Slate Magazine
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The first season of True Detective was one of the crown jewels of the waning Peak TV era.
The show's would-be successor, the fourth and current season, "Night Country " falls grievously short, says Tom Charity .
Charity: "So far, Night Country feels very safe and paper-thin. So far, it's either a loving homage to or a cynical recapitulation".
AMC+'Monsieur Spade is a sprawling, strange show that transplants The Maltese Falcon gumshoe Sam Spade into the south of France .
Clive Owen takes on the role most famously played by Humphrey Bogart .
The show offers very little in the way of exposition, jumps between timelines promiscuously and favors ambiguity over answers.
Jodie Foster has a rare, extraordinary ability to—like Kate Winslet and Philip Seymour Hoffman —consistently transcend the material.
In a just universe, maybe Clive Owen’s Monsieur Spade would have the plum Sunday night slot on HBO , with all the benefits of HBO budgets and the HBO promotional machine.
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