True Detective (HBO) TV Show • Page 56

I’m fine with more seasons but bring in someone else to work with Issa or bring in an entire new team. Cause this season was a mess.

 

lol this whole thing was such a shitshow I don't even know anymore

 

I'm not sure I met a real person who enjoyed the show. Pretty dumbfounded by any positive reviews I've read online. I feel like I'm being gaslit.

 

I think I liked it more than I didn't, but also don't disagree with any criticisms I've heard.

 

Exactly where I am. I 100% could get why someone would not like this. But there are some psychos that are acting like the first season was some sacred text and melted down about this season. Like, pump your brakes.

 

Wow. I avoided this thread until I could watch the finale and I'm a little surprised to see so much so negative about the show. I thought it was a solid season and I enjoyed it all the way through. It was an enjoyable supernatural-adjacent murder mystery / detective procedural in a great setting. A lot of the critiques people are bringing up here are valid, but I suppose they just didn't derail it for me they way they did for so many others.

Honestly, the only stuff that really bothered me a lot were the incredibly forced references to Season 1 that did not feel organic at all and just felt shoehorned in. Very dumb, and really felt like an unforced error. That stuff was not necessary at all and could have been left out and this still had enough trappings to be True Detective-y enough without any of that. I'm fine with this being a season of True Detective to cash in on the name recognition and stuff, but this just as easily could have been called simply "Night Country". Pizzolatto is a fucking turd though so I don't care if HBO took his baby away and gave it to someone else. I'm sure they paid him handsomely for the rights to the name.

I do have to go out on a limb and defend the acting though. I thought the acting was fucking great from all of the leads - even John Hawkes' cop kid, which I did not see coming when the show first started. Jodie Foster's delivery on that line in the last episode when she's threatening Navarro for talking about her kid was slightly odd, but they're both supposed to be freezing to death and it's hard to sound badass while shivering that hard.

This ended up being a little sloppy in a way I did not expect going in, but for me there wasn't anything as laughably atrocious as Vince Vaughn lamenting the death of Stan in Season 2.

 

That Stan section was better than most of this season.

 

I’m sorry but Jodie Foster saying I’ll shoot your mouth off was terrible.

 

From what I've read, this season originated as a wholly different project for Lopez and she ultimately ended up bringing it into True Detective. I am very excited to see her write & shepherd a new season from the get go in this format.

I honestly consider Season 1 of this to be one of the greatest filmed fiction anythings in recent years and I can admit that there is a lot of silly shit in that season, it just works for me.

Was the finale supposed to suggest that all 6 or 8 or whatever it was of the other scientists jumped in and started helping murder Annie K. too...??? I don't think I really buy that. I can maybe see that the head scientist guy who started the project would snap and be upset enough to do that, but the other scientists guys all decide to be murderers too because their work got damaged?? I said to my wife that I thought some of them were like trying to stop the guy and possibly even render aid to the lady and she told me absolutely not, it showed that they all helped murder the shit out of her.

 

Yeah, that was also something that didn’t track for me. At least one of them would have been horrified. It also just doesn’t reflect what we actually see in Annie’s phone video.

 

depends on what you want out of dialogue. If you want pitch perfect delivery plus the best wording possible at all times which is unrealistic, then yes that line is a let down.

but if you’re cool with dialogue that’s sloppier, like it is in real life with real humans, then it’s fine. Especially when you consider the day they’ve had & that they’re freezing to death.

 

Yeah that’s not that bad compared to some other lines which had me rolling my eyes. I think there was one early on at the end of an episode, where Navarro goes “whatever’s out there… is still alive.” It was all but missing a dramatic “dun dun dun” sound.

 

I didn't think you would survive falling through ice into water that cold when you were already almost freezing to death before anyway, especially considering there wasn't really a way to warm up after with the station having no power and them only having a tiny little indoor fire, but that kind of stuff I'm willing to suspend disbelief on.

 

It was a little funny seeing Jodie Foster’s incredible glow after that scene though. Like how does that make sense?

 

the shooting line was dumb as hell but I mostly thought Jodie was great in that scene otherwise tbh

in general I agree with a ton of the criticisms around the season, but most of the acting was fine (Reis) good (Bennett & sometimes Foster) to great (Hawkes and other times Foster) to me, at least with the context of the script they were given

 

The same principles that are always applied in marvel movies and any male dominated action flick from the 80’s & 90’s are what got them through

 

I’m cool with someone saying this was as good as a marvel movie

 

I know a lot of people love those marvel movies but that seems unnecessarily harsh

 

How are the maids better detectives than the police in Ennis

 

They listen to all the murder podcasts duh

 

Haven’t done S3 so i’m gonna start that tonight

 

It's damn good.