A powerful performance by Mahershala Ali helped the third season of 'True Detective' shine after a lackluster Season 2.
After a nearly universally-appreciated first season, risks were taken in True Detective Season 2. These risks didn’t exactly pay off, and the result was a season with a great cast and a poor story. After a lukewarm response from audiences, Season 3 was a return to form, with two detectives that form a tight bond despite their differences, and a great deal of moving back and forth between timelines.
RELATED: ‘True Detective: Night Country’: Barry Jenkins, Issa López to Develop Fourth Installment in ‘True Detective’ Franchise The ghostly presences tied to the case start all the way before the children's disappearances. Descriptions of a white woman and a one-eyed Black man meeting the children in the forest are unable to be pinned to any real people by detectives. The Purcell boy’s body was found during the investigation in 1980, but the girl, Julie, appears to have disappeared completely.
Also, during the re-opening of the case, a Black man with a milky eye approaches Amelia at her book reading, demanding information on Julie’s whereabouts. The reappearances of people thought long dead and gone gives the case a ghostly feel, especially since no one can find either Julie or the man with the milky eye after they’re seen in 1990.
In 2015, Amelia died, and Hayes is suffering from dementia that causes him to hallucinate. He’s haunted by visions of his wife encouraging him to finish the investigation they started so many years ago, and outside his house sits a car that may or may not really be there. Without Amelia, and with his mind slipping, Hayes is once again a haunted man, now more than ever.
Hayes tracks down Julie, wanting to lay eyes on her and put his mind at rest with the knowledge that she is alive and safe. However, when he gets to his destination, his dementia sets in, and he forgets where he is or what he’s doing there. He stares at a now-grown Julie Purcell, standing in a garden with her little girl. She helps him get in contact with his son, who comes to take him home.
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