This time the creators have done what no one expected, the really big reveal and resolution of the case awaits us in the last episode and the last minutes of the penultimate episode left us incredibly nervous as to what would actually happen to the main narrator (Detective Wayne Hays) in the last episode and if he would solve the case as he wished.
Many fans of the show fault the present-day storyline, but hopefully not just me, but other people will understand that it has to be that way so that the present-day story doesn't reveal any parts of the story from previous investigations. Hays must be getting a bit (rather a lot) old and very forgetful and suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
We know that in the 1980s the case ended with the death of a Vietnam veteran who was framed for murder and kidnapping. The investigation is also over 10 years later, but as Detectives Hays and West throw themselves into their investigation, feeling responsible for their friend's death, they discover that suicides really aren't what they seem, but that there's a larger conspiracy behind it that has got its tentacles of crime up to them.
The Game of Thrones series has murder and sex, The Dark Case has a solution to the case that seems very simple at first, but by empathizing with the main couple and following several levels of investigation (3 lines), the very complex skeleton of the story of what actually happened to the Purcell children is gradually revealed.
Once again, like several previous episodes, the episode was directed by Daniel Sackheim and I think he really has a knack for making a dark and very depressing episode. When I look at his television history, he started out on The X-Files, for which he did some of the first episodes. Then, of course, Millennium, Dr. House and ER. Most of his episodes are for Anatomy of a Lie with Tim Roth. Hopefully he'll get into movies after TV, because he's talented, and I can imagine him taking on a movie with lead creator and screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto. Their co-creator of the entire series, Cary Joji Fukunaga, has already made some films and is preparing the 25th Bond.
Nico Pizzolatto has really managed to end the penultimate episode in a way that will have us eagerly awaiting the final episode, with many fans waking up and watching at 3am to find out what happened with the kidnapping and murders. We do have a preview of the last episode online now, but it doesn't show anything at all to help solve the case. Occasionally the penultimate episode turns out to be the best, but tonight's episode (the seventh of eight – from the third season) is really the best.
I expect the final episode could still top it in a week's time, too, but I'm not holding out any hope that everything will be resolved and that The Dark Case will return in a few years with a new pairing, but with references to the investigation, just as fans today enjoyed the connection to the very first season, which featured the mismatched duo of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
My rating: 100 %
Original release of this article on February 18, 2019 – Kritiky.cz
