True Detective Season 2 Official Thread

[John Mayer]

Is this program any good?

 

[wire28]

*Slaps you nikkas like aresenio when they didn't tell him about the cheese* for not telling me about the new trailer

I know it's only a minute trailer but every doubt I had about Vaughn (especially) has just been wiped out. I'm excited now

Oh you nikkas doubting Vince was gonna learn one way or the other. Don't let those classic comedies full you, my mans can play a role

those Winter Soldier like knife skills

that knife work tho the doubters bout to be real quiet for the next couple months

 

[Citi Trends]

I'm trying to go in completely neutral on this. What i see so far isn't much of anything to have me hyped like when I found out about the first season.
Vince vaughn, rachel mcaddams, some generic tension stares, and dramatic music. This new season can only blow me away or leave me disappointed. .

 

[Hades]

@eldylan Is this the official thread?

I'm hyped to see what they do with this season and what story they come up with.

 

[Figaro]

Rachel McAdams is pretty talented, but she is limited in what roles she can pull off.....don't think she can with being a detective in this type of atmosphere

Hope I'm wrong though.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Updating OP as we speak

http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/true-detective/238707/true-detective-season-2-everything-we-know-and-more

rue Detective season 2 will star Colin Farrell from the films Alexander, Hart's War, and 2011's reboot of Fright Night as Ray Velcoro, a California Highway Patrol officer whose official description reads: "a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him." Farrell’s character deals with “cocaine and anger management" and was “suspended for sexually exploiting a young woman he pulled over.”

Vince Vaughn is playing former "thug turned businessman” Frank Semyon, "a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner." Vaughn’s character "is working with corrupt politicians to push through “a high-speed railway system” that would run along the coast of California bringing business in its wake. Semyon tries to go legit but the murder of an associate derails that plan. He's got politicians in his pockets and more than misdemeanors on his mind. Deadline reported that Pizzolatto wrote Vince Vaughn’s part with the actor in mind.

In an interview with Playboy, Vaughn said he got the part while discussing a Rockford Files project with Pizzollato.

Rachel McAdams, who broke through as Regina George in the high school comedy Mean Girlsin 2004, will play the main female lead, Sheriff Ani Bezzirades, "a Ventura County Sheriff’s detective whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with others and the system she serves."

Taylor Kitsch plays Paul Woodrugh, "a war veteran and motorcycle officer for the California Highway Patrol, running from a difficult past and the sudden glare of a scandal that never happened."

Afemo Omilami was cast as Police Chief Holloway. Michael Irby will play a character named Elvis Ilinca, the partner to Sheriff Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams’ character). Irby will be on the show for five or six episodes. Kelly Reilly is playing Jordan, Frank Semyon’s wife, "a former D-list actress who is a full partner in his enterprises and ambitions."

Lolita Davidovich, from the movie Blaze, will be playing ex-showgirl Nancy Simpson, the mother of Taylor Kitsch’s character. James Frain from The Tudors and True Blood will play a bad lieutenant named Jeff Hunt. Michael Hyatt, best known from for playing Brianna Barksdale on The Wire and Connie Reubens, the SWAT team commander on Spike TV's The Kill Point. will play Katherine Davis, an ambitious state attorney who knows how to keep things quiet.


Castle's Jon Lindstrom will play Glenn Ellinger, "a patrician businessman who wears his immense power lightly, but wields it definitively." Yara Martinez, who played Dr. Luisa Alver on Jane the Virgin and Adriana de Portago on Alpha House, will play a Mexican-American immigrant innkeeper named Andrea. Adria Arjona will play Emily, the girlfriend of Taylor Kitsch’s character. Arjona recently joined the cast of the TNT drugs-in-Miami series Narcos, produced by Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer.

Afemo Omilami will have a regular gig as Police Chief Holloway. Chris Kerson will have a recurring role as a nail gun shooting survivor named, appropriately enough, Nails. The tough-as-nails-guy will be a loyal member of Frank Semyon's gang, I mean business. Kerson has been seen on 30 Rockand Pacific Blue. Omilami will next be seen in Terminator: Genisys.

C.S. Lee will play ambitious state attorney general Richard Geldoss. Lee played Makusa on Dexter. Rick Springfield, the actor-musician and coveter of Jessie's girl, was reportedly cast, but he's not listed in the IMDB yet. Ashley Hinshaw will play a troubled starlet on of the new season.

Rounding out the recurring cast, so far, are James Frain as Jeff Hunt; Riley Smith as Steve Mercier; Christian Campbell as Richard Brune; Jon Lindstrom as Glenn Ellinger; Emily Rios as Gabby Behenna; Ronnie Gene Blevins; Timothy V. Murphy as Osip Agranov; C.S. Lee as Richard Geldof; Ashley Hinshaw as an as-yet-unnamed character.


True Detective Season 2 Story Details
The investigators will be trying to solve the death of Ben Caspar, a 52-year-old man who was killed and dumped on a highway with occult symbols scratched on his chest. A leaked breakdown said:

“The second season of True Detectivewill follow the death of Ben Caspar, the corrupt city manager of a fictional California city who’s found brutally murdered amid a potentially groundbreaking transportation deal that would forever change freeway gridlock in the state. Three law enforcement officers from different cities and branches of the government are tasked with finding out who did it. They soon discover their investigation has much broader and darker implications than they initially thought. Caspar’s 52-year-old corpse is found on a lonely stretch of Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur—satanic symbols etched on his chest. It turns out he had a penchant for rough sex and may have been involved in the occult.”

Just like in the premiere season, the three cops will have their own issues. The Wrapreported that Farrell’s character “has been damaged by years of turmoil,” the Monterey sheriff (McAdams) dives into “gambling and alcohol” when she’s not on duty, and the California Highway Patrol officer (Kitsch) was “put on leave” after he pulled over a lady for drunk driving and let her off after she got him off, though The Wrappulled that detail.

The second season will not be as dark as the first, according to HBO programming director Michael Lombardo. Varietyreported that Lombardo told an audience at the Edinburgh TV Festival, "It's still dark. Nic explores the darkness in people's souls. ... It's not as dark, but it's not a light ride. Nic likes looking into the crevices of the soul."

Pizzolatto did promise to keep it strange in season 2, but not quite as much. Shortly after the first season closed he said “I'm interested in the atmosphere of cosmic horror, but that's about all I have to say about weird fiction. I did feel the perception was tilted more towards weird fiction than perhaps it should have been."

There's also a second story synopsis:

A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California. Colin Farrell is Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective in the all-industrial City of Vinci, LA County. Vince Vaughn plays Frank Semyon, a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his life’s work, while his wife and closest ally (Kelly Reilly), struggles with his choices and her own. Rachel McAdams is Ani Bezzerides, a Ventura County Sheriff’s detective often at odds with the system she serves, while Taylor Kitsch plays Paul Woodrugh, a war veteran and motorcycle cop for the California Highway Patrol who discovers a crime scene which triggers an investigation involving three law enforcement groups, multiple criminal collusions, and billions of dollars.

I have been harping on one particular clue that the True Detective writer threw at us in the early stages of production: An occult conspiracy at the heart of the transportation system. The actual quote came from an HBO press release saying True Detective Season 2 would be about “Bad men, hard women and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.” HBO recently put out a Q&A release where Nic Pizzolata takes it back.

“There’s definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system,” Pizzolata says in the statement. “That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that.”

I’m not sure I buy that entirely. The official synopsis still says the murder at the center of the season will take place “amid a potentially groundbreaking transportation deal.” So, if there is no transportation conspiracy, why am I seeing these images on every bus?

Pizzolato also frightened me with the lack of the supernatural in the upcoming season. The Q&A also quotes him as saying “While there’s nothing occult in this season, I think there’s a disconcerting psychology to this world, and its characters have other kinds of uncanny reality with which to contend.” This is promising, but I’m a little disappointed. HBO’s spooky cop show brought the satanic detective genre to television and I figured with William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, on board, it would continue in that vein. But it looks like it’s been derailed.

From what we can tell, True Detective season 2 will continue to explore the dark and murky underworld of some kind of privileged class. One of the first things to leak about the upcoming season was Amia Miley and Peta Jensen, two 24-year-old adult film actresses, were the only actors who weren’t nude in an orgy scene that was reportedly something straight out of Eyes Wide Shut. The show has a decadent heart, even if the trailer shows one of the players are wearing a bolo tie.

Possible True Detective Season 2 Story Inspirations
Pizzolato and Lombardo have so far teased that season 2 will be about some kind of shenanigans in the transport system, that the crime takes place on a west coast highway, and that the victim will have satanic symbols scratched on his chest. Not just occult symbols but specifically satanic ones. We know that Vaughn is a mob boss and the trailer shows him talking openly with Colin Farrell's cop character with the drooping seventies mustache.

Because of the big business aspect of the upcoming season, I think we’ll see references to the classic crime film, Chinatown. Corporate conspiracy is at the heart of Roman Polanski’s classic noir masterpiece. The series might feature a crooked corporate cabal. We can trust Pizzolatto not to go in easy territory like the Illuminati when a local Rotary Club can house as much felonious finance as any Freemason lodge. Vaughn could also play someone who came up through the rougher side of the Teamsters, delegates who never drove or loaded trucks, but did other heavy lifting.

The victim will be into rough sex. Season one had all kinds of sex. Angry sex in the bathroom. Revenge sex on the kitchennette. Handcuff sex. Incestuous hand jobs. BDSM caters to all kinds of ritualistic fetishes beyond the ones let in the doorways in True Detective's first season. The scratchings could come from a heavy S&M session or next season could take some trips to a West Coast version of The Hellfire Club, the 18th Century British bacchanal for the socially blessed.

True Detective season two will be set between Los Angeles and San Francisco, an area that spans 400 miles that writer Nic Pizzolatto describes as "the places that don't get much press and where you wouldn't normally set a television show." The show will be shot on locations that evoke the "psychosphere ambiance of the place."

The highway murder has to point to a corrupt scheme put a high speed rail that links North and South California. There’s money to be made through “land ownership and lucrative federal grants.” Last season, Cohle and Harte found a spiritually evolved madman living on the fringe of society, this season the true detectives will hit the center of society, the strip malls.

True Detective Season 2 Images
The True Detective official Twitter account added this cool 3D image, because we deserve it.

True Detective premieres June 21. We might know more then, but if we're lucky we might

 

[dontreadthis]

is this due to return this Sunday?

 

[B. Pumpaveli]

Hannibal and True Detective We finna eat so good this summer

 

[HookersandIceCream]

is this due to return this Sunday?

June 21st
After GOT ends

 

[Mortal1]

Looking forward to this last season was pure piff

 

[detroitwalt]

Is cigarette intentionally spelled wrong?

 

[Nature Boy Ric Flair]

WHAT THE fukk IS A "CIGGERATE"

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Is cigarette intentionally spelled wrong?

That's how the Yellow King spells it

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Couple of new promos

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]