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'True Detective' season 2 - plot details revealed

Plot details have been revealed for True Detective season 2 along with the news that TV network HBO is considering Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss for the female lead.

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Following the news earlier today that Vince Vaughn is in talks for a lead role in the second season of Nic Pizzolatto's small screen crime drama, The Wrap has revealed the storyline.

“The second season of True Detective will follow the death of Ben Caspar, the corrupt City Manager of a fictional California city who’s found brutally murdered amidst a potentially groundbreaking transportation deal that would forever change the freeway gridlock in California.

Three law enforcement officers from different cities and branches of the government are tasked with finding out who did it. They soon discover their investigation has much broader and darker implications than they initially thought.

Caspar’s 52-year-old corpse is found on a lonely stretch of the PCH near Big Sur - his eye burned out, genitals cut off and satanic symbols etched on his chest. It turns out he had a penchant for rough sex and may have been involved in the occult.”

The Wrap also reports Elisabeth Moss (pictured) is under consideration to play one of the three law enforcers, Ani Bezzerides. Described as "a tough, no-nonsense Monterey sheriff whose troubled upbringing has driven her to gambling and alcohol" it could make up for criticism of the first season's lack of strong female characters.

If cast, The Wrap reckons Vince Vaughn would play the show's antagonist Frank Semyon. A "former thug-turned-businessman" he's connected with the local mayor and together with their cronies they're trying to push forward the construction of rail links between South and North California and skim off the cash from federal grants.

On Semyon's payroll is bent cop Ray Velcoro. Colin Farrell is in the frame to play the "barely functioning coke-head" who has suffered "years of turmoil in both his personal and professional life" and is battling his ex-wife for custody of their son.

As previously reported Taylor Kitsch is circling the role of the third law enforcer. Military veteran Paul Woodrugh has "seen his own share of violence and destruction" and is now a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer. When the series begins Woodrugh is "on leave after soliciting oral ex from a beautiful girl he pulls over for drunk driving".

True Detective season 2 will start shooting later this year.

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/true-detective-season-2---plot-details-revealed/346872
 
Eriku said:
Why on earth are people so distrustful of Vince Vaughn doing a decent job. It's not as if actors can choose to get serious, deep roles. Nobody would have said that McConaughey had credibility as a serious actor up until a couple of years ago. I trust that if he's chosen, he's shown himself capable of doing the job they want him to do.
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Because of his face. Whenever I think of Vince Vaughn I think of this.

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I'm not saying season 2 won't be great with that potential cast but Moss, Farrell, Kitsch and Vaughn would be a little be "eh".
 
I'm sure Elisabeth Moss would be good. Top of the Lake may as well be a season of True Detective.
 
Vince Vaughan? Seriously feck off.

The guy looks like a feckin tramp in every single thing he's ever been in. He seriously looks like he's just got out of bed and thrown some clothes on after a heavy night of amphetamine abuse before stumbling onto a film set.

He's one of those 'actors' that genuinely leaves me bemused as to why he's famous. He doesn't even act. He's just Vince Vaughan, the crack head tramp.
 
To be fair, both McConnaughey and Harrelson have had a bit of a renaissance in recent years. If those two had been cast in True Detective a few years back people would have written it off. I'm optimistic. If it can be half as good as the first season I'll be happy.
 
Although MM and Harrelson made a few duds in the years leading up to True Detective, you can always see they had better performances in them. I mean MM made a shit load of chick flicks but also had some darker stuff (A Time To Kill, Frailty, 2 For The Money) so I would have welcomed those choices whereas the only "serious" film I have seen Vince Vaughn in was Psycho the remake which was an absolute joke but I havent seen all his stuff so can't really comment.

Taylor Kitcsh is a strange choice but his performances in Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor makes me think he might be able to pull something off, let's just hope so.

Not a fan of Colin Farrell, I dont like his acting in any film apart for arguably Phone Booth.

Who knows, maybe the creators want to take it down a comedy route.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Although MM and Harrelson made a few duds in the years leading up to True Detective, you can always see they had better performances in them. I mean MM made a shit load of chick flicks but also had some darker stuff (A Time To Kill, Frailty, 2 For The Money) so I would have welcomed those choices whereas the only "serious" film I have seen Vince Vaughn in was Psycho the remake which was an absolute joke but I havent seen all his stuff so can't really comment.

Taylor Kitcsh is a strange choice but his performances in Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor makes me think he might be able to pull something off, let's just hope so.

Not a fan of Colin Farrell, I dont like his acting in any film apart for arguably Phone Booth.

Who knows, maybe the creators want to take it down a comedy route.
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Has Kitsch been confirmed? Also Farrell is very good in 'In Bruges', he gives his character a surprising amount of depth.
 
Exciting news imo. Think Farrell especially will be great. Can't wait for season 2!
 
Farrell will be brilliant. Vaughn I'm more sceptical about but I think he can do a decent job.

So are these two the detectives? I thought there were rumours that girl from Mad Men was going to be one of the leads?
 
I've a feeling it's going to be shit. The more I think about the last series the more pissed off I get with it. Hopefully I'm wrong though, will definitely give it a chance.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I reckon it's gonna be crap. Harrelson and McConaughey were the main reason to watch season one. Their performances (and the cinematography, to be fair) managed to hide the fact that the plot was pretty terrible.
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Totally agree. Never seen a show so carried by the directing and acting as the first season of TD. Matt owned the character of Rust who would have been comical in the hands of anyone else.

Can't see this being anything other than worse than the first season. Even then I reckon a lot of what made the first season great was the speculation on what would happen as you watched each episode as it was released. The payoff was far less than that.
 
I like the choices. I think it will be good but the Cafe won't agree with me.
 
You guys need to watch Jurrasic Park 2 again. Vaughan gave an acting masterclass in that.
 
JustAFan said:
The cast might surprise. I mean thinking back to when I first heard of Breaking Bad, my first thought was "The Dad from Malcom in the Middle? Really?" and I am probably not the only one.
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That's true. Although it's very different scenario when you have a show you already enjoy being re-cast.

Mind you, it worked out ok for The Office. So there's always hope. I just think that only really strong writing can cope with something like this and I don't think the writing was very good in True Detective. The script was decent enough - especially all the nihilist ranting from Rust - but the narrative was paper thin.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I reckon it's gonna be crap. Harrelson and McConaughey were the main reason to watch season one. Their performances (and the cinematography, to be fair) managed to hide the fact that the plot was pretty terrible.
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I thought the only terrible thing about the plot was the spaghetti monster reveal, everything up until then was top notch.
 
I forgot about how upset people got over the spaghetti thing. I hope they are OK now.
 
Cina said:
I thought the only terrible thing about the plot was the spaghetti monster reveal, everything up until then was top notch.
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I dunno. It felt great because you kept on thinking it would all come together. After the big reveal, it all seemed like utter nonsense in hindsight. I've done my ranting about all the plot holes much earlier in the thread, so can't be bothered typing them out again but almost none of it ended up making much sense, from very early on. About half way through I even ended up re-watching scenes from earlier episodes to try and make sense of what was going on but it didn't hang together at all, so I was hoping against hope that they would somehow pull a rabbit out of a hat. Then the green ears stuff happened.

The acting was brilliant, it was incredibly atmospheric and there was some really nice set-pieces but the actual plot ended up being almost as muddled and flawed as the sort of outright nonsense you'd get in a series like Lost.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That's true. Although it's very different scenario when you have a show you already enjoy being re-cast.

Mind you, it worked out ok for The Office. So there's always hope. I just think that only really strong writing can cope with something like this and I don't think the writing was very good in True Detective. The script was decent enough - especially all the nihilist ranting from Rust - but the narrative was paper thin.
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I'd agree that Rust's nihilist ranting was one of the shows strong points but, oddly enough, this makes me even more concerned about the next series. This is because barely any of the ideas for Rusts's character came from Pizzolatto but rather from Thomas Ligotti, so much so he's had to defend himself from plagiarism accusations. The loss of Cary Fukunaga as director is a blow too, I loved the atmosphere and look he created for the show.
 
Keenst said:
I'd agree that Rust's nihilist ranting was one of the shows strong points but, oddly enough, this makes me even more concerned about the next series. This is because barely any of the ideas for Rusts's character came from Pizzolatto but rather from Thomas Ligotti, so much so he's had to defend himself from plagiarism. The loss of Cary Fukunaga as director is a blow too, I loved the atmosphere and look he created for the show.
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Didn't know about that. It's gonna be gash, isn't it?
 
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