It's nowhere near as good as S1. There are things to like about S2 but it's kind of a mess. And it doesn't really add anything, so unless you really love one of the actors, then I'd say you can feel comfortable skipping it. McAdams is great though. And so is Taylor Kitsch.wease wrote:Is the second season any good? We really liked the first one.
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I'd have a hard time thinking of a show that had a more disappointing season than S2 of TD.
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Wease, trust me. Don't watch season 2.
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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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Wease, your life will be better without season 2 of True Detective in it.
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This was a great thread when Season 2 started. A few of us hated it right away, but there were a few defenders.
Slowly but surely everyone started losing their lunch by the end.
Slowly but surely everyone started losing their lunch by the end.
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There are so many things worse that True Detective S2.
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Ok. Season 2 is off the table.
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You know what you should do? Just watch S1 again.
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tragabigzanda wrote:It might actually be better if you just binge the whole thing, though. Part of the disappointment was tuning in each week just waiting for it to get better. At least this way he can take the good with the bad quickly and efficiently.cutuphalfdead wrote:Wease, trust me. Don't watch season 2.
Yeah. It's one of the weirder things I've seen in television. I'm not sure If i gave it so many chances because it was true detective, or disliked it because it was True Detective.
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Was the first episode the one with the guy in the mask who shoots *spoiler* in the chest with a shotgun? Or was that the second episode? I feel like I really loved the first two episodes and then it just started to slide.
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I'd rather find a copy of Fire Walk With Me and get caught up on Twin Peaks.durdencommatyler wrote:You know what you should do? Just watch S1 again.
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wease wrote:I'd rather find a copy of Fire Walk With Me and get caught up on Twin Peaks.durdencommatyler wrote:You know what you should do? Just watch S1 again.
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Here's Season 2 for you, wease.
Crawling freeway shot.

Dude staring into camera.

Repeat.
Crawling freeway shot.

Dude staring into camera.

Repeat.
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Ha ha
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The RM awakening to this show during that first season was one of my favorite times on this board.
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Season one was the best thing on TV ever. With watching season two it will be like getting drunk at a bar and thinking you are taking home a 9 (when she's really a 7) and then ending up with a giant skin tag in your mouth when you are going down on her later in the dark.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Season one was the best thing on TV ever. With watching season two it will be like getting drunk at a bar and thinking you are taking home a 9 (when she's really a 7) and then ending up with a giant skin tag in your mouth when you are going down on her later in the dark.
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