TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

also, for the people who hated every moment of s2... even the shootout in episode four?

Honestly, (spoiler hidden) when Farrell's character got shot I was genuinely shocked because the tone they'd set made it utterly plausible that that could happen. It had real impact. (And it wasn't even disappointing that that turned out differently. It still worked.)

Also, Rick Springfield is fucking incredible in it.

I dislike Vince Vaughan and find Colin Farrell unwatchable (to the point that I can't even get through 10 minutes of The New World) but I'm gonna start hate-watching this tonight, yay thread

I think youd need to set each season of TD totally separately tbh

S3 is very, very good but has elements that grate because, and id need to check the thread to see my thoughts at the time, they were v obviously at times setting up outcomes that were v clearly going to be snatched away and the writers going "aha" at you

The "aha" here is exactly as brad described. Zero fuckin twist, that air of impending doom and gloom? that's where we are heading, ppl. A slow, straight story in many ways.

Checked there- thread has only 198 posts ffs, deserved more than that imo

Third one, as i noted, is a lot nicer to everyone involved and earns that right.

The time/memory elements are really well done. Ali is wonderful, everyone else is better than good.

Has everyone seen vaughn in brawl in cell block 99 because imo taken with this thats a hell of a one-two

colin farrell is 1) good and 2) very hot :(

am i allowed to put screenshots in spoiler tags, lets find out

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what i'm trying to say is: masterpiece

lol that didn't turn out right oh well

Has everyone seen vaughn in brawl in cell block 99 because imo taken with this thats a hell of a one-two

I saw it. Someone — I forget who or where — said that the version directed by John Carpenter would have started at the 45-minute mark of Zahler's version, and that was dead on. Vaughn was pretty good in it, though.

In searching i found a couple of posts by yourself that were not fulsome in praise alright

I liked Colin Farrell in Minority Report! And he was fine in In Bruges. idk why I find him unwatchable. Sexy? nooooo

Brad calling this a masterpiece is giving me blue balls, in my heart.

Colin Farrell could act that

This is good so far, bf likes it more than S1, personally I'm OK with Colin Farrell as long as his character stays drunk and the hot cop looks like Jonsi fucked Sam Rockwell

Do u refer to the surly norse god tim riggins esq

Oh is he in other things? I would not mind watching them

Watch JOHN CARTER. It’s another thing people shit on and were wrong about.

His breakout role is as the supporting edifice for tim riggins abs in friday night lights the series we have threads about it, we liked it a lot

Battleship is dumb af and a lot of fun tbh

john carter was very enjoyable. i wasn't aware of its world historical bomb status when i saw it so i feel confident that this is a Real Opinion and not a challop

I wasn’t a beloved before, but quarantine has really taken its toll.

iirc his performance in Carter can be best described as “mostly shirtless”

John Carter seems to have evaporated his acting career

That's the atmosphere on mars for you

But TD 2 was a few years after, no?

I think hes worth casting in a cop story or w/e tbh

But look, matty saracen has been limited to playing jessica albas comedy relief so...?

first go round i didnt realize that Deadwood Dan Dority was the corpulent, flatulent drunk detective who gets got during the shootout

We love dan dority

Dority: as soon as that actor appeared on the screen I said "oh I love that guy" but I have no idea what I've seen him in, never watched Deadwood

Something about mary so

I watched all of deadwood before realizing they were the same guy

Actor Prosopagnosia: A Proso-poll-nosia

def easier to tell if youve seen the deadwood movie

I’m seriously going to have to rewatch this because of you people?!

Covid changed everything

Finished E3 last night and this is so far a "I do not recommend" season

It is interesting to see just how weird and ya Michael Mann-y it is

I’m seriously going to have to rewatch this because of you people?!

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you can do what you want. you're free to be wrong

^new board description pllllllzzz

i’m really into marking v bad decisions about what to watch recently. so i’m going to watch this. i’m not into psychogeography at all but i really want something that does for LA what much of the first series did for louisiana mystical landscape. everything anyone has said tells me this is not that series and i shd probably just finish city of quartz or reread an old pynchon or something. but i’m making bad decisions about what to watch so.

Yeah look i am not *recommending* this, all of the criticisms of it are correct but they are not ~right~

fizzles have you seen los angeles plays itself?

darragh you’re for it if it’s crap.

i’m relying on you here.

dlh- no! would it be roughly in the space i outlined?

oh i wait i just looked it up - i have seen this yes. it was excellent. (but clearly not memorably so :| maybe i should watch it again)

it's idiosyncratic and even in places cranky but yeah i think so? last time i was on an LA kick (city of quartz and all) i could have watched it for 30 hours.

definitely watch this excellent season of television tho lol.

xp haha i did think odds were pretty good but just checking

los angeles plays itself is great, especially if you are a los angeles lover (such as myself) and don't mind crotchety old man pet-peeves being discussed at length

i really want something that does for LA what much of the first series did for louisiana mystical landscape.

S2 does for LA what a double-double animal-style does to an In-N-Out bathroom.

to anfor

I hated this with so much vigour the first time round I know there is little point giving it another shot