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In the 1990 timeline, the fallout over the hotline call from Julie - or someone presumed to be Julie - puts Tom firmly in the cross hairs of the investigation.
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When a situation is larger than they are, that’s another way of saying that they’re shrinking. It not only produces enough red herrings to stock a deli counter, it also threatens to minimize the characters. That’s a compelling choice on Pizzolatto’s part, supported by plenty of neo-noir classics like “Chinatown” and “The Long Goodbye.” But there are dramatic consequences, too. The whodunit aspects tend to grow less important over time, to the point where a cabal of industrial and municipal power brokers was the true villain of the second season, and the inciting murder was resolved with a shrug. It seems to be Nic Pizzolatto’s instinct to make “True Detective” a big show, about simple crimes that open up into expansive indictments of the shadowy networks that make them possible. Now everyone is the victim, not only Will and Julie but also Tom, Lucy, Dan O’Brien, Freddy Burns and Brett Woodard. Whatever role Hoyt Foods and its executive class played in the case has the effect of minimizing the domestic conflict among the Purcells. On the other, the case has opened up to the larger, more powerful forces represented by Hoyt Foods, where Lucy Purcell once worked. They were held captive by their parents’ dysfunction, which frightened and alienated them so much that the peephole in Will’s closet, the one we assumed was carved by a leering pedophile, was actually a place where the two children could pass notes to each other. On one hand, we’re getting a better and better sense of what life was like for Will and Julie before their abduction. There’s a confusing and contradictory tension developing in this season of “True Detective” between the personal and the broadly conspiratorial. Season 3, Episode 6: ‘Hunters in the Dark’