'True Detective' season 3 finale: Connecting the dots to know who killed Will Purcell and kidnapped Julie

The nail-biting fest of a third season finally came to an end and we now know who the killer was and how the Purcell children died all those years ago.
PUBLISHED FEB 25, 2019

Spoilers for 'True Detective' season 3 finale.

"What if there’s another story? What if something went unbroken? All this life, all this loss — what if it was really one long story that just kept going and going until it healed itself? Wouldn’t that be a story worth telling? Wouldn’t that be a story worth hearing?"

 



 

 

The season finale finally told us who the killer was and how the Purcell children died all those years ago. As it turns out, it really wasn't a complicated crime when it came to Will and Julie Purcell but what was absolutely shocking about the story, was the way it ended. For the first time in a long time, 'True Detective' showed us that time is, indeed, a flat circle. 

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