Other Lives (True Detective)
The season is set in California, and focuses on three detectives, Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch), from three cooperating police forces and a criminal-turned-businessman named Frank Semyon (Vince Vaughn) as they investigate a series of crimes they believe are linked to the murder of a corrupt politician.
Semyon (Vince Vaughn) has now moved to a small house in Glendale, struggling to keep his enterprises afloat, while the land deal has been announced without his involvement.
Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) has been promoted to detective in the insurance fraud department and is settling the case with Lacey Lindel (Ashley Hinshaw), while also intending to marry Emily (Adria Arjona), who is now four months pregnant.
While visiting his mother Cynthia (Lolita Davidovich), he discovers that she spent the $20,000 cash he brought back from the War in Afghanistan and angrily confronts her as he needed the money for his family.
Velcoro fights for Chad's (Trevor Larcom) legal custody and is dismayed when he finds that Gena (Abigail Spencer) has asked the judge for a paternity test.
Needing the money, he asks Semyon for a new job and is assigned to watch over his right-hand man, Blake Churchman (Christopher James Baker), as he feels he can't trust him anymore.
She tells them that she will be secretly re-opening the Caspere case, as she suspects Geldof is working with Chessani (Ritchie Coster) to help his bid for governor.
Before they depart, Davis also reveals that Gena's rapist was caught via DNA analysis several weeks prior, making Velcoro realize that Semyon lied to him years ago.
Pitlor confesses to performing plastic surgery on the girls to make them suitable for parties, which were organized by Chessani and Caspere, with Tony also acting as a pimp.
At these parties, Chessani and Caspere would record footage on hard drives in order to gain blackmail evidence on rich and powerful attendees, including rail-line businessman and Catalast president Jacob McCandless (Jon Lindstrom).
Pitlor also confirms treating Chessani's previous wife, Helene ā Tony and Betty's mother ā in a psychiatric hospital; he insinuates that poor treatment by her husband's family led to her suicide.
The site's consensus states: "'Other Lives' succeeds in rebooting the characters of True Detective, but it might come too late in the season to create new tension.
"[7] Gwilym Mumford of The Guardian wrote, "Last week's bloody shootout seems to have done the trick: Nic Pizzolatto's faltering drama has burst back into life.
"[8] Ben Travers of IndieWire gave the episode a "Cā" grade and wrote, "We watched a shoddily-constructed hour of television with edits trying to mask bloated dialogue and more unfounded match cuts from convenient props to California's skyline/roads.
"[13] Carissa Pavlica of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Overall, it's not easy to care too deeply about a case about corporate big wigs, sexual perversion and getting themselves caught on camera turning to murder, diamonds and collusion.
