Steal These Lines
No television show loved language more than HBO’s Deadwood, but that statement comes with a caveat: It was not particularly quotable.
Tagged: Al Swearengen, David Milch, Deadwood, HBO, Language, Television
Month: February 2019
Failure in a Moment
Sometimes the success or failure of a movie, book, or television show hinges on a short passage. If that small part works, so does the whole; if the crucial bit comes up short, the entire enterprise falls apart. For me with the third season of creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO series True Detective, the moment comes late in the finale when former cop Wayne Hays drives up to the house of a person he strongly suspects is Julie Purcell, who disappeared with her brother Will 35 years ago and has eluded him ever since.
A Lie (and Truths) Agreed Upon
The question of what actually happened with Nora hangs over the finale of The Leftovers, but it is finally unknowable in any conclusive sense. Yet as much as the finale’s approach invites speculation, questions, and theories, it also tells us how to process it.
