True Detective (new HBO show)

[blixa]

first of all, i'm really noticing fukunaga's absence and secondly, i was right about vaughn. completely miscast. i thought the first episode was very shit and the symbolism was way too obvious. they're either going to have a very unspectacular second season to work up to a better third season or it will pick up. i'm hoping it's the latter. some of the dialogue was really contrived. i felt like they were personally apologising to me by using an ellis and cave song in the end.

overall i'm very disappointed, but i will keep watching.

[blixa]

and they had access to cohen's entire discography and made a bad choice. i'm not feeling the opening song for the show and i say this as a big cohen fan.

[bright lights, big city]

I thought that song at the end sounded familiar. I can see your complaints, and I'm not in on Vaughn just yet. I think he's got it in him to be alright in this role.

Had no problem with the script though. Contrived? I guess maybe somewhat, but when I tune in to TD, I want some dark characters, with dark philosophies and dialogue, and that makes me happy. Maybe the way everything was delivered was a little contrived, but I still dig it.

And like I said before, I'm in no matter what. If it's half as good as last year, I'll like it. Of shows that I'm watching right now, a mediocre TD is still my 2nd favorite show after Hannibal.

[blixa]

i'm just...not feeling vaughn whatsoever. but i've thought he's shit in everything. colin farrell was good. i also liked mcadams.

the insults didn't make sense. there was no dark philosophies and dialogue really. and when it tried to go there that's when it sounded contrived. i don't want another season one because that's already been done and it was brilliant, but i feel it shouldn't try so hard.

and taylor kitsch with his erectile dysfunction. omg.

[bright lights, big city]

well from what I've heard (a podcast I just conveniently listened to), critics have seen 3 eps, and each gets better and better. If that means more smoking, snorting coke, drinking Modelo, and a bottle of scotch, then putting on a ski mask, I'm alllllll in.

[Crazylegs]

well from what I've heard (a podcast I just conveniently listened to), critics have seen 3 eps, and each gets better and better. If that means more smoking, snorting coke, drinking Modelo, and a bottle of scotch, then putting on a ski mask, I'm alllllll in.

Hopefully that is the case. I think it's early to judge the potential of the season after just one episode. It usually takes at least a few episodes for shit to get really good, and for me to truly get into said shit.

[blixa]

i read an article that they had access to three episodes. i'll see if it does. i have a really shitty feeling about vaughn. he just looks out of place. i'm loving this self-destructive route velcoro is on. i was cringing at everything he was doing almost like, "DON'T DO IT, BITCH. DON'T DO IT!" and then he goes and does it.

i don't hate it. i know it comes off as i do but i don't. i think the slowness is great. i just miss the southern twaaaaang haha

[bright lights, big city]

So I guess now I'm going all Game of Thrones for the end of this episode. Can't be dead.

And I liked Vaughn in this one. I think he's doing alright, even if sometimes I'm picturing him as his character in Wedding Crashers when he walks around. His monologue was pretty awesome, maybe not quite on the level of Rust Cohle's best, but I dug it.

Moar Bezzerides looking up pr0n, please. And drunk mayor FTW. Kinda weird how much I laugh during this show.

[blixa]

omg i just finished episode 2. wtfffff?!? why would he go check the house out on his own? bird head guy is fucking brutal. that fucking bird is creeping the fuck out of me. i also don't think he's dead. velcoro is the only thing this show has got going on. calling an e-cig a "robot's dick" is genius.

still not buying vaughn.

[blixa]

and mcadams just reminded me that i need to masturbate tonight. cheers, my lady.

[bright lights, big city]

and mcadams just reminded me that i need to masturbate tonight. cheers, my lady.

beat you to it

[lithium]

Frank's story about how his dad would lock him up in the basement while he was out drinking was brutal

[blixa]

could it be one of those guns that isn't a gun? you know, one of those guns that have something else in them besides bullets. oh, forget it. i hate guns.

i think he might have been wearing a vest. he can't die. he's in the rest of the show. unless he's there in flashbacks. nah. not dead. can't be.

[bright lights, big city]

Gotta be a vest. And yeah, could've been those beanbag rounds they use for riots. Or rock salt rounds.

Maybe birdman shot off his dick like they specifically/horribly showed earlier in the episode, and wanted to keep him alive.

[blixa]

no. not his dick!

i don't think he's dead. i think this will have a changing affect on his character though, and if so, i would love to see that progression.

[blixa]

that wasn't loud? i thought it was loud. but i'm almost 100% they're not bullets.

[blixa]

i don't remember seeing blood but it ended so abruptly.

i can't stand vaughn there. he is ruining the whole show for me. never seen someone so fucking miscast.

[blixa]

stronger episode. killer opening. i loved it. too much screen time for vaughn. he is just shit. i cannot believe his character at all.

total kudos for the will oldham song at the end. that man is my soul.

[bright lights, big city]

That opening was outstanding. Definitely think each episode is getting better. And every scene that has the mayor in the background, drink in hand, has me laughing my ass off. I want even more of his family now.


I still disagree about Vaughn though. I think this one put me in his corner now. He convinced me, especially with the club scene. Not once did I think about Wedding Crashers.

[blixa]

why are mayors always so corrupt? haha

i'm really deep in feelings about velcoro. man has won over my heart mighty quick. i'm just not buying vaughn. i've tried. he's a major flaw in this show.