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@hex ever chime in on the finale, if so @ me,please.
That said, my own 2 pennies, I thought the season as a whole was really, really, really fukking good. I'm a big fan of good acting so I really was mindblown by how good Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff were. Ive seen Ali in House of Cards and Hunger Games, (I missed Moonlight) and always thought he was solid but didn't think the dude was this dope. The way he played the older version of Hays was really, really impressive. He better get all the trophies next award season. And Dorff was really good as well, knew him only as a B movie type dude but that guy can fukking act. The actress who played Amelia brought the piff as well.
As far as the plot. I thought it was really dope save for the finale. Yes, there was a HUGE info dump from the guy who played Mr. June, and in some ways that is kind of a cop out, but I look at it mainly as a story of how this case affected Purp, Roland and Ameilia and their families. A lot of people kind of sussed out that Hoyt was behind it early on so I wasn't to into the Julie case being resolved as much as I was hoping that Hays and Roland got some peace of mind finally at the conclusion. Both were tormented guys who were likable enough deep down but were so fukked up by their own demons that they lived pretty much in isolation.
People saying season 2 were better should off themselves. Season 2 was a rare, weird, unforseen combo of bad writing and bad acting the likes of which will probably (hopefully) never reach HBO again. I literally tried to watch season 2 again off the strength of season 3 and it was just as bad as I remember it. Vince Vaughn was given the most ridic lines and monologues Ive ever seen and the plot was beyond lazy. So hopefully HBO will give Nic time to cook up a worthy follow up and not pressure him to put out a yearly show. Season 2 was laughably bad.
But yeah, overall, off the strength of the acting mainly, Id give season 3 a 8/10. Dorff and Ali had be more worried about their characters than any I can remember in a fukking minute.
because cats were throwing wild shyt out there and not enjoying what was going on because they were focused on having their theories confirmed.
when people would keep bringing up season 1 like people weren't pissed at the finale because the Yellow King wasn't some supernatural shyt or it didn't end with the cops taking down the entire ring.
Rust and Marty were troubled individuals in their prime, let alone when they got
Wayne and Roland seemed a little bit more well adjusted in their primes (a little bit) but we saw what time did to them. These are the heroes of our story?
These will be the ones to shut the door on this widespread corruption once and for all? They're just a couple of regular ass nikkas who fell ass first into the case that would define the rest of their lives. They're not Sherlock and Watson. They're fallible. They confront their own demons in the course of working the case and even do some fukked up shyt in the process. As old crusty men, they see an opportunity to make all those mistakes and sins mean something. Going back to Sherlock and Watson, I love the show Sherlock. It's grandiose and full of twists and big reveals. It works. I love Sherlock. I love True Detective. I don't expect anywhere near the same experience or execution from them tho.
