Why does every season of the show need to center around the "who done it and why?" part of the equation? That makes it like every other season of every other crime show. I appreciated the idea of making a "True Detective" story where the plot wasn't as important as the detectives themselves and how they related to each other and those close to them. It was about Wayne's love for Amelia and how for a decade it was tied to the Purcell case, and they found a way to move beyond that. And once he lost her, he went right back searching in a place that brought him to her in the first place.

I'd rather that than have it all be about Satanic Cults or Pedophile Rings are whatever. Execution wasn't always perfect, but it did what it needed to do.