Admiral Woofington
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True Detective - Season 2 - We get the Season we deserve - Sundays on HBO
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Anton Sugar
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Forgot how much I love Pajiba.
lololol
S2 was supposed to include Pizza's answer to "True Detective doesn't have any good female characters" criticism. You really want him to tackle minorities?
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S2 was supposed to include Pizza's answer to "True Detective doesn't have any good female characters" criticism. You really want him to tackle minorities?
Pizzolatto can't write white women or gay white guys.
What makes you think he could do anything good with racial minorities?
Admiral Woofington
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I wouldn't mind a hispanic and black detective combi. But they need to bring star power. And I don't know how many are gonna be jumping at the opportunity after a not as amazing s2. Wouldn't mind the Bunk and McNutty joining forces again though
shit, you two make a good point. i forgot the original ideas behind S2 and now you've reminded me.
damn. well i'm sure he can do well with canadians.
The funny thing is that X-Files is tangentially connected to The Wire. That said, those two investigating cult-based crimes would be the best show HBO has ever produced IMO.
damn. well i'm sure he can do well with canadians.
The funny thing is that X-Files is tangentially connected to The Wire. That said, those two investigating cult-based crimes would be the best show HBO has ever produced IMO.
From what I understood was the whole thing not approved. Ani also seemed a bit shocked that she killed someone. It makes me wonder how they're going to sell the evidence to their boss.
Ninja Scooter
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I think Colin nails it but it doesn't come across naturally at all for Vince.
Have to say despite all that I'm enjoying the show though. It's not top tier HBO by any means but it's not a trainwreck for me either.
Yeah, same for me. It's not a trainwreck. It would be one if the same characters from S1 were in this story with the same quality of writing tbqh.
This
It makes me wonder if someone will get to their boss. I mean you got higher ups in Vinci pd and gubernatorial prospects and who knows who else.
This shit's a losing battle.
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, I really felt that during their showdown at the intro of ep 6. Vince just can't deliver any of that stylized, fatalist dialogue with the gravitas it needs, because his character just isn't believable in that capacity.
sooperkool
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Also Law and Order:SVU
ffejeromdiks
Banned
I THINK the meaning behind the erasers line is basically a fancy way of saying "You're a whore" erasers clapping together meaning...her (forgive me for being a little vile here) vagina is so stretched that it's audible.
Or it could mean the opposite, she might have been saying "you haven't had any action in so long that your vagina is like two dry dusty erasers clapping together"
ANYWAY, that was just my takeaway from it.
it's the second one.
Ape Gone Insane
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Yeah, the same way I slowly walk and stare at a car crash as I go past.
Robot Pants
Member
Holy shit.
IF there is a season 3 this would be the best thing they could do.
Ape Gone Insane
Member
Maybe like a private detective/investigator ala Gone Baby Gone.
honestly I just really liked the idea of the show's seasons being super broad on what they cover and really individual from each other. People complain about Season 2 not being enough like Season 1 but I think it might be too much like it, at least in terms of setting / context
you can basically do whatever, at this point I dont think anyone would complain if the only thing connecting the different seasons was "crime and troubled broken characters" which is every tv show anyway
you can basically do whatever, at this point I dont think anyone would complain if the only thing connecting the different seasons was "crime and troubled broken characters" which is every tv show anyway
No one with a brain is complaining that it's not enough like the first season. People are complaining that the quality isn't like the first season.
Aside from that, it's too much like the first season. Let's solve the case. Let's have a time skip. Wait a second. Did we really solve the case? Let's go back in.
Boring the second time around especially since it was done so much worse.
And the settings are nothing alike. Louisiana was alive last season. It was a character in itself. Aside from Rust and Marty, the setting had more development than any of the other actual characters.
This season's setting is just a Los Angeles I've seen a million times over in any number of media. It's lurid, but bland and boring. It's nothing but helicopter shots of intersecting highways.
The Wire though...
I agree. Didnt say anything about people's brains
by setting I meant more of the situation, so context was more apt
I think arrow had better infiltration scenes. arrow.
I don't really care about the setting as long as the show is good, I'll take whatever.
people are complaining about this season not being as interesting as the first one, like not even close, and about the writing being abysmal. and they're right.
I don't really care about the setting as long as the show is good, I'll take whatever.
Ape Gone Insane
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Stan has probably had greater character development than any of the leads.
More Fun To Compute
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A lot of Twin Peaks season 2 was bad but it started and ended well enough. Some of the season 2 stuff was still genuinely great TV but so far this season of True Detective is just about carried by some good acting.
Like do you genuinely expect the writers of this season to come up with something like Garland's vision speech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjeCNnbVYAQ
Anton Sugar
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Stan is everything the leads aren't: a good man, a great friend, a loving husband, a caring father, and dead.
Daffy Duck
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Two episodes left, surely the next one is where is where it's all going to be spilled with the fallout for the leads/Frank in the last one?
I may be remembering this incorrectly but if anyone's played LA Noire
I got that same feeling when they discovered the contracts with signatures all over them. Feels like lazy writing.
there was a case of corruption spread out across multiple cases which involved high public figures, the mayor, the chief of police etc in a bid to secure more money and get rich off something. You only cracked the case because you discovered film footage on this movie set which perfectly shows all of these people plotting and scheming together and seeing that really ruined a decent story because it took me out of it as I thought of how dumb it is to just leave such crucial evidence just laying about in the first place or even have all these characters agree to be filmed as they're being evil. Felt like terrible writing to have all of these seemingly untouchable figureheads brought down by some incredibly convenient evidence which blew the case wide open.
I got that same feeling when they discovered the contracts with signatures all over them. Feels like lazy writing.
-Pyromaniac-
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nope, any show I continue to watch is a show that has SOMETHING that I enjoy on some level enough to tune in.
ZackieChan
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Stan was Dixon the whole time? Oh, what the fuu-*gets shot in head*
A character so nice he died twice.
Darth Pinche
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Thank you for this. I had this nagging feeling that the kids was somehow familiar.
I am hoping the whole show turns out to be some dream about being human that bird man was having.
"I had a fever dream....."
Immortal Technique
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Not only to keep watching, but to post about the show constantly. They have to drown the thread with their bullshit. I guess that's part of 'hatewatching'
Agreed
The Driver
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Anyone else thinking the final episode is gonna be
Just speculation tho. I rewatch every episode with subtitles and shit so I don't think I'm overlooking or going too deep into things but I probably did haha.
Finally guess,
the detectives (or whoever is left of them) teaming up with the mask dudes? The shit our heroes are in seems way over their heads, and it reminds me of S1 with Rust complaining they didn't get everyone in that cult and Marty retorting they never will with how high up and how far reaching it was, but at least they got their killer.
Our protags are trying to get everyone. No way that contract is gonna get taken to their boss and fly well. It's got way too many important names, and they got it through sloppy means (Ani used her sister's name, she killed someone along with Ray probably, and they got away with a valuable circuit girl). They need outside help, which is where I can see them making some uneasy alliance with the bird guy and his supposed squad. Outside of them killing a family for the diamonds the mask group seems to be out to fuck over the land-deal guys. Idk, maybe I missed something and I'm just reading too much into Birdman not killing Ray and merely sending that dude to set the car on fire. Birdman could just be another land guy looking for dirt on everyone else in that circle though. Also wondering if Frank is gonna end up on the wrong side of the showdown too in the end. He seems to self-interested to help bring down those corrupt figures.
Our protags are trying to get everyone. No way that contract is gonna get taken to their boss and fly well. It's got way too many important names, and they got it through sloppy means (Ani used her sister's name, she killed someone along with Ray probably, and they got away with a valuable circuit girl). They need outside help, which is where I can see them making some uneasy alliance with the bird guy and his supposed squad. Outside of them killing a family for the diamonds the mask group seems to be out to fuck over the land-deal guys. Idk, maybe I missed something and I'm just reading too much into Birdman not killing Ray and merely sending that dude to set the car on fire. Birdman could just be another land guy looking for dirt on everyone else in that circle though. Also wondering if Frank is gonna end up on the wrong side of the showdown too in the end. He seems to self-interested to help bring down those corrupt figures.
Just speculation tho. I rewatch every episode with subtitles and shit so I don't think I'm overlooking or going too deep into things but I probably did haha.
Finally guess,
Birdman is Rust.
I'm calling it.
jk.
Not really.
I'm calling it.
jk.
Not really.
It's not really rocket science, it's a short season, it's not much of a time commitment if you keep up with the episodes (1 hour a week), it's airing during the summer so there are fewer shows people watch than usual and generally many have more free time, a lot of people still watch it so it's something to talk about irl with friends and seeing reactions on the Internet is often hilarious.
GAF was one of the reasons why I pushed on and survived Dexter's season 8, it was like watching a 3-months-long trainwreck in slow motion while everybody knew they can do nothing about it.
GAF was one of the reasons why I pushed on and survived Dexter's season 8, it was like watching a 3-months-long trainwreck in slow motion while everybody knew they can do nothing about it.
This season was pretty fucking glacial, and I'm still open minded at it.
I feel like there wasn't nearly enough weirdness in this season. Everything is so bleak and just not mysterious that it's hard to give a shit about the plot or anyone even though I like everyone's performances on the show.
It would have to be a fucking amazing last 2 episodes to save this season.
There should have been a lot more creep shit like bird man and paper plate mask dude.
Weirdness and hallucinations should have been one of the major elements from season 1 to carry over in a big way (they did a little bit but everything around it was so flat).
Shame. *ring a ling*
I feel like there wasn't nearly enough weirdness in this season. Everything is so bleak and just not mysterious that it's hard to give a shit about the plot or anyone even though I like everyone's performances on the show.
It would have to be a fucking amazing last 2 episodes to save this season.
There should have been a lot more creep shit like bird man and paper plate mask dude.
Weirdness and hallucinations should have been one of the major elements from season 1 to carry over in a big way (they did a little bit but everything around it was so flat).
Shame. *ring a ling*
I'm going to watch it again and give it my undivided attention. Thanks.
RadioHeadAche
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Did Fukunaga direct the last two, or just the finale?
The Driver
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He hasn't directed any this season and I doubt he's doing the finale either. Apparently he and Pizza had a falling out. It'll probably be another GoT/Mad Men/ The Wire alum.
Langdon Alger
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Colin Farrell is the man. He should be in every movie.