Matthew McConaughey — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

"Form and Void" Ends the First Season of True Detective in a Deeply Satisfying Way

We have reached the end.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 20, 2024Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, TV, Michelle Monaghan

"After You've Gone" Is True Detective at its Most Straightforward and Least Compelling

We’re only an episode away from the finale of True Detective. Get ready for an anti-climax.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinFebruary 26, 2024Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey

With "Haunted Houses" True Detective Got Incongruously Quiet But Remained Powerful

Rust and Marty split and someone has sex with someone else’s wife as my journey through the first season of True Detective.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 4, 2023Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Monaghan

With “The Secret Fate of All Life”, the Fifth Episode of its First Season, True Detective Continues to Fucking Rule

You know what show was great True Detective? Why didn’t anyone talk about how great it is?

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 2, 2023Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey

With Its Fourth Episode, "Who Goes There", True Detective Grew More Straightforward While Retaining Its Moody Artistry

In its fourth episode True Detective gets more conventional but remains riveting and intense.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 5, 2023Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Television

I FInd Myself Relating to the Bleak Nihilism of True Detective on a Level That Is Deeply Concerning

It’s not an encouraging sign when you find yourself identifying strongly with the most depressed, despairing character in television history.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 28, 2023Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson

In Its Second Episode, "Seeing Things", True Detective Continues to Be Weird, Pretentious and Great

One of you kind souls paid me to write about the rightfully revered first season of True Detective. I cover episode 2 here. It’s unusual but in a good way!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 3, 2023Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, detective, TV, peak TV, Twin Peaks

The First Episode of True Detective Immerses Audiences is Lynchian World of Madness and Murder

One of you kind souls paid me to write about the first season of True Detective, a television series of note. The journey begins TODAY!

The Atmospheric 2001 Allegory Frailty Was a Triumph for Bill Paxton as an Actor and a First Time Filmmaker

The late, lamented Bill Paxton showed extraordinary promise as a filmmaker as well as a character actor with his masterful 2001 directorial debut Frailty.

Exploiting our Archives: My World of Flops A Dirk Pitt Misadventure Case File #131/My Year of Flops II #28 Sahara (2005)

Is there any better time to revisit the tacky shit show that is Sahara than after Clive Cussler’s death?