No, your first time will feel like you're mainlining the secret truth of the universe.

I don't really get the whole approach of watching True Detective as a meta-commentary on Pizzolatto rather than the story it's purporting to tell. I feel that Pizzolatto is a hell of a storyteller, but as a human being, you know - he writes a TV show that I like, that's it, I don't need to deconstruct his process in…

I wasn't hearing Vaughn (or NicPiz) deliver corny lines about hunger, I was hearing Frank Semyon, a clever but not particularly smart or insightful just-barely-ex-gangster utter corny lines about hunger.

I realize you likely added the sociopath line for comedic effect, but any House whose sigil is the Flayed Man is by definition, comprised of sociopaths.

That hipbone was jarring. I thought it was gonna take off on it's own there for a while.

Respectfully, I have to disagree with the thrust of your complaints. You understand that the writers have 11 hours to tell the stories of about a dozen or so people, right? If so, then perhaps you can forgive them for not diving into the observations a character (the teacher) who was on-screen for perhaps 30 seconds…

I don't see what's imbalanced about this show. Life is imbalanced. Getting caught up in the criminal justice system is imbalanced. Getting charged with a crime and going through that process is a hellish experience, and the show gets it so, so right in that regard. There's no laugh tracks or moments of levity when…

I thought Russ' description of his addiction was one of the most apt portrayals of a grateful recovering addict I've ever seen.

I think that expecting the show to give a sweeping investigation of the American criminal justice system is a misunderstanding of it's focus and intent.

I thought the minister's speech to the protesters was quite well done, the speech that ended with "the servants of god are those who walk with humility, and when we address them, we say peace". That, along with the bomb threat to the very serious but clearly non-violent activists really cast them in a much more…