I fecking love this show, I love that I knew nothing about it until the first episode had aired. We need more top class TV like this more often. MM and WH are both simply fantastic actors and the script is brilliance.
Television True Detective | Season 2 Spoilers
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Well that's pretty much what Charlie Lange said at the start of the last episode.
I guess the natural assumption from that is that the original case got canned when they stuck their snouts in the wrong trough.
@CassiusClaymore I don't know whether you're agreeing with me or not?
"The Train Song" posted earlier in this thread is a thing of beauty. Great song.
I won't hear a bad word about this show. I've only seen 4 episodes and it's already the best thing I've ever seen.I am.
If Alexandra Daddario's tits come out again it will be hands down the greatest thing to ever grace television.
So much yes.
She's absolutely stunning. Those eyes....
Next episode can't come soon enough, I don't care about who the past and current killers are. The interactions between the 2 main characters is what the show is all about for me.
It was slow going for 3 eps, though I did very much like it, especially the CE Forum back and forths, but I wasn't completely sold on anything but Mcconaughey. But that 6-8 minute take at the end of the 4th episode. Wow. That was quite simply stunning television. Stunning anything really. Just stunning stuff. An incredibly high water-mark for direction and filmed entertainment of any medium.
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Well sheiit. Just watched episodes 3 and 4. Episode 3 was great - the religion debate and that ending shot of Ledoux (how fecking creepy was that btw? the whole 'at the end of every dream, is a monster' monologue was great, it was a bit like watching Bigfoot footage) were the highlights, but it was consistently brilliant throughout. I found myself pausing and rewatching scenes straight away to fully absorb them.
Episode 4...I'll be honest. All I can remember is the last 10 minutes. I'm sure the whole episode was great, but the only thing I can think about is that scene. All one-take. This show is the nuts.
Episode 4...I'll be honest. All I can remember is the last 10 minutes. I'm sure the whole episode was great, but the only thing I can think about is that scene. All one-take. This show is the nuts.
So far so good, though I am glad the pace has picked up now. As others have said, the ending scene of episode four was sensational.
Just saw the first 3 episodes. Wow! It's already my favourite current TV show. The dialog is brilliant, the story and the way it's structured is fascinating, and the two leads work perfectly together. I wish I'd discovered this when there was already a full season to watch though!
Looking forward to the 4th after reading the comments here. TV is fecking brilliant these days.
Looking forward to the 4th after reading the comments here. TV is fecking brilliant these days.
I'm pretty sure the dialogue at the start of ep 3 was stolen verbatim from one of the Caf's religion threads.
Hopefully Rust and Marty get round to Demonic Possession by the 8th episode.
I'm looking forward to them merging their consciousness on Ketamine.
I've never seen cocaine use look so grubby and un fun.
Not seen it in real life then? There is no bigger scungy wanker than a coke head.
There was a good article about how effectively True Detective has unglamourised this sort of thing, the rave scene in particular was immensely depressing.
Yeah, that scene made me re-think a few things.
It's always been grubby and un fun whenever I've done coke. You rarely ever see it depicted like that in films and such though.
Not if Martin Scorsese makes it, no. Though to be fair, it's rarely quite as grubby as a hicksville motel with nazi bikers. McConaughey's coked acting is very good though. Not just your usual excitable/on edge schtick.
Its also impossible for a show/film to depict a wrapped kilo of coke without someone sticking a knife in it and doing a bump. It's cinematic law.
Its also impossible for a show/film to depict a wrapped kilo of coke without someone sticking a knife in it and doing a bump. It's cinematic law.
Certainly a stark contrast between that rave scene and almost the entire three hours of TWOWS.
Indeed. I didn't really have a problem with the morality of Wolf, but the whole thing was so dismissively flippant I couldn't bring myself to love it.
Harrelson's character is getting slowly better too. Though McConaughey keeps raising it. The way he smokes is ridiculous. Not smoking properly in films is always a tiny bugbear of mine since you can always tell when someone isn't doing it. His drags are so large and deliberate he seems to be trying to make up for everyone who's ever not done it all on his own.
It's hard not to love a high profile American show with dialogue like this.
Harrelson's character is getting slowly better too. Though McConaughey keeps raising it. The way he smokes is ridiculous. Not smoking properly in films is always a tiny bugbear of mine since you can always tell when someone isn't doing it. His drags are so large and deliberate he seems to be trying to make up for everyone who's ever not done it all on his own.
It's hard not to love a high profile American show with dialogue like this.
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Hmmm, yeah 'acting'. I loved those gutteral growls he kept thowing out during the stash house scene at the end of episode 4. He must do it about 4 or 5 times.
As far as dialogue goes after watching back through them one exchange that makes me chuckle is Woody trying to get him to shut up .... "I want you to stop saying sh*t like you're in someones faded memory of a town or you can smell a psychosphere. Just stop it. It's unprofessional."
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Dawkins fans were definitely tipping their fedora when that scene came on.
Richard Dawkins isn't the world's only atheist mate.
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His speech about 'dreams' at the end of episode three in the build up to the final scene ("like all dreams, there's a monster at the end of it") is my favourite, I mean, it took my like five viewings to actually figure out what the bejaysus he was talking about, but it was so damn cool.
A lot of Rust's monologues are taken almost verbatim from Thomas Ligotti's "Conspiracy Against the Human Race". Real interesting character.
Yeah but, I mean, the Caf CE forum too I'll bet.
It's incredibly gripping. I'm three episodes in now. The tone is so dark. The interaction between Harrelson and McConaghey is great. The suspense is brilliant too. McConaghey speaking at the end of ep 3 is like the set up to an incredibly scary scene in a horror movie. If that makes sense. You know it's not a horror, but you have this feeling of dread building up.
The secret fate of all life, another great episode. what the feck is going on...
looking forward for the next episode, need to know if my theories are right.hehe
looking forward for the next episode, need to know if my theories are right.hehe
Love this show.
I suspected this might have been a bridge episode after the excitement of last week but feck me, I think that was even better.
It was different but still fecking great, there hasn't been one episode that's disappointed me so far.
Good episode but I have no idea what the feck is going on now.
Rust seems to be working the case on his own, gathering evidence but keeping it from the people in the higher places.