HBO Television Show: True Detective

[Mecca]

The last half of this season really got me thinking about how much garbage Hollywood will pump out these days. Streaming has gotten just as trashy as network tv. If it wasn’t for the rewatch of Elementary I’m doing now, I’m not sure I’d currently be watching anything good. Even the latest two episodes of Tokyo Vice have taken a dive.

I propose we coin a new content philosophy, let's call it "slow television." Like slow food, but inedible.

What’s the opposite of prestige?

[Bi_3]

I wonder if this was originally written with more episodes and then trimmed down. The sequence where Navarro is unconscious and being dragged then the next time we see her she's kicking his ass screams of a post-production hack job.

[psychobain]

2 good episodes and then went downhill

1
3
2/4

im not sure if i like 2 or 4 more...ill have to rewatch 2 someday

[Coach]

This show started off strong, but quickly declined with every episode. The finale last night was messy trash.

[Bi_3]

Checkmate

[E.H. Ruddock]

Wtf

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[psychobain]

lol

[VinylGuy]

Yeez the finale was such a joke it’s just not serious

[Monkey_Driven]

I think "prestige TV" has officially jumped the shark

[Ello Sailor]

It would've been an okay -- albeit very goofy -- show by any other name. True Detective my ass! Issa López can't write for shit!

[epilogue]

It's such a low bar that it's pretty tough to quibble with.

[Ello Sailor]

But m..muh season 1!1

[epilogue]

I'm certainly old enough to remember how maligned that S1 finale was when it first aired. People were so pissed!

[VinylGuy]

S1 finale was pretty good I don’t remember any problem with it.

Please don’t bring S1 into this

[epilogue]

Into... the True Detective thread...?

[VinylGuy]

Into the discussion of how awful was the finale of S4

[epilogue]

To be honest, I liked the S4 finale. Definitely some wonky beats but overall it worked for me, more or less.

[VinylGuy]

Not surprised at all

[psychobain]

the explanation was so bad