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The Argonaut wrote:Let's keep in mind Nic Pizzolatto did not write Season 4. So, for an anthology series, that kind of makes it True Detective in name only
In fact, she wrote a thing called Night Country. And then HBO came a-calling and asked if she had any pitches for that brand. She pitched Night Country and they said, 'LET'S GOOOOOOOO!' And she then rewrote the script to be a TD property.

Also, when asked about McConaughey being an EP on the show, Jodie Foster said, (paraphrasing) "Yep, because he's in there somewhere, he's in the mix." Which, of course, broke TD twitter/reddit.
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That's all fine and good. But True Detective=Nic Pizzollato in some substantial way, so his non-involvement means something about what this season is and what it is not. I will leave it up to you decide what that means for you
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The Argonaut wrote:That's all fine and good. But True Detective=Nic Pizzollato in some substantial way, so his non-involvement means something about what this season is and what it is not. I will leave it up to you decide what that means for you
It means we might finally get a complete season of a potentially great TV series.
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The Argonaut wrote:That's all fine and good. But True Detective=Nic Pizzollato in some substantial way, so his non-involvement means something about what this season is and what it is not. I will leave it up to you decide what that means for you
while i could agree with this, i want to finish this season to understand what it means on terms of how profound is the changed. Episode one so far was not really far away from what i expected from a true detective series, and i mean that in the best possible way.

Argo have you read Nic´s books? they are awesome.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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loved them both

have you seen the movie?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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the movie is very good and directed by Melanie Laurent. Great adaptation.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Nah. I like to think I live it every time I read Burt’s posts.
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VinylGuy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:That's all fine and good. But True Detective=Nic Pizzollato in some substantial way, so his non-involvement means something about what this season is and what it is not. I will leave it up to you decide what that means for you
while i could agree with this, i want to finish this season to understand what it means on terms of how profound is the changed. Episode one so far was not really far away from what i expected from a true detective series, and i mean that in the best possible way.

Argo have you read Nic´s books? they are awesome.
I haven't read any of his books, no. Perhaps I should
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oh shit

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Not watching that
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Quite the opening for episode 2
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so
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McConaughey has to show up at some point, right? These are not just throwaway Easter eggs they’re tossing in here.
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Ensign9 wrote:McConaughey has to show up at some point, right? These are not just throwaway Easter eggs they’re tossing in here.
Are they even easter eggs at this point?
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