True Detective: 10 Reasons Season 1 Can’t Be Topped
4. One Direction
What is fascinating the most from an artistic perspective is how two primary creatives (Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Fukunaga) managed to hold-up a level of consistency in their art when the general consensus (in writers rooms) is the more the merrier. In comparison, the premier primetime shows of the last year or so Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Sons Of Anarchy have all struggled to maintain this level of constant greatness even with a room full of genius writers. So why has True Detective managed to succeed where others have failed? It would be unfair not to bring up the amount of produced content (compare True Detectives 8 episodes to the standard 10 24 episodes per any other show) however that it feels more likely that having one director gifted the production more opportunities in that it managed to shoot back-to-back. Why this is now a problem, however, is due to the announcement that half of that partnership Fukunaga is leaving the True Detective world and is being replaced by multiple directors. Talent notwithstanding, True Detective season one ripped through itself as an effortless haiku of twisted destruction, an affect that felt easy to a core group of creative minds who forced themselves to live and breath their project with no breaks. Bringing in other directors means not getting on board that rollercoaster and not reaping its possible rewards.
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