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HBO's True Detective series discussion thread

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Eug said:
Yeah, they used the "I have no cell service" thing a few times during the series, and it gets annoying. They do that in a lot of shows.

In the good ol' days (1980s and earlier) it wouldn't have been an issue though.
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yes its annoying when i dont have cell coverage which happens quite a lot when traveling.
 
I just finished watching it last night.

Here's my take. Rust, left in misery after the seemingly random death of his daughter poured himself into trying to find light in the world. Sure, he had a shitty viewpoint of it all and that led to a lot of self-destructive type behavior, but in the end he realized he could prevent other fathers from losing their daughters.

Maybe it's because I have two daughters, but I saw both of the main characters from the perspective of their father/daughter situations. You had one that involuntarily lost his daughter and got lost along the way trying to recover from it. You had another that got lost in himself and willingly lost his daughter(s), but suffered some degree of the same pain. Both eventually came around to finding the asshole that kept raping and killing other father's daughters and found their own salvation in the end.

But, as someone else said, so many ways to interpret the outcomes in this show means that it's a thinking man's show, not some neat, tidy Murder She Wrote shit where you can figure out the entire ending two minutes in. The ending ultimately didn't rest on the bad guy being dead, it mattered on how the bad guy's death impacted the two main characters, IMHO anyway.
 
Yes, that is quite correct. It wasn't another of those whodunit mysteries. Matter of fact, that part was not that important. It was about the characters, esp the one who lost his daughter to an accident and the affect it had on him.
 
i finished it last week or the week before and i think it was a highly overrated show. it was a good show don't get me wrong, but just did not nearly live up to the hype i heard about the show. it was REALLY slow. i found myself dozing off in at least 1/2 of the episodes. i didn't want to watch more than 2 in a row either. i had just come off of watching game of thrones season 1-3 in 8 days, and then i couldn't even watch 2 of the episodes in a row just because they were kinda boring. i think it took me over 2 weeks to finish true detective and its only 8 episodes.

acting was phenomenal though. so were both of woody's girlfriends, especially the tits on the first girl holy shit. spectacular. but overall it was just meh to me. the 4th episode when they storm that drug house ... that was the best scene in the show IMO. i loved how it was a "non-stop" shot and just really well done.
 
I loved it myself, found it interesting.

Can't wait to see what they are going to do with it next season with a whole new story.

Watching it in different ways can have that effect I's imagine it is a series ya know, ya watch em every week and don't binge, that kinda ruins the effect sometimes.
 
if i had watched the show weekly i would have forgotten what hapened the previous week because most episodes were just slow and not very engaging. i had troubles remembering what happened the episode before when i waited a week between episodes.
 
seems a lot of people have a memory retention problem like that these days, even in the GOT threads right after they have watched them.
 
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I think given the right role, which I trust the creator to provide, he could do a good job. The problem with him is usually shitty movies

but what about the women leads?
 
I thought season one was slow and boring. Don't know why so many people love it. The serial killer was the only thing I liked about it.
 
slayer202 said:
I think given the right role, which I trust the creator to provide, he could do a good job. The problem with him is usually shitty movies
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Agreed. With any outstanding acting, first must come the intriguing role and writing (and then direction, editing, etc...)

Put Matthew McConaughey or Bryan Cranston in a show like Under the Dome or Falling Skies, and nobody will be talking about what great actors they are.
 
Season 2 details are out:

It will star Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch (Riggins from Friday Night Lights), Elisabeth Moss (Peggy from Mad Men), and Vince Vaughn.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-pros...-get-a-head-start-on-the-rampant-speculation/

It looks like we’ve finally been granted some true details about Season 2 of True Detective. News broke that the casting most likely involves Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch as the nouveau Rust Cohle and Marty Hart for the show’s sophomore run, with Elisabeth Moss as the female lead and Vince Vaughn as the season’s superficial villain — the real villain being the SYSTEM, maaaaaaaaan (if it’s anything like Season 1).

But forget the casting — what will be next season’s mystery? How does one top Carcosa? Well, according to The Wrap, Nic Pizzolatto will attempt it in a nonexistent California city with the murder of a “corrupt city manager” that extends to a “potentially groundbreaking transportation deal” about freeway gridlock. Those are some pretty revealing details that also tell us nothing. So why not just get a head start on the wild fan speculation that will inevitably accompany True Detective’s second season?

Odds are good that whatever the corruption turns out to be, it probably goes all the way to the top. It sounds like Pizzolatto is aiming straight for Chinatown with the institutional corruption and California setting. Will the transportation department turn out to be in cahoots with car manufacturers? That would be the Who Framed Roger Rabbit version. Or will it turn out that it was the creepy old man who worked at the abandoned carnival all along (the Scooby Doo ending)? Maybe the main characters will die at the end this time. Maybe Ned Stark will show up. Anything can happen!

There’s no evidence as to whether this season will have any supernatural themes like the first season’s, but I bet it will have some philosophical monologues at the very least. I’m personally praying that the freeway system is built over a sandworm nest, but that’s just one girl’s dream. Or maybe after the obvious villain played by Vaughn is disposed of, the real villain will turn out to be a surprise cameo from Matthew McConaughey as a California-transplanted Rust Cohle. But I’m pretty sure we already know the villain of True D’s second season: It’s our own overly high audience expectations generated by the success of the first season!
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disappointed with vaughn, but farrell and moss are very solid

looks like they released the cast to cover up this plagiarism talk?
 
Didnt even really recognize Taylor Kitsch without the long hair. I dunno, looks like Vaughn and Farrell are trying too hard to act, but it is just a trailer. 😛
 
HN said:
i'm not an entirely religious person but there had to be some higher being at work or intervening in those couple of minutes with Daddario. good lord what a revelation!
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Post #400.

The one that got me was Marty's (Woody's) wife. Beayoutyfull.

Watched the whole season one over the last 10 days or so. Really grew on me, have rewatched 1st 3 episodes and watched a lot of the inside features too.

McCaunaughey and Harrelson are both Texans, and MM's father was from LA, these say a lot about how they were so good as southern cops.
TechBoyJK said:
i think the killer might be the guy in the field wearing the diaper and gas mask while carrying an axe.
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That was just meant to be a dream (nightmare), see "inside the episode."
 
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