True Detective Blu-ray Special Features are Terrible

The second season of True Detective has yet to have nay useful information attached to it, but fans can still get their fix when it comes to the show as the first season is out on Blu-ray and available to be enjoyed by anyone at anytime. But while the show itself is brilliant television and well acted drama, here’s something you won’t enjoy about True Detective — the special features.

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Mostly everyone who buys the show has seen the show but we all want to dig into the Blu-ray for the behind-the-scenes action mostly every box set comes along with. Specifically, the excitement for True Detective was palpable as fans of the show were eager to look under the hood of the show and see the engine working.

While there are indeed special features on the Blu-ray release, none of them are at all what we were wanting to see and most of what is included seems like it was thrown in as an afterthought or just because it had to be.

Not everyone is a special features junkie, but seeing how this show in particular worked is something even casual fans wanted to see. How did Matthew McConaughey settle into the role of Rustin and create that character? What was the set like, how were certain scenes filmed, what was the motivation behind certain shots?

That biggest ripoff in the Blu-ray set isn’t that it lacks a lengthy documentary, it’s that only two of the eight episodes have commentary — as though it was that colossal of a task to get commentary for the other six episodes of the season. That’s what is most utterly disappointing about this Blur-ray release, and it’s unfortunately a reason many fans should skip this version, continue watching on HBO Go and wait for a double dip that has better special features and at least half an effort at commentary.