![]() ![]() Over eight heady, sweltering episodes, Sharp Objects builds to one of the most haunting denouements in recent TV history. As with the first and third seasons of True Detective, there’s a sense of the story being about much more than the mystery as Amy Adams’ troubled reporter returns home to piece together the clues about two missing girls. SHARP OBJECTS – Jean Marc Vallée spins his own tangled web of Southern gothica with his stunning adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel. Season two is due sometime this year and will feature Damon Herriman as the great bogeyman himself: Charles Manson. In this mostly true story of the first FBI criminal psychology unit, Holden Ford is our rubbernecking curiosity, revelling in the abhorrence of it all, while his partner Bill Tench is our conscience, reminding us of the real lives that ended horrifically. We all get a perverse joy from delving into a serial killer’s colourfully grim methods, and Mindhunter does an excellent job of offering all that and then pulling back to reveal the human cost. ![]() MINDHUNTER – Like True Detective, Mindhunter isn’t afraid to plumb the darkest depths of the human psyche. In the meantime, here are five shows to help fill that slow burning, twisty turny gap in your lives. Season four now seems inevitable, but there’s a bit of a wait coming and, as Tom Petty said, the waiting is the hardest part. It never quite hit the weird metaphysical highs of season one, but it was a step up on season two and compelling enough to have left a gap in our Monday viewing schedule. Whatever your take on that ambiguous final shot, one thing we can all agree on is that True Detective season three is finished.
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