True Detective

Sound on Sight takes a look at the best episodes of television that have aired so far this year. Part one includes episodes from shows such as Rick and Morty and True Detective.

Emmy nominations were announced this morning and as usual, there were a number of snubs and surprises, which the Internet collectively whined about this morning. Rather than continue to mourn the lack of a nomination for Tatiana Maslany (which I admittedly complained about as well), actual solutions need to be pitched. Sadly, “chain Emmy voters …

HBO’s Game of Thrones is king, leading the 66th Annual Emmy Nominations with 19 in total, including for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Lead Actor Lena Headey and Supporting Actor Peter Dinklage. Breaking Bad‘s final season is also heading out on a swan song, earning a grand total of 16 nominations, including nods for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding …

Darren Aronofsky As the contemporary director most obsessed with the idea of obsession, Aronofsky would be a great fit for an episode or whole season of True Detective. Often, in the more intelligent entries in the genre, detective series focus not just on plot but on how the horrific events that take place within the …

I figured we were a little late in the game in posting this video a few days after it was released, but I’m amazed to see it has less than a 100 000 views. Following in the footsteps of Joel McHale, Jim Rash, and Jimmy Kimmel, Patton Oswalt has made his own parody of HBO’s …

Better Living Through Chemistry flirts with danger from its opening moments, in which a narrator first says that while each of us can’t help everyone, everyone can help someone, and follows it up by saying that our lead character would dismiss that sentiment as fortune-cookie foolishness. That character, portrayed by Sam Rockwell, who grows more Sam Rockwell-esque by the minute here, would be right to do so, but the film he occupies essentially embraces that sentiment, if to a slightly amoral extent. Better Living Through Chemistry is, seemingly, a bit desperate to both occupy the same satiric subgenre as American Beauty and to be so emphatically unique among other American Beauty-esque films that it’s unable to fully achieve either goal in the end.

Television at the minute is continuing to grow stronger. In fact, the levels of quality that television programmes now strive to achieve often eclipse those of film. Every month we are treated not only to popular shows returning to our screens but also with innovative new series, and March looks set to be no different. …

Rust and Marty close in on the man with the scars, revealing their true natures and how they’ve changed in the process, in a strong finish to an excellent first season.

The investigation into the murder of Dora Lang and similar cases moves completely into 2012, as the viewers learn how time has changed Rust and Marty.

The shallow deep talk of True Detective by Emily Nussbaum:  “Judged purely on style, HBO’s “True Detective” is a great show. Every week, it offers up shiver-inducing cable intoxicants, from an over-the-top action sequence so liquid it rivals a Scorsese flick to piquant scenes of rural degradation, filmed on location in Louisiana, a setting that …

With just two episodes left in the first season, “Haunted Houses” is the most straightforward instalment in the series so far. This sixth episode is the one that felt the most like a cop show, complete with with a nard-nosed police sergeant drilling his two detectives and demanding that Cohle hand over his gun and badge, and a hot tempered officer (Marty) beating two prisoners who were caught sleeping with his daughter. We find out exactly why Hart and Cohle had a falling out in 2002, and exactly why Marty’s marriage finally fell apart. “Haunted Houses” is the weakest of the bunch but don’t’ worry, next week is a vast improvement.

True Detective, Season 1, Episode 5: “The Secret Fate of All Life” Written by Nic Pizzolatto Directed by Cary Fukunaga Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO The climax of episode 4 of True Detective, titled “Who Goes There’” is a feat of technical mastery that would sit proudly along side the work of a …

True Detective, Season 1, Episode 4: “Who Goes There” Written by Nic Pizzolatto Directed by Cary Fukunaga Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO – Given that I am not your standard True Detective recapper (Ricky D is on The Walking Dead duty this week), it seems worthwhile, now that the first series is half …

True Detective, Season 1: Episode 3 – “The Locked Room” Written by Nick Pizzolatto Directed by Cary Fukunaga Airs Sunday nights at 9 on HBO Hart and Cohle finally uncover some solid leads and possible suspects in the investigation into Dora Lange’s murder. This week’s episode, the title of which refers to what Cohle dubs …

True Detective, Season 1: Episode 2 – “Seeing Things” Written by Nick Pizzolatto Directed by Cary Fukunaga Airs Sunday nights at 9 on HBO The series premiere of True Detective set up a very intriguing show, due several factors, including its switch between 2012 and 1995, its unique central characters, and the locale it was …

True Detective, Season 1: Episode 1 – “The Long Bright Dark” Written by Nick Pizzolatto Directed by Cary Fukunaga Airs Sunday nights at 9 on HBO – Midway through the 2013 TV fall season, seven new shows glamorizing serial killers were added by various networks, bringing the total to 20. HBO seems a little late …

6. The Spoils of Babylon The Spoils of Babylon is an upcoming American comedy miniseries by Saturday Night Live veterans Andrew Steele and Matt Piedmont, directed by Piedmont (Casa de Mi Padre), and starring Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen, and Will Ferrell. It’s doubtful that any …