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Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 5:53 pm
by epilogue
wease wrote:Is the second season any good? We really liked the first one.
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 5:59 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:01 pm
by run2death
I'd have a hard time thinking of a show that had a more disappointing season than S2 of TD.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:02 pm
by Norah
Wease, trust me. Don't watch season 2.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:04 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:07 pm
by Norah
Wease, your life will be better without season 2 of True Detective in it.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:09 pm
by run2death
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:09 pm
by epilogue
There are so many things worse that True Detective S2.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:17 pm
by wease
Ok. Season 2 is off the table.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:18 pm
by epilogue
You know what you should do? Just watch S1 again.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:22 pm
by @SkitchP
tragabigzanda wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Wease, trust me. Don't watch season 2.
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.
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:24 pm
by epilogue
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:32 pm
by wease
durdencommatyler wrote:You know what you should do? Just watch S1 again.
I'd rather find a copy of Fire Walk With Me and get caught up on Twin Peaks.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:41 pm
by epilogue
wease wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:You know what you should do? Just watch S1 again.
I'd rather find a copy of Fire Walk With Me and get caught up on Twin Peaks.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:42 pm
by run2death
Here's Season 2 for you, wease.
Crawling freeway shot.
Dude staring into camera.
Repeat.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 6:49 pm
by wease
Ha ha
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 9:22 pm
by VinylGuy
Im in for another season. Really in.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sat July 01, 2017 9:54 pm
by EJ
The RM awakening to this show during that first season was one of my favorite times on this board.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Sun July 02, 2017 9:14 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
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.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon July 03, 2017 10:50 am
by @SkitchP
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.
lol