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03.16-23.14
Who Creates Drama At HBO?
Very Few Women Or People Of Color.
AP PHOTO/HBO, JIM BRIDGES
BY MAUREEN RYAN
INCE ITS DEBUT in
January, HBO’s True
Detective has captured
a great deal of attention, all of it richly deserved.
And though the praise for stars
S
Woody Harrelson and Matthew
McConaughey has been almost
unanimous, an intense debate
has erupted around the show’s
depiction of nearly everyone who
is not one of the two white detectives at its center.
The women — the ones who
aren’t dead — are clearly not
Woody
Harrelson, left,
and Matthew
McConaughey
in the popular
HBO series
True Detective.