Quick Note to Leftovers fans: Justin Theroux’s Kevin, the fucked up centerpiece of HBO’s unpredictable marriage of Lost and The Twilight Zone, isn’t dead. Calm down. Regroup. Make more coffee. He wasn’t killed off on Sunday’s episode. Yes, he did drink the poison glass in order to escape the Patti confrontations and restore order in … More The Leftovers on HBO: Hopelessness bliss
True Detective’s Season 2 was a mess, and something creator Nic Pizzolatto will struggle to come back from. My review. … More True Detective’s Season 2 Finale: A Giant Mess
Welcome to True Detective, where everybody has a dark past, is full of white hot rage and feels like punching someone several times. There are no clean cut square characters in creator Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO landscape of broken souls, messy personalities and anger management blues. Everybody is guilty. It just matters how far they have … More Hard boiled True Detective sizzles with intrigue
When Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey made the deliriously comedic Edtv together in 1999, I would find it hard to imagine they would be tag teaming in HBO’s darkly brilliant 8 hour miniseries True Detective over 13 years later. Then again, each actor had taken chances by then in addition to their well-known comfort zones. … More True Detective Spotlight
