TV's true victory.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - True Detective - Television program review - Brief article

For most of its history, television has lived in the afterglow of the movies. Writers churned out stories from anonymous writers' rooms; directors crunched their visions into a mechanized house style, and even TV stars were forgettable fill-ins for the real thing.

But as TV has matured and expanded beyond three networks, so have its cinematic ambitions. Top-tier Hollywood directors such as David Fincher and Martin Scorsese have produced series that have attracted increasingly high-profile acting talent.

No series better captures modern TV's grand ambitions than HBO's True Detective...