Streaming [HBO] True Detective

[Stronzo]

All the characters were dark and brooding. I couldn't have given a shit about any of them.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Not singling this out but just saw it and chuckled, same thing in S02 Farrel: "Hey what about that set photographer, he would be about the right age" BAM You got True Detectived!

I was actually going to post the exact same thing in my last post.

It annoyed me in S1 when they did it and it annoyed me when they did it again the other night. They had 7 episodes to find the connection but instead it happens like a bolt of lightning, and within a second the whole picture is laid out.

 

[phantom13]

I was actually going to post the exact same thing in my last post.

It annoyed me in S1 when they did it and it annoyed me when they did it again the other night. They had 7 episodes to find the connection but instead it happens like a bolt of lightning, and within a second the whole picture is laid out.

Its pretty funny, but i guess you can take it as a point made, in spite of all the good detective work done (and we saw a lot of that in S01) sometimes its just the littlest clue that will give you away. Also people will find good old fashioned detective work boring and we want a lightning bolt moment.

Good call, early call though Jobe Watson

 

[rumply]

couldnt help but laugh at this scene

 

[Portmanteau]

I think the Farrell/McAdams/Kitsch main storyline will hold up very well on a rewatch, with more of an understanding of names and faces etc, but bloody hell those Vince Vaughn scenes were and will remain laughably bad. No actual humans speak like he and his wife did in this. Amazed that Vince didn't write some of his own material on the spot.

A good point about made of the Grantland Hollywood Prospectus podcast was about how S1 used real locations well whereas S2 featured a lot of people sitting at tables and talking. They tried with the overhead highways shots and so on, but this was a lot less crafted in this respect.

 

[Marlowe]

The dialogue might be a wank but it's one of the few things that separate from every other generic cop show. I like the theory that Vince spoke like a twat because he was so uncultured he was attempting to over-compensate. The problem is Vaughn doesn't have the right level of charisma to really sell his lines, or if he did, he was directed to deliver them dryly.

 

[PVF]

I thought VV's lines were pretty bad to begin with but as the season went on I'm starting to believe this was done on purpose.

Basically he's a gangster but he doesn't see himself as one, he thinks he is better than that and he tries to come across as this really smart and intellectual kind of guy and tries too hard to be something that he's not which is why the lines seem stupid.

If that's how it was meant to come across on TV then VV did a great job of it.

 

[Freo Big Fella]

I'm still getting over the fact that's Rick Springfield playing the creepy psychiatrist.

 

[Percel]

I'm still getting over the fact that's Rick Springfield playing the creepy psychiatrist.

Good shout, had no idea.

 

[phantom13]

I watched the first four eps of season 1 yesterday after work. Its just so good. Not comparing it to this season cause upon reflection they were never even similar in any way shape or form but damn... Good television.

 

[NSWCROW]

 

[phantom13]

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I would watch the f**k out of that.

 

[DIG]

Meh, it was ok at times but jeez, so bloody complicated. Nearly gave it away after 4-5 eps of mostly mind-numbing boredom but stuck it out and thankfully got better despite the depressing and somewhat predictable ending. Vaughn's final scene was cool.

Farrell tried a little too hard at times but was still superb I thought.

The highway overview scenes had no atmosphere unlike the haunting scenes over the south in season 1.

 

[pantskyle]

I enjoyed it but certainly as the season went on the flaws became more and more obvious. The finale also annoyed me, almost decided that killing almost everyone for the sake of it was the way to go.

 

[Taylor]

I feel that if you laid the entire plot down on a desk and put a black marker over the parts that weren't relevant there wouldn't be any motorcycle cop story, there wouldn't be any trying for a baby gangster.

Just a story about a cop who's sister has worked nights for some men who are going to make a lot of money in a corridor once a train goes through and that cops unfortunate partner who was separated from his wife (not for any conveniently brutal reason like she was r*ped and he killed the attacker just so there would be a link between him and the gangster).

All in all, it was like someone had written the characters and plot and thought: "damn, I have only two thirds plot time here and my characters need some horrible back story. Let's make the motorcycle cop a homosexual repressing his urges because of his shame, oh and let's get a bit political by making him also part of that black water group that gunned down heaps of civilians in Iraq - that will make it look like he is desensitized in the bus shootout when he doesn't react. Deep. Now let's make blonde cop a victim of child abuse, but let's really make it messed up and put her family in a cult like thing, not a cult that was all related to the plot but we will hint at it, ultimately we can use it to try and get some feeling generated from the cast towards the hookers and make it out like it's so horrible. Those evil rich guys paying hookers. Oh and let's make our gangster desperate for a normal life with a baby, some real relateable qualities because all in all there is nobody the audience can look at and think 'That's me!' so we will make a millionaire gangster who loses it all the relateable audience surrogate."

I know LA is a horrible place but if they expected normal people to see themselves in the plot and care they were off the mark. The wife in season 1, even the girl rescued who bonked Woody were getting on with life, you could understand it.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

I feel that if you laid the entire plot down on a desk and put a black marker over the parts that weren't relevant there wouldn't be any motorcycle cop story, there wouldn't be any trying for a baby gangster.

Just a story about a cop who's sister has worked nights for some men who are going to make a lot of money in a corridor once a train goes through and that cops unfortunate partner who was separated from his wife (not for any conveniently brutal reason like she was r*ped and he killed the attacker just so there would be a link between him and the gangster).

All in all, it was like someone had written the characters and plot and thought: "damn, I have only two thirds plot time here and my characters need some horrible back story. Let's make the motorcycle cop a homosexual repressing his urges because of his shame, oh and let's get a bit political by making him also part of that black water group that gunned down heaps of civilians in Iraq - that will make it look like he is desensitized in the bus shootout when he doesn't react. Deep. Now let's make blonde cop a victim of child abuse, but let's really make it messed up and put her family in a cult like thing, not a cult that was all related to the plot but we will hint at it, ultimately we can use it to try and get some feeling generated from the cast towards the hookers and make it out like it's so horrible. Those evil rich guys paying hookers. Oh and let's make our gangster desperate for a normal life with a baby, some real relateable qualities because all in all there is nobody the audience can look at and think 'That's me!' so we will make a millionaire gangster who loses it all the relateable audience surrogate."

I know LA is a horrible place but if they expected normal people to see themselves in the plot and care they were off the mark. The wife in season 1, even the girl rescued who bonked Woody were getting on with life, you could understand it.

Agree with this. This season could be edited into two movies of about 2 hours each (say Part 1 to setup the story; and Part 2 the conclusion) and it would be much much better.

 

[Gasometer]

I'm still getting over the fact that's Rick Springfield playing the creepy psychiatrist.

No way! Now I can't get over it!

 

[King Elvis]

Just starting series one.

The girl Woody is banging on the side is smoking hot.

Edit;

http://www.hecklerspray.com/alexandra-daddario-nude
Good lord.

 

[Percel]

Just starting series one.

The girl Woody is banging on the side is smoking hot.

Edit;

http://www.hecklerspray.com/alexandra-daddario-nude
Good lord.

I never noticed

 

[Godchin]

Nice roasties

 

[Bender_]

Didn't mind this season too much.

The directing and cinematography was really bad at times, and it showed that they were alternating directors.

I found it hard to put together some parts, but overall it made enough sense.

I have to ask, what exactly were the "bad guys" guilty of?

I know that they were corrupt and eventually they started killing people to cover up, but what was their biggest crime throughout?

In season one you had a cult that r*ped and murdered women and children, and had members of the church and government in their ranks.

Season two had goverment officials bribing and interfering with projects, taking drugs and having sex parties with consenting adults (as much as I find that whole scene repulsive).

Is that it?

Corruption, prostitution, murder.

They also killed the kids parents when stealing the diamonds years before everything.

 

[Gasometer]

Didn't mind this season too much.

The directing and cinematography was really bad at times, and it showed that they were alternating directors.

I found it hard to put together some parts, but overall it made enough sense.

I have to ask, what exactly were the "bad guys" guilty of?

I know that they were corrupt and eventually they started killing people to cover up, but what was their biggest crime throughout?

In season one you had a cult that r*ped and murdered women and children, and had members of the church and government in their ranks.

Season two had goverment officials bribing and interfering with projects, taking drugs and having sex parties with consenting adults (as much as I find that whole scene repulsive).

Is that it?

No ...it had a cool car...oh and Rachel

 

[rumply]

something something poisoned land murderous diamond heist something something

 

[Kong]

I also found Frank's motivation confusing.

At the beginning he clearly states that money isn't important to him, then he goes about returning to his criminal past and ultimately killing himself because he "only" had a few hundred thousand dollars left.

 

[Zach Package]

Didn't mind this season too much.

The directing and cinematography was really bad at times, and it showed that they were alternating directors.

I found it hard to put together some parts, but overall it made enough sense.

I have to ask, what exactly were the "bad guys" guilty of?

I know that they were corrupt and eventually they started killing people to cover up, but what was their biggest crime throughout?

In season one you had a cult that r*ped and murdered women and children, and had members of the church and government in their ranks.

Season two had goverment officials bribing and interfering with projects, taking drugs and having sex parties with consenting adults (as much as I find that whole scene repulsive).

Is that it?

This was the part that disappointed me the most, when I heard it would be about corruption and there would be a bad guy lead character I was hoping we would get a way better and clearer picture of what was going on