I appreciated this amazing and surprising TV mini series, which I Just discovered now. I prefer this one if I compare it with HBO famous TRUE DETECTIVE, also setting in a southern countryside town, around a serial killer case. I don't like detective stories speaking of investigations and mysteries, urban or rural, but this one is absolutely outstanding. I would put it on the same scale as RICH MAN POOR MAN, though the topic is not the same at all, and also much shorter for this one, but also on a long period of time, several decades between different episodes- or seasons, concerning RICH MAN...Part Two, second episode is my favorite, because you have as main characters two absolute bad SOBs; Keith Carradine as the serial killer - and only the audiences know this, not the investigators, that's precisely what I appreciate in this series, as in COLUMBO - so Carradine as the ugly one who meets the chief of police, played by Brad Davis, as a vicious, disgusting racist character, but also fascinating and so complex, so ambivalent. So, those two characters meet and guess what, when Carradine gets that the local rotten sheriff will stop at nothing to nail him....OUTSTANDING, because so unusual, a scheme with two bad guys fightting one against each other. But you have of course good characters here, not only evil ones, but they remain supporting roles, though we will find them in the last episode. Back to Brad Davis's character, I love this kind of disgusting, nasty role, much more than, in the first episode, the local chief of police, very human, kind, honest and fair in the pure Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper style, so predictable;...Billy Dee Williams brings another touch, very different from the two previous chiefs of the series. That kind of series is absolutely not too old to me, even in the 2020's, it could please to modern and young audiences.
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