I am always fascinated by people who seem angry when people choose a vegetarian option.

You sound like a fucking asshole.

Nah. The best part is you’ve just made yourself sound like a right pellet.

I agree that the reviews mystify me as well. I did enjoy the paragraph for inveterate puzzlers as it’s helpful to keep track of the tidbits. But I am completely captivated by Roland & Purcell.

I share your confusion about this review, and for what it’s worth: This was the episode that finally sold me on this season. If I had to pick one scene that did it, it was the two detectives reuniting as old men.

Yeah, i just look at the titles and then don’t read them. I’m not really interested in reading week to week coverage from somebody who is not enjoying the show. 

In some ways, I like this season better than season 1 in the sense that I don’t think the ending will be as disappointing. Season 1 built to an elaborate conspiracy that it couldn’t pay off. This is convoluted right now, but I can see an ending that is more satisfying when we get to it.

I’d give season one an A and this season more B+/A- thus far, but subjective grades aside, season one is a masterpiece for all the things you say and it’s one of my favorite seasons of TV ever, and it would take something spectacular to reach that height.

They should win an Emmy for that scene alone. Ali is fantastic. And Dorff...I didn’t think much about him before, but, damn, he’s good too. They’re both haunted by the case and the things they’ve done and they’ve both dealt in different ways. This season is on the same high calibre level as the first season. I can’t…

I was nearly in tears during that scene at the end of the episode with the old men. Absolutely Emmy-worthy performances.

They’ve built up his memory issues so much that I’m fully expecting a reveal that he is an unreliable narrator, I just really hope that it doesn’t end up being something completely out of left field and that they’ve been leaving enough breadcrumbs that it feels satisfying to finally find out what really happened.

I thought the Woodward scene was really effective, it was played from the POV of Hays, he’s been in war and seen some shit, but the clinical way the massacre was shot built up to the thing that really fucked him up, having to kill a man that he empathized with and believed to be innocent of the Purcell murder face to…

No kidding on Dorff. As I watch him in this, I just find myself wondering ‘where the hell has he been all these years?’. I expected Ali to be fantastic, but Dorff has been a revelation.

The two old men crying in the porch is one of the most powerful scenes of this year, and the attack was great in its efficient brutality, without showing off.

“Nobody was compelled to look too hard” could be a policing motto in this nation, as well as an explanation of how quiet, systemic racism flourishes under our eyes.”

Another entirely out of left field comment meant to tie a television show into TODAY’S HOT BUTTON ISSUES or whatever. It seriously is starting to seem…

Same here. Assuming they can stick the landing, this will probably be my favorite season of the show. These reviewers need to let go of their agendas and just do their job. 

I am really trying to understand what you are even trying to say with this review @emily. True Detective is playing with puzzles instead of exploring mysteries. This I assume is what you’re attempting to make the case for with this review.

I was thinking it was after she read the note, and repeated it because it was in her head. Julie Purcell seemed like she felt guilty for not being a great mom. She snapped at Amelia. In the book that part seems to be left out. There is the question of is anyone a reliable narrator in this show. We know Wayne doesn’t…

These reviews are a joke. About the procedural elements, Sharp Objects and Homecoming did the same hiding information, but I suppose the reviewer has many moral prejudices about the author (he hates women!). The two old men crying in the porch is one of the most powerful scenes of this year, and the attack was great…

Here’s my stupid suggestion: Old Wayne being back in the documentary interview after they quashed it a few episodes back indicates that not only are we moving freely between the three discrete timelines, we’re moving *within* them as well, jumping back and forth.