the best episode from s02
sorry. but this season is so boring.. every episode I hope it will be good but it never is as season one.
Holy crap. Rachel McAdams just continues to impress in this series. That entire sketchy pimp house scene is absolutely intense.
This season is so aggressively ripping the formula of the first season, but without any sort of spark to really sustain that. Yeah, sure, ok the last scene has a good build of tension to it, but it really feels like it exists because of the gang shootout scene from the first season. Even further, it feels aggressively written so that there would be no way to shoot it in any sort of oner--famously the boiling point for Pizzolatto and Fukunaga.
I just generally don't understand what we're meant to be getting here and it's making me feel like True Detective doesn't even know what it is. This season alienates to the point of barely having any resemblance to the first season beyond cursory arc formula. I know rushing out a season is likely to blame for this, but the idea that the techniques being pushed feel so far off from the first season really makes you wonder if there was an understanding of why the first season resonated so strongly with us when it aired. The philosophical musings--easily the best parts of the first season--tied into the ethos of the show extremely well, which was then mirrored by filmmaking and general aesthetic of the experience. It sort of used the base tropes of Noir storytelling in very clever ways that felt fresh and extremely bleak. Here, we basically just see a more bog standard Neo-Noir. There's not really anything new brought to the table. Hell, we even set it in LA. Missteps are extremely common in the second season of television shows, particularly when your opener is as nearly infallible as True Detective. But the way in which this season stumbles really highlights how central having a strong director was to oversee the entire season. Sapochnik is tremendously talented--we've all seen those Game of Thrones episodes, but his role as a television director brought in for select episodes shows why Fukunaga ever got branded as difficult: someone needed to drastically shape the story during production.
Ray: "Pain is inexhaustible, it's only people that get exhausted."
Now we finally have a Season 2. Best Episode to date !
“These contracts, they have signatures all over them...” like yeah? That’s what a contract is? I can’t believe he delivered that line with all that emotion just for it not to mean anything.
Who the hell is Stan? I know he was a dead guy who showed up floating in something but I don’t remember him from before being killed and now the series is all about Stan.
And oh god, I hope Velcoro’s ex wife doesn’t tell Chad about the rape :( I can only imagine how hard it must be for her and it’s okay if she wants to know the truth but why tell Chad? Specially right now :(
Tone setter for the entire second season. This episode made me feel like I was really watching True Detective again. The characters are really outdoing any expectation I had for them when the second season cast was announced. It's really getting good!
Her finger prints are are all over that knife. Surely these powerful people are gonna track her down, no? Don't they have her purse, too, that she gave them on the bus? I'm so stressed out.
I really like how the plot and the characters are developing in this season. Great show and amazing episode.
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I was eating my nails with that last scene