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What The Hell Is Happening On ‘True Detective’? A Mid-Season Explainer
Uproxx If you’re following along with True Detective season two closely enough, you can play along with the theories and speculation, dig deep into the minute details, and enjoy all the jokes at the...
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In Defense Of ‘True Detective’ Season Two, A Show Doomed From The Start
HBO When the final curtain closed on True Detective season one, many who had followed the tale from the start, shambled down the halls of Carcosa in search of the Yellow King, and then found “the...
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On ‘True Detective,’ The Answers Are Coming Fast, And We’re Finally Getting...
HBO After half a season of True Detective, in which Nic Pizzolatto seemed determined to complicate his plot to the point that he’d actually scared off a lot of confused viewers (overnight ratings...
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Meet The NYC Comedian Taking The Piss Out Of ‘True Detective’ Season Two
New York City-based comedian Jason Saenz isn’t that big a fan of True Detective‘s second season on HBO. Despite some pretty damn good ratings for HBO, as well as not too few defenses launched by...
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‘True Detective’s Colossal Orgy Scene Brings The Potential Killer(s) Into Focus
HBO Many of the complaints about True Detective early on this season centered on how bleak and oppressive the series was, and how it lacked any of the levity that Matthew McConaughey and Woody...
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‘True Detective’ Connects The Final Pieces Of The Puzzle
HBO In the latest episode of True Detective, “Black Maps and Motel Rooms,” there was a lot of action, some surprising deaths, and a few choice lines of terrible dialogue (“Everything is f*cking!”),...
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The Most Loved And Hated Characters On ‘True Detective’ This Season
HBO It’s safe to say that the second season of HBO’s anthology series True Detective isn’t as universally beloved as season one, when Rust Cohle drank his way into our hearts. Meanwhile, this year,...
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The ‘True Detective’ Season Two Finale Explained
HBO Here’s exactly what I wrote in my recap of last week’s True Detective after surmising that the assistant, Laura/Erica, was almost certainly involved in the murder of Ben Caspere: The wildcard here...
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The Angriest Staring Contests From ‘True Detective’ Season Two
HBO Every so often, someone will edit an NFL game down to just football action. No commercials, no TV timeouts, no huddles, no halftime, only actual plays, which trims three hours down to a neat 11...
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‘True Detective’ meets ‘Starsky & Hutch’ in funky credits mash-up
HBO/Vulture We can debate about the aesthetic and narrative quality of the shootout from last night's “True Detective,” but there can be no arguing that it provided outstanding fodder for this Vulture...
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‘True Detective’ hits the reset button, but is it too late to matter?
HBO A review of tonight's “True Detective” coming up just as soon as I take a micronap… In trying to convince Ray to join the new, covert incarnation of the Caspere task force, Ani tells him that it's...
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Review: ‘True Detective’–‘Church in Ruins’
HBO A review of tonight's “True Detective” coming up just as soon as I find “Friends”… This week, on “Looking For Silver Linings From 'True Detective' Season 2”: * The very busy Miguel Sapochnik (who...
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Things get bad for the ‘True Detective’ heroes right as the season gets good?
HBO A review of tonight's “True Detective” coming up just as soon as I manage an Applebee's… “After all, don't fight what you can't change.” -Frank Among the many glaring problems of this season, one...
View ArticleReview: Trying to make sense of the ridiculous ‘True Detective’ finale
A review of the “True Detective” season finale coming up just as soon as I wear a white suit with a red rose in my jacket… In recent weeks, I've been trying to look for silver linings in the overall...
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Taylor Kitsch Is Set To Play David Koresh In An Upcoming Series About The...
NBC / Wikimedia Commons Only in Hollywood can a person’s uncanny likeness to an infamous, pedophilic prophet yield professional benefits. It’s being reported that Friday Night Lights alum Taylor Kitsch...
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Channing Tatum: I almost played Gambit in ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’
AP Photo/Thibault Camus (CBR) When longtime “X-Men” franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner last week confirmed that Channing Tatum has been cast as Gambit, it wasn”t the announcement that was so...
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Review: In HBO’s ‘The Normal Heart,’ Ryan Murphy gets in the way
HBO What makes Ryan Murphy such a frustrating storyteller is that he has very obvious and impressive strengths, which he then seems to go out of his way to obscure with his very obvious weaknesses. He...
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Aw, That’s Cute: Taylor Kitsch Wishes They’d Make ‘John Carter 2’
Disney Poor Taylor Kitsch — he’s seems like a pretty decent, down-to-earth guy. At the very least, he hasn’t let his brief rise to superstardom (and subsequent fiery burnout) warp him into some sort of...
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Report: Colin Farrell And Taylor Kitsch In Talks For Lead Roles In ‘True...
Getty Image Yesterday at about 6:30 p.m. — in a post passing along the news that True Detective Season 2 will take place in California and feature FOUR lead roles, according to creator Nic Pizzolatto —...
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Major Plot Details Emerge About ‘True Detective’ Season Two
Last week, we got word that Colin Farrell was in negotiations for one of the (four) leads in True Detective season two, while HBO and Nic Pizzolatto wanted Taylor Kitsch for one of the other leads....
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Taylor Kitsch Will Play The Lead In The Unnecessary Remake Of ‘The Raid’
Getty Image If you liked Taylor Kitsch as Gambit, you’re going to love him in the English-language remake of The Raid, for which he’s in negotiations to play the lead. Oh the lengths Hollywood thinks...
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A Female Lead Is Being Eyed For ‘True Detective,’ And She Is Perfect
Getty Image More plot details are emerging for the fourth season of True Detective, as we are finally beginning to get a clear picture of what it might look like. Yesterday, it was announced that Vince...
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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, And 15 Facts About ‘Friday Night Lights’
NBC Many years ago, I included the first season of Friday Night Lights among the best 20 seasons of television in the last 20 years. That would still be the case today. The series would be among my...
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Confirmed: Both Colin Farrell And Vince Vaughn Will Star In ‘True Detective’...
Getty Image After nearly two months of speculation, HBO just confirmed what we pretty much all assumed. In addition to the recent news of Colin Farrell being locked down for season two of True...
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Report: HBO has offered Rachel McAdams the female lead in ‘True Detective’...
Canal+ Report: HBO has offered Rachel McAdams the female lead in “True Detective” Season 2 – Taylor Kitsch is also expected aboard Variety reports that McAdams has been the frontrunner for weeks,...
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Report: Rachel McAdams close to ‘True Detective’ lead
Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP It isn't official yet, but it looks as though we are getting very close to the announcement of the casting of another role, or two, for “True Detective.” A new report over...
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‘John Carter’ could head back to Mars now that Disney has lost the film rights
Walt Disney Pictures My guess is that it will not take as long for us to see a second “John Carter” movie as it did for the first one to get made. It still seems sort of amazing that it took almost 100...
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Taylor Kitsch Thinks It Would Be Nice If HBO Would Let Him Be In Season Two...
Getty Image It’s been a full month now since Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell have been confirmed as leads in True Detective, and since then . . ? Radio silence. Rachel McAdams was the last name put out...
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Taylor Kitsch Is Officially In ‘True Detective’ Season 2, Says Taylor Kitsch
Getty Image This past Friday Taylor Kitsch said of his involvement with Season 2 of True Detective, “Rumored right now, yeah. It would be nice, wouldn’t it? Yeah. So we’ll know in a couple days.” Well,...
View ArticleTaylor Kitsch confirms ‘True Detective’ Season 2 role, says it has an ‘old...
Taylor Kitsch has confirmed his starring role in “True Detective.” In a new interview with Adweek the “Lone Survivor” star says he “can't fucking wait” to go in front of the cameras for Season 2 of...
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The Final Roles Are Being Cast For ‘True Detective’ Season 2
Getty Image After months of theories, rumors and casting drama, it looks like HBO is finalizing its roster for the second season of True Detective, and that’s a good thing since table reads are...
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Taylor Kitsch And Emily Ratajkowski Star In A ‘Call Of Duty: Advanced...
Activision Activision has just released a weird “live action” trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and I put “live action” in quotations, because most of the trailer is obvious CGI, but it does...
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HBO makes it official: Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch join ‘True Detective’
Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP No more rumors. No more hypotheticals. No more guesses. HBO has made it official — Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, and Kelly Reilly are joining Colin Farrell and Vince...
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Taylor Kitsch And Rachel McAdams Are Confirmed For ‘True Detective’ Season 2
Getty Image After months of speculation and weeks of “everyone knows Tim Riggins and Regina George have already signed up for the damn show, so why hasn’t it been announced yet,” HBO has finally...
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This Is Rumored To Be The Plot Of ‘True Detective’ Season 2
HBO This time last year, we were still debating the True Detective season 1 finale, 10 days after it aired. Needless to say, season 2 is taking its dear sweet time in getting here, although judging by...
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‘True Detective’ Season 2 has a premiere date, trailer, Colin Farrell’s Mustache
Lacey Terrell/HBO After many months of #TrueDetectiveSeason2 memes on Twitter and beyond, HBO has finally released the first real look at the second season to the Emmy-winning anthology. HBO also...
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New ‘True Detective’ Season 2 trailer finally gives us Nic Pizzolatto dialogue
HBO That first trailer for “True Detective” gave us all of the scowling, urban mood poetry and Colin Farrell mustache we could ever want, but it was still somewhat disappointing to try to reimmerse...
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The Intensity Rises In These Two New ‘True Detective’ Season Two Promos
HBO uploaded two new True Detective promos that do the most with the short time they have to really ratchet up the intensity of what we’re going to see this season. Vince Vaughn is clearly the...
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HBO Releases New Details About The New ‘True Detective’ Characters And Season...
HBO The closer we get to True Detective‘s second season premiere on Sunday, June 21, the more HBO is willing to share. They’re still keeping a lot close to the vest, but there is a new synopsis and...
View ArticleReview: Has ‘True Detective’ fallen victim to the sophomore slump?
Midway through watching the very first episode of “True Detective” season 1, Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle delivered what was already his fourth or fifth monologue about the pointlessness of...
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Season premiere review: ‘True Detective’–‘The Western Book of the Dead’
HBO “True Detective” is back for a new season. I posted some overall thoughts on the early episodes on Wednesday, and I have a review of the premiere coming up just as soon as I display some Meryl...
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Let’s Break Down The First Episode Of ‘True Detective’ Season 2
HBO Before we start unearthing clues and trying to uncover the identity of the killer as we head into Season 2 of True Detective, it’s probably beneficial to get everyone on the same page regarding the...
View ArticleWhat happens when you use ‘True Detective’ Season 1 music with Season 2 opening
After watching last night's True Detective season 2 opener, and noticing they used a similar motif as last season, I wondered if The Handsome Family's “Far From Any Road” would equally compliment the...
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Everything You Need To Know About The First Episode Of ‘True Detective’...
WARNING: The above video contains spoilers for True Detective season two, episode one. Be sure you’re ready before you push play. The return of True Detective season two brought more misery-coated...
View ArticleReview: ‘True Detective’–‘Night Finds You’: The lone gunman?
A review of tonight's “True Detective” coming up just as soon as I support feminism by having body image issues… “But us, the investigation… I don't think it's supposed to work.” -Ray “Night Finds...
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Breaking Down ‘True Detective’ Episode 2: What The Hell Just Happened?
HBO The second episode of the second season of True Detective ended with a Game of Thrones-style cliffhanger: Our murderer wearing the bird mask walked into Ben Caspere’s second apartment — the sex...
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‘True Detective’ Costars Rachel McAdams And Taylor Kitsch Are Allegedly Dating
Getty Image He plays a self-destructive cop with mommy issues and an inability to get a boner, and she plays a self-destructive cop with daddy issues who likes rough sex, but Rachel McAdams and Taylor...
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Review: ‘True Detective’–‘Maybe Tomorrow’: Death becomes him
HBO A review of tonight's “True Detective” coming up just as soon as I'm running a yogurt stand… “Is Ray hurt? What happened?” -Felicia “Somebody murdered him.” -Frank At the end of the first season of...
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Bring Back Fukunaga! Breaking Down The Most Irritating Moments In Last...
HBO I’ve been in something of a denial over the first two episodes of True Detective, silently hoping that nothing is quite what it seems and that Nic Pizzolatto would pull something out of the...
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That ‘True Detective’ gunfight was stunning, but did it make any sense?
HBO A review of tonight's “True Detective” coming up just as soon as I'm louche… Of all the celebrated aspects of “True Detective” season 1, the only part to land the show any major Emmys was the...
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