True Detective Season 1 Ep 3 “Locked Room”: The Slow Burn Network Found a Slow Burn Show

 

True Detective MONSTER

True Detective is a great fire which burns bright. It’s story is already fully formed by the time we are thrusted into it. It’s a complex murder investigation, which at first blush, we come in near the end of.

True Detective was a revelation in 2014 when it appeared. It took the well-worn trope of Detective Drama and played with it in a new—obvious way. Matthew McConaughey plays Rust Cohle, an alcoholic recluse who is both good and bad at his job. Woody Harrelson plays Marty Hart. A man with many secrets…

The first 3 episodes concern the hunting of a monster. Really just an overdramatic term for “A man who murders people brutally.” So, he doesn’t breathe fire or anything. He doesn’t fly. He just hides.

Game of Thrones Monster

I like HBO. I like their slow burn technique. But, it has to pay off.

Matrix 4

 

A Charming Escape from our Dystopian Times.

Ted Lasso is Cheerier than COVID

 

Ted Lasso: Cheerier Than COVID

Sasquatch has a reality problem

Sasquatch is the true-crime documentary of a murder in the

“Emerald Triangle” area of northern California. The crime was a triple-homicide in the fall of 93.

 

Episode 1 needlessly deals with Sasquatch lore in the area. It distracts from the triple murder. I have to spend valuable brain energy reminding myself that an eight-foot tall Great Ape isn’t real. I marveled at the art of deception as creator David Holthouse that a figment of popular imagination is real. It distracts from a plain-Jane murder mystery.

 

It was a letdown.  

Reality is much cooler.

Cape Fear or How To Coast in Respectability As The Greatest Director™

 

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Cape Fear or How To Coast in Respectability As The Greatest Director™

 

There are movies that  are Great Movies™ and there are movies that I Need To Say Are Good Movies™. Cape Fear(1991) feels like a 30-year-old movie, because it is. Back then, movies didn’t have to compete with Twitter, or your Bird App friends. You could sit and watch a movie. Playing with a phone would have been strange, because it was just a phone! All it did was call people! Imagine! The horror!

 

Cape Fear is a slow-burner of a movie. Think CSI: Nondescript North Carolina Beach Town but longer. Nick Nolte, pre-brain-damage, plays a lawyer who didn’t adequately defend a scumbag. Less than believably played by Robert DeNiro.

 

All I gotta ask is

HOW?!

How did DeNiro find Nolte once he was released? Nolte had recently relocated from Georgia where DeNiro had committed the crime. It’s a big world! The internet wasn’t around! Not even dial-up! How did he find them! How!

 

Explain, Scorsese! You made Good Fellas! Do Better! Smash edits aren’t enough to build tension anymore! You can’t transition your way to an Oscar! This isn’t Taxi Driver! The men see each other in a theater. Ok. What? How did he know he was going to be there with no search history to hack?

 

Gah! This why White-People-Can’t-Cook-Twitter™ is so much more compelling! Marty, ya gotta be better than that blonde lady doing a step-by-step montage of pan-seering dry spaghetti wrapped in raw ground beef in a star burst reduction! It ain’t 1991 anymore!

 

  

 

Cape 

 

 

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