Detective is currently grappling with the fact that it’s trapped in a format where detective stories struggle. In general, the detective story is helped by compression, by the way that events can be collapsed into each other to keep the plot momentum building. That’s why the two most familiar cinematic versions of detective stories are the detective movie (which rarely runs much longer than two hours) and the case-of-the-week TV procedural (which typically wraps each mystery in the span of an hour). Both can tell compelling stories because they’re working within set parameters.” PLUS: A picture is being drawn ever so slowly, was shade being thrown on Cary Fukunaga?, and here’s the story behind True Detective’s cover of The Rose.