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[Addai]

Ah. Season 2 is out? Good. Colin Farrell's acting has never been something to write stories about which made me weary, but like how Lars Von Trier managed to make something out of Shia Le Beof in Nymphomaniac, I'm going to assume that the quality of True Detective so far will heighten his performance if anything.

 

Plus, I need something new to watch now

I thought the same of Matthew McConnaughey and Woody Harrelson before seeing how terrific they were in season 1. So far the acting is great- I think if anything, as I mentioned above, someone should have been lighter, but that's a director problem as much as an actor problem.

[Addai]

Nobody has anything to say about episode 2? Cliffhanger and everything.

[leighzard]

Nobody has anything to say about episode 2? Cliffhanger and everything.

Yeah.  I just don't know what to make of that yet.

 

Rolling Stone covered it pretty well I thought:  "Either it [True Detective] killed off its top-billed main character in its second episode, thus crafting the quickest course correction in TV history, or it didn't, creating one of the most obnoxious bait-and-switch cliffhangers ever. This makes Colin Farrell the TV-antihero version of Schrödinger's cat — simultaneously alive and dead, at least until next week."

[leighzard]

Well, I feel like I should give this season more than 3 episodes, but I think I've already decided that it's terrible.

[Matieo]

I'm enjoying it. As someone who watched TD last year week-to-week from the start of it's premiere (and part of the Carcosa that was IMDb's message board) I know better than to write off this season 3 episodes in. Not until The Secret Fate of All Life did we get to see the geniuses behind Pizzolatto, and I'm looking forward to that moment this season.

Plus, tuning in means I get my weekly dose of Leonard Cohen's cool.

 

 

If you're a reader of reviews (AV Club, Gawker, Vox, etc.), The Daily Beast offers some good food for thought. Andrew Romano, as far as I'm concerned, was the best source of such last year, though he's moved on. Teo Bugbee is doing a fine job of it this year, and her stuff's worth reading.

[Addai]

I'm still watching, and though it's not season one, it's got some moments.

 

I think one of the addictive things about the series for me is the men. Yes, yes. I mean, that you see the inner lives of men, and it feels more authentic than a lot of shows that try the same. Colin Farrell's shame and longing for a son he knows isn't his. This week, the most riveting thing wasn't that amazing shootout (real guns and real gun noise!) but seeing the emotional landscape of Woodrugh change from shedding manly tears to relief that he can be "normal" with a woman, to standing calmly amidst carnage while the hardened cops around him are puking themselves from adrenaline. This was the same thing that got me last season. It wasn't all the philosophy stuff, much as I enjoyed that, it was the portrayals of masculinity in its best and most twisted forms. I can't get enough of that ****.

 

But, I'm looking forward to seeing the threads come together, too. What does mining runoff have to do with a hippie commune and big boondoggle rail projects? What's with all the animal masks?