It's because we only hire straight white males to write TV
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True Detective - Season 2 - We get the Season we deserve - Sundays on HBO
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It's because we only hire straight white males to write TV
he's a riot lol
You forgot about the part where Antigone tells him that his dick lacks the girth.
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When the guy showed up in that underground tunnel and announced something like "you were looking for me?", I honestly had no idea who that was, or even that anyone was looking for him. After that episode I had to read some lengthy recap of the whole season to figure out what actually has been going on this season. I don't see how can anyone be expected to get any of that from just casually watching the show once. Leaving some things to be mysterious is fine, but being even more in the dark than the detectives we're following is a pretty big fail by the production of this show.
If the recap I read is correct, the very high body count this season is way overkill for the supposed crime that is being covered up too. Maybe the detectives can run into some supernatural being in the finale that is possessing many of the baddies in this show, or possibly spin everything that has happened into some weird artistic metaphor for parental absenteeism. Either of those options would make more sense than what is apparently going on.
If the recap I read is correct, the very high body count this season is way overkill for the supposed crime that is being covered up too. Maybe the detectives can run into some supernatural being in the finale that is possessing many of the baddies in this show, or possibly spin everything that has happened into some weird artistic metaphor for parental absenteeism. Either of those options would make more sense than what is apparently going on.
Pointing out an exception doesn't make the sentiment untrue or mostly untrue.
It's a fool's errand to try to compare David Simon's scriptwriting to Pizzolatto's.
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I was just rebutting the notion that a being able to write for characters of different races, ethnicities, sexualities, etc is something that cannot be accomplished by a white male. It's as stupidly stereotypical a notion as the one that was trying to be made in the first place.
His point wasn't that straight, white men can't write from different perspectives.
And you're delusional. 19% of screenwriters are female. And I bet the percentage of all minority writers is hovering around that, too.
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the poster was replying to a comment regarding NP's inability to write decent characters that aren't straight or white, not the hiring practices of hollywood.
Which i argue is as terrible a perspective to have because other writers can do it just fine. That NP can't do it shouldn't be a blanket statement on how straight white people cant write anything other than straight white people
I think you might have misunderstood what the poster was getting at.
I'm pretty sure the poster's point was that since the vast majority of writers in Hollywood are straight, white males there's a dearth of diversity in perspective.
Nic Pizzolatto's seeming inability to write from different perspectives is just a symptom of that much larger problem. It's an echo chamber.
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but we all at least agree that NP has done a pretty terrible job with that stuff, right?
I think we have a common ground here
I think we have a common ground here
It hurts seeing these pictures of Stan back when he was alive and full of vigor. I had such high hopes for him.
Robot Pants
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Goodnight, sweet prince.
He had a heart of solid gold, and they took it from him.
Cornballer
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- Grantland: How Wed Fix It: True Detective Season 3
- Maureen Ryan: 'True Detective' Drinking Games That Could Kill You - Season 2 went almost completely wrong, until it went right.
- Onion A|V Club interview: Rick Springfield on True Detective, Meryl Streep, and horseshit 70s TV gigs
TD bit is towards the end of the Springfield interview. I wonder what the other part was that he auditioned for initially.
- Maureen Ryan: 'True Detective' Drinking Games That Could Kill You - Season 2 went almost completely wrong, until it went right.
- Onion A|V Club interview: Rick Springfield on True Detective, Meryl Streep, and horseshit 70s TV gigs
TD bit is towards the end of the Springfield interview. I wonder what the other part was that he auditioned for initially.
Admiral Woofington
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I'm trying to think of a previous anthology that had this big of a drop in quality. Well have to see how Fargo season 2 is.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Stan
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heh, that grantland article summed up in one sentence: Just make it more like the first season!
There are plenty of ways to make this season good without turning it into the first season.
I should write a companion piece titled "How I'd Fix It: Grantland's How We'd Fix It: True Defective Season Two."
thesoapster
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Was about to post that. Season Two redeemed
PhoenixDark
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So...this hasn't been renewed for a third season correct? I don't remember how long it took for S1 to be renewed but honestly I wouldn't be shocked if it's cancelled in the coming weeks.
Unless the ratings drop considerably, it's not getting cancelled. The president of HBO said it was up to Pizzaman if he wanted to do a third season, the door was open.
Discotheque
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wow auralnauts blessed true detective as well.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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If I was writing Season 2, it'd be totally divergent from the ending of Episode 2.
Though I'd have Season 3 be about a washed up journalist uncovering a master criminal, chasing after them across the country in one last bid for glory. A different kind of... True Detective.
Season 2, if I wrote it, would be Hotline Birdman vs the Good Cops vs The Conspiracy
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Since Stan exited this mortal coil and into our hearts.
Pizzolatto signed a two year extension last January and the ratings are pretty much on par with the first season. Anyone who thinks it's getting cancelled is having a laugh or trying to delude themselves.
Only confusing part of the story so far has been the names. I haven't gotten to know these characters well enough to know their names without some hint of their role in the story, so that info-dump in the motel was difficult to follow, but I got the general gist.
Hopefully the finale is just a shit ton of shootouts to wrap this baby up.
Also, I think Thomas Cromwell was probably one of a few people waiting at various exits for Taylor to escape. Explains the lucky aspect, at least.
Hopefully the finale is just a shit ton of shootouts to wrap this baby up.
Also, I think Thomas Cromwell was probably one of a few people waiting at various exits for Taylor to escape. Explains the lucky aspect, at least.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Srsly, that sex scene at the end of the last episode was done quite well
Admiral Woofington
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he wanted the pizza son, but he needed the bad do you ever miss anything
dead souls
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Would've been better if it was a threesome with ghost Stan.
The Knight Rider bit killed me.
I love these guys so much.
DoktorEvil
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Maybe Dexter has a larger drop in quality?
hey_it's_that_dog
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Dexter isn't an anthology, though. But yeah, its decline in quality is historic.
Yup, and I agree. When you are dealing with an 8 episode season I feel the fewer main characters the better. I'm re watching season 2 and Franks stuff is just pointless. As the season was going on I thought some of the stuff might have more of a payoff. It still could though I guess. Paul's character kind of was a waste too, I think they just added him in there to off a main character.
I'd like them to go back to a more woodsy rural space. There's some really good wooded areas in North NJ and PA that could probably work well.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Frank's turn should have happened in Episode 5. That's when Osip and co should have pulled the rug out from under him, then send him spiraling afterwards.
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DoktorEvil
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I was more focused on the drop in quality part, not the anthology part. I can't think of an anthology series that varys so wildly as TD has from season to season.
Tales from the Crypt? Fright Night?
Ninja Scooter
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NotTheGuyYouKill
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He had a heart of gold. Apparently.
Chance Hale
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William Hurt got nominated for an Oscar for A History of Violence with about as much screen time so I wouldn't be surprised to see an Emmy in Blevin's future.
