Score: 4/5
**Some Spoilers**
“Maybe Tomorrow” really pushes things along for “True Detective” fans. There’s less focus on backstory and more focus placed on chasing down leads.
**Point of No Return**
The third episode of the second season starts with a trippy dream sequence. Ray (Colin Farrell) is seated in his booth in his bar being serenaded by a man covering Conway Twitty’s “The Rose,” while talking to his dad before he wakes up on the floor of Caspere’s second house gasping for breath.
He rips open his shirt and discovers the shotgun blasts he took were actually riot bullets, leaving him with cracked ribs instead of internal bleeding.
Ani (Rachel McAdams) arrives, furious Ray didn’t alert her before going to scope out the scene. There’s also questions of how Ray stumbled upon such a big break in the case.
Ani starts to be pushed harder to figure out just how compromised Ray is and how far up the ladder the corruption goes in Vinci. On the other hand, Ray is being pushed harder to steer the case in a direction where it’s solved quickly to shut down the state’s inquiry in a hurry.
Ani and Ray track the car driven by the mysterious bird-masked driver who dumped Caspere’s body to a film production studio he had dealings with. They don’t learn much, but they do find out a driver quit working. When they go to investigate, their car is set ablaze and they chase the masked culprit through a homeless camp to no avail.
Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) is put to work talking to prostitutes to find out if any of them had ever seen Caspere. He ends up at a club Caspere frequented and actually bumps into Frank (Vince Vaughn), who is finally “pulling down walls” in desperation and in anger over his collapsing deals.
Many who have had trouble buying Vaughn in a dramatic role will have to take him more seriously after he practiced amateur dentistry with pliers during one scene.
While the first two episodes provided background and seemed appetizing, “Maybe Tomorrow” really delivers. “True Detective” is going places.
Our main characters are stumbling upon clues and following them up. Thankfully, the progression of the plot hasn’t come at the expense of character development.
It was always going to be difficult to seamlessly craft the backstories of several main characters and weave them together when the subjects weren’t connected. As the characters’ jobs (and lives) become more intertwined, it begins to feel more natural. And the audience wins.
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Review: ‘True Detective’ – Season 2 Episode 3
By Jack Woods
July 6, 2015
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