TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

http://adage.com/article/media/veteran-unscripted-shows-keeping-lights-tv-nets/299655/

As Ad Age reported earlier, scripted is faring little better. In fact, the highest rated summer scripted series on television is HBO's non-ad supported "True Detective," which is managing a 1.2 on Sunday nights. Top scripted broadcast honors are shared by Fox's "Wayward Pines" and CBS' "Zoo" and "Under the Dome," all of which are averaging a 1.1 in the 18-49 demo.

Every time a crook uses the vocabulary of a thirtysomething English major (e.g., “louche” or “apoplectic”): Imbibe

lol

I didn't think apoplectic was that uncommon a word (it def is for a vaughn type unless we found out he aggressively self-educated), but then again I'm a writing major who's almost 30 :/

not sure ive ever heard anyone say it in any way that approaches natural, ive read it a shit load of times

Yeah I've never heard someone say apoplectic out loud

I think I said it in a meeting once to describe a client's state of extreme rage at the work they'd just received, but yea it's usually something I've read or written

incidentally, one of my favorite words

I say it all the time!

incidentally I now say "louche" too, thanks to this show.

fictional characters with unrealistically broad vocabularies is a good thing imo

i have 100% said apoplectic aloud multiple times but then again i am odious

The Internet was much kinder to the Sopranos characters who always fucked up the words and phrases they were trying to think of.

the best is when tony scoffs at melfis vocabulary then flubs trying to use it two eps later

I will never forget little carmine in the sopranos saying he was concerned about dysentery in the ranks

I've always known louche as a word and what it meant but I was never 100 on whether it was loosh or lowsh

oh shit which is it again?

loosh it's french

literarily always thought it was lowsh luckily i wld never say it

<3 "louche"
always picture serge gainsbourg

Totally, they should just have a pic of Serge by the word in the dictionary

Nah. Serge is "class".

Oh bull shit

heh
'class' not what i think of with serge
but it's not inconsistent with certain spectrum of meaning of 'louche'
cf 'debauched'
also 'roué' and 'rake'

Oueh

serge louche as heck

wait did someone say something negative about the Sopranos

cuz if so I'm about to get apoplectic in here

apoplectic is a fun word to say so I'll drop it whenever possible. see also poignant and inveterate

Nah, just saying it makes for better communal watching and online zings if we're all laughing at a guy mess up words rather than use them correctly. xpost

the malapropisms (another great word, let's all say it together) in Sopranos were def a running gag/recurring comment on the deeply ingrained stupidity of the main characters

whereas my impression from the two True Detective episodes I watched was that we are just supposed to take these tough guys' remarkable perspicacity at face value

so yeah I agree

something negative about the sopranos

jfc do you have an email alert set up

http://thebrotherhoodofevilgeeks.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/spidey-sense.png?w=459&h=571

well that made me lol so, carry on

Featurette on the shootout, with Nic P. interviewed wearing sunglasses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwixL5KOx8Q

with Nic P. interviewed wearing sunglasses

lol of course

dude is made of sunglasses & wilsons leather jackets

what kind of car does nick p drive i wonder

like it has to be a black 67 mustang right

If Dane Cook hosts SNL, he has to do a sketch playing Nic P.

it's...prob a midsize hybrid because he lives in suburban southern cali and has a kid xp

then again he prob imagines it's a gasguzzling chevy or mustang in the way that one pretends to be an airplane as a child sometimes u know

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKYHrkgUAAAIVZC.jpg

Clue!

Working on a television show is surprisingly intimate. You talk and argue and make up day after day. Such relationships usually end gradually—this one ended abruptly. I won’t go into too much detail, but let’s just say Nic slammed his hand on the table, then stormed out, vanishing in a cloud of expletives. I was on the porch a few minutes later when Nic screeched out of the lot in his beater, an angry man in a small car, the interior filled with his fury. That was in 2012, the day before yesterday.

like it has to be a black 67 mustang right

― (extremely nerds voice) (Clay), Saturday, July 25, 2015 12:08 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark

shelby roadster, british racing green

a young man in jeans and a leather jacket smirked from the couch, saying, “I know you. We had a serious conversation once, in Indiana. We talked about God. Don’t you remember?”

dude

i bet he drives a ford fiesta

lol probably

I have to say I've fallen head over heels for the lera lynn songs. particularly "it only takes one shot." just beautiful, that one

Remembered today that one of the names mentioned in the first casting rumors for this season was Benicio del Toro. Interesting to think of him playing Vaughn's character, making him more of a Stringer Bell trying to get into legit business with the old California families and getting screwed.