HBO's True Detective

"What kind of way is that to greet the world?" - Vince Vaughn, who really showed some range this week. The beginning of the episode, he couldn't get off from a BJ. By the end, punching out one half of the Wild Samoans. (Oh, but still not effing. Poor Kelly Reilly.)

Still though. I'll stick with this season, but I'm definitely not enjoying it as much as the first. It's all so friggin' dark and conflicted, but then they're doing stuff like leaving Colin Farrell alive after the cliffhanger last week.

 

I'll keep watching it, too, but I don't think this season will be a Godfather II to the first season Godfather. Right now I'm just hoping for Rocky II.

 

I'm enjoying it, but it just can't live up to the first season.

 

But can it live up to the first season, tho?

 

not enough gratuitous female nudity for HBO.

 

I am being a bit redundant.

And repetitive.

 

Well I didn't see that coming. I figured it would be at least a couple more episodes before the case "resolution." From the previews after the episode, it looks like the rest of the season will be our group working on their own for the real resolution.

Funny the three main characters are the only left standing after that bloodbath. Wonder how that happened. Four episodes in, Ferrell's now survived getting shot in the chest and being in the middle of a massive shootout.

 

Tonight was the end for me. I find Vaughn to be a terrible actor in this (part of it is the bad writing) and I've reached the limit of watching miserable people be miserable.

I gave it a fair shot watching all the episodes to this point, but I'm done.

 

Uhh, see ya.

This fourth episode was the best yet this season. The first 30 minutes or so were pretty dense, but the second-half was some of the best television all year.

(And the early individual-episode ratings on IMDB have this at a 9.2/10, easily the highest rating this season)

 

Some of the best television all year? You must not watch a lot of television. It was good, though. But the first 40 minutes almost negates it. I rarely, if ever, complain about the writing on television shows, but good lord. This is some of the worst. I'll watch the rest of the season because that's what I do, but I really hope it gets better.

Goddamn. I feel like Buck now.

 

It's weird, too, because it's the same guy writing it this season that wrote it last season. But yeah, some of the dialogue they've handed Vaughn this year reads like stuff they pulled out of George Lucas' trash can.

 

It wasn't that well written last year, but it had the advantage of being nihilistic to the nth degree, which is unique.