HBO Television Show: True Detective

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spike wrote:Hang on, didn’t last episode end with Navarro under the night country spell or whatever? And this ep she’s fine?
“Night Country Spell” = walk 4 feet and have to be rescued
I think the darkness of the setting didn’t show how close that spreading of ashes scene was to the actual water
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The writing is laughably bad. Yikes.
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Ello Sailor wrote:The writing is laughably bad. Yikes.
It doesn’t take a true detective to figure that one out
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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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It was weird how the ep started but I loved it. The finale was cool AF
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Hank: "I'm not a killer"

Narrator: "Hank then murdered the junkie and attempted to murder the chief of police"
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6 episodes is too short, 8 is the right number.
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VinylGuy wrote:6 episodes is too short, 8 is the right number.
It’s like the audience is in the night country now amirite?
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The scene at the mining headquarters with Danvers, Connelly, and that chick that heads the mine was so unbelievably stupid and frustrating. I was pissed. Why in the world would they bring Danvers in to tell her about the forensics results there … in front of that women, with the women telling Danvers to close the investigation? If they wanted us to know about the conspiracy, they could’ve made it more believable. Just frickin’ lazy writing that treats its audience as imbeciles.
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Chris_H_2 wrote:The scene at the mining headquarters with Danvers, Connelly, and that chick that heads the mine was so unbelievably stupid and frustrating. I was pissed. Why in the world would they bring Danvers in to tell her about the forensics results there … in front of that women, with the women telling Danvers to close the investigation? If they wanted us to know about the conspiracy, they could’ve made it more believable. Just frickin’ lazy writing that treats its audience as imbeciles.

I assume it was to tie the trespassing blackmail video to the forensics
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Bi_3 wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:The scene at the mining headquarters with Danvers, Connelly, and that chick that heads the mine was so unbelievably stupid and frustrating. I was pissed. Why in the world would they bring Danvers in to tell her about the forensics results there … in front of that women, with the women telling Danvers to close the investigation? If they wanted us to know about the conspiracy, they could’ve made it more believable. Just frickin’ lazy writing that treats its audience as imbeciles.

I assume it was to tie the trespassing blackmail video to the forensics
There was an ongoing mass-murder investigation where the mining women is telling the chief of police to stand down after she learned of the state forensics results before virtually anyone else. It’s pretty incredible.
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Past couple episodes were middling to me. So was most of this last onebut the last couple scenes, wow.
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I'm on episode 4 of the new season. It's entertaining enough. Really nice seeing Jodie Foster in this role. I do not like the performance from the lady playing Navarro, though. Very stiff performance from the actouress.
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season finale today!
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Ehhhh
Yes. It was satisfactory. At least it wasn’t spirits. And Mack on o hay didn’t show up. I didn’t stick around to see if there was an after credit scene where Danvers and Navarro fucked but only because I didn’t want to see it.
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This was a mediocre season of television made worse by trying to shoehorn in True Detective lore. It does reinforce one of life’s lessons: be nice to janitors.
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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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Yeah awful ending. Pizzolato was right on how absurd was all the hints to S1
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