The Pythons never stopped admiring their own cleverness long enough to create a single real, flawed character.
Instead of an ensemble, "True Detective" has just two characters, the family-man adulterer Marty, who seems like a real and flawed person (and a reasonably interesting asshole, in Harrelson's strong performance), and Rust, who is a macho fantasy straight out of Carlos Castaneda.
And so, our social policies are set to serve the mythical perfect mother, leaving real, flawed, complicated families to fend for themselves and cobble together individual solutions to broad cultural and political problems.
Those primarily focused on the story of the legends, not the real, flawed and conflicted men who make up "The Fab Four".
There's a real cost to this flawed chemical safety system.
"I am pleased that there is growing momentum on Capitol Hill to provide a real Medicare prescription drug benefit, not a flawed insurance model," he said.
Things don't get any sunnier – there's a desperation at its heart that rarely lets up – but this dark, flawed novel eventually acquires a real emotional weight.
But one thing I hear is that it has a kind of authenticity of behavior that only can happen sometimes with improvisation because there's an accidental quality to it, an unpolished quality, a flawed, real-life quality to it.
There is a real danger innocent people will suffer as a result of this flawed intelligence gathering".
"There's such a high level of hopelessness and a real conviction among sufferers that they are ugly to look at or flawed," explains O'Connor.
