True Detective (HBO) TV Show • Page 51

what the fuck

 

I've been avoiding this thread because I fell behind but we just watched episodes 4 & 5 last night. It's a very solid show for me, but I really just love detective shows. The leads are really good and I love John Hawkes. The supernatural stuff I can take or leave, so when they heavily tease that stuff and then it ends up being just normal humans murdering each other it doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother other people.

I was confused by the scene with Danvers & John Hawkes' son looking at the laptop and talking about the guy who Navarro shot being left-handed, but it was getting late and I think I was falling asleep. I get that people were figuring out that the guy didn't shoot himself and that some combo of Navarro and/or Danvers shot him, but why did young cop kid have them in the first place, who was looking on the laptop, who flipped the photos, and who told Dr. Who???

Season 2 feels to me like Nic Pizzolatto got mad about people saying Season 1 was only good because of Cary Fukunaga and decided to quadruple down on his style of writing and wrote the most Pizzolatto fucking thing ever. I will die on the hill that says one strong director wrestling with Pizzolatto for the path of the overall season could have improved that season drastically. It needed a better setting and it should have focused on just mustachioed Colin Farrell & serious Vince Vaughn. The less said about Taylor Kitsch's closeted army guy the better, but I think Rachel McAdams' Bezzerides deserved a season where she was one of the main two. I think Pizzolatto writes some really good stuff, some crazy stuff and some absolutely atrocious garbage and seems to think that anything he writes is just unqualified masterpiece level shit without question.

 

Leftovers season 1 was spotty until THE Carrie Coon episode, and from there on it's one of the best shows ever made. Really took like half a season to get the tone right imo.

 

One of the best things about season 2 was having so many main characters and how different it was from season 1. Cutting that down to focus on just 2 again would make it blander imo.

 

INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN




that's all.

 

Bummed I have to wait until Tuesday to see the finale

 

He said the line!

Sigh.

 

Fart noises

 

the dumbest fucking shit ever lol

 

Man that was some cheesy shit lol

Overall I enjoyed this, but ended it with a minor whiff

 

Fuck around with some indigenous folks and find out yall

 

If Holden and Leah's dad died in separate car accidents no wonder Danvers was like that

 

is that the implication? i didn't get that at all but the show seemed uninterested in telling its main character's story lol

 

The last two episodes were definitely the best ones but overall this was extremely ok. The acting and dialogue across the board was not very good, and the music supervision was terrible, but I liked the mood of it.

 

Ehh this episode was maybe the worst of the season. And I thought Danver’s husband was a drunk driver and killed himself and Holden? But again why’d they wait until this episode to kind of start to explore that?

 

just guessing based on age but I could be wrong

 

Also at the last minute it being “oh the cleaning ladies figured it out because water spilled down a hole in the floor and they found a star shaped drill and put them all in a truck” was uhhh very dumb.

 

the explanation for annie k's death was even worse

 

Still had more questions than answers

 

The cleaning lady bit was fun, at least. I also thought Jodie was great in this one. But the Annie stuff was clumsy and the return of the line was so stupid. Kinda feel like the season is automatically better if it were a standalone, the TD connection was incredibly silly and I feel like this had more to offer on the supernatural side of things.

Overall didn’t move the needle much for me in either direction - average but kind of fun show with an average but kind of fun finale.

 

my eyes rolled out of my skull at “time is a flat circle”

 

Cleaning lady part would have been fine if they didn’t hint at supernatural stuff the entire season. I thought Jodie was terrible this episode especially her yelling about Holden and shooting Evangeline’s face off or whatever.

Also I started to check out towards the end but did it show Danver’s and Evangeline living together at like a lake house or some shit?

 

This was pretty bad, I should have just rewatched season 1 again. My favorite part is Danvers saying do what you want with Clark, then when he’s outside frozen and shit she’s all like, HE WAS OUR ONLY WITNESS. Meanwhile she had recorded a whole confession vid or something and didn’t even say anything for dramatic reveal shit. I absolutely love Jodie Foster but not even she could carry this to being remotely watchable.