True Detective Season 4: 5 possible pairings that would blow our socks off
'True Detective' Season 3 was, if nothing else, a showcase for the considerable talents of Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo, with Stephen Dorff and Scoot McNairy filling in the vacuums with able-bodied vim and vigor. As a crime story, Season 3 of the superb series failed on almost every level, but as a tale of man's journey from youthful idealism, through brow-beaten cynicism, and finally to age-addled pragmatism, it's epic.
While Season 1 heavily depended on the off-screen chemistry between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, Season 2 plumped for the power of the ensemble (and failed), but Season 3 hinged on a man, his demons, and the loneliness of age. The worrying aspect of Season 3 is that without Ali's tour de force, the rest of the story appears a tad flaccid, half-baked even, and while that may not have been a big risk to take seeing Ali's skills, it could have gone belly-up. But it didn't, so let's move on.
Heading into Season 4, hinted at by the big tease Nic Pizzolatto, we thought we'd give the writer some unsolicited advice on the pairings that could resurrect the grim ghosts of Rust and Marty. So here goes nothing.
