>it's 2023. >it still filters people

>it's 2023
>it still filters people
Can we have a nice thread with discussion about True Detective S2 without harboring back to S1? Just re-watched it in full and wonder if there are any other anons liked it as much as I did? What did you like about it? Any changes you would have made to the storyline?

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  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    True Detective season 2 is Cinemaphile's greatest filter. Caspere knew this

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      its a doggy dog world out there

  2. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wow, you raise a lot of good points. Yeah lets all talk about this fine season. I have opinions and so much to say. I can jibber jabber about this for hours. Just try to shut me up.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Wow, you raise a lot of good points. Yeah lets all talk about this fine season. I have opinions and so much to say. I can jibber jabber about this for hours. Just try to shut me up

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pottery

  3. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >>it still filters people
    What did you expect? Time is a flat circle.

  4. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  5. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kino

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      From MM and Woody to Vince and Colin to Marshmallow Ali - yikes

  6. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it's Ani. She was so fricking hot in this show.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Would

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I want to have hot make out sex with Rachel McAdams and grab her tight bum

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      you ask me thats peak woman right there

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I want to have hot make out sex with Rachel McAdams and grab her tight bum

        Would

        Bros...how do we fricking cope?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          imagine dicking down that tight beauty and stroking her hair. The lush lips. I can't.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous
          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            she can handcuff muh fat cawk any day

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          What did she do to her boyfriend in the first episode that made him want to leave?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            She wanted to get ass fricked

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              I wanna coom in Rachel McAdams tight pussy while she cosplays as a hot detective...

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine her rubbing her feet in your mouth while she throats your dick

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Second part sounds nice.

  7. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like it for what it is. They should have cut out Adam's and Kitchener. Also making it about real estate manipulation was weak sauce compared to the stakes of the first. If they didn't want to go the cult route again, they maybe could have had A cop vs gangster feel like Heat or something.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. I honestly fricking LOVED the dynamic Ray and Frank had. They weren't quite friends but they were close. I liked that they didn't make it out like Frank had intentionally lied to Ray to frame him but that he actually wanted Ray to get justice for what happened to his wife. I honestly agree with what you said about Kirsch and McAdams but when I first saw the posters for it back then, I thought that this season's theme was the three detectives going after Vaughn and his crime empire or something, ala Heat like you said. It would have been a much more interesting and fresh take. Maybe have the fact Ray is compromised and tight with Frank despite the other detectives working to take him down a major plot point. Going back to le spooky murder mystery even if it wasn't that by the end was a HUGE mistake. Just because it's about detectives doesn't mean it needs to dwell on serial killers and shit. The Los Angeles aesthetic was criminally underused. Take, for example, the heist in the last episode. That's what the entire season should have been. It would have been high kino and people would have loved it.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I guess it was today
        KINO

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        The big issue with this particular season is it needed more time to really unfold the level of corruption going on with the city/police, there was alot more to be told but could only get so far with the amount of characters interacting and building drama. Otherwise, it needed to set itself so far apart from the 1st season (which it did to its own detriment). I was very surprised how much i liked it, and sad too because i wanted more .

        filtered.

        I watched it about a week ago. The main problem is there's ten times as many characters as s1 and there's way too many plot threads, the episodes should've been like 45 mins, each episode is an hour plus. Also some of it just doesn't work, like the kitchen table Ray and Vince showdown, it's supposed to be a big tension filled suspenseful scene and it's laughably bad. The season overall was pretty good though, best part is the opening theme

        fricking filtered holy shit go back to gaygit

        What was his fricking problem?

        norwood 3

        I just watched season 2 for the first time because i heard such bad things about it and i fricking loved it. Ive been coming to Cinemaphile waiting for a thread to see if its just normies shitting on it. I was ready for it to be dog shit and thought after the messy start it would be but it was awesome. So i went into season 3 with super high expectations cause everyone said it was really good and return to form and holy shit was that terrible. Me and the missus were laughing at it by then end.
        >really appreciated its refferences to pedo swirls and the frankling scandal tho

        agree, but the VERY last scene of season 3 is the best television ending ever.
        >i went down...
        >to st james infirmary...

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >about real estate manipulation
      It wasn't, though. It was about the nature of evil. Both seasons were. The first season treated evil as this largely unknowable and almost divine force; vast, impersonal, unconquerable. The second went in the opposite direction: it's just a thing that you do, often for the most selfish of reasons; prosaic, predictable, underwhelming. Yet both seasons maintained that dark vibe of anticipation. I prefer season two for that reason. All these fricked-up things happen and they're barely connected, almost disappointing. But they have the same impact the dark, complicated and supernatural conspiracy S1 did, all these innocent people being mowed down.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        That is a very well-put way to view season 2 and will refer to this in the future to someone who still didn't get it. You articulated what I felt but couldn't quite piece together about S2 perfectly. TD, even with the gimmicky and forgettable S3, is some of the most raw and emotional television I've ever seen. The scene where Frank's wife talks to him about adopting a kid and likens it to someone adopting him and saving him from his horrid childhood and he is in tears because of this. Great pathos and great acting and relaying of emotion by Vince.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >What did you like about it?
          somehow the colin farrell redheaded son relationship got to me... they sure did lay it on thick at the end
          >Any changes you would have made
          take out the ten billion references to casper jones. take out the fricking ridiculous steven seagal scenes like this one

          tell colin to ease up on the gruff
          don't kill off the PTSD motorcycle cop

          >about real estate manipulation
          It wasn't, though. It was about the nature of evil. Both seasons were. The first season treated evil as this largely unknowable and almost divine force; vast, impersonal, unconquerable. The second went in the opposite direction: it's just a thing that you do, often for the most selfish of reasons; prosaic, predictable, underwhelming. Yet both seasons maintained that dark vibe of anticipation. I prefer season two for that reason. All these fricked-up things happen and they're barely connected, almost disappointing. But they have the same impact the dark, complicated and supernatural conspiracy S1 did, all these innocent people being mowed down.

          >prosaic, predictable, underwhelming
          yeah except that's not how S2 went at all. went down the exact same fricking stereotypes every other crap show does
          >LOOK OUT FOR THOSE MEXICAN HOMBRES
          >YOU DON'T WANNA GET INTO A MEXICAN STANDOFF
          >THESE CARTEL GUYS LOCO
          >running girls 24/7 everything is about running girls EASTERN EUROPEAN GIRLS SPECIFICALLY
          >SEX AND BLACKMAIL! POWERFUL POLITICIANS! BEING BLACKMAILED BY EVEN MORE POWERFUL FIGURES
          >OOOOOOO DARK AND SHADOWY OOOOOO
          >heat-type situation with frank at the end
          >deep state madness with ray
          would have loved some banality of evil. S1 had more of it.

          Too close to home, man. I really liked Ray as a character. He truly wasn't a bad man. He was just a guy that got dealt the shittiest hand in life. He experienced every married man's nightmare in life which is his wife to be hurt by another man but then his wife leaves him for 2 months due to a psychotic breakdown with his son alone who he raises in that time and then she comes back, takes his son away from him and goes off and marries some other cuck and wants to completely cut him off from his own offspring and pretty much ruin him and then he's handcuffed to Frank who in the end was the only one who helped him and viewed him as a friend. Wonderful character played excellently by Farrell.

          Velcoro is an amazing character but everything that happens to him is pure misery porn ending with that SMS failing to send. Give the guy a fricking break.

          [...]

          gruffy mcgruffster
          >He truly wasn't a bad man
          practically beat a man to death in front of his son... because the son bullied his kid... great guy. in real life if you did that your son would get fricking gangraped at school... all that happened previously was his shoes got cut up typical typical shit

          I rewatch every summer. It encapsulates california perfectly. If you're a white man here the good life is just out of reach. Foreign money outprices you, shitskins challenge you constantly, matriarchal court system out to destroy your family if you can even make one.

          A few themes that stick with me

          >the rich are on zoloft & miserable as frick.
          I was caretaker for a mansion in beverly hills. I've never met more miserable people who have it all. notice the fog at franks house in the beginning. it's a beautiful home but the filter is grey and depressing. this is LA. nice house but you're surrounded by an evil ambiance everywhere

          >This state is corrupt as frick
          Nic predicted what would happen with the high speed train thing. irl CA spent $40 billion and the project was just cancelled overnight. unironically where did the fricking $40BB go

          >diversity is our strength
          a russian israelite literally steals all of his money
          an orthodox israelite-ler literally gouges him at exorbitant rates because he's in a bind
          fat mystery mutt challenging him, (frank takes his teeth out = kino)

          some lines I remember
          >you don't direct me. khe sanh motherfricker
          >i'm chinese
          >then, go stand in front of a frickin tank

          >no country for white men

          >I never loved you
          >I never asked you to

          anytime this state is portrayed in film its supposed to be something out of a katy perry music video. the truth is this place is satanic and you must recognize this and fight against it, hopeless as that may be

          I'd like to edit out Deseredes. good actress but it was clear the studios told nic to write a strong female storyline and nic doesn't know how (not that he needs to). true detective explores the challenges faced by strong white men which is why I’m not watching S4

          >the rich are on zoloft & miserable as frick.
          >This state is corrupt as frick
          wow how fresh and unique

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            name a show that accurately depicts california's corruption to this extent. it's as if a major studio made a biopic of ted k or gaddafi.

            also if you film in california and want the state tax credits there are certain aspects of the film that state agencies get to dictate to you. pizzalato wanted to explore the occult in state government but did an equally good take on california graft and malfeasance on a local level. I'd explain further but it sounds like your brain's warped by cynicism and a detailed explanation would be wasted on you

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >LOOK OUT FOR THOSE MEXICAN HOMBRES
            beaners commit most of the crimes in LA, you were obviously hoping for the netflix/amazon trope of white man = always the villain
            >YOU DON'T WANNA GET INTO A MEXICAN STANDOFF
            again, accurate because mexicans run the drug trade in california
            >THESE CARTEL GUYS LOCO
            oh I just realized you're mexican sorry
            >running girls 24/7 everything is about running girls EASTERN EUROPEAN GIRLS SPECIFICALLY
            yeah, because it's fricking accurate. they ship them from frickistan by the truckload to LA and they all think they're going to be actresses but end up giving handjobs in minimalls.
            >SEX AND BLACKMAIL! POWERFUL POLITICIANS! BEING BLACKMAILED BY EVEN MORE POWERFUL FIGURES
            What you call a stereotype is actually a "theme". If you find themes on deep state corruption uninteresting or can't draw parallels to what's happening in the real world go back to watching pickle rick

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      What Heat influence and references are in this season?

  8. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  9. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The big issue with this particular season is it needed more time to really unfold the level of corruption going on with the city/police, there was alot more to be told but could only get so far with the amount of characters interacting and building drama. Otherwise, it needed to set itself so far apart from the 1st season (which it did to its own detriment). I was very surprised how much i liked it, and sad too because i wanted more .

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Agreed. It had so many kino moments (some I'd say even surpassing the previous season) it had a bigger scale and that surefire kino L.A aesthetic. It's way better than morons make it out to be. It's top tier television either way. I honestly thought they'd go for the same cult setup when Ray got shotgunned by this bird-mask wearing guy. Maybe people were surprised that the whole thing was just real estate manipulation and not something spooky but I like that, even if some aspects of it, like the guy who killed Caspere, were undercooked. One kino route, other than the Heat angle I mentioned, would be to go deeper into the Hollywood satanic elite angle since so many people couldn't stomach TD being anything other than about cults and shit but that would never be greenlit for obvious reasons.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I just want hot cop sex with Rachel McAdams.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          hot cop sex? what is that and how can i get some?

  10. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  11. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I'm like the curdled milk that rises to the surface. It's called mozzarella, people eat that shit, Ray.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I hide and sage my own thread if I don't get a (you) a minute in. Frick yourself before they frick you, Ray.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I hide and sage my own thread if I don't get a (you) a minute in. Frick yourself before they frick you, Ray.

      based Frank posting. i missed this

  12. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ani owes me sex

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine her rubbing her feet in your mouth while she throats your dick

      based, my waifu was almost killed during a drug raid.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'd like the cut the mole off of her face while inside her.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        fergot pic

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ray got gunned down in the middle of nowhere and failed to send his message to his son
      >but had sweaty and passionate sex with this and even put a baby in her
      Did he win?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        He won, he got to stick his fat wiener inside prime Rachel Mcadams puss

  13. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    He's literally me

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I had way too many nights like this

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I relate to this scene in such a fricking ethereal level it's crazy. After trying to court this girl who my girl cousin convinced to see me and realizing there was nothing there and I missed my shot to finally become a true normalgay and shed the pain, I went on a bender not unlike this one. Especially the bit where he cries while sitting on the floor. He is quite literally me.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous
          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >does coke
            omg he's literally me

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            why'd the cut the part out where he jerk offs to porn for 10 hours straight

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Too close to home, man. I really liked Ray as a character. He truly wasn't a bad man. He was just a guy that got dealt the shittiest hand in life. He experienced every married man's nightmare in life which is his wife to be hurt by another man but then his wife leaves him for 2 months due to a psychotic breakdown with his son alone who he raises in that time and then she comes back, takes his son away from him and goes off and marries some other cuck and wants to completely cut him off from his own offspring and pretty much ruin him and then he's handcuffed to Frank who in the end was the only one who helped him and viewed him as a friend. Wonderful character played excellently by Farrell.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Velcoro is an amazing character but everything that happens to him is pure misery porn ending with that SMS failing to send. Give the guy a fricking break.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                this life gives none, now prepare your anus to end just like him

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        based, why didn't Ray and Rachel ever have segs?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Didn't they? Pretty sure they fell in love and even and had a kid who Ani is carrying with Jordan in the final scene.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          They did. It was good too because he was getting past a certain age..

          Didn't they? Pretty sure they fell in love and even and had a kid who Ani is carrying with Jordan in the final scene.

          This

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >segs

          Tell me you let black guys frick your wife without saying

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Zoom's law.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        What's the point drinking booze with coke when coke will sober you up almost instantly? Just a waste of alkohol

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          gay. Cocaine binds with alcohol in your bloodstream and makes you high as shit.

  14. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    What do I have to do to get a definitive Ray posting thread damn it

  15. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    What was his fricking problem?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      he was a commie israelite motherfricker

  16. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I watched it about a week ago. The main problem is there's ten times as many characters as s1 and there's way too many plot threads, the episodes should've been like 45 mins, each episode is an hour plus. Also some of it just doesn't work, like the kitchen table Ray and Vince showdown, it's supposed to be a big tension filled suspenseful scene and it's laughably bad. The season overall was pretty good though, best part is the opening theme

  17. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    If I learnt anything from watching True Detective season 1 and 2, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return it's that crime shows set in rural areas with leafy backdrops and small town vibes are way more kino than anything set in the big city.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      dubs is truth

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Mostly true but I think you're forgetting about The Wire.

  18. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well, anons? Could you have been different?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      If I could do it all over again..... I'd still be gay and get aids

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hollywood humiliation ritual to guarantee him more roles in the future

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >NOO- ACK
        crazy this is how most homies go out

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tbh, his character was kind of redpilled in a way. He rejects his gay tendencies and shows that he's deeply ashamed and disgusted by those tendencies and tries his best to be a normal man with a wife and kid and it's not like they cuck out and make that decision out to be evil or play that storyline as homophobic or some other meme word. It was dealt pretty maturely and you could tell he loved the girl he was with and wanted a good life. Still an unnecessary and undercooked character.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          similar feelings about the character Julian in the Shield

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      probably if i never played wow and neglected my irl friends

  19. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >YOU GET THE BOARD YOU DESERVE

  20. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    the sex party episode was kino

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      imagine being one of the fat bastards that gets to nutt in them

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >IS THAT....RICH MEN PAYING FOR THE SERVICES OF PROSTITUTES? AHHHHH SAVE ME DETECTIVE MAN THIS IS PURE EVIL

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        But thats not what happened and the prostitute they "saved" didnt want to be and it probably resulted in her getting killed

  21. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    s2 >>>> s3 without the last episode > s1 >>>>>> s3 with the last episode

  22. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    A shame it was censored. It was originally meant to be about kidnappings and abductions via the LA metro tunnels but I guess that hit too close to home for Hollywood. So they made it a more generic story set in a fictional town.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fuuuuuck that would of been sick

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      fricking this.
      original premise was about caspere's body found near the highway with satanic symbols carved in his chest, and that it would explore the occult history of transportation.
      Jews were afraid.

  23. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"an apple a day keeps the doctor away" but you see, Ray I'm the doctor and I've burned down every orchard from here to Westchester so you tell me where you intend to obtain these apples that will keep me at bay

  24. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    tried toughing it out for vince and collin but dropped it in the end

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      filtered

  25. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoyed S2 a lot more than 3.

  26. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    the israelites and their diamond money laundering scheme cracked me up

  27. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    True detective season 1 was 10/10 on all watches
    Season 2 was only a 9/10 on my first two watches, but is 10/10 for all other viewings

  28. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just watched season 2 for the first time because i heard such bad things about it and i fricking loved it. Ive been coming to Cinemaphile waiting for a thread to see if its just normies shitting on it. I was ready for it to be dog shit and thought after the messy start it would be but it was awesome. So i went into season 3 with super high expectations cause everyone said it was really good and return to form and holy shit was that terrible. Me and the missus were laughing at it by then end.
    >really appreciated its refferences to pedo swirls and the frankling scandal tho

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      you missed Vince posting, peak memes

  29. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The season itself was mid but it had some kino scenes nonetheless and ulitmately created the best meme that ever came out of Cinemaphile, frankposting

  30. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    no one wants to talk about the shit seasons.

    S1 was interesting because it approached covering pedogate.

  31. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I would honestly fricking love a season with these two, no matter if it doesn't make sense. Best characters in their respective season and enhanced it when they were on screen. I'd like to see Rust blackpilling Ray to oblivion in some car conversation scene lol

      The soundtrack with Lera Lynn is amazing. And honestly I remember nothing from the story other than being extremely unsatisfying in the end. They make you root for characters only to see them unceremoniously killed.

      The Lera Lynn songs were outstanding. It makes me even more frustrated that they used Nevermind as the opening theme. I saw an edit on YouTube where her song was the opening credit theme and it was perfect. Leonard Cohen wasn't needed as fun as the song was. To your point about the characters dying unceremoniously, they actually didn't. I think that was the point. As another anon said, it portrays evil and tragedy in such a passive and frustrating way akin to real life. Ray couldn't go without seeing his beloved son which sealed his fate and that wasn't unceremonious. I guess you could say that about Frank but they left him in the middle of a desert. He was dead either way and them asking for his suit (in which he probably had diamonds in) was just to further humiliate him knowing they've left him to die after taking his money. That scene where figures from his past come back to haunt him while he walks towards the sunset is kino of the highest order. Incredible scene.

  32. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The soundtrack with Lera Lynn is amazing. And honestly I remember nothing from the story other than being extremely unsatisfying in the end. They make you root for characters only to see them unceremoniously killed.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Loved this whole scene.
        Gave me big Max Payne 3 vibes too

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The entire season inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, it's been covered in a few places and Pizzaman confirmed it well after Season 2 aired. Essentially it's about these characters in some sense, achieving and attaining the things they hoped for the most, in death. Their death being the thing that completes their metamorphosis into the person they wish they were. With the exception of Ani, who's "death" was more symbolic in that she had to give up everything and became a mother on the run, fearing for her life.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, very interesting take, thanks for sharing.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I didn't quite understand it on that same level when I first saw it, but I had this vague idea of what was meant to be the case and I really liked season 2 a lot when it first aired. So I'd totally encourage anyone to give it another shot sometime.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I hated this b***h so much. chews the scenery. why is she even there? it's a fricking mexican cantina. I don't want to see closeup shots of her looking morose playing the guitar. I know it's a sad scene. you don't need to pepper it with sad girl singing sad song.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      BASED Lera Lynn appreciators. Season 2 is what made me discover her and I can't stop now. Almost caught her at the House of Blues in New Orleans but I had to work.

  33. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >tried to google "true detective" to find out which season the hot girl is in since I only watched season one
    >haven't even completed my search and sees this in the autocomplete
    >close tab and not go through with my search

    I was right to stop at season 1

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The hot girl and that image are from Season 3. Her name is Sarah Gadon.

  34. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me the flaws of the season are it's a little too mean- all the men get the worst endings possible, one or even two of them I could see but give one something that's not complete failure. It's just a massive bummer and not in a cool way. The sex party is also under baked, and people will say pleb central but they should have tied together the first seasons' implications into what they discover here too and made the cases connect, even briefly.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they should have tied together the first seasons' implications into what they discover here too and made the cases connect, even briefly.
      I don't know how they could have done it without being supremely chintzy. maybe just used some of the same symbols and murder methods. I liked that it had it's own vibe.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah i was expecting some underage angle for the prozzie ring but it never came

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >all the men get the worst endings possible
      depressing, but true to life

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's true, women live life on easy mode. Woman gets to leave and live her new life and getting penis while man gets gunned down in the woods.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'd love to be a doomer and everything too but plenty of men get to live moderately satisfying lives, I'm one of them

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          my point I guess you missed is that men take risks while women reap the rewards from their efforts. it's why their lifespan is about 10 years shorter. sorry if you were unaware

  35. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wish I was watching this when it aired, I can only imagine the reactions people had as each episode passes.

  36. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I relate to the characters because they are all frick ups in their own way. Its a good season but certainly not uplifting. I think thats part of why it filters plebs.

  37. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    never seen a show drop off so hard in quality, season 1 was a masterpiece and season 2 was complete shlock

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      get filtered, dweeb

  38. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    it threw me for a loop because I didn't know it was anthology. I gave it a shot, but I hated it. months later and I kept seeing images of it flash in my mind so I gave it another try, and without S1 fresh in my mind, I was able to see it as it's own thing and I enjoyed it more. it gets better with every viewing.

    S1: 10/10
    S2: 9/10

  39. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really like season 2, it was a bit hard to follow everything on the first watch but it was great on the second.

  40. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I only liked Vince and Colin. S2 was too bloated imo and mediocre as frick in terms of plot

  41. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Caspere wasn't filtered.

  42. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ray was the best thing about seasons 2.
    that being said, I don't think season 2 was THAT bad.
    Yeah it wasn't as good as season 1 but it wasn't trash either

  43. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I knew the ending would be crap since S1's ending was too and I knew things like the crow mask was basically going to be a red herring. But I liked the ending much more than the beginning. I can absolutely see why people call it schlock though. If you pared it down, it would have been a great movie, but there was just too much bullshit for the amount of good actually in it. I do take back everything nasty I said about Vince Vaughn.

  44. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it still filters people
    Has there ever been a greater cope than saying something you like that others don't "filters" people? It reeks of small dick energy and insecurity.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Filtered

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      You get filtered quite frequently, right?

  45. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I rewatch every summer. It encapsulates california perfectly. If you're a white man here the good life is just out of reach. Foreign money outprices you, shitskins challenge you constantly, matriarchal court system out to destroy your family if you can even make one.

    A few themes that stick with me

    >the rich are on zoloft & miserable as frick.
    I was caretaker for a mansion in beverly hills. I've never met more miserable people who have it all. notice the fog at franks house in the beginning. it's a beautiful home but the filter is grey and depressing. this is LA. nice house but you're surrounded by an evil ambiance everywhere

    >This state is corrupt as frick
    Nic predicted what would happen with the high speed train thing. irl CA spent $40 billion and the project was just cancelled overnight. unironically where did the fricking $40BB go

    >diversity is our strength
    a russian israelite literally steals all of his money
    an orthodox israelite-ler literally gouges him at exorbitant rates because he's in a bind
    fat mystery mutt challenging him, (frank takes his teeth out = kino)

    some lines I remember
    >you don't direct me. khe sanh motherfricker
    >i'm chinese
    >then, go stand in front of a frickin tank

    >no country for white men

    >I never loved you
    >I never asked you to

    anytime this state is portrayed in film its supposed to be something out of a katy perry music video. the truth is this place is satanic and you must recognize this and fight against it, hopeless as that may be

    I'd like to edit out Deseredes. good actress but it was clear the studios told nic to write a strong female storyline and nic doesn't know how (not that he needs to). true detective explores the challenges faced by strong white men which is why I’m not watching S4

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      nicely summarized honestly

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        thx anon

  46. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The script was forcefully rewritten before shooting started because it touched too much on the connection between Hollywood/California's government backed child sex trafficking rings. They had to cut like 25 percent of the story from the script. That's why it's so incoherent and 3 stories are stretched out over 4 characters. Pretty sure the gay shit was added during this time too.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah I remember reading something about that. Nic had wanted to explore the development of california's freeway systems and there were connections to satanism and pedos

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/true-detective-season-2-what-is-the-secret-occult-history-of-the-u-s-transportation-system/

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/true-detective-season-2-what-is-the-secret-occult-history-of-the-u-s-transportation-system/

        interesting, I feel the plot could have been better if the Hollywood weirdos wouldn't have shut it down.

  47. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >wife gets raped
    >kill the rapist
    >this offends the wife
    >takes me to divorce court
    >expensive lawyer takes all my money
    >take a dangerous job to keep custody of my son
    >court-appointed guardian monitors all interactions between son & me
    >is ironically a Black person woman
    >take an even more impossibly dangerous job to keep custody of my son
    >eventually killed doing said job
    >just wanted to protect my son who may very well be offspring of my wife's rapist
    >just wanted to raise a strong son & give him stability, confidence
    >can't even send a final goodbye to him in my dying moments
    Velcoro's Wife: tee hee oops I guess he was the father! off to yoga

    I swear Nic Pizzalato is on pol

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Velcoro didn't need to give up in that final shootout, I was getting the impression that he was winning and had at least 50 feet of distance between himself and those last three cops.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      some of these dramas do a great job of making b***h wives, Vic or Aceveda wife on Shield, Shiv on Succession, Wendy on Ozark, drama writers really nail evil vindictive women

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        true. add breaking bad to that lis

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          shes def a c**t but of all of those shes the one i like watching the least so I don't think shes well written

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Velcoro's wife might just be the single one character that has made me want to fricking murder her. I'm at a point in my life where I'm young but paternal instincts are kicking in and what happened to Ray angered me on a spiritual level. Frick her. Based Nic though for warning men what they're most likely going to get from modern women. The fact that she also walked out on him and their son for 2 months while he raised him alone and then she came back, took him and divorced Ray is so fricking wrath-inducing I can't even fricking type properly. Imagine how many men have been dealt this shit? I fricking weep for them, honestly.

  48. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    not a fan of season 2. where was the diversity?
    oh yeah-
    1. villain russian israelite
    2. closeted homosexual (single mom, not his fault) who wholeheartedly resists homosexualry instincts (based)
    3. obese filipino henchman (white man pulls his grill out with pliers because how is that any way to greet the world?)

  49. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >dude what if instead of one Rust EVERYONE was Rust

  50. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was a season 2 detractor at first but after rewatching it a few times I sincerely love it for what it is. I still maintain that the shootout about halfway through the show is one of the more intense I've seen. Snowballs out of control to almost comical levels.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      i love the gay cop in that scene, handles it like a badass

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        He shows a very clear difference between a combat veteran and a cop with 6 months at most of training. This is a gay man you want deep in your foxhole. Only one who didn't lose his fricking mind.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        he's an honorary hetero in my book

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I always got the impression he wasn't a real gay and that whatever he did was just due to being in the army for so long. I mean, I thought he loved that girl he was with and really wanted a normal life. Although, most egghead Twitter types would take offense he isn't a complete gay in drag but a realistic depiction.

          I consider S1 one of the greatest TV shows of all time, I literally try to rewatch it once a year. I've never watched S2 though, I've heard so much discussion on here about how it's secret Kino, and then how its just moronic nonsense with nothing happeneing
          Can this thread finally tell me why, I should or shouldn't watch it? I recentely finished BCS and BGS and I want another show to fill my head for the next 3-4 months before I go back to watching shows.
          Should I just go ahead and watch Season 1 of True Detective, and then immediately go on to 2?
          Like, without spoilering me, are the characters as kino as Rustin and Martin? Is the story as soulful as the first season? The entire lovecraftian story for the 2nd half is pure kino I literally can't shut the frick up about it.
          Is Season 2 soul, or not. Someone tell me

          It's kino and very SOVL. As anons have said and I'll reiterate. The characters are all very human and have their own struggles and that's the focus of the second season. It has some of the most poignant and emotional scenes I've seen in a show. The ending also hits like a barbell to the head once you really invest in these characters, especially Ray and Frank. Read more in this thread explaining the intent and themes of it and you'll grow a true appreciation for it. Whatever flaws it's perceived to have, this season still is better than 95% of television since or before. The L.A aesthetic is also very comfy and kino. It's a show that you really get into once you give it a fair shit.

  51. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Season 3 is far superior. Thats the one with Sarah Gadon.jdgojy

  52. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I consider S1 one of the greatest TV shows of all time, I literally try to rewatch it once a year. I've never watched S2 though, I've heard so much discussion on here about how it's secret Kino, and then how its just moronic nonsense with nothing happeneing
    Can this thread finally tell me why, I should or shouldn't watch it? I recentely finished BCS and BGS and I want another show to fill my head for the next 3-4 months before I go back to watching shows.
    Should I just go ahead and watch Season 1 of True Detective, and then immediately go on to 2?
    Like, without spoilering me, are the characters as kino as Rustin and Martin? Is the story as soulful as the first season? The entire lovecraftian story for the 2nd half is pure kino I literally can't shut the frick up about it.
    Is Season 2 soul, or not. Someone tell me

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Season is pure kino mostly because of the characters and the shit they go through. It's not some grand potentially cosmic conspiracy and is more about them going through various arcs as their lives come to abrupt ends.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dont watch season 1 before, treat it like its not related

  53. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Holy KINO
    RIP Fred Willard

  54. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's pretty good but is just doesn't hold any water to the first season. The first season is basically perfect, none of the parts feel like filler.
    Season 2 tried to do too much, instead of focusing on two characters it tried 4 and it's two too many. The female character's arc is OK, cool ending but thats about it. The closeted gay on the otherhand was a completely pointless character.
    I enjoyed it though, it gets a lot of hate because audiences rightfully expected more. Season 1 is pure kino.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >none of the parts feel like filler
      Lol no. You need to rewatch it. Marty's subplot about him being a 40 year old married cop and getting prime nubile pussy wasn't needed along with any of his lame family drama. That season had so much fluff. Season 2 is actually the opposite. It wastes no time and uses every scene effectively to further the story and the characters, even if at the expense of it feeling a little undercooked but I prefer that than the overindulgence of S1. Also, the ending was pretty shit. They kill the fat hick moron and that's it. They cope by saying that their mission was just to find who killed Dora Lang but that's a complete cop out because Pizzaman didn't have the balls to truly delve into the pedo cult shit.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Pizzaman didn't have the balls to truly delve into the pedo cult shit.
        Rust and Marty didn't have the authority or means to go after the high level pedos. Dumb frick. You shitting on the character building as well, shows how moronic you are.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I didn't say that though did I? I just think them going so far as to show just how fricked up the whole thing is and then just ending it without delving into it as kind of strange. I understand that realistically they can't fricking touch them but Rust on his own did get some pretty fricking sensitive material on them so that's something. I didn't feel like those subplots were done as tastefully as most people claim and the whole set-up with Marty and those 10/10 girls he cheated with is ridiculous as it is. Just my two cents.

  55. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    i liked s2 more than s1

  56. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >le filtered
    Nah it's just shit

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Filtered

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