TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

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there's always Herzog's lieutenant

first description of s2 plotline put me in mind of lot 49

the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link

New Orleans would be also an acceptable option though it was already kind of part of S1

building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link

s1 kind of was a gritty remake of who framed roger rabbit when u really think about it

r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link

if only they had conceived an ending half as terrifying as WFRR's

Number None, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link

being steamrollered by cliche was still quite upsetting tbf

r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link

ugh ugh ugh woody Jessica rabbit aghhhh

the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link

i have a suspicious that this will be totally amazing and even better than season one because i think there's a tendency for writers or artists to sort of exhale and realize once they get their dream project realized and then that often leads to a surge of creativity. the possibilities expand.

― ryan, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:36 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, the "sophomore slump" is definitely not a thing

socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link

something tells me you won't be terribly predisposed to like season two.

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link

i would actually be totes happy if it was good. prove me wrong n-piz!

socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link

sending positive vibes to NP

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link

^ true detective season 3

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link

Salton Sea would be cool.

Walter Galt, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link

http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/11/ASOS-Jessica-Chastain-the-help.jpg
"I'm gettin' too old for this shit"

Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link

"And we're going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in season one."

fuck, this dude says "psychosphere" irl

Clay, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link

i listened to the interview with him
he says vuh-he-cle in a kinda mcconaugheyish way also

schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link

i think ozzy had a psychosphere on the ultimate sin tour in 86

balls, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link

I'm biased but I kinda love how unpretentiously pretentious he is. would be curious if MM modeled any of his performance after him.

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link

i think you mean "unabashedly"

socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link

Convincing Barman Nic Pizzolatto,

schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link

xp: either way I am for it!

plus he's given me the word "psychosphere."

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link

he was a bartender in Austin and FYI they are all like that.

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link

maybe it's a type that extends beyond Austin but there's definitely Alex Jones crossed with an eternal phd candidate type of dudes all over the place.

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link

Sounds like a Central Valley story, with that desolation we saw in the Zodiac hitchhiker scene.

That's So (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link

ooh yeah

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link

ha ha, rad
i meant that sincerely in support of your unpretentiously pretentious thesis, btw

schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link

hope the dude goes for it in season two and has characters swilling cheap beer and quoting hegel at each other f the haterz.

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link

1915 San Bernadino

get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link

oh damn I think I'm gonna!

ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link

I thought "the other California" was kind of a popular literary/filmic subject

Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link

I mean IDK, maybe no moreso than anywhere else

Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link

forget it hurting, it's

socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link

Fresno

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link

that book cover is commanding my attention v well

ogmor, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link

That book is 100% straight-up A-plus. California para-history mythology is (as they say) relevant to my interests, Advise folks to look in here: Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link

hey you know what will be interesting about season two of this, maybe more than the cast/locale/degree of embroilment in occult happenings: how it is structured. the first's plot facilitated this really prerty sophisticated framework; different time periods, reliability of narrators, shifting focus. the newer cops were a part of this. i wonder if the guy has ideas for something equivalent

schlump, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link

like the collision of the narration with the protagonists in varying eras of vigor & weariness gave it such weight

schlump, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link

yeah that is one underrated strength of the one-off 8 season arc, they can blow through a longer time period like a novel where most shows have to proceed with a straightforward year-by-year chronology to match the production schedule. i wouldn't necessarily want TD to always jump back and forth between 2 eras, but the idea of a long investigation unfolding over years is good. so many cop shows have to resolve cases in unrealistically short periods of time, might as well let things play out for much longer.

ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link

I kind of wish they would go the full Bolaño with this and set it at the San Ysidro border (but then I actually just wish HBO would commission a sprawling 2666 adaptation....)

Walter Galt, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Fresno

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is an excellent idea.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link

Fresno is one of the cities along with Terre Haute, IN & Vancouver, WA that I have gotten instant, lets-get-the-fuck-out-of-here vibes from.

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link

"just wish HBO would commission a sprawling 2666 adaptation."
otm

festival of labour (xelab), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link

XP if that's the criteria I can't get wait for season three in stockport

cpt navajo (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wesson
What I think of when I think of Fresno

lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link

first two google news results are promising

cpt navajo (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link

Fresno is one of the cities along with Terre Haute, IN & Vancouver, WA that I have gotten instant, lets-get-the-fuck-out-of-here vibes from.

― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion),

Amarillo for me

it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link

seems like as good a place as any for this

Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties

Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture.

Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s awardwinning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.

Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link

“The familiar, monochromatic picture of Los Angeles in the sixties—all Hollywood pop and Didion ennui—required a million people of African, Asian, and Mexican ancestry to be ‘edited out of utopia,’ as Mike Davis and Jon Wiener put it. What those people actually did, alongside antiwar feminists, high school students, and others, is the heart of this book, and it’s a big heart. No one could tell these intersecting stories better than Davis and Wiener, and their book gives us back a great city’s greatness in its movements, edges, and other centers, so many of them forgotten.”

I don't know, maybe those people could have told their own stories better than Davis and Wiener. We'll never know, though, will we?

but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link

i hope they’ve got a good bibliography of primary sources. but i liked mike davis’ city of quartz v much (still need to finish it ofc) and may give this a go. my god my reading backlog though :/

Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

“This angst cop drama you’ve got goin’ on”

We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 26 March 2021 10:56 (three years ago) link

Did everyone watching this report back, im v curious as to how the endings stick

Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Friday, 26 March 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link

with your angst cop drama and your cocaine tongue
you get nothing done

righteous oxide (PBKR), Friday, 26 March 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link

I feel like this season is conscious of how ridiculous it often is (and I like that)

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link

i have paused on this, but will be returning.

Fizzles, Friday, 2 April 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

Re-watching this now for the first time since it was new and liking it a lot.

but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link

Every time you watch this show Anthony Kiedis reproduces a clone (asexually, but you never know).

Vin Jawn (PBKR), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link

liked it the second time around much much better


maybe they shouldn’t have called it True Detective idk

Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link

Seriously; just calling it Nick Lottapizza's California Noir would have been just fine.

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

happy to have been on the right side of history for this one

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:26 (nine months ago) link


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