TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

if this has some time travel in it that will be good

some of the shit in this show if they just dialed it back a lil maybe like my dad locked me in the basement okay thats sort of interesting FOR FOUR DAYS AND RATS ATE ME

cmon

― lag∞n

LOL

Same feeling when they dissolve from the waterstain "eyes" in the ceiling to Casper's burnt-out sockets. They probably high-fived in the damn editing room when they did that one.

justin lin disappointing me for sure :(

wint ‏@dril Sep 26
measure to approve massive depressing statue in the center of town depicting an emaciated mayor carrying a boulder that says "My Sons" on it

#truedetectives2

the only way it will get good is if some srsly crazy shit starts happening and everyones all o wow crazy shit

Reminds me of Lost. Shitty character development but great cliff hangers

yeah like a bird shooting a dude w/a shotgun in a sex house
--a (waterface)

this would've done the job for me if I wasn't already all in, I think

justin lin will be out the director's chair as of the 3rd episode iirc, so I'm guessing the visual aspects will be a bit more interesting if not on cary fukunaga's level

i'm kind of w/max, it's so stilted and weird i'm interested, but it has not been holding my attention well.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 4:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly everyone who finds themselves fascinated by "stilted and weird" mystery tv needs to check out s1 of hemlock grove

justin lin will be out the director's chair as of the 3rd episode iirc, so I'm guessing the visual aspects will be a bit more interesting if not on cary fukunaga's level

― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 2:06 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

on what are you basing this

for me the real mysetery was that everybody seemed to be drinking out of stamped metal tumblers like what's up with that

two of the other directors, dan attias and miguel sapochnik, are HBO vets from visually accomplished shows - wire, thrones, deadwood, boardwalk - so i trust their abilities, especially sapochnik who did the hardhome episode of thrones w/ the ice zombie battle

the other dude I don't know, apparently a documentary filmmaker or something? it's on imdb

this also reminds me that truth detectors rachel mcadams and taylor kitsch are now dating

More on this Sunday's director:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Metz_Pedersen

for me the real mysetery was that everybody seemed to be drinking out of stamped metal tumblers like what's up with that

― 龜, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 2:14 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was served a beer out of one last night they might be trending

creepy bird statue like the creepy bird man?

http://i.imgur.com/7VoDyCv.png

isnt that the bird mask

Where was that - in the murdered guy's house?

in the car that the murdered guy was being transported in

ep 1

what if it's michael keaton

music wldve been different

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3390/1287/1600/drummer.jpg

regarding the sleepy, maybe even "stilted," rhythm of this show, and the weird fascination it seems to elicit anyway, i must say that repeat viewings have been very rewarding for me. hbo runs it constantly and every time i start watching i tend to stick around happily until the end.

this is not good television. the writing is bad, the acting is fine but desperate and the direction looks the same as anything else on the major networks if not just a little bit worse.
i suppose i'll stick with it to see if it edges into laughably bad or improves but what a let down.

Oh god I just remembered what this reminds me of in terms of vibe - does anyone tenderness Color of Night w Bruce Willis?

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:32 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i watched part of this today, it has dialogue/characters approx eight thosand times worse

xpost you know what vibe this show doesnt have

BRUCE WILLIS SAD POOL PENIS

how dare u invoke that shitty ass movie
HOW DARE U

It's not perfect, but compared to peers like The Bridge, it is clearly best in class

This could use some 90's "erotic thriller" vibe haha

Get Joe Eszterhas to write the next season

someone shd reclaim the erotic thriller genre for the prestige tv era

i will allow that this is better than the US version of The Bridge (which i opted out of after three episodes) but that's not saying much.
i hesitate to bring it up as a comparison but as compared to Hannibal...

xp that wd've been an interesting direction for in treatment season 4

Is Hannibal a police procedural? Different genre no? (I couldn't make it past the cooking scenes...)

hannibal is partially a police procedural but that element is considerably more muted than it is even in TD but they're joined by a love for camp, weirdness, gross-outs and sadism both on the part of the characters and the creators... plus, TBH, they are both invested in showing you how very smart and complex their storylines are. hannibal does it much better and features consistently innovative and imaginative camerawork on a par (and often better than) s1 of TD.

i will allow that this is better than the US version of The Bridge (which i opted out of after three episodes) but that's not saying much.
i hesitate to bring it up as a comparison but as compared to Hannibal...
--like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu)

mannnn the US version of the bridge is full stop incredible in its second season because there's no dumb serial killer plot it's just about the border drug wars

def gonna check that out

i boiled out on the first couple of eps of the first season of the bridge in that it was terrible and the woman playing """""autistic"""""" was v v v badly written
you're saying it got A LOT better?

yea diane kruger drops a lot of what I think ppl considered affected about that performance, and you learn the basis for her damage

2nd season is entirely unconnected to the 1st aside from the characters and setting and the only time the serial killer thing comes up is to definitively end it (the villain is caught in s1 but yea it was a terrible plotline). it just gets reallllllly fuckin weird and cormac mccarthyish

someone shd reclaim the erotic thriller genre for the prestige tv era

― lag∞n, Saturday, July 4, 2015 1:51 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this needs to happen

some day i will try s2 of the bridge but i need for this fuckin' golden age to be over already

like i honestly think i'm gonna turn 50 and shut off everything new in my life, just luxuriate in the prior century and see where that gets me.
looking forward to it.

someone shd reclaim the erotic thriller genre for the prestige tv era

― lag∞n, Saturday, July 4, 2015 1:51 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this needs to happen

― call all destroyer, Saturday, July 4, 2015 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

srsly

like that's the culmination of what HBO have been groping (yeah) towards for the last decade

someone call adrian lyne to make season 3 then, he hasn't worked since directing unfaithful in 2002

only if Zalman King's not available

Isnt King dead?

well damn. rip.

maybe duchovney can bring back red shoe diaries after he's done with rebooting xfiles.

This is going to turn into a Blackwater story...