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Which January Detective Is Right for You?
Grizzled sad-sack detectives, committed-to-the-greater-good detectives, animated parody detectives … The gang’s all here!
The season leans on the strained relationship between the community’s Indigenous residents and the white newcomers exploiting the area’s vast oil reserves, but that Arctic-noir vein is accompanied by plenty of True Detective ’s early reliance on the gothic uncanny. By minute 20, the body count has risen to two, Forst has shaken a bottle of codeine into a breath-mints box, the coroner has eaten pizza while examining corpses, and a nosy lady reporter has already implied she knows more than the cops do. Detective Marvin Flute is an alcoholic absentee father, doesn’t play by the rules, has a beer gut and a bad shave, misses his ex-wife, and solves crimes via semi-Surrealist dream sequences.
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