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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 15, 2015 10:15:03 GMT 1
I call it True Detective: Damaged Dicks.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 16, 2015 0:52:48 GMT 1
I've finished watching season 1 of True Detective...does that count? Love me some Lovecraft lore mixed with crime drama, yo!
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Post by Clint Johnston on Aug 19, 2015 18:47:55 GMT 1
I've finished Season 2! I liked it better than season 1, actually. While Rust & Marty's characters were more interesting, Rust was completely unrelatable, and Marty was a dirtbag. A formerly honest cop who got turned because he went after his wife's rapist? Velcoro made sense. Woodrugh's confusion and desperation was understandable, even overly so. Bezzirides was the most subtle of the bunch and you get that explanation later in the season. You even connected with Frank's long term goals. The ending was about as hokey as the first season (minus the mystical element). Velcoro couldn't figure out how to remove a transponder and lose any possible tails, so he takes 6 million dollars and hightails it for the wilderness? Uh... Nope. Even if you can't remove the tracker, drive to the nearest public place, and start throwing money. The crowds will form, you can escape and even if you miss the boat, you will be long gone before any danger is near you. Or out the window, creating a massive traffic jam.
Frank's passing kind of made sense, the Mexicans were legitimate enemies with no reason to cooperate, but all the same, he could have bargained a bit more and made it out. What use is a suit in the desert? Give the man the suit for whatever water he will part with, and walk back to civilization. It'll be hard, it might scar you, but you'll be alive and not bleeding out from a kidney wound.
Last but not least, Bezzirrides takes her evidence to a Venezuelan reporter. A VENEZUELAN REPORTER. She took a story of government corruption, murder, and sexy sex parties to a schmoe in Venezuela, where the worst of what happened would maybe make it onto page 10, it's that ordinary there.
I appreciate the darkness of Velcoro's last message being lost (another casualty of the "I'll drive into the wilderness, what could go wrong" plan) but it could have been avoided. I like that Jordan follows through on the adoption plans (though where exactly she got a baby in Venezuela is something worth asking)
Last but not least "we don't have enough to take it to the feds" You have names, signatures, and definitive testimony. Vinci hasn't kept that clean of a ship, if they get that the wedge of info they need, California gets blasted wide open. Sure it's the riskiest plan, but it's a hell of a lot better than what they individually came up with.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 19, 2015 22:34:23 GMT 1
1. Maybe Rust could've done it, but I think removing a transponder and losing a tail off a more experience cop and several former military people is a bit beyond Velcoro. Like he said, he was never exactly Columbo.
2. Frank didn't wanna give up his suit because the bag of diamonds was inside. If he'd done that, maybe he would've lived, but he would've had nothing to show for it. And if he was okay with that, he would've accepted Jordan's offer of going to work at Appleby's earlier in the season.
3. The journalist is American. He's the one who was looking into Vinci corruption who Ray beat up on Frank's orders in the first episode.
4. The baby is Ani's child by Ray.
5. I was actually thinking of this myself. It really reminded me of Life is Strange, where the suspected antagonist's dad supposedly owns all of the local police force. Just take what you've got to the feds, then!
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Post by Clint Johnston on Aug 20, 2015 4:09:32 GMT 1
1. That makes sense, but throwing a half a million across a highway makes up for a lot of difficulty. Can you imagine the traffic jam? OR: "Here's 500,000 dollars. Can I have your car?"
2. Rookie mistake. Diamonds should have been down his shorts. Or he could have palmed them while taking off the suit.
3. Really? The local guy from Vinci came all the way to Venezuela? I didn't recognize him. That might make a difference.
4. Ohhhhh.
5. Hell, Velcoro could have driven to LA (or San Diego) FBI office and said I need to surrender to the official agent in charge, and spun his tale for at least some time. Driving to the mountains to die is poignant but it ain't smart.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 24, 2015 15:56:54 GMT 1
Four words: Season Three, George Takei.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Oct 30, 2015 22:14:19 GMT 1
Fargo season 1 was better than True Detective season 1. Three episodes in, and Fargo season 2 is already better than True Detective season 2.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 18, 2016 5:28:22 GMT 1
They should cast Al Yankovic in a crucial part next season. His performance in the spoken part at the beginning of the Fat music video is legit amazing.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jun 27, 2016 21:23:47 GMT 1
If True Detective is really cancelled, HBO should take the basic concept of a short-run, self-contained detective anthology show and reboot it. Only instead of Niccy P and his existential noir gothic thing, hire Shane Black and do an action comedy.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Oct 11, 2016 16:22:41 GMT 1
If they ever do another season, the Dust Bowl would be a really fitting setting for True Detective's whole ambience.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jan 28, 2018 2:35:36 GMT 1
Scoot Mcnairy'sgonna be in season 3.
Season 3'sgonna be good.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 4, 2018 23:57:19 GMT 1
Season 4 needs to be about a criminal profiler, played by Kelsey Grammer, who has a background in psychiatry. Every episode the investigation's stalled because he gets into misunderstandings where people think he's a 60-something baby, Jewish or a gay man. These misunderstandings frequently escalate to epic tracking shot chases or hyper-intense shootouts.
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Post by Cali on Jun 8, 2018 4:37:49 GMT 1
Word in the hood is that Season 3 is gonna take place in Arkansas' Ozark mountains, and span several years (like the first season), and focus on a serial sniper case.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jun 10, 2018 9:32:43 GMT 1
A serial sniper? Finally!
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jun 10, 2018 22:12:00 GMT 1
You know what sucks? I got a fairly minor burn on my arm a few months ago, and now I've got a big shiny circle on my forearm. I look like the fucking Yellow King.
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