TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

would've been more fun if the final scene was at the Ojai-style resort.

Tonally, and with all the interrogations, this is reminding me more and more of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skAkfQr3e-4

Next week's preview

youtube.com/watch?v=s-rmdttg3EI

This show has so many misdirections. The end of tonight's, like the end of the 2nd episode, doesn't really accomplish, reveal, or advance the main plot, I bet. Although I see the return of Rick Springfield -- imdb had him at only 1 episode originally.

that shootout was craaaaaaay
mayor prob told the lowlifes to open fire on civilians if shit got out of hand, collateral damage will get her out of his hair permanently

other thoughts

tim riggins is getting kinda corny, hope they right that ship soon

vince vaughn & his wife seem like they are in a funny or die parody sketch

i really do kinda like this show, but i want to say to nicky pizza, did you ever say *any* of this dialogue out loud to yourself when you were writing it? it's like a mail-order "Write Noir Like A Pro"

"with friends like these" argh argh argh

Another parallel - that photo that McAdams' dad had of all the older generation of corrupt fucks hanging out on the beach along with teenaged Mayor McBooze, etc. - the equivalent to the five-guys-on-horses photo from Season 1.

felt that way even if it's not. but it probably is.

Well, it feels like part 1 just ended, the false solution, the end of their "official" relationships with each other.

The discussion about Ray's aura was funny. I recommend looking up what a green and black aura signifies, it's interesting!

Ray's dad talking about "trees like giants" and the last shots of the opening credits make me think this is gonna play out in Northern California.

Was thinking more about Vaughn's character, as I am wont to do, and I realize that one of his more interesting tics--that reflexive "right thinking" concern for decorum stuff he says (I don't want any kids getting snake-bit, what kinda way is that to greet the world)--is itself something of a put on, his idea of what an "upstanding" citizen might think or say.

like, Ray is a great character imo because he's totally himself, everything he says and does issues from a solid inner state that is not exactly definable but easy to feel. Frank is just totally lost, a vacuum in the place of a person.

btw I appreciated both the excitement of the shootout and the palpable fear and dismay of the characters during it.

"what kinda way is that to greet the world" is one of the best lines ever shouted on television.

Given Farrell losing the mustache, I wonder if this is going to jump ahead in time next week: cased closed, until THREE YEARS LATER.

Also, awaiting the bar singer to get taken out mid-song with a single shot. Talk, talk, BLAM, talk talk.

needed michael mann on that shootout. yeah it was coherent but that should be the basics of any action scene, not a plus. lacked anything distinctive in pacing or staging and tension. imo the raid on the porn-house early in episode 1, brief as it was, was much more distinct and deftly handled (especially opening with that wide aerial shot of a half dozen bodies rapidly converging at the front of the house). this felt identifiable as the seasons centrepiece because it was bloated, not because it was memorable (events depicted aside).
i'm not an expert but you generally don't fire+move at the same time, it decreases your effectiveness at both. every cop in this scene was running and gunning simultaneously. Just kind of removed a lot of the believability from the scene for me, especially since this show always tries so hard to maintain its cops as hyper-competent with the violence-related aspects of their job, these guys were outed as amateurs as soon as the firing started.

thought farrell having to meet his kid in secret in the dark backyard was pretty lol, you know you've done well as a parent when you have to disappear into the trees after giving your son a gift. the actor playing the kid is nailing it with his permanent "?" expression whenever farrell's around.

also great call on northern california xp.

colin farrell jr grows up to be the landscaper in "true detective season 1"

you know you've done well as a parent when you have to disappear into the trees after giving your son a gift.

loool the ninja cut was the best unintentionally funny part of the episode. He should've used that skill on the Raven-man and not his 11 year old son, however.

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/no-words-homer-into-brush.gif

loooool otm

I felt like it was a bit of a batman move.

Very chinatown moments, guy complaining about growing avocados.

xp lol yes

(also reminded of adam kesher staring after disappeared cowboy)

xp yep homer in the shrub was my exact thought when I saw that scene, ahaha

the freeze frame seriously cracked me up

also this week in Vince Vaughn's thesaurus adventures

"You know the word louche"?

at first i thought he said luge

Given Farrell losing the mustache, I wonder if this is going to jump ahead in time next week: cased closed, until THREE YEARS LATER.

― ... (Eazy), Monday, July 13, 2015 11:04 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah prob mcadams wearing a uniform saying u really think we closed the case

btw ive learned from all the police misbehavior in the news that if ur a cop under investigation for police rules violations not law breaking just resign the case will be dropped and you can get a job at a diff department

shrub homer was basically all i enjoyed about this ep

finally watched the first ep of this

it was boooooooooring

i just wanted to watch some dang ol teevee

now it seems like WORK to keep going

Skip to ep 4

what kind of a way to watch a show is that

idk

It's like Nick PazzLMAO has a really good 120 minute story this season, about Ray, Frank and Ani and the immediate case, but then he has to pad it out with stories concerning Paul and all these domestic subplots (the first season had Marty's marriage as padding, too) as filler to get to his contract-promised eight scripts.

The fake out ending to episode two and the shoot out from episode 4 are both red herrings.

He should just make movies or get the show down to 4 episodes as a miniseries.

is what what what is

i'm finally coming around to vince vaughn i think

but it might be because he was playing the fast talking tough guy con man the whole ep

i lol'd the scene in the car where colin is like *gestures to glove compartment* "take your cure" [glove compartment opens to reveal PRESCRIPTION DRUGS and CIGARETTES and A SMALL BOTTLE OF VODKA]

you don't have those in your glove compartment? smh

about vaughn: i thought so too. helps that there were signs of life in his relationship with the redhead--there's been a funereal atmosphere with them for the most part.

it was really interesting watching ray trying to talk someone off the ledge.

i wish they'd let Ani at least laugh or smile at a joke someone makes...or maybe that will happen later and it'll be a big moment or something.

it kinda read as like THE ART OF MANLINESS GUIDE TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE

probably calling it 'cure' was what put it over hte top for me

i did think 2 and 3 got more watchable - bit more verve in the writing.

not sure i buy that vaughn is miscast.

vaughan, to frank's point in the last episode, is getting better as he gets worse.

so pissed already if there's going to be a time jump tho

i lol'd the scene in the car where colin is like *gestures to glove compartment* "take your cure" [glove compartment opens to reveal PRESCRIPTION DRUGS and CIGARETTES and A SMALL BOTTLE OF VODKA]

― 龜, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:47 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like this was an apt symbol for the whole shows desire to include every possible genre cliche in every scene, think there was a weed pipe in there too lol

it was nice of farrell to let the production borrow his actual car and glove compartment for the scene, v charitable of him

hopefully the jump will only be a month or so a la the gaps between many mad men episodes, because that would make sense, anything beyond that would be disappointing for sure though

http://i.imgur.com/1Ru0ELK.png

niice

tums, weed, weed pipe, pills, butts, vodka

glad ray got a new car, a dodge charger suits him.

would have been funny to include a scene over the credits of him stocking the car.

when he saw the car burning he was totally thinking abt losing his sweet glove compartment stash

there are all kinds of traumas.

tums is a perfect touch.