True Detective Season 2

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[John Galt]

the crescendo was pretty satisfying in its own way. still, what i wanted was like, true detective work. not like, rogue policemen working with some mob boss on a quest for revenge. at least we do end up learning who killed the guy in episode 1, and why, but i guess i am looking more for a miniseries of law and order on one case. perhaps a serial killer, over years, like they did with last season.

yeah there were some western themes but i don't think it was a western exploited. westerns center on the wanderer, who is a knight in a world of lawlessness. and there's a showdown at high noon but its done honorably, not like, firing tear gas until they cant see then shooting them. vince vaughn's character is close to this but i don't really think he is. while he helps others he in it for himself and taking all the monies, among other things. this season it's greek drama. odephius, antigone, the whole lot showed up this season. and the greeks loved metis, strategy. romans hated strategy, thought it trickery, and embraced strength of arms over all. aurthorian knights and ronin also thought this way. and the western comes from that stuff, not the ambigousness and tricksey and falseness of the greeks

still there was much to be disappointed in this season. would i say it's worth the watch? no. it wasn't horrible but i wouldn't recommend it. i will say they did tie it all up nicely at least; they didn't throw out plot points and then drop them

[Ben Huh]

I didn't mind that the bad guys won, that seems to be a thing with the series creator (even in the first season they got "their guy" but they knew they didn't get them all), but at least let Lt. Burris get killed. Give us one bad guy that bites the dust.

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[Ben Huh]

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interesting take? did you not watch it? f**k casper, the ghost that haunts them all, had his eyes gouged out, and also like odephius, f**k kin unknowingly. in fact, judging by the way the daughter told the story and then the black detective guy told it, caspere had some moment of realization in that whole sequence and was telling them everything possibly because he realized what he had done. this shit is straight out of odephius rex, which is fine... im just telling exploited a pro tip: it's not a western, it's greek tragedy

also ben i'm pretty sure like 20 'bad guys' got killed in that episode, including one knifed to f**k death in a mall