KO Traveling Hobo
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I don't get why people dislike the lawnmower guy. I thought he was perfect.
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Jeremy Saulnier joins True Detective Season 3, officially greenlighted by HBO
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I don't get why people dislike the lawnmower guy. I thought he was perfect.
The Driver
Member
I kinda dig how relentlessly bleak the finale was in retrospect, it's kind of a what-the-fuck moment to leave the only glimmer of hope be the reporter Ray beat the fuck out of to publish that story and get all those assholes arrested in the end. I feel like Pizzaman purposely went into the "everyone dies" hole though after some vocal people felt the S1 finale was too much of a optimistic tone after all that had happened.
Why about it didn't you like exactly?
DarkJediKnight
Member
This fucking guy. This is what happens when shitty actors get shitty lines. They can't even deliver it right.
Intheflorsh
Banned
He's a stock standard white trash caricature. Fucks sister? Check. Talks to body of dead parent? Check.
He was such a lazy and anticlimactic character to end the season with after building up so much mystique.
brianjones
Member
yeah I think so too
matthew mcconaughey made season 1 and people were in thrall of the mcconaughassaince or whatever and now he's basically a parody of himself and "pizzaman" was too in season 2 ironically enough
I'm not sure if it's possible to deliver half of the lines that character said. lol
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I mean, the entire season was about white trash, small communities with dodgy family trees, and disgusting sex crimes. Lawnmower guy, as a victim and perpetrator of this environment, was a perfect fit.
Intheflorsh
Banned
The broad strokes of the character are fine, the actual guy we got on screen seemed better suited for RE7.
Buba Big Guns
Banned
Couldn`t even finish S2. Probably the most disappointed I`ve been in a show after that unreal S1
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
lol at Season 2
As some other gaffer said at a previous thread, this is how dumb people think smart people talk.
S1 was one of my favourite shows ever, but everything I've read about S2 makes me wince.
Monocle
Member
No that's how people talk when they're dazzled by their own cleverness with words and think convoluted speech sounds smart. I've been there.
This is exactly right.
Messofanego
Banned
lol at Season 2
Oh god, so this show is like r/IAmVerySmart
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Set in the Ozarks aka north Georgia.
StrawberryJam
Member
Shit if Saulnier was taking on the role and responsibilities that Fukunaga has in season 1 that would be so exciting. To be fair, its already super exciting that hes involved and its not all up to Pizzaman.
But "how dumb people think smart people talk" is exactly what it's supposed to be (for the Vince Vaughn lines, anyway).
I actually don't think it's very well done, but, simultaneously, it's kinda amazing that you immediately gleaned that from the samples provided.
That new hotness. Probably will still be filmed in Georgia.
Yep. This. Lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozarks
The Ozarks region encompasses a large swath of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. I believe the Bateman series is supposed to be the Lake of the Ozarks (though it was mostly filmed in Georgia for those lovely tax incentives), which is in central Missouri, whereas it sounds like this will be set in the Arkansas area.
As for what makes the Ozarks interesting, I think it's just been an area largely ignored by film and television. Before this, I think there was Winter's Bone and that might be it. So just somewhere different, I guess.
True Savior
Member
Sounds good as long as he has control over the project.
Put Fukunaga/Arkapaw with Mcconaughey and Woody in season 2 and you would see a vastly different product. One much more tolerable and more restrained in Pizzolato redundant tangents, an issue you can see all over season 1 too.
Then put Vaughn/Kitsch leading season 1 with the directors of 2 and start weeping.
Put Fukunaga/Arkapaw with Mcconaughey and Woody in season 2 and you would see a vastly different product. One much more tolerable and more restrained in Pizzolato redundant tangents, an issue you can see all over season 1 too.
Then put Vaughn/Kitsch leading season 1 with the directors of 2 and start weeping.
Bits N Pieces
Member
I'm down for this!
Series one was exceptional and I feel series two gets a lots of undeserved hate but it wasnt up to the standards of the first one.
Got a good feeling about series three!
Series one was exceptional and I feel series two gets a lots of undeserved hate but it wasnt up to the standards of the first one.
Got a good feeling about series three!
andythinkpad
Member
Pizzaman will direct too? Eww.
They can't get me excite for s3, unless they will get Nick Cage.
They can't get me excite for s3, unless they will get Nick Cage.
Captain Skeleton
Member
Exciting news!
toddhunter
Member
S2 is how dumb people think smart people talk ... and when the actors are not beloved.
The S1 script with the same actors as S2 would have been even worse. 98% of the entire first season was more or less awful.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I honestly don't understand the hate for S1.
It was extremely well directed, well acted, well produced and for the most part, well written*. I understand the tone may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it was a damn fine show.
*the only implausible thing about it was Marty (Woody Harrelson) pulling that kind of tail.
It was extremely well directed, well acted, well produced and for the most part, well written*. I understand the tone may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it was a damn fine show.
*the only implausible thing about it was Marty (Woody Harrelson) pulling that kind of tail.
toddhunter
Member
I think Marty pulling that kind of tail kind of stands by itself as good enough reason.
I'd argue the writing wasn't particularly good. Just listen to any speech by Cohle and imagine VV saying the same things. Yeah.
But more than that the problem is the pacing. Count the number of episodes where basically nothing at all happens. There are 6 of them and the ending wasn't particularly interesting either, more or less coming out of nowhere because nothing had happened since episode 4.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
season 1 has one of the best monologues i've ever heard in a tv show. if i ever have to go to an audition and do a monologue i'm doing that "locked room" monologue that rust gives in the third or fourth episode.
Doesn't who saying it really the only thing that matters?
toddhunter
Member
Well yes actually, which is why people like season 1.
Skinny Pete
Banned
Ozarks? I feel I have seen a show about that area recently. Can't quite remember the name of said crime show though.
A Serious Man
Member
If Saulnier acts as a showrunner for the entire season, this could be amazing.
Fudgepuppy
Banned
I wonder what went though Vaughn's head when reading the script for S2.
Probably mostly people disappointed by the finale. It still boggles my mind that anybody actually thought that story was going to end with Yog Sothoth descending from the heavens or whatever Lovecraftian nonsense they expected. It went down pretty much exactly as I always knew it would so I wasn't disappointed, apart from Billy Lee Tuttle dying off-screen under what I still consider questionable circumstances. The Lovecraft shit is great for giving the tapestry a little panache but you can't make it the centerpiece of any serious story these days. It's too ridiculous.
arts&crafts
Member
S2 while bad was still more entertaining than most TV shows. I welcome another season, even if its as bad as S2 (although please be better).
The way I see it is HBO knows as well as we do that S2 was garbage. And at the time it seemingly killed the franchise.
So Pizzaman's scripts for S3 must have been damn good to change HBO's mind on axing the series. Or you could be cynical and say that they're hurting in a big way from the impending loss of GoT and are trying to compensate with a 1-2 punch of Westworld and True Detective to capture that audience.
But I'm taking the optimistic approach that HBO loved what they saw and couldn't not make it.
So Pizzaman's scripts for S3 must have been damn good to change HBO's mind on axing the series. Or you could be cynical and say that they're hurting in a big way from the impending loss of GoT and are trying to compensate with a 1-2 punch of Westworld and True Detective to capture that audience.
But I'm taking the optimistic approach that HBO loved what they saw and couldn't not make it.