Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 2:51 am
Looks good so far
Red Mosquito
HBO Television Show: True Detective
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Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 7:02 am
Severely lacking Vince Vaughn
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 12:33 pm
I thought the VV season sucked?
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 1:26 pm
It was inferior to the first season, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as people said.wease wrote:I thought the VV season sucked?
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 2:19 pm
Season 2 was REALLY bad.
Terrible acting, bad dialogue, a stupid story and 752 aerial shots of Southern California freeways.
Terrible acting, bad dialogue, a stupid story and 752 aerial shots of Southern California freeways.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 2:22 pm
run2death wrote:752 aerial shots of Southern California freeways.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 2:51 pm
Season 1 10/10
Season 2 7/10
Season 2 7/10
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 7:16 pm
Fixedpsychobain wrote:Season 1 10/10
Season 2 1/10
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 7:17 pm
yeah season 2 was really bad
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 7:30 pm
My wife and I would like to thank you for having us over to your dinner party.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 1:37 am
Mecca wrote:Severely lacking Vince Vaughn
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 1:50 am
I thought those 2 hours were really good, although in retrospect doing a 2-episode premiere was a slog I wish they hadn't attempted. I am glad the series returned to a lot of the quiet, contemplative moments of the first season instead of the frenetic pace and crowded story of the 2nd, but asking us to do that for 2 hours was a lot. I had to split it up between 3 viewing sessions.
I think Ali is great--really not familiar with his work, have wanted to watch Moonlight, but have never gotten around to it. Dorff has also been good. Ejogo's character has some legs, too. Not many other characters stood out, which is fine--I enjoyed how Season 1 had like 3 deep characters at the center and then fanned out to the interesting people they met week-to-week, and this seems to be taking a similar approach. Some other thoughts, which I haven't dug too deeply into (I also haven't read/listened to any recaps yet):
--Despite the fact that a number of series have used post-Vietnam manhood as a backdrop before (I think Season 2 of Fargo has quite a bit of this, as did a number of early-season X-Files episodes), I think there is still some interesting stuff to pull out. Hayes being in recon means he's a loner among loners; some of the other characters we meet get to share their war stories and get brief moments of reprieve when they realize others had it just like them, but his time over there was spent alone, so there's no release valve. There's a Tim O'Brien story that goes into what happened on listening posts, and it reminded me a lot of that.
--I am fine with the structure being eerily similar to Season 1 (i.e., someone sorting through his memories of what happened years before) and sort of wish Season 2 had something like this going on as well. The added wrinkle of Hayes being an unreliable narrator inside of his own head helps.
--That being said, I wish they weren't dropping so many hints about what's going to be revealed as things go along. I wish we didn't know that the missing girl and her dad had something happen in 1990.
I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but I do want to highlight that I am looking forward to the next few episodes and to seeing how the season unfolds as a whole.
I think Ali is great--really not familiar with his work, have wanted to watch Moonlight, but have never gotten around to it. Dorff has also been good. Ejogo's character has some legs, too. Not many other characters stood out, which is fine--I enjoyed how Season 1 had like 3 deep characters at the center and then fanned out to the interesting people they met week-to-week, and this seems to be taking a similar approach. Some other thoughts, which I haven't dug too deeply into (I also haven't read/listened to any recaps yet):
--Despite the fact that a number of series have used post-Vietnam manhood as a backdrop before (I think Season 2 of Fargo has quite a bit of this, as did a number of early-season X-Files episodes), I think there is still some interesting stuff to pull out. Hayes being in recon means he's a loner among loners; some of the other characters we meet get to share their war stories and get brief moments of reprieve when they realize others had it just like them, but his time over there was spent alone, so there's no release valve. There's a Tim O'Brien story that goes into what happened on listening posts, and it reminded me a lot of that.
--I am fine with the structure being eerily similar to Season 1 (i.e., someone sorting through his memories of what happened years before) and sort of wish Season 2 had something like this going on as well. The added wrinkle of Hayes being an unreliable narrator inside of his own head helps.
--That being said, I wish they weren't dropping so many hints about what's going to be revealed as things go along. I wish we didn't know that the missing girl and her dad had something happen in 1990.
I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but I do want to highlight that I am looking forward to the next few episodes and to seeing how the season unfolds as a whole.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 2:28 am
fuck , impressive start. I loved it. Ali was amazing...he really brought a something into that guy in the three stages of his life. Im betting he will be awesome in this..that face at the end of chapter 2 was so fucking good.
I loved it. Kinda sorry Salunier is not going to return but Daniel Sackheim will do it next week and he has an impressive resumé too.
I loved it. Kinda sorry Salunier is not going to return but Daniel Sackheim will do it next week and he has an impressive resumé too.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 2:53 am
Episode one was amazing. Ali was flawless.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 3:10 am
Ok so I listened to one podcast on the way home and the 3 Yellow King / Carcosa references I missed in Episode 1 almost have me convinced this is a shared universe with Season 1.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 3:02 pm
I missed those as well, but I believe it was confirmed in the past that it's the same world between all seasons.Simple Torture wrote:Ok so I listened to one podcast on the way home and the 3 Yellow King / Carcosa references I missed in Episode 1 almost have me convinced this is a shared universe with Season 1.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 4:03 pm
which podcast?Simple Torture wrote:Ok so I listened to one podcast on the way home and the 3 Yellow King / Carcosa references I missed in Episode 1 almost have me convinced this is a shared universe with Season 1.
Please, lets not start the new ¨shared universe thing¨. Lets say its the same city.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 4:24 pm
My wife and I would like to thank you for having us over to your dinner party.
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 4:30 pm
did you wrote season 3?The Argonaut wrote:It doesn't really matter. There will only be passing, obscure references to Season 1. It won't seriously affect the storyline
Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 5:53 pm
sarcasm, my good weasewease wrote:I thought the VV season sucked?