True Detective Season 1
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. HBO presents Season 1 of this searing drama series about two detectives–played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson–and their epic hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana.
My 27-year-old twin sons urged me to watch True Detective some time ago, but I didn’t get around to it until just recently. What a mistake on my part! True Detective is one of the best, most intriguing, most well done series/films I’ve seen since Pulp Fiction. Everything about is top-notch: the acting, the script, the plot, the music, the cinematography, the completely accurate portrayal of backwater Louisiana (it’s home for my father’s side of the family) — simply everything.
That said, this is not for those who prefer movies like Sleepless in Seattle or Legally Blonde. True Detective is dark and deep, troubled souls in a troubled world, trying to make sense of a sometimes senseless world. It’s reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s work and demands thought and attention. It’s real when reality entertainment has reached a sad, sad state.
Bravo.I will watch it over and over again.
– C. Breeze
The acting is brilliant. They play off each other with perfect resonation. McConahy’s character is played with riveting perfection. The story is filled with undercurrents of menace that keep you on edge. There is a sense of evil lurking in every corner. The atmosphere is filled with toxic exhalations of danger. There is a ‘heart of darkness’ feeling as they penetrate the swamp in search of the answer to unspeakable crimes against the innocent. In fact, ‘searching’ is the overwhelming theme. Sometimes it results in moments of spectacular enlightenment. Sometimes dead ends result in heartbreaking disappointment. But always there is the searching for an evil that must be dealt with and destroyed. Sometimes the searchers themselves become the prey on the brink of extinction. No one is safe. Nothing is sacrosanct. This is a masterpiece permeated with an almost metaphysical sense of menace.
-Phil Rohlin
On a fixed income and not liking Woody Harrelson, I bought this on DVD instead of BluRay. My bad. Maybe BluRay is better. Look, unless you have hawk eyes, don’t faff with the quality of one play over another, just WATCH THE DADGUMMED EPISODES. Back up if you’re distracted and miss something. I watched it through twice. THEN I thought about it.
I admit I’m stunned at what good storytelling this is, what utterly original, down to the last little tic in one’s hand or facial muscle, these two lead characters are. I expect this good from McConaughey, and will watch for and expect as good from Harrelson in future. This may have been the best thing made to air in 2014. I missed it when it aired, but I’m GLAD I bought, not rented, the DVD, and I’ll watch it again and again, down the road.
– This am us
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Various
Directors: Various
Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: HBO Studios
DVD Release Date: June 10, 2014
Run Time: 480 minutes
