True Detective season 3
8 episodes · 2019
FLICKFEEL
83
from 125 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Season 3 tells the story of a macabre crime involving two missing children in the heart of the Ozarks, a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
how it went
Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.
FUN
42
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
79
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 125 comments — 54 said when · across 7 episodes.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
➖ steady — holds one level all the way
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“That got a good laugh from me.”
In_My_Own_Image▲ 1,567about 0–15% inread it ↗
“The look of absolute horror on Wayne's face when he finds the boy's body”
idonthavemanyfriend▲ 974about 50–60% inread it ↗
“Ali's portrayal of elderly Hays struggling with it is crushing.”
In_My_Own_Image▲ 784about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Literally yelled "oh what the fuck!" when the credits rolled”
spunkyweazle▲ 756about 95–100% inread it ↗
episodes
7 of 8 with a scoreEvery episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.
