TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

there are all kinds of traumas.

tums is a perfect touch.

like, you know that's already in every detective's glove compartment.

velcoro has all the bad habits

agree re vaughn
like, formality in way he delivers lines (prob most 'difficult' dialogue to say convincingly) is interesting rather than bad performance
lol at ominous sugar/cavity/teeth metaphors

btw let me note for the record

those moments, they stare back at you
you don’t remember them, they remember you
turn around, there they are, staring

english teacher me needs to point out that papa fred ward was sitting in same place of the bar that vaughn always sits.

Sometimes your worst performance is your best performance.

lol

i dont know how to be in this world
look out the window look at me no one does

p good insight tbh

also ray is an american spirits man

xps yes, that corroborated yr good observation upthread re father/son dynamic bw semyon & velcoro

p good insight tbh

ray was pretty good dad to paul there

"no one knows how to be in the world" feels like predominant theme of the season so far, really. that and your parents will fuck you up, but that's ok because everyone is fucked up.

ya, tho he cldve stood to add something abt how being gay was okay cause its surly just as miserable as being striaght

what year is it even when ray has his mustache

like 2004?

wasn't the line really 'I don't know how to be out in this world'? It was about being gay, which went right past the great detective Ray 'Columbo' Velcoro.

no i think that was only part of it

what year is it even when ray has his mustache

like 2004?

Bar singer then is part of the Jolie Holland / Cat Power scene.

Oh, wait, Taylor K's starlet story is on TMZ on a tablet in the first ep, so it's now-ish.

"i just don’t know how to be out in the world, man"

if it was just about being gay, that wd be really bad line

it's also about, among other things,
being out of the military
being out of yr own head
being out of yr mother's womb

Oh, wait, Taylor K's starlet story is on TMZ on a tablet in the first ep, so it's now-ish.

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sometime in the last ~5 years

on a tablet in the first ep, so it's now-ish.

haha then what's with the 'porn?! through the computeR??!' feel of whassername's initial scenes rousting her sister

feel like not knowing that there are houses full of girls live camming is reasonable, also she was flustered cause she was expecting to find a bordello

It's funny to think of all of these characters taking Facebook breaks, adding each other as friends as their relationships deepen.

lol

your relationship sets you.

Could you explain what "turns" is to a non American?

Tums? It's an antacid

"whatever the fuck they call MDMA these days"

that + the vaping jokes makes pizzalata seem like an out of touch and bitter old lol

i enjoyed the "molly" joke lol

season 3 should def have more olds as principal characters.

hes i refuse to say "molly"

it will always be X to him

E if he were a lil younger

i wasn't really paying attention but vince sure did talk a lot about teeth am i right? was all of it just about pulling the guy's teeth out in the last ep or was it other teeth stuff

what is teeth supposed to mean to jung or whoever, fear of aging?

o yeah rite that's why i was asking mainly, the e-cig, like, the entire rest of the show seems to be set more than (at LEAST) a decade behind so it didn't really make sense to me, like was she supposed to be a vanguard vaper or something

maybe, those e-cigs def showed up a while before the hardcore vaping devices/culture

can someone do a series of image macros with screenshots + fortune cookie nicky pizza dialogue

pleeeeeeze

everybody itt getting complicatedly pro-vaughan way too fast
the teeth thing was weirdly embedded in this, & it was too flat to really have any kind of totemic power, & kinda flat because of vaughan imo

hey i was wondering, does this show have one editor? i think i don't understand what it means for three people to direct it. i liked everybody standing around just kinda fucked after the shoot out, but even that could have felt comparatively acute in someone else's hands, i think

also hey ban nic pizzolatto from writing ethnically-inflected criminal dialogue; vaughan muscling off against like broadbrush italians or russians or w/e is so hard to watch

i liked the last few shots a lot...paul especially remaining vigilant, gun up and ready in both hands--vigilant as he is clearly in all aspects of life, but finally with an object. the other two reacting to the trauma that he has already absorbed.

everybody itt getting complicatedly pro-vaughan way too fast

still just a few rogue loons, no?

he's terrible

I thought Vaughn may have been dealing with Armenians, or Greeks, too.

turks rite?

turkish coffee in a pastry shop suggests turks
I'VE NEVER EVEN HAD A CAVITY
do you floss a lot
yes actually and i use a water pik
do those things really work
oh definitely, but you have to be consistent

lol

parted ways with vaughn there, turkish coffee is delicious & you sir are RONG

i dont know how to be in this world
look out the window look at me no one does

p good insight tbh

nah it was another stroke of bullshit used to paint pizollatto's (overstuffed and now stale) portrait of nihilistic sprawl, where every life is a dead end.
like the EPA guy in this ep who explains the dire situation of the water tables to a bemused farrell and mcadams is the first person to show up this season who hasn't been directed to act as if his soul was missing and that the resulting vacuum causes vibrations of pain and torment to emanate out to the world through his every gaze and expression.

every bit of pithy hard-assed realistic wisdom vaughn's character dishes out is enticing but empty of any real insight. with cole last season it felt less out of place because it was closely tied to the character and less a reflection of his surroundings, but vaughn's lines and the one-note desperation of every character here pretty much encapsulate the meaninglessness of this seasons attempts at profound insight into our condition or w/e.

happy ppl be happening everywhere outside my car window, smiling with the day