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Watching heavily foreshadowed events unfold is rewarding for a viewer who’s been waiting this long to get the full story. Last week’s episode showed him taking out Tom (Scoot McNairy), and finding his body to start Episode 7 seemed like an inevitable discovery.īut these aren’t faults. He was there on the scene, took the money to frame an innocent (trash) man, and later flew to Las Vegas to kill Lucy when she kept hassling the Hoyt corp.
While stealing focus isn’t a creative cause for alarm so much as reason for reassessing of Pizzolatto’s headspace - he really took criticism to heart - the Season 1 tie-in helped mask a latter half of Episode 7 filled with expected confirmations: Yup, Roland and Wayne killed Harris James (Scott Shepherd), who helped the Hoyt family cover-up the murder and kidnapping of the Purcell children.
Read More: ‘True Detective’ Review: Episode 6 Hints Nic Pizzolatto Might Pull Off a Big, Conspiracy-Driven Twistīut do all the freshly invited questions overwhelm a narrative that was chugging along just fine on its own? Will fans get too worked up putting two seasons worth of puzzle pieces together to focus on Wayne, Roland (Stephen Dorff), and Amelia (Carmen Ejogo)? Were they already so overwhelmed by the appearance of Rust and Marty’s pictures in a newspaper clipping to keep up with the rest of this episode’s plot points and personal developments? Will next week’s finale turn into a waiting game, as viewers hope against hope for a McConaughey and Harrelson cameo instead of appreciating the end of this story? In other words, did Season 3 need to tie itself to Season 1?