While you can never really say that one show is objectively better than another, here the facts speak for themselves.
True Detective Season 1, starring McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, boasts a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 84% for Season 3, 78% for the most recent Season 4, and a lowly 47% for Season 2.
Audiences largely agree, rating Season 1 the highest at 89% and Season 2 the lowest at just 27%. Seasons 3 (55%) and 4 (57%) are about equal in viewers' eyes.
The average viewership tells a similar story. The original averaged 2.33 million viewers per episode. Season 3 is significantly lower at 1.25 million, with Season 4 averaging 0.65 million viewers per episode.
Season 2 is the anomaly. Its average of 2.61 million is the highest of any franchise. But a deeper dive shows that this was a reaction to how good Season 1 was, and it's no wonder that Issa López chose to tie Season 4 to it, piquing fans' interest and expectations.
Early in the fourth season, which opened to generally positive reviews,...
True Detective Season 1, starring McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, boasts a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 84% for Season 3, 78% for the most recent Season 4, and a lowly 47% for Season 2.
Audiences largely agree, rating Season 1 the highest at 89% and Season 2 the lowest at just 27%. Seasons 3 (55%) and 4 (57%) are about equal in viewers' eyes.
The average viewership tells a similar story. The original averaged 2.33 million viewers per episode. Season 3 is significantly lower at 1.25 million, with Season 4 averaging 0.65 million viewers per episode.
Season 2 is the anomaly. Its average of 2.61 million is the highest of any franchise. But a deeper dive shows that this was a reaction to how good Season 1 was, and it's no wonder that Issa López chose to tie Season 4 to it, piquing fans' interest and expectations.
Early in the fourth season, which opened to generally positive reviews,...
- 4/27/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Lee Jevon)
- STartefacts.com
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for True Detective Season 4, Episode 2, “Part 2.”] True Detective: Night Country unveiled a few Season 1 connections in its latest episode as the funder behind the Tsalal Research Station was revealed to be Tuttle United, and Rose Aguineau’s (Fiona Shaw) late love was confirmed to be Travis Cohle (Erling Eliasson), father to Rust (Matthew McConaughey). For those who may have tuned into the anthology series’ first season in 2014, they might recall that the Tuttle name belonged to key characters from the series’ first outing. A rich and powerful family, the Tuttles ultimately helped shield an insidious cult, which involved the torture, rape, and murder of down-on-their-luck women and children. Season 1’s big bad, Errol Childress (Glenn Fleshler), was directly tied to the Tuttles as the son of Sam Tuttle’s illegitimate son, Billy Childress. Uncovered by the work of detectives Rust and Marty (Woody Harrelson), the name isn’t synonymous with good behavior, so when ...
- 1/22/2024
- TV Insider
This post contains spoilers for "True Detective: Night Country."
It's been a decade since Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) last graced our TV screens, but the spirit of the nihilistic (turned optimistic) detective looms large over the latest season of "True Detective." With just two episodes under its belt, "True Detective: Night Country" has already done something massively surprising — confirming itself as a stealth sequel to Nic Pizzolatto's dark and daring first season, rather than an homage-laden follow-up.
The reveal comes a few minutes into the season's second episode, in such a casual line read from Fiona Shaw that it's easy to miss. When Shaw's Rose Aguineau — the eccentric local who discovered a group of scientists frozen solid in a collective rictus scream last episode — sits down with Trooper Navarro (Kali Reis), she gets frank about her relationship with a now-dead man named Travis (Erling Eliasson). We learn that Travis,...
It's been a decade since Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) last graced our TV screens, but the spirit of the nihilistic (turned optimistic) detective looms large over the latest season of "True Detective." With just two episodes under its belt, "True Detective: Night Country" has already done something massively surprising — confirming itself as a stealth sequel to Nic Pizzolatto's dark and daring first season, rather than an homage-laden follow-up.
The reveal comes a few minutes into the season's second episode, in such a casual line read from Fiona Shaw that it's easy to miss. When Shaw's Rose Aguineau — the eccentric local who discovered a group of scientists frozen solid in a collective rictus scream last episode — sits down with Trooper Navarro (Kali Reis), she gets frank about her relationship with a now-dead man named Travis (Erling Eliasson). We learn that Travis,...
- 1/22/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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