TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

Farrell is the best thing about it

i'm glad i watched this because it helped me remember the name/website of terry rodgers, who must be the nic pizzolato of erotic art

NSFW http://www.terryrodgers.com/paintings/

farrell doing his best with a thankless role for the bazillionth time in his career just makes this show all the sadder imo

As mentioned in the Celebrity Spottings ( can't remember title) thread Farrell was a nice dude when I shared a smoke break with him some years ago. Thought it was funny when I told him I enjoyed "Alexander". I therefore cheer him on.

I have been a Farrell stan from day 1 - i had no doubt he could bring it.... but I was still kinda blown away by how good he is. "Coyote" is def the best description of his character

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, June 24, 2015

farrell doing his best with a thankless role for the bazillionth time in his career just makes this show all the sadder imo

― da croupier, Wednesday, June 24, 2015

cosign to the Nth

based solely on the work idg how anyone can not be a Farrell stan tbh.

Every film i've seen him in has been bad...?

barry sanders played on a lot of shit teams but i'll stan for him too

also how can you not have seen in bruges?

or tiger land. or noticed that the 4 minutes he appears in Crazy Heart are the only tolerable 4 minutes.

Miami Vice!

Farrell has been the best thing about every movie he's been in since that smile he flashed Tom Cruise as he gave him a beat down in Minority Report.

dunno if I'd call Farrell's scenes in this good but they're definitely the only non-boring parts. "12 years old and already evil as fuck" being the highlight

everything everything was a serious snooze

one thing that worked in the first season that doesn't seem like it's going to happen here is that marty to act as a straight man of sorts for the weirder, more damaged rust. not sure who's going to fill a role like that here since none of these cops seem well-adjusted enough to be an audience stand-in.

also, i don't know what actor could save some of the lines vince vaughan had to deliver but it's not vince vaughan.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, June 23, 2015 8:04 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

i agree with this

was thinking on twitter that what's the point of grim nihilism if you cant also be funny about it

i may continue to watch this for vince vaughn though - what are some of the lines he had to say?

'behold what was once a man?'

'a good woman mitigates our baser desires"

he doesn't know how to sit on a syllable, it's great, it's like watching a ventriloquist work with a corpse

i need some screenwriting software so i can make a

VINCE VAUGHN 
(pained expression)
Behold, what was once a man. 

type image

VINCE VAUGHN
(getting dressed)
Behold, what was once a man.

damn i was beaten to the punch

https://twitter.com/kalebhorton/status/613791231693340672

lol

The Internet gets the Lulu it deserves.

this is perhaps repeating what others have already said but...

i had insomnia last night so i watched episode 5 from last year, "The Secret Fate of All Life" (the "time is a flat circle episode"). one thing that was immediately apparent was the sense of wit and timing in the performances (finding humor in places you woulnd't think to look for it), the fluidity of the direction and cinematography, a real poignancy to the language. granted this was much further into the season than we are this time. i wonder if some sense the leads last time knew how to play the over the top dialogue with a bit of levity, which makes all the difference. much is made of the cliche of the detective with dark secrets, but rust and marty are pretty much the men they present themselves to be.

but i think part of the reason the wit is gone is that this time the characters, despite all appearances to the contrary, are really totally different. i hesitate to use the word "competent" but Rust and Marty both had some modicum of their shit together, were good at their jobs, were essentially (infidelity and hypocrisy notwithstanding) ok people. rust has a code and marty is only in the process of fucking his life up. these new characters are more or less already at bottom--the only arc is up, right?

ya cld be the performances/directing just elevated the writing above its baser tendencies last season

xp right on. i want to give season 2 a chance to make these characters seem more human and three-dimensional (i.e. we need to see the good in them along with the damage), but although i haven't watched it recently that element was pretty much there in season 1 episode 1.

i've heard from some who've seen beyond the first episode that there's some dark humor at the expense of the constantly drunk mayor in later episodes, and since richie coster plays him and is a phenomenal drunk actor (dractor?) im looking forward to that

obvs one ep not a lot to go one but feel like mr pizza is being all they wanna see hard boiled ill give them hard boiled but really what ppl want to see is banter

Farrell falling asleep at the bar can't continue for a full season. This has to go somewhere.

lagoon otm

if the final ep is just a long montage of farrell sleeping at the bar set to an extremely sad song i will concede defeat and tip my hat to superior artistic genius

http://i.imgur.com/mIdT1hb.png

oh my god how great would it be if the show dropped clues throughout the season and then in the penultimate episode asked 'Who do you think did it?' encyclopedia brown style w/ the last episode giving the correct solution

Season 3: Akron, Ohio, 1963, with a nine-year-old protagonist.

w some dark secrets

just give us good banter, yeah

i'm big on banter

― ELI OWNS YOUR HUSBAND (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:24 PM (3 years ago)

B-)

"I'm a fiend for banter."

"Sometimes your best banter is your worst banter"

lmao xp

for anyone interested, the songs by lera lynn from the bar scene & the original teaser are available on spotify

no thanks

Shoulda got Vera Lynn

had to google my banter quote to remember when i made it and hoo boy those there were fancy free days
felt like i was just riding my motorbike a hundred miles an hour... in the dark...

(in reality i was just a fat redhead who got his sneakers cut up)

All this Lera Lynn promotion and there isn't even a good-sounding version of the Nick Cave closing-credits cover out there?

Second episode was better than the first, but if I have to listen to that goddamn singer every goddamn week I may just bail out.

Ray "Rip" Velcoro

― slam dunk, Friday, June 12, 2015 6:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Opening scene a bit silly. Enjoyed the rest quite a bit. Great last few minutes. Sure is hard to make out what everyone is saying sometimes.

that was better but there was still some baaaaad stuff in there

last scene was fantastic

Yeah, Vaughn's childhood sob story could fuck right off.