No doubt that it's a case study in backlash, but it is far from TV's most hated.

This isn't an anthology show, anthologies have some relation to each other.

If any show could've done it, it would've been True Detective, it was a massive success.

You're kidding, right? Utopia 2x01 is one of the best episodes of television ever made. The season may not have ended as strongly as the first, but it was intended as a middle chapter, not the last (as it was unfortunately cancelled)

I hope one day for a spiritual remake where this happens. Season 1 carried so many possibilities

The show played into that, though. It was typical cable dude-bro horseshit.

I don't think it matters how much you listen if you aren't telling a good story.

Gotham.

if anything it fell apart due to lack of ambition, as season 2 seems to have done

He reminds me of that writer character in House of Cards Season 3

having 'decent dramatic acting chops' doesn't exactly make him a Jim Carey, does it?
I didn't think much of Vaughn's comedic acting, so I'm not holding my breath for his dramatic acting

Because of the writer.
Also, lighting rarely strikes twice.

I don't think anyone takes letter grades that seriously

Then what on earth is the point of critics and/or early reviews?

True Detective is not television, in fact when Season 1 came out it was flagged as a turning point in the medium. It was remarkable that it was an enclosed story by a single movie director and a novelist writer. It was a revolutionary moment.
Now most people still may be using the word 'television', but in early 2014…

Exactly right, it wasn't an accident, but that doesn't mean what made it great can be replicated.

I'm not at all surprised by this. It was what I had surmised by various interviews and publicity. This is not Pizzolatto's medium, and was not well equipped for a second season.
Season 1 was a happy collision of everything that makes TV one of the most exciting mediums for storytelling now. Time is a flat circle, but…

for the last time, nobody who is interested in Game of Thrones has a problem with violence, it's the shit writing that's the problem

Anyone else have a love for "bad" cover art? It must be all those days spent flicking through old records, looking for the tackiest covers imaginable

whenever i see an avocado i think of pearl jam. it's an iconic piece of commercial art