True Detective - McConaughey/Harrelson crime series - S2 starts June 21st

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- HitFix: Press Tour Live-Blog: HBO's 'True Detective'

EDIT: A few snippets:
The first question is for Pizzolatto. It makes reference to "The Killing," which he worked on. "Any of the ambitions and plans that I had for this show were gestated before I joined 'The Killing' or came out here," Pizzolatto says. "My idea about mystery and how to handle these sorts of these just came out of my own ethos as a write," he says. "I like stories with endings. I like a good third act," he says, noting that that's what drew him to the anthology format. This will be self-contained.
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How did the writer and director create the sense of place in Louisiana. Fukunaga says that the original setting was in the Ozarks, but "the realities of production" led them to Louisiana. Fukunaga was captivated by chemical plans and Vietnamese restaurants and whatnot. "I had a person relationship to it all, because these are the areas of the country where I grew up," Pizzolatto says. When it comes to the show's treatment of religion, Pizzolatto says that sometimes McConaughey's character says some dark things about religion, but that's not the show's POV. "Pessimism and romanticism are two sides of the same illusion, so to speak," he says. Dude. "My hope is that you're honoring both the culture and the people involved in it," Pizzolatto says.
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Finally the "Why do TV?" question. Woody already worked with HBO on "Game Change." "It's a privilege to work with them," Woody says of HBO. "I love Matthew. He's my brother. Phenomenal, amazing person. I love Michelle. I've known her many many years. Cary's a terrific director and Nic wrote this amazing script I couldn't put down," Woody says. "It's a different time in television," McConaughey says. He signed on without knowing where it would be. "That transition is much more seamless in reality and perception now more than ever," he says. "It was a 450 page film is what it was. It was also finite. It didn't mean we'd have to come back this year, next year if we were under contract," McConaughey adds.
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How will a second season work? "If you got to do it again, the setting would be a major character along with our leads," Pizzolatto says, adding that it would be in settings we haven't seen as much. "I think in some form the story would always maintain some aspect of a story being told," Pizzolatto says, which plays into the idea of an investigation. He loves theater and monologues. "This an idea of an objective truth versus a spoken truth is something that provides a great deal of tension and is one of my governing tendencies," Pizzolato adds. He said another season could be more of a conspiracy thriller or a small town murder mystery or a master criminal versus a master detective. "As long as there's some crime in there, I think the series format could approach it," he says, claiming that "Absalom, Absalom" could hypothetically be a season. Unclear if he means that literally.
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Much more via the link.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Cornballer became a mod and then Daddarrio took off her shirt.

He is the messiah.
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They got McConaughey to do a TV show? How much is HBO paying him? Didn't he turned down 15 fucking millions to do Magnum P.I.?
 
tino said:
They got McConaughey to do a TV show? How much is HBO paying him? Didn't he turned down 15 fucking millions to do Magnum P.I.?
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It's a good project, he has Harrelson on it with him, and keep in mind that it's only an 8 episode commitment. Take a look at some of his comments from the TCA panel for more info.
 
Cornballer said:
It's a good project, he has Harrelson on it with him, and keep in mind that it's only an 8 episode commitment. Take a look at some of his comments from the TCA panel for more info.
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It may rival the Sherlock series. If its at lease as good as Lincoln Lawyer I ll be very happy.
 
- LA Times: 'True Detective's' slow and steady pace a winning formula
"True Detective," a quietly terrific new series debuting Sunday on HBO, takes its title, though not its style, from a famous old real-crime magazine, popular back when people turned to reading for the sort of stimulation they get mostly through television now.
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- US News & World Report: A Crime Drama Where the Detectives Are on Trial
"True Detective" manages to avoid the trappings of both a dismal "prestige" drama and a pulpy serial killer hunt by letting two intricately drawn and expertly acted characters lead the way. What could have been – and to some respect, starts as – another overdone crime mystery turns into a riveting character drama by making the detectives the real focus of the chase.
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- Matt Zoller Seitz's review for NY Mag: The Murder Mystery Is Beside the Point in HBO’s Existentialist Cop Drama
But the show’s time-shifting structure is so painstaking that even when True Detective spirals into lurid madness here still seems to be purpose behind it. Every cut, music cue, and bit of dialogue-as-voice-over contributes to the sense that the show has a grand design, or is at the very least commenting on our need to believe that all things happen for a reason, that it’s not just a swirl of appetite and consequence. This sense of purpose may prove to be another of True Detective’s fake-outs, the darkest one of all.
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Managed to "check" episode 1 for encoding errors at work today. Great fucking show. McConaughey steals all his scenes.

Rust is so gonna fuck Harrelson's wife.
 
- Onion A|V Club: True Detective avoids pulp in favor of philosophy
The world didn’t really need another series about desperate men in desperate times turning to desperate measures, but the format of True Detective creates anticipation for everything to come. The series can be ponderous and ever so slightly banal, but it’s also sure-footed and thoughtful when it counts. And in its top-notch talent, it creates a great template HBO and Pizzolatto can build on, not only in the back half of this season but also in the years to come. True Detective might be finding itself in the first half of its first season, but few processes of discovery are so enthralling to watch. B+
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- NY Times Review: A Coupling as Bizarre as the Murder
If there’s a compelling reason to watch “True Detective,” they provide it, particularly Mr. McConaughey, who continues the recent winning streak he began with the 2011 film “The Lincoln Lawyer.” His contained, assured, watchful performance as Rust Cohle is a pleasure to watch. This remains true even when the material fails him, as it does with increasing frequency in the four episodes provided for review.
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- The Week: How HBO broke all the rules of the police procedural
There's something uniquely thrilling about True Detective, which shows how much untapped potential — and how much genuine art — can found in one of TV's most overstretched and overplayed genres.
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Mcconaughey and Harrelson together in a show? This is a dream come true. Love both of those guys. They make any movie they are in watchable.
 
Skinpop said:
Please tell me this is a proper mystery show and not yet another character study?
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I haven't read everything about the show, but based on what I have, I'd say it's more of a character study than anything. I think the creator said that he doesn't really care about serial killers or something like that, so any mystery might just be background material.
 
This thing come out of nowhere and its easily my most hyped (8 hour) movie of 2014.

Right after Edge of Tomorrow of course.
 
Count of Monte Sawed-Off said:
I haven't read everything about the show, but based on what I have, I'd say it's more of a character study than anything. I think the creator said that he doesn't really care about serial killers or something like that, so any mystery might just be background material.
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alright, can't say I'm surprised though. HBO seem unable to do anything but character studies. Guess it's easier to formularize than having a proper story/puzzles. Bummed, but meh, to be expected I guess.
 
- The Wrap: Scary Monster, Scarier Men
We’ve started calling every film with a serial killer a psychological drama, but “True Detective” really is one. It’s about whether our lives really matter at all. That’s scarier than the scariest monster. But then the show gives us a glimpse at the monster. And things get scarier still.
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- Washington Post: A murky mystery, bogged down in a swamp
In its better moments, “True Detective” feels like a fever dream, but mostly it’s just groggy.
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Series premiere tonight:
The Long Bright Dark

Former Louisiana State CID partners, Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart, give statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute that took place 17 years earlier.
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Hyped for this. Looks good.

edit: whoa, since when is Cornballer a mod?? Congrats to the lord of TV (hopefully this didn't happen like a year ago)!
 
- Zap2It Review: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson go dark for HBO
HBO has created a strong dramatic outing with "True Detective" that will reassert the network as being the backer of some of the best television around. That is largely thanks to HBO's clear confidence in creator Nic Pizzolatto (a novelist who previously worked on "The Killing") and director Cary Fukunaga ("Jane Eyre," "Sin Nombre"). Viewers should not only be excited for the premiere of "True Detective" Season 1, but also for what future seasons of this anthology series hold in store.
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