TV True Detective Season 2 - pls tag spoilers with Ep #

[Jupitus]

Well - I am enjoying this so far. Episode 1 was slow but laid the scene, I just watched episode 2 and really enjoyed it

Ep 2 spoiler:

Spoiler

... and WTF? Have they gone all GoT on us??

 

[georgie]

Episode 1 was slow but laid the scene

OMG! Spoiler FFS!

BTW, be aware that if you quote someone who has a /spoiler tag then the hidden text is visible in the reply box.

 

[old.user4556]

I'm reasonably enjoying it, but the plot reveal is disjointed and hard to follow. I thought it was me, but plenty of Twitter chat evidencing I'm not the only one.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I don't watch it, no freaking time to be honest, but love the "pls tag spoilers with ep #"

I'll support any antispoiler activity tbf.

 

[caLLous]

Episode 2:

Spoiler

I mean, he has to be alive, right? Assuming that was the same shotgun that disappeared Caspere's meat and two veg but the stomach is all soft and stuff and not filled with hip bones and pelvises and whatnot.

I like it, it does jump around a bit but I think it will find its feet. It took a couple of episodes to get into the first season as I recall (and then it disappointingly plateaued and tailed off towards the end but here's hoping that's not the case here).

 

[old.user4556]

Oh, can I just add, the opening credits are some of the best in a long time.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAvgc_XYGGI

 

[caLLous]

Abso-fucking-lutely. I happened to have my sub turned up too high when I watched the first episode. Oh my days.

Also, Game of Thrones sounds orgasmic loud. Off topic but I also really like the Halt and Catch Fire theme and intro...

 

[old.user4556]

Woah

 

[caLLous]

Not sure I blinked once in that last 5 or 6 minutes.

Spoiler

As street shootouts go, that was Heat-good.

 

[old.user4556]

Woah again

 

[Jupitus]

That was a great episode... really getting interesting!

 

[sayward]

I so hope my Sky+ is working.

 

[old.user4556]

That was a great episode... really getting interesting!

I'm liking the increase in pace for sure, it was needing it.

 

[Calaen]

Not really feeling this series, too many side stories with no real flow or direction. And it's all pure luck they have any leads at all.

 

[Trem]

Can I watch this season without seeing the first? I love Colin that's all.

 

[mooSe_]

Can I watch this season without seeing the first? I love Colin that's all.

Yes, the seasons have completely unrelated story lines with different characters. You could watch season 1 after season 2 or not at all if you like (it is really good though).

 

[Trem]

I intend to watch season 1 but was put off by how slow people said it was, I can deal with slow if it is done by a favourite actor such as CF. Pacino does slow very well as does Crowe (those 2 in the Insider was almost perfection), Crowe has gone a bit gay and singy lately though

 

[old.user4556]

Not really feeling this series, too many side stories with no real flow or direction. And it's all pure luck they have any leads at all.

That's exactly how I was feeling about it, but:

Spoiler

the street shoot out and now this prostitute infiltration have grabbed my attention just in time, so i'll see it out

I intend to watch season 1 but was put off by how slow people said it was, I can deal with slow if it is done by a favourite actor such as CF. Pacino does slow very well as does Crowe (those 2 in the Insider was almost perfection), Crowe has gone a bit gay and singy lately though

I hated the first series, utterly and thoroughly boring. Far too slow and the southern drawl dialogue was just too muffled and left me thinking "WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT".

A bit like this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKcUdDWIHOI

 

[old.user4556]

What a bag of predictable incoherent tenuous meh that was. Jesus.

 

[mooSe_]

This show is good at creating an atmosphere, but the plot this season was kinda nonsensical and the finale was pretty unsatisfying.

 

[old.user4556]

This show is good at creating an atmosphere, but the plot this season was kinda nonsensical and the finale was pretty unsatisfying.

The atmosphere was excellent - the music, the flyovers, the intro. The plot made fuck-all sense, or at least the plot was so thin that they had to pad it out with pointless words to spin it out. I had to pause it so many times and turn to my missus and say "hang on, what the fuck is going on here, who the fuck is he and what's that got to do with anything?". I thought I was suffering a stroke because my head hurt with the feelings of "no, sorry, still makes no fucking sense".

These reviews sums it up for me (SPOILERS):

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9125723/true-detective-finale-recap-season-2

"The story's twists and turns eventually left behind any sense of internal logic and simply started jetting all over the place in the hopes of making us think we were watching a more sophisticated story than "cops solve a crime." "

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...ide_to_the_plot_of_this_confusing_season.html

 

[Calaen]

Those posts sum up my issues, I know we've discussed season one and at times how it was slow. However at least they investigated a case, and followed the leads to the end of the story.

The amount of minutes spent on Woodrowes hidden past that we never really found out about. Or pissing on with the whole paternity thing, just to give us a reason why Ray got involved with the local gangster. Way to much filler and there wasn't even any hot sex to perk it up

Hopefully if there's a third season they'll maintain the atmosphere and how well it's all put together but put an actual investigation in the middle of it.

 

[mooSe_]

I can see what they were trying to do this season. Last time it was a bit slower because it was supposed to be like an old case in a backwater town. This time the story was set in a big city with lots of corruption. I suppose they were trying to bring the city to life by adding in all these different characters with conflicting interests. Then they hoped to lead us through the web of corruption to solve the case.

Instead what happened was that they introduced a bunch of confusing characters with half-baked back stories that never got properly developed or resolved. I think perhaps they tried to do too much for a season that is only 8 episodes long.

 

[sayward]

Finally watched the last few episodes. Not happy.

 

[old.user4556]

Also, nice of you to stop by luv .