Nah, bud, you’re the one bringing the expectation to the table that the examples from Season 4 were supposed to be read as empowering, rather than chilling, or confusing, or the least bad of a shit ton of shitty options or whatever. You’re filling in the blanks with your own biases and putting that on the show’s...…

BL2's opening song is Short Change Hero by The Heavy. 

See, that actually makes me look forward to the rest of the season. I thought all the other seasons “blue balled” me with some Scooby-Doo-ass explanation that undercut the aforementioned “vibes”.

Different strokes, I guess?

Nic screwed himself with Season2.  Never get high on your own supply!  He’s lucky there was an s4 full stop.  

This is the creative genius who keeps penning 'Magnificent Seven' remakes, right? 

Eh... Pizzolatto is a blowhard and a one-trick pony, but the writing in S1 is significantly better than S2 and 3, mostly because he had a significantly longer time to work on it and iron out all the kinks. The pacing and structure work much better than in later seasons and that’s all in the script.

Instead of forming an opinion based on two photos, I think I'll WAIT 24 HOURS and base my opinion on the trailer

Thanks for saying this so I didn’t have to.

IMO, Season 1 of True Detective is both incredible and overpraised. Pizzolato’s writing of female characters is sketchy as hell; the dialogue and angst go overboard at times (fully so in Season 2). If you’ve spent any time around creative writing students (which Pizzolato was) you’d recognize Rust Cohle as a Mary Sue…

Does this guy’s “classic dialogue” include the lines he ripped off from Alan Moore? (Specifically his brilliant Top Ten comic).

a few minutes on the subreddit will confirm a LOT of it is misogyny and racism.  Whooole lot of piss babies bitching about DEI.

Also, “It’s like having blue balls... in your heart.”

Love that you started this conversation. Part of the appeal for me of Season 1 was that the *detective* story itself was kinda weak; the bigger message was a meta-commentary on detective stories (and so much else). Hell, even the title was part of that meta-commentary. Looking back on it, with NP’s reactions here,…

Yeah, I get the sense the author’s view has more to do with his preexisting beliefs about the movie, more than anything he actually gathered from the photos.  The movie was extensively reshot, has been in development forever, and is based on a game series that is past its prime, so there are lots of reasons to expect…

Half of True Detective’s appeal was the idea that there was always something deeper and weirder to the mythos.

The way Colin Farrell delivers that line with psychotic earnest while chewing the scenery actually works though.

He’s such a little bitch. He pitched a season 4 idea to HBO and they didn’t want it. He created a shitty season 2 and a mediocre season 3. He hadn’t proved himself to create a show that’s consistent enough quality each season. HBO likely didn’t trust that he could deliver.

This man is celebrated for 1 season of television; he wasn’t a better writer in season 1 than he was for seasons 2 or 3. The difference was 1) 2 strong performers who really gelled with the material and each other and 2) a fantastic blend of direction, cinematography and production design that was not repeated in…

In Season 2, Pizzolatto literally wrote the line, “I will come back here and butt f*ck your dad with your mom’s headless corpse.”

In Season 2, Pizzolatto literally wrote the line, “I will come back here and butt f*ck your dad with your mom’s headless corpse.” I think whatever mantle he held regarding quality or “classic dialogue” ended right there. Also, so much of what made season 1 what it was the acting and direction. Many of the ideas were…