TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

Sums it up well:
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-ridiculous-true-detective-finale

we're getting set up for a McAdams pregnancy, right?

― it me, Monday, July 20, 2015 12:39 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

called it

OMG FUCK THIS STUPID SHOW

Well done.

and i still have no idea who 90% of the names are

we're getting set up for a McAdams pregnancy, right?

― it me, Monday, July 20, 2015 12:39 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

called it

― it me, Monday, August 10, 2015 1:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i remembered that & was going to post it

I liked it. Idk?

it was ridiculous (ofc) but admit i enjoyed it
the pathos/bathos tension def a thing but, i kinda like it

liked montage of chronologically out-of-sequence shots (before & after) during bed-confessions scene (cf ‘don’t look now’, ‘out of sight’)

https://mobile.twitter.com/kalebhorton/status/630521391394091008

I dug it. Don't know where Ray theoretically ended up for his last scene. He was heading North near Valencia and then he's with those giant northern California trees. Does his car get excellent miles per gallon?

And Frank's racist asides finally caught the better, or worst, of him smh.

Trim this down into a 180 minute movie, someone, and it could be a neat little movie.

xp (heh)
this is not nihilistic; pizzo's like absurd romantic

absurdist romantic, even

that desert death scene was apotheosis of td2
plays as tragedy & black (absurdist) comedy simultaneously
(still not sure if that's intentional-- but having character choose to die over suit, that's authorial choice)

the main love story is frank & ray ofc

I realized in this finale that Vince Vaughn is uncomfortably good at being mean.

All his other roles and attributes as an actor (wit, comedic timing, casual arrogance) might be filtered through that characteristic

I didn't understand, or care to understand, half of the subplots from the back 4 episodes. The diamonds I barely got, the kids, the rail way.

The show is at its best when it's ravens with shotguns, allusions and suggestions to seedy parties, locations and conspiracies. It attempted to untangle all the subplots when they were better as throwaway ideas and backdrops

Another actor who i see stepping up to the True Detective plate because he will think he can do the dialogue justice and he'd enjoy the potential the potential for method actor nuttiness and overacting: Christian Bale

yet the plot-untangling was quick & almost irrelevant to any larger meaning of things

both death scenes were good

agree re bale

He didn't choose to die over the suit. He had $3.5 million in diamonds in that suit.

ur right

(sparkling through the blood; dumb of me not to catch how that shot shed perspective on his choice/actions. i've no excuse except i watched semi-tipsy last night; maybe that's why i enjoyed it)

Took me a second, too. They made a really obvious shot of him putting the bag of stones into his suit coat at the diamond merchant, though.

I knew he was done as soon as he told Jordan "You can't go home," and then ten minutes later, he's at home packing a bag.

My new guess is that s3 will feature an old school has-been rather than someone approaching has-beenery. Like a Pacino.

this was a waste of time on par with the second season of Broadchurch. I liked Vaughn's death scene though. I also liked it when she told him he was a bad actor.

I have trouble understanding how anyone who watched the first season of Broadchurch would be lead to believe that a second season of Broadchurch could be anything but a waste of time.

So now that it's all over, would y'all say that if someone has only seen the first two or three episodes of TD season 2 that that's a safe place to stop?

and then ten minutes later, he's at home packing a bag.

― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Monday, August 10, 2015 9:05 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously. also a good reminder that if you're transporting wealth in diamonds you should put them in an orifice or something.

true detective season 3 ft permanently-moribund vince vaughn & hallucinogenic aggro vaughn dad

Another actor who i see stepping up to the True Detective plate because he will think he can do the dialogue justice and he'd enjoy the potential the potential for method actor nuttiness and overacting: Christian Bale

― Cunga

Sharlto Copley could be a lot more interesting.

yet the plot-untangling was quick & almost irrelevant to any larger meaning of things

both death scenes were good

― drash, Monday, August 10, 2015 4:24 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is really great to bring up bc in this as in most noir the specifics of the what are almost immaterial. it's all in how the characters react to the forces at work and are changed (or unchanged) by them

i doubt we'll ever get confirmation from nic pizza on this but i have a sneaky suspicion the omega station sequence is an homage to one of the climactic scenes in james ellroy's white jazz

lol at NYT viral asking people to describe the season
http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000003843517/true-detective-season-2-explained.html

that's funny, although honestly the memeification of this season's "failure" is more annoying than the actual flaws by now, like it's turned into a zing-contest circle jerk of content/tweets etc

this wasn't toooo terrible. but it wasn't great. i'd watch a third season.

my PERSONAL picks for next season's truest detectives: Danny DeVito and Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld's David Puddy, who was actually really good in the semi-recent adaption of Willeford's "The Woman Chaser.")

griffin dunne imo

what's gary oldman doing these days
i nominate him

(guess he's too big a star still)

#castTDs3 Brett Gelman, Viggo Mortensen, Krysten Ritter as TDs; Macauley Culkin as the bad guy

cast of harmony korine's next film looking to put TD stunt casting to shame http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788550/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2

too much bad in an interesting way ... a 60 minute version of this episode, omitting the most protractedly stupid material, might have sustained the impression that the series was getting better as it went along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeDCHfGYU4E

There could have been 60% less plot, and in its place very long philosophical/etc conversations en route to the drug bust, the orgy, etc. Would've played more to Nic P.'s strengths.

I actually think Pizzolato's plotting is very solid; he's just bad at endings. TD season 1, and his novel Galveston, and this season all ended very clumsily. On the other hand, his dialogue has always been comically awful. McConnaughey and Harrelson just did a better job of selling it.

i maybe missed something but it felt like the denouement of this hinged on the same kinda non-seqitous epiphany as last time, when they suddenly realised through abstract thought association that the greenness of a shed existing beguilingly in a snapshot found by chance felt auratically comparable to the lawns mowed by the killer. & in this i feel like they went from this sputtering generic conversation about the death of tim riggins to working up a fully formed dossier of the siblings & their grudges.

as suddenly as a blast from a Remmington, the Catalast Group established their fifedom

"Failed to upload recording to chadvelc✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧" justified the entire season

^^^^ really dark stuff

When I saw that, I was like "would I feel better/worse if the upload had succeeded?" And then I realized I didn't care. About a lot of stuff in the show.

frank's wife will never get pregnant now :(

why the fuck did he have grampa velcro's badge at recess

because it helps his D&D character cast spells better duh