Mahershela Ali Archives

Mahershela Ali's Wayne Hays is not – in any way – a likable man, but he is fascinating to watch: a wounded hunter, pacing warily at every crime scene, more intent on seeing the job done than being a husband or father. It's only in 2015, when Hays is beset with dementia, that he's realized what[...]

The third season of HBO's True Detective started off strong, with unrelentingly excellent performances from Mahershela Ali, Stephen Dorf, and Carmen Ejogo blending seamlessly with Nic Pizzolatto's hard-boiled script With that said, this week's episode "The Hour and the Day" slows things down a bit–but there are some excellent high points to this potential low point[...]