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I haven’t started watching this yet and I’m not sure if the season is finished quite yet, but is this season good? I’m not expecting season 1 levels of greatness, but better than 2 and 3?
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nwin posted:I haven’t started watching this yet and I’m not sure if the season is finished quite yet, but is this season good? I’m not expecting season 1 levels of greatness, but better than 2 and 3? Its a good tv show. Its just a tv series that has a very "special" following on the forums. They have brain worms.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:33
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It's definitely the best small town murder show since Fargo season 5 ended
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Feb 16, 2024 00:34
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Sickening posted:Its a good tv show. Its just a tv series that has a very "special" following on the forums. They have brain worms. I think you have little experience with this forum, sirrah!
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Feb 16, 2024 00:35
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It's better than 3 but way worse than 2. The two leads just aren't very good, the writing is cliche and bad, and the horror/ghosts/hallucinations have been ramped up to ridiculous levels. It still looks beautiful though.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:42
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Victory Lap posted:It's definitely the best small town murder show since Fargo season 5 ended Man, I'm still thinking about the ending of that, holy poo poo was it good.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:48
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I'm definitely more entertained by this season than I was by 2. I think 3 still beats it. Some of the creative choices can feel weird in the context of a True Detective show, like how the song choice and when those songs come up drives some people in this thread crazy. Most of the cast does a great job selling their character. Not fair to Kali Reis that she has to try and keep up with Jodie Foster So far I think it's worth a watch. I'm a sucker for stories that take place in tiny locations isolated by the cold, so this season has been a fun ride despite some of the more mediocre aspects that have popped up.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:49
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Yeah I’m on the not as good as 3 wagon as well.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:54
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The show is good. Jody Foster is great. Goons are perpetually miserably and also terrible at watching TV as always, which is why half the thread is bitching about how awful the show is and the other half is just making fun of them for their hilariously bad takes where they miss obvious parts of the story. Like space heaters. It's not S1 of course, and the biggest departure seems to be ghosts are real and show up a lot, sometimes for a spooky jumpscare and sometimes to actually progress the plot.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:54
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I think the season has been solid, though not without flaws. I liked season 3 better, I like this season a lot more than season 2. Season 1 is still the strongest.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:04
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It's decent tv, but the final episode has a lot of heavy lifting to do in wrapping everything up. It's not something I'd go out of my way to recommend just yet.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:10
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I'd say it's a perfectly serviceable "Troubled detective with lovely interpersonal relationships solves murder mystery" show. Is it a landmark of television for this decade? No, but if the above description is what you want it'll scratch that itch.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:11
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Anybody else wanna pile on?
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Feb 16, 2024 01:12
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My wife and I both look forward to it every week despite its flaws. That’s the best way I can put it.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:13
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mrmcd posted:I'd say it's a perfectly serviceable "Troubled detective with lovely interpersonal relationships solves murder mystery" show. Is it a landmark of television for this decade? No, but if the above description is what you want it'll scratch that itch. it is a high tier landmark that you construct in your capital city
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Feb 16, 2024 01:27
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2 > 1 > 4 > 3
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Feb 16, 2024 01:55
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I think it is the worst season, but I don’t regret watching it.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:06
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Who cares about/trusts viewership numbers in 2024? That should hardly be taken as any marker of show quality one way or the other.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:27
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mark immune posted:2 > 1 > 4 > 3 Unironically seconded. 1 is wonderful but 2 has some insane things going on in the background that still haven't been fully unpacked. Lots of Ballard and Burroughs influence.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:30
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I think season 1 is an A+ season. Season 2 is just incomplete for me. I found it so tedious that one weekend i simply forgot to watch it, and then a month later i went "oh yeah, that show" Season 3 was a solid b- type of show. Season 4 so far is a c+, possibly b-, possibly d depending on how it lands.
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Feb 16, 2024 03:10
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I just rewatched Season 2 and it's a lot better than I remember. I think it was such a departure from Season 1, that it soured it for me at the time.
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Feb 16, 2024 03:30
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You jerks are gonna make me watch Season 2 again arent ya?
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Feb 16, 2024 04:33
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mark immune posted:2 > 1 > 4 > 3 Yea. Mahershala and Stephen Dorff were good as hell tho.
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Feb 16, 2024 05:10
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Just started this, on episode two. Is Travis supposed to be Rust’s estranged father?
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Feb 16, 2024 05:11
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Just started this, on episode two. Is Travis supposed to be Rust’s estranged father? 
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Feb 16, 2024 05:42
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TheBizzness posted:You jerks are gonna make me watch Season 2 again arent ya? fukn enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRh7O0zZzA4
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Feb 16, 2024 06:00
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MechaSeinfeld posted:Yea. Mahershala and Stephen Dorff were good as hell tho. Looking good Purple! Who’s the old man?
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Feb 16, 2024 06:08
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smh if you haven’t done this with the boys
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Feb 16, 2024 06:16
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jesus christ his name was velcoro
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Feb 16, 2024 08:52
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Caspere knew this
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Feb 16, 2024 08:58
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Just started this, on episode two. Is Travis supposed to be Rust’s estranged father? stepfather, I think. Or mom's new boyfriend. Im trying to remember what Rust said his family life was in that one episode e:Im not on discord, sorry. it's early HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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Feb 16, 2024 14:27
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Feb 16, 2024 14:50
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HootTheOwl posted:||stepfather, I think. Or mom's new boyfriend. Im trying to remember what Rust said his family life was in that one episode|| The show runner confirmed it’s his dad
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Feb 16, 2024 14:51
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nwin posted:I haven’t started watching this yet and I’m not sure if the season is finished quite yet, but is this season good? I’m not expecting season 1 levels of greatness, but better than 2 and 3? Can I answer this after the finale? There's pacing issues at the very least, but if they nail the final episode I could forgive a lot. I'm starting to notice shows being edited for binge watching more and more, so it could be one of those situations. The music isn't as bad as the thread makes it out to be. I don't necessarily think it's fitting for the setting, but eh. 
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Feb 16, 2024 15:10
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Needle drops are not fantastic if you’re trying to build a mood. I’d give the series so far a B, with a B+/A- grade-grubbing student at a fancy private college modifier for the last two.
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Feb 16, 2024 15:14
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mark immune posted:2 > 1 > 4 > 3 yep
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Feb 16, 2024 16:07
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I'm confused about all the season 2 love.
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Feb 16, 2024 16:11
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Robobot posted:I'm confused about all the season 2 love. That mid season shootout was loving gnarly. I liked that everyone is kind of a trainwreck. I thought the resolution was satisfying. Would never put it over season 1, but I did like it better than season 3 on rewatch.
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I sometimes wonder if the poor pay and conditions have anything to do with an endless supply of people willing to put up with them in order to get a better CV for another career. (Or if these people are too few in number to really explain the situation.) And whether there might not be oversatturation of applicants with EMS experience for some careers and degree programs. When people were suggesting giving prisoners fighting fires in California firefighter jobs upon getting out, other goons chimed in with how silly that is to expect given that there are thousands of people driving ambulances for years after essentially burning out, hoping against hope that this is the year they'll get to interview for fire services in the state.
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Sickening posted:That is what I meant. I also think people who have lived in alaska all their life have these basics figured out and it doesn't need to be explained in detail to the viewer. The assumption is that wonder boy is going to survive the night sleeping in the loser shed. Pete would see that the shed is unfinished, unfurnished, unheated and immediately nope the gently caress out of there. Even if there was a space heater. Especially during a blizzard. He'd go back to the office and sleep there or get a motel room. counterfeitsaint posted:Nobody lives in Alaska without having a few portable space heaters around. I don't actually need to physically see a space heater and watch a character plug it in and turn on to believe that there might be one around. I guess others do. Are people sometimes confused when characters just show up in other locations on a show? They didn't show any sort of car or transportation, we never saw them drive there, yet this person is suddenly several miles away from where we last saw them! I hope someone got fired for that gaping plot hole! counterfeitsaint posted:The show is good. Jody Foster is great. Goons are perpetually miserably and also terrible at watching TV as always, which is why half the thread is bitching about how awful the show is and the other half is just making fun of them for their hilariously bad takes where they miss obvious parts of the story. Like space heaters. To expand on your  If a show takes the time to show me that the car the characters are supposed to be traveling in doesn't have an engine or doesn't have wheels. Then yes. I'll be confused when the characters arrive at their destination in the next scene without explanation. If Night Country had cut away as Pete opens the door to the shed, leaving us to assume that it's properly furnished for him to spend the night, then I wouldn't have a problem with it. But they took the time to show us the inside of the shed, which made it clear it was not properly furnished for him to spend the night, with or without an assumed space heater. It's just a small detail that bothered me and I'm surprised that it's blown up into the meme of the season. True Detective Season 4: Schrödinger's Space Heater
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