True Detective II: Pilot

"I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don’t even go to the moon anymore.” This week on The Script, our screenwriters analyze Episode 1 of True Detective: Season II. The noir detective anthology kicks off with a new cast, a new case, and a new flavor of desperation. This is a rare chance for screenwriters to examine a second Pilot Episode from the same tv series and writer. How does the Season 2 Pilot stack up next to the Season 1 Pilot? How does showrunner Nic Pizzolatto violate and innovate the film noir detective genre? What are the opportunities and challenges of writing an anthology series? How do you calibrate prestige writing like True Detective with an American TV audience that expects a dynamite teaser and  Matthew McConaughey to walk in the door? What are we looking forward to in episode 2? Some more Da Vinci Code puzzles, some more mythology, more brass knuckles, more boot knives, and yes…”the bike, sir. The highway— because it suits me.”

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• True Detective Series Bible by Nic Pizzolatto 
• "Something Borrowed" - This article by Malcolm Gladwell is illuminating and addresses the spirit of derivative vs. transformative work, artistic influence vs. plagiarism.
• True Detective Season II Literary Guide: Antigone, The Western Book of theDead, Hagakure: Book of the Samurai.
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SCEENWRITERS

David Negrin, Jordan Rosengarten, Logan Kane

PRODUCERS, The Script

Jordan Rosengarten, David Negrin

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