‘True Detective: Night Country’ review: A long day’s journey into ... just another cop show
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Jan 11, 2024
3 minutes
A cop show is a cop show is a cop show — even when it’s packaged as a prestige endeavor with an Oscar-winning star and artful care given to the show’s look and feel. HBO’s anthology series “True Detective” has been an exercise in distracting audiences from this fact.
It was most effective in its first season, thanks to the Southern Gothic visuals captured by director Cary Joji Fukunaga and Matthew McConaughey’s performance as a disillusioned cop playing mind games with a couple of, well, best to look elsewhere.
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