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TE DETECTIVE DIRECTOR DEBUNKS A POPULAR NEW SEASON 3 THEORYDANIEL SACKHEIM CLEARS UP A FEW THGS.BY JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 17, 2019BY WARRICK PAGE / HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS WE HEAD TO THE HOMTRETCH OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 3, DIRECTOR DANIEL SACKHEIM JOS VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST TO REFLECT ON THE SEASON’S MANY TWISTS AND TURNS. A VETERAN OF MASSIVE H SHOWS LIKE THE X-FIL, THE WALKG DEAD, AND GAME OF THRON, SACKHEIM TOOK OVER SOME DIRECTG DUTI AFTER JEREMY SLNIER—WHO WAS ORIGALLY SUPPOSED TO HELM THE WHOLE SEASON—LEFT THE PROJECT. ALL TOLD, SACKHEIM DIRECTED FOUR OUT OF THE EIGHT EPISOS, CLUDG THIS WEEK’S EPISO, “THE FAL COUNTRY,” AND NEXT WEEK’S FALE, “NOW AM FOUND.” THE ENTIRETY OF SACKHEIM’S TERVIEW WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AFTER EPISO 7 AIRS, BUT ADVANCE OF TONIGHT’S STALLMENT, THE DIRECTOR IS HERE TO CLEAR UP A H BUT ACCURATE THEORY. IN EPISO 6, TE DETECTIVE REVEALED THAT SOT MCNAIRY’S CHARACTER, TOM PURCELL, WAS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL WHO LEANED HARD ON THE CHURCH ORR TO TRY TO STIFLE SIR THAT WOULD HAVE MA LIFE RAL 1980S AND 90S ARKANSAS DIFFICULT. WHAT DO THIS NEW RMATN MEAN ABOUT TOM’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH STEPHEN DORFF’S DETECTIVE ROLAND WT? NOT WHAT SOME MAY THK.FANS EAGER TO FD CLU ANY GIVEN RNER OF THE MYSTER HBO SERI WONRED IF ROLAND’S ABILY TO SETTLE DOWN WH POULTRY SCIENTIST LORI (JODI BALFOUR) MEANT THAT HIS STRONG ATTACHMENT TO TOM WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE FACT THAT HIS PARTNER, WAYNE HAYS (MAHERSHALA ALI), IS VOLLY NSERVATIVE, AS WELL AS ROLAND’S FENSIVENS AROUND WILL AND JULIE’S DAD, LED SOME TO NCLU THAT ROLAND WAS HIDG A KEY ASPECT OF HIMSELF OM HIS IEND/FELLOW TECTIVE. “ROLAND WAS NEVER ABLE TO SUCCSFULLY HAVE A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN,” SACKHEIM NCES. “THAT, SENCE, IS THE ROLE THAT TOM FULFILLS. I THK THAT’S HIS LOVE AFFAIR.” BUT SACKHEIM FURTHER EXPLAS THAT THIS DON’T MEAN THE TWO ARE ROMANTILLY LKED.“I FEEL PRETTY FORTABLE SAYG THAT NJECTURE THAT’S OUT THERE DON’T HOLD ANY WATER,” SACKHEIM SAYS. “THEY HAVE A CLOSE RELATNSHIP AND THAT NTU TO PLAY OUT FOR THE RT OF THE SEASON. NOT ANY WAY IS A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.” SERI CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO RROBORATED SACKHEIM’S MENTS AN INSTAGRAM POST OVER THE WEEKEND, RPONDG WH A SIMPLE “NO” TO A MENT READG: “ROLAND’S GAY !!!” IN THE SAME POST, PIZZOLATTO ALSO CLEARED UP ANY QUTNS AROUND THE SEXUALY OF HARRIS JAM (STT SHEPHERD), WHO LEERGLY PLIMENTED WAYNE ON HIS BODY EPISO 6: “HARRIS IS NOT GAY. HE WAS MSG WH WAYNE (EFFECTIVELY) BEE WAYNE WAS MSG WH HIM.”AS STILL WATCHG -HOST RICHARD LAWSON POTED OUT ON THE PODST LAST WEEK, SEXUALY AS “PLOT TWIST” IS NOT EXACTLY A GOOD LOOK FOR A TV SERI 2019, SO WE’RE RELIEVED TO REPORT THAT TE DETECTIVE ISN’T PEPPERED WH SECRET GAY CHARACTERS. BUT SACKHEIM POTS OUT THAT TOM AND ROLAND’S NNECTN IS STILL CREDIBLY IMPORTANT. “THAT NNECTN TO TOM IS A PORT BY WHICH WE VIEW ROLAND’S HUMANY,” HE EXPLAS. “IT’S NOT SOMETHG WE GET A CHANCE TO SEE A LOT. [ROLAND’S] A CYNIL GUY BY NATURE. AS THE STORY PROGRS, HE BE MORE AND MORE CYNIL.”WE’LL SEE ROLAND’S CYNICISM POTENTIALLY REACH A BOILG POT THE FAL TWO EPISOS OF TE DETECTIVE. TUNE TO STILL WATCHG: TE DETECTIVE” AFTER EPISO 7 FOR MORE DISCSN OF THE EPISO AND SIGHTS OM SACKHEIM ON WHAT TO EXPECT OM THE FALE.MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHJOANNA ROBSON
In Episo 6, Te Detective revealed that Sot McNairy’s character, Tom Purcell, was a closeted homosexual who leaned hard on the church orr to try to stifle sir that would have ma life ral 1980s and 90s Arkansas difficult.