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09-23-2014, 04:08 PM
Whatever they do for season 2 (or beyond), it's gonna pretty tough to top (or even match) season 1.
Season 1 was just that good (the 'ehhh' ending notwithstanding).
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12-14-2014, 01:22 AM
I definitely need to watch the first season before the second one starts. I've heard incredible things about it.
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04-09-2015, 03:25 PM
Can't wait. Will be interesting to see Vaugn in a very serious role for a change.
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04-09-2015, 03:38 PM
Looks ok. Nothing's going to top the first season, it's a classic.
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06-19-2015, 07:05 PM
Apparently the writer is ditching the occult elements of season 1. This is very disappointing to me, since that was a main reason I liked season 1.
Rachel McAdams not getting nude sucks, also the director is the dude that made Fast and Furious.
Mediocre initial reviews.
Not good signs.
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06-19-2015, 11:03 PM
Vince Vaughn and Colin farrel are too proper to pull off the beaten-down scumbag vibe mcconaughey and woody harrelson did so brilliantly. I bet this season will be average at best.
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06-19-2015, 11:47 PM
I just watched this entire show with Woody and Matthew McConaughey and have to say the majority of the show was AWFUL. I mean the writing, not the acting. The actors did what they could but sweet Jesus, the story was lame. In the end we end up with some lame jab at southern rednecks as the big bad villain banging his cousin in some bayou in Louisiana.
(spoilers)
The show had its moments like when Matt is forcing his ex-biker brother by gunpoint to head out to Woody's car with helicopters overhead but that was it. The other half was some lame attempt at drama when Woody's wife bangs Matt to get back at her cheating hubby. I felt like I was watching Walking Dead again. Fucking LAME.
Cons: Bad writing. Bad story. Bad script.
Pros: Damn fine acting on Matthew's part and Woody but even they can't pull together some half-assed script. I didn't buy for a minute that Matthew was some psychotic telepath with insight into Hannibel Lecter, oops.. sorry, I meant that Swampbilly what's-his-name.
The part in the swamp was also badly written: where the ex-chief of police is with Matthew and he is forced to watch a snuff film on his boat in the middle of nowhere. This is so that Matt can presumably "torture" him to reveal info on the case. He screams in horror when Matt shows him the kiddy porn film. I laughed at this part. No cop with that much experience is going to scream like his fingernails are being pulled out over some lame snuff video (even if it is an underage girl). Give me a f'ing break.
Will never watch anything again with those two.
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06-20-2015, 03:03 AM
I just watched the whole season 1 and thought it was amazing until the last episode. I was expecting there to be some evil organisation with the yellow king as a criminal/insane genius at the top, not some fat, obese hillbilly with a penchant for accents.
Highlight for me was definitely Matthew McConnaughey's character. Loved the scenes where he referred to Woody Harrelson's ex mistress as "crazy pussy" and tells that mother who's killed her babies to commit suicide.
We should have had more of Woody Harrelson's two girlfriends and less of his wife. Every time I saw his wife I was thinking of Mission Impossible where she plays Tom Cruise's wife.
Also how did the old black housekeeper know about Carcosa. When she was working for Tuttle the yellow king was just a child.
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06-20-2015, 07:36 AM
I was thinking of this thread the other day.
Yep, Season 2 looks like a suckfest...shocker. Every ad for it looks bland, in contrast to the ads for Season 1 which had me saying "I AM watching that!"
Season 2 looks like a C-level attempt to coast off the title "True Detective".
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06-20-2015, 05:40 PM
A few things have me worried about this season.
1) The director of the entire first season isn't coming back. They gave Justin Lin a few episodes. He is best know for Fast and the Furious.
2) It takes place in Los Angeles, which has been done to death and has lost its noir elements. Why not shoot out in the Desert or up in Norcal?
3) A female protagonist that carries knives around.
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06-20-2015, 06:05 PM
Yea, the new season doesn't look too promising and you're going to have a hard time convincing me that Vaughn is a serious actor. I'm not too big on Farrell or Macadams either.
What made the first season so great was the amazing chemistry between Matt and Woody, not to mention that they're both from Texas and therefore have legitimate Southern cred.
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06-20-2015, 06:12 PM
I was a huge fan of the first season.
I am going to hold off judgement on the second season, but for everyone who doesn't buy Colin Farrell, watch "In Bruges".
Actually watch In Bruges regardless of weather or not you watch this show.
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06-20-2015, 07:42 PM
Don't think it'll live up to season 1 but we'll see. I do like Ferrell and Vaughn (Vaughn has done plenty of serious roles before going on his comedy tour in the early 2000's). I don't know who the 3rd guy is and I've never been a McAdams fan.
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06-21-2015, 01:40 PM
Quote: (06-21-2015 09:35 AM)Ryre Wrote:
Quote: (06-20-2015 03:03 AM)zanetti Wrote:
I just watched the whole season 1 and thought it was amazing until the last episode. I was expecting there to be some evil organisation with the yellow king as a criminal/insane genius at the top, not some fat, obese hillbilly with a penchant for accents.
Highlight for me was definitely Matthew McConnaughey's character. Loved the scenes where he referred to Woody Harrelson's ex mistress as "crazy pussy" and tells that mother who's killed her babies to commit suicide.
We should have had more of Woody Harrelson's two girlfriends and less of his wife. Every time I saw his wife I was thinking of Mission Impossible where she plays Tom Cruise's wife.
Also how did the old black housekeeper know about Carcosa. When she was working for Tuttle the yellow king was just a child.
I agree that some of the Yellow King/Carcosa stuff did not pay off as well as one might hope. My explanation/theory is that, well, we know there was more than the one fat hillbilly. Back in the day at least there had been some sort of cult involving a rich family and weird ceremonies. I think the elderly black woman had been exposed and told some things as a child that made such an impression on her she still recalled and believed them in her old age--at least in her demented state. I.e. as a kid she had been told the Yellow King would come and give her eternal life when other kids were being taught about Santa Claus. Which is not as creepy as something actually supernatural but which is creepy enough in its own right, the idea that there are people scattered across the state--the old woman, the two child-molesting drug dealers, the fat killer--who are all playing out the consequences of weird cult shit they experienced many years earlier.
That explains some things but not everything. If that were true and that actual conspiracy/voodoo cult whatever you want to call it, died out with old man Tuttle, then:
-who/how put pressure on the convict to get him to commit suicide (the guy Cohle got a confession out of)
-the convict said the orgies with human sacrifices and powerful people are still taking place
-the fat guy with scars was spotted at a church rally with Dora Lange, the original victim. She became obsessed with the yellow king/carcosa. How/why? Fat hillbilly didn't have the charisma to pull that off
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06-21-2015, 02:34 PM
I think if there were some evil corporation or kingpin at the end of season 1 it would have been too cliche. I didn't like the last episode much on first watch, but after seeing the entire season again I think it fit. Its obvious there were more high level people involved who didn't get caught, but that is also kind of the point.