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Teaser trailer for True Detective Season 2 is here!

April 9, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung Leave a Comment

The new season starts June 21. I can’t wait.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Colin Farrell, HBO, Rachel McAdams, True Detective, Vince Vaughan

The 5 Best Pop Culture Moments of 2014 (Chris Ervasti version)

December 31, 2024 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

@midnight, Michael Sam, and Country Western.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: @midnight, Chris Ervasti, Fargo Allison Tolman, Laverne Cox, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Sam, NFL, Orange is the New Black, Sturgill Simpson, True Detective

The Stake Podcast Episode 16: The Best and Worst of 2014

December 17, 2024 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

A long and winding countdown through highs and lows of the year

Filed Under: Stake Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Anita Sarkeesian, Best of 2014, Boyhood, Celebrities, Family Guy, Feminism, Ferguson, Game of Thrones, GamerGate, Hachette, Hack, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Lawrence, misogyny, Simpsons, Sony, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Stake, True Detective, Ursula Le Guin, Worst of 2014

A note on the casting of Vince Vaughn in True Detective Season 2

September 25, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

the king of frat-boy comedy comes to hard-boiled noir

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Colin Farrell, HBO, Justin Lin, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Vince Vaughn

True Detective Season 2 might have found its “hard woman”

May 21, 2025 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

Who do you want to see in a show about “hard women, bad men, and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system”?

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: HBO, Jessica Chastain, Nic Pizzolatto, True Detective

Unhappy Endings: What should we do with these bad finales?

April 2, 2025 by Christopher ZF 6 Comments

After the disappointing finales of How I Met Your Mother and True Detective, it’s time for writers to think about their contract with viewers.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Finales, How I Met Your Mother, LOST, True Detective, TV

True Detective director to remake Stephen King’s IT

March 13, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 3 Comments

News of yet another King adaptation in the works.

Filed Under: Books, Movies Tagged With: book adaptations, Cory Fukunaga, IT, Stephen King, True Detective

True Detective: Just another murder mystery, after all

March 10, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 6 Comments

Andrew’s thoughts about the finale episode. Spoilers.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: finale, True Detective

What would True Detective’s Rust Cohle have thought of Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar speech?

March 3, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 1 Comment

Not much, I expect.

Filed Under: Movies, TV Tagged With: Matthew McConaughey, Oscars, Rust Cohle, True Detective

True Detective’s Shakespearean echoes

February 10, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 2 Comments

True Detective doesn’t care whodunit. It’s more interested in “Who am I?”

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Hamlet, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Woody Harrelson

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