TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

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

i thought they were ads for a new show about Louisiana called Treme Bloodtective

In a discussion about his shift towards long-form television as opposed to big-screen features (both "To Live and Die in LA" and "Killer Joe" are being mooted for TV adaptations, and we've plenty on both in the upcoming interview), Friedkin name-checked a few shows that he felt had taken the place of films as the topic of water-cooler, or "coffee machine" conversation—"Homeland," "24," and "True Detective."

At the mention of the last we couldn't help but let him know that we had him pegged as one of the five directors we'd like to see direct a season of the show down the line. Would he consider it, we asked, if they came knocking? He paused a moment, looking a tiny bit surprised.

"I am considering it." said Friedkin. "I like this writer [Nic Pizzolatto] very much. I've met him, and he's the real deal as far as I'm concerned. Now, all the new seasons are different so I'm not committed—this new season has nothing to do with the last one. Except for him and his sensibility, which I think is extraordinary."

Pushing a little to get him to confirm that he's in the mix, Friedkin remained positive but circumspect.

"I'm… I can't say much more at this time. But I'm a fan of his writing, even though this will not be a continuation of what was done before with (Matthew) McConaughey (with whom obviously Friedkin has a relationship after 'Killer Joe') and Woody Harrelson. So what you can say is I'm a huge fan of his writing, I've met with him, I like him, I like the direction he's taking with this."

"Did you guys see Homeland last night? Wow!"

"My favorite part is the relationship between Claire Danes and the terrorist guy!"

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