Under the Banner of Heaven captures what was made True Detective special

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"Even as we knew where most things were going, to see the full tragedy laid bare so unflinchingly was devastating," says Chase Hutchinson. "What it reminded many of most was True Detective at its peak, packing the same sense of disillusionment with the world that haunts its characters. The more it went on, the more it became clear that this force of evil was something that was close to home. Both became a deeply unsettling reflection of the worst parts of humanity. Each featured characters who began to see the life that they thought they knew collapsing around them. Even as they both approached their respective stories with a distinct style, in the end they both represented the best of what crime shows have to offer. Rather than just providing easy answers where the police come in and save the day, they each showed the darker truths of reality. Both grappled with the moral ambiguity & depravity of the world, peeling back layer after layer of the darkness until it had completely enveloped itself in it."