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S2's plot isn't as convoluted as S4 but still has its moments of dragging or not being that provocative. It's really saved by the acting. Everyone killed it. I think S4's acting is a bit overrated. Jodie Foster is a great actress but she didn't exactly push her chops. It was probably the fault of the writing but she was pretty one note throughout without any real memorable scenes, at least for me. Like they had her just talking into an iPhone with earbuds in for 3 minutes. Pete does fine and so do the supporting actors but nothing stand out. Navarro's actress is pretty wooden and one note too. Again, probably the fault of the writing, but she was just angry face in every scene and her line delivery wasn't that great. As much as we make fun of it the only standouts that I remember were the cleaning lady posse, both during the revelation scene and the vigilante justice scene.
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Feb 25, 2024 07:22
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I don't remember anything about season 2 except somebody riding a motorcycle at night, colin farrell having a dream about a cowboy singing on stage, and for some reason my brain is telling me there's a scene where he punches a 10 year old
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Origami Dali posted:I don't remember anything about season 2 except somebody riding a motorcycle at night, colin farrell having a dream about a cowboy singing on stage, and for some reason my brain is telling me there's a scene where he punches a 10 year old Assaults the ten year olds father in front of him(they both deserved it) Also lol at the cowboy scene wtf was that?
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maybe it was the elvis impersonator singing on stage "they say love..."¬¬¬ start of s02e02 or s02e03 my favourite hokey moment in s2 is when paul (the ex-soldier motorbike cop) goes to a sports game or car race or something with his friend. it feels so weird for them to be doing a 'off the clock normal person thing' half way through this batshit insane case.
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MechaSeinfeld posted:The singing witch in the divebar out of time kicks rear end yup
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3AuyOfBtI
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Cithen posted:Season 2 is legitimately The problem I had with 2 at the time it came out was...it was just a freaking onslaught of characters thrown at you week after week. I remember reading a synopsis of what was going on at the time to try to get a handle on it. Anyways, before my now ongoing rewatch, viewed another video that breaks it down quite nicely which makes it more enjoyable since you can pay attention and laugh at more of the absurdity of it all. Yeah, of course the VV lines...but always a good chuckle when someone responds back to him with just a goofy reply and VV does the ... back. lulz
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C-Bangin' it 
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Also lol at the cowboy scene wtf was that? He was dreaming about a fake elvis singing on stage while talking to his dad at the dive bar. e: was beaten by a country mile. Colostomy Bag fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Feb 25, 2024 12:28
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Toaster Beef posted:god help you sons of bitches if this thread convinces me to watch season two again wrong
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Cranappleberry posted:wrong Ray, the duality of man in a cosmic sense is that some prefer steak and some prefer the sizzle. Myself, I focus on the baked potato for my spiritual consumption.
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Lol  I don't know how people can not like that season. Yes, ok, it certainly has its fault, but it is also a genuinely creative work of art with a unique interesting aesthetic style and artistic voice. The acting was fantastic. It has a lot of memorable scenes. S4 feels like soulless forgettable gruel in comparison(not that it is a bad season of TV in absolute terms, it's just not doing anything special, interesting or memorable) I pissed myself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Fn7GZjR0Q&t=140s Medical researchers use this to induce depression in test subjects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mszf5Jcgzc
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season 3 of sons of anarchy is when the series really gets going
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“It's like everything is paper mache. Season 2 allowed for some great, and some not so great, deep dive head-canon posting: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueDetective/comments/6rg70b/spoilers_crows_and_tracing_the_unseen_web_in_true/ https://biblioklept.org/2015/08/08/a-riff-on-true-detective-season-2s-neon-noir-satire/ etc
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Feb 25, 2024 23:29
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The murder of the disease curing miracle microbe was the real crime
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Just finished S2. It fucks. Forgot about the batshit train station poo poo. Hell Frank had basically the entire weaponry of Tunisia's army in some poo poo speakeasy with substandard mattresses. I remember chuckling a few episodes back on that laundry list on a notepad that looks like some intern wrote it needing shotguns and grenade launchers down to the model types. With Velcoro strutting around in a cowboy hat to avoid authorities with that disguise (might be what another poster was hallucinating further up)...to the Brother going nutso and then everyone including Holloway getting lit up by friendly fire. Greatness. Is the ending perfect? Hell no. I would have made several changes.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Just finished S2. It fucks.
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Lampsacus posted:Hell yeah. I think one fun/interesting component of the ending was watching Frank almost escape to South America so many times. He had so many chances to leave with his life but kept going back for one more thing and then "i want my jacket back" hahaha powpow There was a lot going on that whole freight-train-sized from hell plot. He knew he needed more cash to bring him back to "whole" (or where his previous life was) along with his wife. And then you realize his thinking/ways is during the desert march.
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Yeah, I love this storyline and character arc. He just keeps confidently making mistakes thinking he's Main Character but it was only going to end one way. It's a tragedy of three men who die. One little bit of foreshadowing is their auras (e1) match how they die. Black and Green for the one who dies in the forest etc.
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I feel like Season Two was the last time the show had ambition to be great, even if it whiffed. Three and Four in retrospect seem to be built on the first principle of "make it like Season One but tweak it a little bit."
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I feel like most of the defenses of season two come down to it being a satire, and my problem with that defense is it basically waves away any instances of over-the-top bad writing or delivery with "well you can't take that seriously, it's a satire" — as though Nic Pizzolatto has ever done anything other than demand to be taken very seriously. They have a word for satire that doesn't realize it's satire: trash.
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Toaster Beef posted:I feel like most of the defenses of season two come down to it being a satire, and my problem with that defense is it basically waves away any instances of over-the-top bad writing or delivery with "well you can't take that seriously, it's a satire" — as though Nic Pizzolatto has ever done anything other than demand to be taken very seriously. They have a word for satire that doesn't realize it's satire: trash. I don’t think it’s satire at all. I think it’s just weird and funny and very out there. It’s very clearly funny though. You don’t have a line about smoking robot dick without it being funny.
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It’s like pizza lotto was self-conscious about writing old-timey noir dialogue and had to make it arch. Just go whole hog if you’re going to do a pulpy mystery with cops and a private eye.
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It's common knowledge that S2 suffered by HBO mandating a very quick writing and turn around production. I think if the latest, s4's, show runner/writer had been brought in to S2 they would have done a much better job.
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This is all psy-op to make me watch season 2 again and I’m not falling for it (I am)
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Velcoro calling his son a fat pussy will always be funny
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Velcoral Farrel's dad complaining about the last batch of weed his son brought him was funny too.
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Toaster Beef posted:I feel like most of the defenses of season two come down to it being a satire, and my problem with that defense is it basically waves away any instances of over-the-top bad writing or delivery with "well you can't take that seriously, it's a satire" — as though Nic Pizzolatto has ever done anything other than demand to be taken very seriously. They have a word for satire that doesn't realize it's satire: trash. Sure, that scene when Velcoro gets shot, meets an Elvis impersonator in the afterlife and then wakes up declaring that he pissed himself was totally, 100% intended to be serious. Absolutely not satirizing the genre. Ffs, look at the makeup they put on Lera Lynn(the bar witch) in all her scenes. They drew dark circles under her eyes and sprayed her with water. She looks like she's going through a heroin withdrawal while signing. It's so incredibly and intentionally over the top. S1 had its satirical elements too. Cohle is clearly a caricature of a human being. Every second word out of his mouth is just satirizing the self-important noir genre and people who take themselves way too serious, like reddit Atheist or whatever those roko's basilisk guys are called.
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Cohle has the self-awareness to realize that he is too pathetic and weird for normal society. He’s properly ashamed when Marty tells him that he can’t say the kind of things he says in their car rides when he’s over for dinner. He’s not actually cool and he knows that he’s actually a loser outside of the very specific realm of being a detective. It’s what makes the two of them work as characters, imo.
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“I smell piss”
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Farrels relationship with his son was some of the most engrossing believable acting i’ve ever seen,i wanted it to work out for them so bad.
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you can watch a show and enjoy it without analyzing or even knowing the intent of the writers, directors or really any other context outside the show. hth
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E: nm i misread the post
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Admittedly I have to rewatch Season 2 but from what I'm recalling, it took itself seriously despite being comical, whereas Season 1 took itself seriously and wasn't comical at all. I'd probably love it more if I rewatched it now with the idea that it wasn't TD Season 2 but just its own goofy thing. I honestly need to rewatch both season 1 and 2 because I just can't remember anything anymore.
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DaveKap posted:Admittedly I have to rewatch Season 2 but from what I'm recalling, it took itself seriously despite being comical, whereas Season 1 took itself seriously and wasn't comical at all. I'd probably love it more if I rewatched it now with the idea that it wasn't TD Season 2 but just its own goofy thing. colin farrell is a silly boy. also 7 psychopaths is good
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covidstomper58 posted:Velcoral Farrel's dad complaining about the last batch of weed his son brought him was funny too. I liked how velcarro's glove box had every fix for every type of bender.
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Whenever I do my yearly rewatch of s1, I always finish it with a rewatch of s2. Its like a chaser. I have never rewatched s3 since it aired. it just feels so 'pointless? because the solution to the main mystery at the end wasn't some deeper conspiracy or borderline cosmic horror and that makes it feel strangely... dull? boring? i'm not sure how to phrase it. but its been years since i've seen it so hey -, maybe it's time!
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Lampsacus posted:Whenever I do my yearly rewatch of s1, I always finish it with a rewatch of s2. Its like a chaser. I have never rewatched s3 since it aired. it just feels so 'pointless? because the solution to the main mystery at the end wasn't some deeper conspiracy or borderline cosmic horror and that makes it feel strangely... dull? boring? i'm not sure how to phrase it. but its been years since i've seen it so hey -, maybe it's time! Exactly how i feel,there was no resolution to anything in season 3.It was just miserable. I would have just preffered a true detective vietnam.
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