Three Episodes in, True Detective Appears to Be Good Again

by Ned Lannamann HBO/Warrick PageYou were right to be suspicious about the third season of True Detective. The second season of the HBO crime show was a catastrophic disaster that burned up all the goodwill the (mostly terrific) first season had earned. But this third season, judging from the three episodes that have aired so far, seems to have corrected the skid, focusing on character and a single mystery, instead of the deranged, all-encompassing conspiracies of season two. Granted, it could a