# True Detective - HBO - McConaughey / Harrelson \[SPOILERS\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-detective-hbo-mcconaughey-harrelson-spoilers/660697 "2013-06-11T03:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 397
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-detective-hbo-mcconaughey-harrelson-spoilers/660697/397 "2014-03-10T13:49:03Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Great series. Hilarious seeing so many pundits across multiple sites looking for clues where none existed. > > Just great writing and acting. Yup. I think[this Atlantic article](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/the-em-true-detective-em-finale-thats-it/284312/)is pretty fair - lots of praise for the quality of the production, reflection about why it felt sort of flat at the end, and a bit of mea culpa for embracing the conspiracy-theory hysteria: > [@](#): > > Yes, I agree that it’s a show that couldn’t decide what it was, that shifted radically in tone and structure from episode to episode. But its moments of greatness far outweighed its disappointments for me—even now, when I’m close to my depth of disappointment. Like Amy, I thought the first three episodes were sublime, and if the show never quite fulfilled their promise, it still did enough things right—often very, very right—to reward viewing (if perhaps not the kind of obsessive viewing that I ultimately fell prey to). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-detective-hbo-mcconaughey-harrelson-spoilers/660697)._