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Swarms of German fighters pass through formations of American bombers like deadly lightning in a sky streaked with contrails and the murderous glare of tracers. Up there, on an infinite battlefield, a furious and desperate fight takes place. The B-17s fall, plummeting into eternity or spinning around like giant burning tree leaves. The pilots of the Flying Fortresses try to maintain formation so as not to turn their planes into solitary prey. And in the midst of the storm of destruction, the gunner in the exposed ventral turret of one of the great machines explodes in a cloud of blood…

When I arrive at the bar where we met, near Madrid's Gran Vía - on whose sidewalks groups of African men usually set up shops selling fake bags until the police chase them away - Thion is eating a chocolate cake with ice cream that a man can't be missed....Enough with the clichés. Or not. Even though he saw and heard it earlier on the podcast There are no blacks in Tibet, you never cease to be amazed when this imposing black man stands up and says hello with an Andalusian accent that makes you laugh at that of María…

Judging by the dandruff campaign and the tweets they made True detectiveit would seem that there are many men who sting before lots of woods, of the aunts woods, that is, of lively and shady female police officers, tougher than a kapo coming from a concentration camp and stripped of every attribute of compliant and flirtatious femininity. I want to believe that the sting affects only a minority – strong, but irrelevant – and that these new detectives elicit more applause than boos. And it doesn't surprise me.Jodie Foster reigns True detective. The series has just started and can still…