True Detective Season 2 Official Thread

[///Vega+++]

Pizzolato is a fraud

and I stopped watching after episode 5

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Poor plot. Everything is too much all over the place. Probably going to be the WOAT of anticipated shows this season. Crazy how Paul took everybody out and ended up getting capped. His lover boy told him from the jump that there were eyes all over. Watched this far let's see how bad it ends.

Saw it coming. Predictable Departed/Scarface demise. I feel someone with his training who just fought his way out of a pitch black tunnel would've been more cautious coming outside.

 

[pickles]

He's grown on me pause. The lines he's been given are ridiculous though.

" There's a simple brilliance to death. It's like reading a book underwater.... somebody, somewhere is gonna get soaked, and it sure as hell ain't gonna be me."

" Your dad... your dad was special. He was like an eskimo in a volcano factory. He lives inside of you... you're pure igloo, kid. Pure igloo."

Wait he really said this?

All I remember was something like you are "pure gold kid" or some shyt.

Vince might as well say "twinkle twinkle baby, twinkle twinkle" at some point now.

 

[pickles]

the story is so convoluted, that im sure on a rewatch i would be like through the whole thing and even give it a higher rating.

but why the fukk would i rewatch someshyt that had me drifting off to sleep at some point during almost every single episode


im only sticking with it to find out who the birdman was. i love investigative shows and movies so i want to finish it and see how it unfolds, but MAN is this show hard to watch.

last episode was its best and i didnt feel sleepy at all so it gets a thumbs up from me, but the first 6 had me fighting my sleep halfway through each one.

i will also say this, vince was alot better last episode than all season. i actually liked him more in that role after watching him drop a couple people and set the clubs on fire. he really seemed like a crime boss.

but yea this goes on the "never watching again" list for me

But you are going to watch the finale and probably the next season so STFU.

 

[beanz]

But you are going to watch the finale and probably the next season so STFU.

of course im watching the finale i just spent 7 hours on it and i want to find out who the fukk the birdman is

and of course im watching next season, it isnt gonna be the same story

what is there to be upset about?

 

[iBrowse]

Paul outchea playing splinter cell

 

[The Watcher]

Saw it coming. Predictable Departed/Scarface demise. I feel someone with his training who just fought his way out of a pitch black tunnel would've been more cautious coming outside.

You knew it was happening when he went skipping out of that building, checking his phone and looking up at the sky without a care in the world.

Personally, I think those types of things are what is making this season seem so rough. The show spends all this time defining characters and giving background to understand their motivations, then makes them do some shyt that goes against everything we've been shown just to move the story along. No way would anyone, highly trained or not, just walk out of that building without even checking behind the door. I don't even get into my car at night without doing a scan of the backseat for psycho killers and I've never even been in an elite, military-trained security force. It would've made more sense if his man lover shot him in the face and then said that line about "this wouldn't have happened if you had just been who you are" or whatever. At least there's some kind of obvious payoff to all the repressed gayness we had to sit through.

I'm entertained though and will be watching next season because I'm hoping lessons will be learned. The last episode is set up to be fire too, so that will be fun - but I can't truthfully say this has been a good season. The acting is good, the story could've been good, the writing, continuity and forced homages are terrible.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

You knew it was happening when he went skipping out of that building, checking his phone and looking up at the sky without a care in the world.

Personally, I think those types of things are what is making this season seem so rough. The show spends all this time defining characters and giving background to understand their motivations, then makes them do some shyt that goes against everything we've been shown just to move the story along. No way would anyone, highly trained or not, just walk out of that building without even checking behind the door. I don't even get into my car at night without doing a scan of the backseat for psycho killers and I've never even been in an elite, military-trained security force. It would've made more sense if his man lover shot him in the face and then said that line about "this wouldn't have happened if you had just been who you are" or whatever. At least there's some kind of obvious payoff to all the repressed gayness we had to sit through.

I'm entertained though and will be watching next season because I'm hoping lessons will be learned. The last episode is set up to be fire too, so that will be fun - but I can't truthfully say this has been a good season. The acting is good, the story could've been good, the writing, continuity and forced homages are terrible.

This sums up my thoughts perfectly. Will rep once I return from the red depths. The rest of you people rep this man.

 

[Hades]

Sunday's episode just proves that Vince could have acted way better in all the previous episodes. There was no need for all the goofy dialogue. (Please don't quote me to parrot that he was "overcompensating". That s h i t doesn't fly.) Colin has been a highlight but this season has been a s h i t show. They dropped the ball with this season even though the last two episodes have been better.

 

[iBrowse]

Yo brehs I was thinkin...

Writing in Paul's morbid fear of being revealed as a homosexual didn't make any sense whatsoever...when you factor in the fact that its 2015; he was accused (and admitted to some of those around him..Ray included) of committing atrocities as a part of that Black Mountain outfit for money and the fact that the shyt he, Any and Ray were deep in far outweighed what anyone could think about him...a logical man would have simple came out to get that weight off his chest.

I mean Ray gotta deal with killing an innocent dope fiend and being a corrupt cop while working for Frank on the side

Ani gotta deal with having been raped at her father's retreat all those years ago, killing a security guard on an illegal operation and protecting a sister who is tied to those Catalyst nikkas


Even in considering Paul's pregnant girlfriend, the prospect of marriage and a family and his cooze-like mother...revealing his homosexuality was a relatively non-issue.

Lemme be optimistic in thinking in hindsight if Paul was really being smart..because face it...he didn't want to die and wasn't content with his fate (RE: his last words as he went for his gun before Burris 86'd him):

I'm positive that if he told Ray and Ani he would have lived because they wouldn't have had him go alone.

 

[iBrowse]

This nikka

"In the midst of being gang banged by forces unseen, I figure I’d drill a new orifice, go on and fukk myself for a change."

From The Atlantic:

"“Please…articulate…the percentage you would require…to transact with me” (this line felt as though it had been Google-translated to Farsi and back more than once);

“Guy’s been around the last three months less than my wife’s period.”

 

[WaveMolecules]

Its ain't that convulted I think yesterdays episode cleared up a lot.

I watch for vocaro and ani

 

[iBrowse]

EDIT: got it

 

[choc_cardigan]

I can't believe how anyone could think this was a good episode. Maybe it had good moments, but goddamn if the entire plot didn't fall apart in this shyt.

I mean, there's this gigantic conspiracy involving corrupt cops from a 1992 robbery that left two kids orphaned, a land deal involving different officials, some directly involved with the corrupt cops and certain criminal enterprises, the latter of which are directly targeting Frank to take over his shyt, while Frank is in a bad position because the guy who got him in the land deal was murdered for his involvement (presumably) with the corrupt cops. Said corrupt cops who are all colleagues of Ray, and now apparently work with a black ops mercenary security company that Paul just so happened to work for back in the day, and conveniently his friend still did as well. Remember that robbery thing with the corrupt cops? This was unveiled by Ani's discoveries following her rescuing a girl from a sex party involving all of the aforementioned people involved in the conspiracy, a girl she was looking for in a completely unrelated case to the conspiracy. So now Frank back in the day gave Ray some bad information about who raped his wife, causing Ray to fall into a vicious cycle getting caught up in the web of corruption of the department of corrupt cops who are at the center of the conspiracy. Luckily Frank finds out the guy who gave him the bad info was doing it save his own ass because as it happens he's the same guy that's working with the criminal enterprise that is directly targeting him to take over his business. Which brings me back to the two orphaned kids, who have absolutely nothing to do with anything I just mentioned except they're most likely the killers because one of them has been involved in two of the places the investigation has taken our heroes, the sex parties which she apparently visited and the film set she worked at that our heroes visited for reasons I can't even fukking remember anymore. Where there was that other photographer guy who made a bunch of vague statements and is now most likely her brother, who exact vengeance upon the people who murdered their parents back in 1992 and unknowingly unravel this entire conspiracy.

See, it all makes perfect sense.

Compared to season 1 plot which was

 

[RJY33]

I like this season and its been entertaining to me, BUT let this be a lesson not to crown shows after season 1

I remember the thread last year and people said this was better than BB, GOT, Sopranos, etc.