Review of Now Am Found

True Detective: Now Am Found (2019)
Season 3, Episode 8
7/10
Brave, Interesting, clever but not completely satisfying
26 February 2019
Did anyone ever play that game at school where you write a paragraph of a story on some paper, and then fold it over covering it all but the last few words. Then the next person has to continue writing the story having only seen the end of the previous paragraph?

This felt just like that. Seven brilliant, intriguing episodes that build up to what you think will be an exciting showdown where all the story threads clash together in an explosive finale.

But the explosion didn't come. The entire mystery was revealed in one painfully long dump of exposition which, on one hand was clever because it totally avoided the cliche of "cops-uncover-conspiracy-involving-powerful-people-that-ends-in-a-shoot-out", but sadly also felt a bit like an anti-climax.

I enjoyed it overall, but I can't help feeling that there were loose-ends left dangling and that there is an ending that we didn't get to see.

Still, don't trust my opinion because I still think season two was brilliant.
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