Yeah, someone already corrected me. I got the lyrics confused from the BL2 song. To be fair, they are very similar songs. Which makes sense, they are similar game openings.

Now that’s more like it! Five seconds of online research for a definition that I doubt you were aware of before the moment it popped up on your browser. How hard was that?

Personal codes of ethics are not the basis for valid artistic criticisms.

L your FAO all you want, YOU were the one who claimed to have a counterpoint. And then wrote a bullet point list of finger-wags.

Ah, you’re right! I got confused with the “ain’t no” lyrics in Short Change Hero.

When you aim for the middle...

S2 is like he was taking a beginner class on Mamet dialogue.

No sorry necessary! I don’t believe in spoilers.

Everything Vaughn says in that season is insane nonsense but it’s so, so funny.

I LOVE S2 from the POV of someone who enjoyed S1 but felt like people overlooked how pretentious and goofy S1 was. S2 is Pizzolatto feeling himself and it made me laugh soooo hard.

But you specifically mention gender and race in your “counter” examples. You just couch them in terms of “ethics”. What kind of counterpoint is that? Especially when your claim is that there was “plenty” wrong with the season and then offer only a fucking morality clause argument? Get in the analytical game, bro. Have…

When I watched S2 I did a little background “research” on his other work and... yeah, I think there’s a pretty good chance that all the fun stuff in Season 1 was *in spite of* Pizzolatto. I think he’s a very self-serious Writer who does not understand how funny his bullshit is.

Unlike some whiny crybabies I’m not going to “spoilers!” you. Because it will either work or won’t. That said, I’ve waited until the season was over to watch.

IT’S A MAGICAL DAY!

I *believe* that’s the opening theme to BL2, not BL1.

Is that not Lilith in a pretty standard Hyperion color scheme jacket? You say “generic” but it feels pretty on brand to me.

There wasn’t much roping. She is a fan, I believe through one of her kids?

The fact that Lopez has taken any of that hilariously baroque season one dialogue and repurposed it should DELIGHT Pizzolatto.

“all story”

But... you were being sardonic, right? A “real movie buff” wouldn’t waste their breath on a discussion of Nolan’s filmography. Unless said breath was used to laugh uproariously at comparisons to Kubrick.