And the badge thing nullified his entire purpose of seeking higher ground to send the voice note. He was more preoccupied with sending that message that actually defending himself. Side bar: I went back and rewatched S1 this week so I'm a little jaded because that shit was pure brilliance.
In my opinion no. just couldn't get into it. complex storyline that just doesn't pay off and has nothing enjoyable about it. Colin Farrell was good though.
Best party of the show was Ferrell, although his growling seemed to get outta control every now and then.
wifey binged season 1 on sunday/monday. was really excited to start season 2 last night at my place and i told her to skip it and hope for a good season 3
Brought up how much better I slept while my wife was out of town, and that I understand why they had two beds back in the 1960's on TV shows. It didn't go over well, especially when I showed her the data from my fitness tracker. Cliffs: wife is anti-science.
2 months. So far so good on not having to vent in the wives/gfs thread She's a Bama fan though so in a few weeks it may go from to
I have a friend that hasn't seen the show yet. I told him to watch Season 2 before Season 1 since there's no carryover between the two. I'm really interested to see his opinion on Season 2 having not had the expectations of Season 1 in the back of his head.
finished binge watching the season last night. it was really bad and i had no expectations of it meeting the first season in terms of quality. just awful story construction and dialogue
True Detective: HBO President Of Programming Takes Blame For Season 2 HBO’s crime drama True Detective had one of the most promising freshman seasons of any TV show in recent memory. With a strong story, a compellingly bleak tone, and top-notch performances from stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, the show won over audiences and garnered all sorts of critical acclaim. Then season 2 happened. To say that season 2 was not as well-received as season 1 would be an exercise in understatement. Screen Rant’s Kevin Yeoman described the final episode as having “unnecessary backstory wedged uncomfortably between extended moments of vivid action and unintentionally hilarious dialogue,” and that description could easily be applied to the entire season as a whole. Fans and critics weren’t the only ones who had issues with the show, either, as even an executive at HBO has now acknowledged its failings. In an interview with The Frame, HBO’s president of programming Michael Lombardo put much of the responsibility for season 2’s failings on himself, saying that he “became too much of a network executive” and pushed series creator Nic Pizzolatto to get it done before it was ready. Lombardo acknowledged that this was an unenviable task: “Well, you know what? I set him up. To deliver, in a very short time frame, something that became very challenging to deliver. That’s not what that show is. He had to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Find his muse. And so I think that’s what I learned from it. Don’t do that anymore.” Much of the challenge came from the fact that Pizzolatto does all of the show writing himself rather than handing off duties for some episodes to other writers, or at least breaking the story down in a writers’ room, as most TV dramas typically do. With eight hour-long episodes in the season, that’s roughly the equivalent of writing four feature-length movie scripts. Given that season 2 debuted only a little over a year past the wrap-up of season 1, that is a lot of writing for just one person. Despite all this, HBO clearly still believes in Pizzolatto, having recently signed him to a new contract through 2018. Whether or not that means we will see a True Detective season 3 sometime soon is unknown, even for Lombardo: “I’d love to have the enviable certainty of knowing what my next year looks like. I could pencil things in. But I’m not going to start betting on them until the scripts are done.” In other words, this time around Pizzolatto will be done when he’s done, and HBO is going to step out of the way to make sure he isn’t rushed into creating another season of sub-par television. That’s good news and bad news for True Detective fans, since it offers hope that a third season would be better crafted than the last, but also leaves them hanging on for new of if and when that third season might happen.
Whatever. There had to be someone to fall on the sword. Blaming someone at HBO instead of Pizzolatto is necessary, because it makes viewers think HBO might react by backing off and letting him do his thing. If they instead pin it on Pizzolatto, then it really kills the interest in Season 3.
Kind of predicted that before Season 2 even premiered. Pizzolatto spent his life writing season 1. It was his masterpiece. Then HBO said "Wow, people really liked that. We need a new one to start filming in 4 months." No chance it was going to be as good.
Yep. It was exactly like the band with a hit debut album. Pizzolatto got caught between trying to repeat the sound of the debut album and creating a new sound. I think Season 3 will be better. Not as good as Season 1, but much better than Season 2.
Whatever he does, I just hope there's more occult feeling in it. True Detective Season 2 was more like a standard cop mystery whereas season 1 was this eerie Lovecraftian mystery that happened to involve policemen.
Im hopeful of season 3. I got into TD a month before Season 2. Season 1 is right there for me with any first season. Between that and The Leftovers Im pretty excited for year 3.
I honestly have no idea why anyone would have faith in season 3. Unless Nic Pizzolatto gets another ten years to write it, it will probably be rushed, filled with allegories to random crap that leads nowhere, and ultimately not good.
I'm fine with it taking ten years if we get another masterpiece like season 1. Hell I'd be fine if he threw away the detective premise altogether and just made a completely different show.
You can tell just by this quote Pizzolatto is a massive cunt "As an autodidact pessimist, Cohle speaks toward that philosophy with erudition and in his own words," says Pizzolatto. "The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer."
Aren't there a lot of you who are big into the Dark Tower series? I figured this would be a good place to put it.
You know... I'm sure this was mentioned in the pre-crash thread but I just noticed this for the first time on re-watch # unknown yesterday... In S1 E2, you get a really incredible shot of Daddario's bush / camel toe when she is geting off of Marty. I mean, I have no idea how I missed this before.
From Wikipedia: "Daddario was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Christina, a lawyer, and Richard Daddario, a prosecutor and former head of the NYPD counter-terrorism unit under Mayor Bloomberg.[4] Her brother, Matthew Daddario, is also an actor.[5][6] She also has a sister named Catharine.[7] Her paternal grandfather was Emilio Q. Daddario, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Connecticut from 1959 to 1971.[8][9] She has Italian, Czech, English, and Irish ancestry.[10]" Sounds like a perfect mix for breeding some BIGASSTITTIES.
After seeing those BIGASSTITTIES, Daddario might be my favorite actress in Hollywood right now. She's simply glorious.
I can't remember if I posted it itt, but I work in Vernon, CA which Vinci was based off of along with the Mayor and some of his people.