True Detective [2014]

[Miguel]

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season 2,
different scenario

[Krystyan]

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Season 2: What We Know So Far - TheWrap

The next season of “True Detective” will be about “hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system,” says series creator Nic Pizzolatto.
It could take place in Southern California.

Brad Pitt for True Detective season two - Telegraph
Brad Pitt has been linked to take Matthew McConaughey's place in the second season of True Detective

[feather]

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Transportation? I hope it's not the subway

Haven't seen Pitt in anything for a while.

[jaskkonii]

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https://soundcloud.com/darknessbecomesyou/true-detective-a-mixtape

[Krystyan]

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Transportation? I hope it's not the subway
Haven't seen Pitt in anything for a while.

when I saw transportation... I thought of the wire season 2. All the stuff going on in the docks and the unions

[feather]

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https://soundcloud.com/darknessbecomesyou/true-detective-a-mixtape

Thanks for this, nice listen!

when I saw transportation... I thought of the wire season 2. All the stuff going on in the docks and the unions

Human trafficking? Prostitution?

[Krystyan]

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yep, that.

[dusk]

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Been hearing good things about this show... gotta start watching it. However I hope I like the ending....

[Kamal]

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The ending was rather anti-climactic. Spoiler warning - Mark text to read it

I really thought it would have been a high-profile figure rather than the overweight inbred lawn-mower they picked.

Great acting on part of MM though, absolutely loved him in this series.

[yerg]

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Season 2 trailer, looks just as good as the 1st

[Micko]

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Looking forward to Season 2 - hope the finale is better than Season 1

[Krystyan]

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good start, looks promising. although I saw it was a bit all over the place... Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn were great

[Haziel]

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I really liked how season 2 started, 3 different stories that could go places. I didn't like the opening song tho'

[el presidente Highsteppa]

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The second season's expectations need to be tempered a bit - we're going from watching two multiple Oscar nominees at quite possibly the peak of their game to some younger actors who have a lot of potential, but have also had some pretty questionable project selections (ie. Kitsch with Battleship, McAdams with Time Traveler's Wife, Vaughn with the remake of Psycho and Ferrell with the Total Recall remake as an example for each). So far, the cast seems to be doing an adequate job for what little we have to go on - the characters are pretty sketchy so far, we haven't been given a lot of depth as to who they are as people and why they're doing what they are, other than Farrell's character with the flashback to him meeting Vaughn.

That being said, there's also a big element missing that drove the first season, the hint of occult activity with the first season's references back to H.P. Lovecraft's work (a master horror writer that went insane before he died), as well as other sources and a bit of quantum physics for good measure. That occult angle set the tone nicely and drove the suspense beautifully, giving it a much more mysterious air to the story and a boost to the southern Gothic backdrop of New Orleans.

This is an entirely different beast - and the first season really needs to be put aside - but that's a pretty tall order to ask from an audience that was dazzled and captivated by how amazing a job they did in the first season. So far we're seeing a very grizzled cop show, and there's a lot of them out there. It needs something more to stand head and shoulders above the others, and I'm hoping they find it.

[Krystyan]

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The second season's expectations need to be tempered a bit - we're going from watching two multiple Oscar nominees at quite possibly the peak of their game to some younger actors who have a lot of potential, but have also had some pretty questionable project selections (ie. Kitsch with Battleship, McAdams with Time Traveler's Wife, Vaughn with the remake of Psycho and Ferrell with the Total Recall remake as an example for each). So far, the cast seems to be doing an adequate job for what little we have to go on - the characters are pretty sketchy so far, we haven't been given a lot of depth as to who they are as people and why they're doing what they are, other than Farrell's character with the flashback to him meeting Vaughn.

That being said, there's also a big element missing that drove the first season, the hint of occult activity with the first season's references back to H.P. Lovecraft's work (a master horror writer that went insane before he died), as well as other sources and a bit of quantum physics for good measure. That occult angle set the tone nicely and drove the suspense beautifully, giving it a much more mysterious air to the story and a boost to the southern Gothic backdrop of New Orleans.

This is an entirely different beast - and the first season really needs to be put aside - but that's a pretty tall order to ask from an audience that was dazzled and captivated by how amazing a job they did in the first season. So far we're seeing a very grizzled cop show, and there's a lot of them out there. It needs something more to stand head and shoulders above the others, and I'm hoping they find it.

You nailed it with the first paragraph... MM and Woody !!!

I'm hoping Colin can deliver... it's in the end a drunk and f**** up character anyway... so it kind of suits him.
We'll see what Vince is trying to do with his role, 2 episodes in and I still don't quite read him...

2nd ep was