Every time I think this season has hit a ceiling it just keeps raising the bar, it's like the Michael jordan of being an incredible television series. This episode continues the theme of giving some answers and closure to certain plot points while raising increasingly more questions to others. This episode takes it a step further however and slowly begins to reveal the grander powers at work behind this case. The cycling between the timelines continues to be expertly timed in a way that keeps you fascinated in both while not revealing all the cards in either (a method I always admired from season 1.) The cinematography and set design also continues to mesmerize in a way that so expertly, yet subconsciously, evokes the tones of lost hope and forgotten lands. Finally, this episode, much like the previous, ends in a bone chillingly suspenseful scene that begs for intrigue and answers that it won't disclose until the grand finale.
P.S. Throughout this entire season there have been various slight nods and hints to season 1, however this episode definitively linked the 1st and 3rd season in a way that almost felt like a mini climax!!! Finally we know that season 1 and 3 exist in the same world, and further more there was references to another case like the ones from s1 and s3 that took place in Nebraska! (Potential season 4???) Either way I'm incredibly excited to see what Pizzolatto has to offer for the future of True Detective!
P.S. Throughout this entire season there have been various slight nods and hints to season 1, however this episode definitively linked the 1st and 3rd season in a way that almost felt like a mini climax!!! Finally we know that season 1 and 3 exist in the same world, and further more there was references to another case like the ones from s1 and s3 that took place in Nebraska! (Potential season 4???) Either way I'm incredibly excited to see what Pizzolatto has to offer for the future of True Detective!