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Is True Detective season 2 a James Ellroy rip-off?
“The second series of HBO's acclaimed drama True Detective has met a lukewarm reception from fans since airing in June; now viewers are accusing it of borrowing some of its distinctive features from the crime writer James Ellroy.
A Reddit thread begun on July 11 points out many alleged similarities of the show to the work of Los Angeles-based author James Ellroy, specifically his four novels known as the ‘LA Quartet', the best known of which is 1990’s L.A. Confidential, which was made into a 1997 film starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger.”