Will True Detective Change Thematically?
True Detective’s first season had many themes, but none of them are more prominent than the theme of darkness just below the surface. This is something that Matthew McConaughey’s Rust can’t help but see and feel, even in situations when it’s not there. The bubbling underbelly of normal life is a major theme of True Detective, but that doesn’t mean that it has to stay one.
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Everything we love about True Detective is set to change, so we can’t hold too tightly onto the aspects that we loved in the first season. HBO ran with this particular theme, even going so far as to name their True Detective site Darkness Touches You. Speaking of the many aspects of True Detective that will be getting a makeover, except that main site to be one of them.
The only bit of information that we can fully take for granted is that detective work is involved. Plot details could go through more changes until filming, not taking into account the details that HBO has so far neglected to share in the first place. Themes like the above do not have to stay constant for True Detective to feel cohesive as a whole over several seasons, and it would be refreshing for this particular one to change.
What we loved about True Detective was its originality, and to keep that going it’s going to have to evolve and not rely on past success. When it comes to feeling the darkness under the veneer of modern life, it’s now a “been there, done that” deal.