Quote: (02-12-2014 10:52 AM)TravellerJay Wrote:
Show is pure gold and being slow is what makes it perfect! think about it, all shows about fighting and gun shooting but nobody really pay attention to the dialogues because there are none or they are very shallow.
The pseudo-smart dialogue is not enough. Being different on surface is not enough. Think of those film critics who proclaim some slow ass European movie as a masterpiece, just because it's so obviously different from a prevailing fast-cutting Hollywood norm.
Yet, beyond its surface True Detective is no different from a typical American mass-disseminated lazy garbage. It is garbage because the show uses
killjoy murders as a way to advance the story, and everyone in it. As such it is no different than any other
dramatic American TV series in the past XX number of years (to name some obvious examples: Mike Hammer, Streets of San Francisco, McCloud, Twin Peaks, Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, Wire, Weeds, CSI, Shield, Justified, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, etc, etc.) because it wallows in (early and often) representations of all sorts of murdered humans, usually done in some spectacular fashion or another.
In the first five minutes of True Detective we are shown nude + raped + killed woman as a way to get our attention. If the show is so "smart" why does it have to use tired, cheap, over-the-top cliche? Because the dialogue without sensational "crutches" on its own will not stand. Not with American audiences who are so reared on a steady diet of wide variety of TV murders, that they don't even realize how abnormal that whole thing is. So the producers are feeding the status quo beast by continually appealing to audiences primal instincts.
And the audiences are only happy to oblige.
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