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ChinChiller
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Adolin]
#21875355 - 06/29/15 07:56 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Vinci reminds me a lot of Belle.
Maybe I have a bias towards this show being from LA n all.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: ChinChiller]
#21876755 - 06/30/15 06:37 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah im done with this true detective bullshit
watched episode 2 last night and im so done with this shitty bullshit
still gonna watch ballers and The Brink tho. The Brink is fuckin hilarious actually
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: ChinChiller]
#22054290 - 08/06/15 04:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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So has anyone hung in there except for me? I really like it. You gotta make it through the first five episodes or so but it's' really rolling now. I think there may be only one episode left..
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Shining Cosmos
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I hung in there. Ill finish it but I can't say I'm super pleased. It's not bad though I guess. I want to wait until after the finale to give my full review.
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I'm still watching. Not at all impressed by it though. Gonna be one of those shows that once I've finished it I probably won't ever think about it again and a few years down the road I'll have to read the plot synopsis to even tell if I've watched it or not when it gets brought up in conversation.
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ive seen em all so far.
its alright. i watched an episode every week up until last week, and i watched them all over again to get a better feel for what exactly is going on
to me it seems really confusing, almost like theres already an entire season we havnt seen
and then theres all this nonsense i read on the internet about who is the "true detective" this season, which confused me even more. i didnt realise there was a 'true' detective in the first season, matt and woody are yin and yang, and balance eachother out.
seems like the creator of this show went way to great lengths to confuse everyone. i dont even understand who the bad guys are. at this point
obviously vince vaughns character isnt a good guy, but hes not exactly a serial killing satanist either.
i think i'm gonna wait till the last episode is aired and then watch them all again, just to get a real idea of wtf is going on. the first season was so much more suspenseful while also being easy to follow. this one has alot more action, gunfire, fighting, etc. and dozens of characters. very difficult to follow.
they could have stretched out this season into 22 episodes with how many sub-plots theyve introduced and forgotten about
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Shroomslip]
#22054359 - 08/06/15 04:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm already looking forward to season 3. I don't care about season 2 anymore. Too many cliches, Vince Vaughn monologues, too many sub plots. Pretty much any important clues get revealed through short dialogue and there has been NO natural progression. Pretty much everything important has happened in the last episode or 2. The first three episodes were boring. I really enjoyed 4-6 (that was a Perfect pace). But now all of e ending is being crammed into two episodes.
It was cliche how in the shootout only the three main characters survived, I mean c'mon does it get anymore cliche?? Of course the closet gay cop dies, he has a kid on the way!! So cliche..also macadams and Farrell hooking up was so predictable! It's all crammed together and has no pace. It seems like it should've been a 10-12 episode season. I could've gone without Vince Vaughn and his wife..bad lines, bad acting..overall cringe worthy
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Am I majorly disappointed with season 2? Sure.
That said, these last 2 episodes, while highly flawed, have been entertaining as fuck. Well IMO anyway.
I'm pretty hyped for the finale.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Nifflerz]
#22054946 - 08/06/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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BTW, has anyone else found the acting to be...kind of laughable at times?
Maybe I'm just too fucking blitzed out of my mind when I'm catching this shit but I'll be damned if I don't often find myself cringing at the acting. From fucking damn near everybody, too. Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams...the fuck, man. These are supposed to be seasoned pro's.
Matthew McConaughey's performance in season 1 absolutely shits on everybody's performance combined in season 2.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Nifflerz]
#22054963 - 08/06/15 06:35 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Vince Vaughn and his wife definitely suck this season.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Nifflerz]
#22054982 - 08/06/15 06:39 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm not the best judge for poor acting, I can recognize it in more serious/extreme cases but I often see no problem with acting when plenty of other people bitch about it. That said, nothing about the acting has really jumped out at me as bad so far. People seem to be playing the roles they are meant to play. When Vince is going on a minutes long diatribe I do wonder if that was just some impromptu shit like his ego is telling him that he's entitled to that speech or if it was actually written that way though.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Shroomslip]
#22054999 - 08/06/15 06:42 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: That said, nothing about the acting has really jumped out at me as bad so far. People seem to be playing the roles they are meant to play.
Yeah admittedly it could just be the fact that I've been high as a motherfuck for the past few episodes. I tend to overanalyze shit when I'm in that state of mind.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Nifflerz]
#22055008 - 08/06/15 06:44 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Enjoying a TV show (other than something light like comedy) was always hard for me while stoned as hell. It all just felt so fake no matter how well it was done.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Shroomslip]
#22055041 - 08/06/15 06:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: It all just felt so fake no matter how well it was done.
Yeah this. This for sure. And come to think of it -- I should probably watch the finale sober.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Nifflerz]
#22056887 - 08/07/15 07:21 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I stopped watching it after ep 3.
I'm going to rewatch sea 1...
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Nifflerz]
#22061676 - 08/08/15 07:08 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah I wouldn't ssay the acting is bad. In fact I'd say that McAdams has been pretty damned good. Colin has been fine but nothing special and Vaughn is doing the best he can with a kind of corny role. I definitely cringed in episode 7 when he is asking that double-crossing underling of his whether or not he "puunched [Stan's] ticket". Who talks like that? I haven't minded his monologues too much, especially early, but lately I've become a bit too aware of his corniness. Part of this is probably because I've watched every episode at least twice to figure out wtf is going on. I always notice that kind of eye rolling stuff on second viewing, which is probably a credit to Vaughn for being able to pass such corny lines by me the first time.
This season has definitely taken the long view. Taking the first three episodes to do nothing but establish characters is risky because people might get bored, but it has the potential to make the payoff really powerful because the viewer feels like they really know these people. I was pretty bummed after episode 7.
Looking forward to the finale.
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Am up to Ep7.. first couple were a bit slow, as with the first season. I fucking love this show, it's so good. Absolutely hooked. Vince Vaughn definitely doesn't suit the bad boy/gangster role though.. he just doesn't pull it off, it's not him.
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Shining Cosmos
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Lachy]
#22072991 - 08/10/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I was disappointed by the season finale.
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Shroomslip
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I've been trying to watch it for like the last 2 hours. It is not doing a very good job of holding my attention and I keep pausing it and going and doing other shit. I'm like a half hour in.
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Re: Season 2 of True Detecitve. [Re: Shroomslip]
#22073761 - 08/10/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Have fun with the cinematic blue balls at the end. Quite unfulfilling.
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