TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

if only they had conceived an ending half as terrifying as WFRR's

being steamrollered by cliche was still quite upsetting tbf

ugh ugh ugh woody Jessica rabbit aghhhh

i have a suspicious that this will be totally amazing and even better than season one because i think there's a tendency for writers or artists to sort of exhale and realize once they get their dream project realized and then that often leads to a surge of creativity. the possibilities expand.

― ryan, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:36 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, the "sophomore slump" is definitely not a thing

something tells me you won't be terribly predisposed to like season two.

i would actually be totes happy if it was good. prove me wrong n-piz!

sending positive vibes to NP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

^ true detective season 3

Salton Sea would be cool.

http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/11/ASOS-Jessica-Chastain-the-help.jpg
"I'm gettin' too old for this shit"

California love

http://www.mtv.com/news/1832253/true-detective-season-2-location/

"And we're going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in season one."

fuck, this dude says "psychosphere" irl

i listened to the interview with him
he says vuh-he-cle in a kinda mcconaugheyish way also

i think ozzy had a psychosphere on the ultimate sin tour in 86

I'm biased but I kinda love how unpretentiously pretentious he is. would be curious if MM modeled any of his performance after him.

i think you mean "unabashedly"

Convincing Barman Nic Pizzolatto,

xp: either way I am for it!

plus he's given me the word "psychosphere."

he was a bartender in Austin and FYI they are all like that.

maybe it's a type that extends beyond Austin but there's definitely Alex Jones crossed with an eternal phd candidate type of dudes all over the place.

Sounds like a Central Valley story, with that desolation we saw in the Zodiac hitchhiker scene.

ooh yeah

ha ha, rad
i meant that sincerely in support of your unpretentiously pretentious thesis, btw

hope the dude goes for it in season two and has characters swilling cheap beer and quoting hegel at each other f the haterz.

should we all read this in preparation?

http://www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk/wordpress-3.2.1/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/EOWCoverFnl.jpg

1915 San Bernadino

oh damn I think I'm gonna!

http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/didfredwestmurdertoorder.htm

let's send rust to europe imo

I thought "the other California" was kind of a popular literary/filmic subject

I mean IDK, maybe no moreso than anywhere else

forget it hurting, it's

Fresno

that book cover is commanding my attention v well

That book is 100% straight-up A-plus. California para-history mythology is (as they say) relevant to my interests, Advise folks to look in here: Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...

hey you know what will be interesting about season two of this, maybe more than the cast/locale/degree of embroilment in occult happenings: how it is structured. the first's plot facilitated this really prerty sophisticated framework; different time periods, reliability of narrators, shifting focus. the newer cops were a part of this. i wonder if the guy has ideas for something equivalent

like the collision of the narration with the protagonists in varying eras of vigor & weariness gave it such weight

yeah that is one underrated strength of the one-off 8 season arc, they can blow through a longer time period like a novel where most shows have to proceed with a straightforward year-by-year chronology to match the production schedule. i wouldn't necessarily want TD to always jump back and forth between 2 eras, but the idea of a long investigation unfolding over years is good. so many cop shows have to resolve cases in unrealistically short periods of time, might as well let things play out for much longer.

I kind of wish they would go the full Bolaño with this and set it at the San Ysidro border (but then I actually just wish HBO would commission a sprawling 2666 adaptation....)

Fresno

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is an excellent idea.

Fresno is one of the cities along with Terre Haute, IN & Vancouver, WA that I have gotten instant, lets-get-the-fuck-out-of-here vibes from.

"just wish HBO would commission a sprawling 2666 adaptation."
otm

XP if that's the criteria I can't get wait for season three in stockport

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wesson
What I think of when I think of Fresno

first two google news results are promising

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Fresno_(TV_miniseries).jpg

Fresno is one of the cities along with Terre Haute, IN & Vancouver, WA that I have gotten instant, lets-get-the-fuck-out-of-here vibes from.

― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion),

Amarillo for me

xpost Apropos of nothing, you just completely blew my mind with that. I had a dream as a kid about Carol Burnett owning a vineyard (which I only really remember because it was maybe the most boring and interminable dream I ever had) and I thought it was completely a product of my imagination.

does anyone else feel like the promo spots HBO is airing for the final season of true blood and the premiere season if the leftovers look like they're for the exact same show?

True Leftovers

“This angst cop drama you’ve got goin’ on”

Did everyone watching this report back, im v curious as to how the endings stick

with your angst cop drama and your cocaine tongue
you get nothing done

I feel like this season is conscious of how ridiculous it often is (and I like that)

i have paused on this, but will be returning.

Re-watching this now for the first time since it was new and liking it a lot.

Every time you watch this show Anthony Kiedis reproduces a clone (asexually, but you never know).

liked it the second time around much much better


maybe they shouldn’t have called it True Detective idk

Seriously; just calling it Nick Lottapizza's California Noir would have been just fine.

happy to have been on the right side of history for this one