Its dark , its joggling between reality and unreal or unexplained things. Few actings are great but sorry Ben Mendelsohn is annoying. He is NOt great and this casting is a typical swing and miss.. Stereotype where nothing can be explained in realistic manner vs detective who doesnt believe in supernatural and unexplained things. First episode was fantastic, gritty, dark and supernatural in its premise. But episode after episode it was losing its drive , but in detective sense of show quality , its great imho. Some characters are cliche and stereotype (Mendelsohn, Lawyer), others are good , especially Jason Batemans character and his wife.. The most satisfying scenes were those with murderer covered with hoodie but for example sketches from kids and from detective wife should have been milked better and with very dark music theme.. Overall good tv show in its first half. Second half is boring and totally un-original- Last, 10th episode is pure steal from IT movie and the shootout was laughing stock when people started to show up for clear sniper shooting, i mean where was some kind of realistic behaviour ?

Promising start was ruined by creators who choose to be very un-original and the mystery was gone , replaced by pure cliche and the horror part from the beginning was absolutely trashed.

From 7, i downgraded to 4.

For True Detective lovers its still a must.