‘True Detective’ season 2: Colin Farrell on the nature of hope

Are there positive things ahead when it comes to “True Detective“? Superficially, it probably does not seem that way in the slightest. This is not a show that is dominated in any way by happy moments; more often than not, it is sadness and heartache that reign supreme, and there is not really much of a reason to expect that to change in the near future.

Yet, at the same time there is a sense that perhaps everything could be resolved in the end. This is in part an emotion that guided its way through the first season; you can argue that maybe Martin and Rust did not have that much of a reason to be satisfied by the end of the season, but they did still manage to achieve at least something that they consider to be peace.

Colin Farrell spoke about some of the general themes of the show recently in an interview with the Associated Press, and he described further how he feels that there is a certain guiding light that comes through the show’s writing, even if this is not something that necessarily makes itself that obvious to the writers a good percentage of the time:

“There is some kind of (screwed)-up hope on the show that never flat-lines,” says Farrell. “I don’t know that the characters are aware that it’s there. But there is an inherent grace to Nic’s writing, and the gods want these people to find their way back home. Hope hovers above the story, telling the viewer: It isn’t as over as you think it is.”

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