True Detective Season 2 on HBO

[El Diablo Blanco]

you would think a highly trained professional police chief? would be more cautious of spilling the all the beans at a train station lobby while sitting behind a guy (the twin) with a hoodie right behind him, it was almost to comical , he meets up with Woodrugh  in an abandon subway station in the dark, yet reveals everything in public to Ray Velcoro with one one sitting right behind him 

I think that was meant for the viewers to understand what the fuck was happening.

[El Diablo Blanco]

[Thong Maniac]

I stopped watching after that ridiculous shoout out scene in episode 3 or4 . That was a barrel of lols. Shit show

[f450]

A bad story, badly executed. A total waste of time.

[leonp1981]

This whole season was a bag of shit.  I kept watching hoping that it would turn a corner, but despite speeding up a bit in the second half of the run, it still didn't deliver at all.  No real storyline, so many different threads/people to try and follow, and then a completely bullshit ending with the killer twins.  And then Ani and the ginger chick wander off to Mexico for over a year and don't bother telling anyone?!  That was the worst bit for me, after a whole season of watching them tracking down the 'bad guy' and then fuck all happened at the end.

True Detective 3 needs a complete overhaul if they go ahead with it.

[Havenbull]

This whole season was a bag of shit.  I kept watching hoping that it would turn a corner, but despite speeding up a bit in the second half of the run, it still didn't deliver at all.  No real storyline, so many different threads/people to try and follow, and then a completely bullshit ending with the killer twins.  And then Ani and the ginger chick wander off to Mexico for over a year and don't bother telling anyone?!  That was the worst bit for me, after a whole season of watching them tracking down the 'bad guy' and then fuck all happened at the end.

True Detective 3 needs a complete overhaul if they go ahead with it.

They went to Venezuela

[Joe Pietaro]

Extremely disappointing season and that last episode did nothing to salvage it. It played out like a Steven Seagal movie and was shit from the get go. The least they could have done is include an ass eating scene. Season 1 didn't even need that to be great but did so, anyway.

[Ronnie Rep]

Very weak,especially it having to stand up to the first season. Colin Farrell is a solid under rated actor, was the only intriguing thing in it.

[The True Adonis]

Very weak,especially it having to stand up to the first season. Colin Farrell is a solid under rated actor, was the only intriguing thing in it.

 

Far from underrated and is well known to be one of the best actors.  Where are you getting this from?


Furthermore, Vince Vaughn did an impressive job as Frank.  Easily the best acting and actor in the show.  If someone were underrated, it would be him.  He did an amazing job in my opinion. Played the part perfectly.

[BB]

Not as big a drop off as it seems, just down around 20% over last year. HBO is willing, and wants a 3rd season, if Pizzolatto is up for it.

[The True Adonis]

I think the writing could have been a lot better and they wasted Frank's character.

Also, he was very careful and certainly would not let himself be cornered like that by two cars.  

[Ronnie Rep]

 

Far from underrated and is well known to be one of the best actors.  Where are you getting this from?


Furthermore, Vince Vaughn did an impressive job as Frank.  Easily the best acting and actor in the show.  If someone were underrated, it would be him.  He did an amazing job in my opinion. Played the part perfectly.

Maybe the wrong choice of words. Should say surprised at how well he played the part. Vince Vaughn did do a solid job as Frank. I like pretty much  everyone else had very high expectations after the first season.

[Nails]

everyone thinks they can play tony soprano, but its not so easy it it seems , right vaughn ?

[_aj_]

I think the writing could have been a lot better and they wasted Frank's character.

Also, he was very careful and certainly would not let himself be cornered like that by two cars.  

Good Lord. I finally watched the last episode last night and that is exactly what I was yelling at the screen.

The characters were terrible, the writing was turgid, the plot was incomprehensible and the ginger kid was a fatass.

[_aj_]

Farrell surprised me because it's been ages since I'd seen him in anything, and didn't realise he's as good an actor as he is.

You really liked Vaughn's performance though? I wanted to like him. If hoped this would be a redeeming role that would show he's capable of more than shitty comedy's...but it proved the opposite for me. It's like he didn't even believe himself that he was capable of delivering a serious performance. he tried too hard and his movements and facial expressions looked amateur as hell, IMO

I think that the whole thing suffered from bad character development. In TD1, you had McConaughey's character being the "dark, brooding guy". In TD2, they capitalized on that by making every damn character "dark and brooding".

[Emmortal]

The writing and character endings were obviously a reaction to criticism of the first season when people had complained about McConeheys character not dying from the obvious fatal stab wound and the female characters being throw aways.  This season all the lead men died and the the main female and weakest female characters lived on.

This is what happens when you don't have a strong producer telling the writer to get his shit together and not write to in reaction to criticism.

[Nails]

they took him for a million bucks in a suit case, his Audi  , and the 5' 6" midget mexican wanted 6' 5" Vaughn's Suit    

absolutely stupid ending

[El Diablo Blanco]

I think the writing could have been a lot better and they wasted Frank's character.

Also, he was very careful and certainly would not let himself be cornered like that by two cars. 

It's the horrible writing that made Vaughn seem like a bad actor.  His stupid sayings were hilarious and something no one in real life would ever speak.  It's like Pizzolozo got one of those calendars that has a different saying each day and decided to stuff them into Vaughn's dialogue.

[The True Adonis]

It's the horrible writing that made Vaughn seem like a bad actor.  His stupid sayings were hilarious and something no one in real life would ever speak.  It's like Pizzolozo got one of those calendars that has a different saying each day and decided to stuff them into Vaughn's dialogue.

Real life?

If they made this like real life, do you know how boring it would all be?

Do you really want that? 

[El Diablo Blanco]

Haha that's true. They were all a bunch of miserable bastards. The ginger fat ass was my only Ray of sunlight in an otherwise dark and monotonous season.

I bet the Pro-Life bastards were cheering to find out the fat kid was Ray's and that it proves a raped woman shouldn't have an abortion because you never know....

[El Diablo Blanco]

I reckon even the pro-lifers would have aborted that kid 

looks like Ed Sheeran

FIxed

[clownbaby]

I think the writing could have been a lot better and they wasted Frank's character.

Also, he was very careful and certainly would not let himself be cornered like that by two cars.  

I think there were a lot of plot loopholes one being is if frank was driving a new car provided for by the Armenians he paid of in an earlier scene then how did the Mexicans find him so quickly unless the Armenians also ratted him out.

[Emmortal]

I think there were a lot of plot loopholes one being is if frank was driving a new car provided for by the Armenians he paid of in an earlier scene then how did the Mexicans find him so quickly unless the Armenians also ratted him out.

He went back to his room to pack his shit, which meant they were already on to him.  Mexicans are industrious fuckers.

[El Diablo Blanco]

I think there were a lot of plot loopholes one being is if frank was driving a new car provided for by the Armenians he paid of in an earlier scene then how did the Mexicans find him so quickly unless the Armenians also ratted him out.

I believe they gave a clue that the Armenians did rat him out.  It was lame of him to have everything planned out so perfectly except for having his bags packed and ready to go.  Any criminal knows you can't go back home after a shootout like that.  Listen to the conversation with the Armenians before he leaves and you'll hear the convo.  Also that Audi is the same one he drove off in after they torched the Range Rover.  I think the Armenians tipped them off about his money also because as soon as they got to the desert they pulled out the suit case and placed it in front of the gang leader.  The only thing they didn't know about was his diamonds since he did that in secret.  They knew Frank was done and that's why they drove him into the desert and planned to leave him there.

[CalvinH]

From all the posts I'm glad I never watched this show.



....Damn I'm gonna miss Justified this winter