As I’ve written before, it just really feels like this was pitched as a 2 hour movie with heavy supernatural elements that HBO decided to expand and graft onto an existing franchise, with not so good results.

He’s on the X-Men 1.5 DVD commentary with Singer, who asked him personally

The season didn’t suck because of female empowerment or whatever, it sucked because the pacing was terrible, the supernatural elements were ham-fisted, the interpersonal drama varied wildly in quality, the ties to season one were goofy and unnecessary, and the whole interaction between the research station and the…

Sorry, season 4 was a poorly written and highly flawed slog. No misogyny needed. 

Well for starters, the bizarre ethics;

I suspect you may have missed that after what some felt was unjustified criticism of the first couple episodes, someone set up an entirely new subreddit, TDNightCountry, that made it a point to moderate the dogwhistling and was generally filled with positive comments about the show. It apparently became the the…

lol everybody is a moron except murry chang!

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

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

I mean, Pizzolatto has always come off as an asshole and he’s done it again here, but that aside, I’m bewildered at how anyone can think Night Country is the BEST season of True Detective. Speaking for myself, my problems with this season have everything to do with the overall stupidity of the plot, the supernatural…

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…

His IMDB bio says that he “frequently collaborated with Bryan Singer an Dan Schneider.” I’m willing to wager that doesn’t just refer to film and TV projects.

Misogyny and racism are always part of the mix, but I think we can also embrace that some people just reasonably hated the way this season was crafted. Two things can be true. But Pizzolatto just has no class. He walked away from this show. And he can’t extend a little grace to its inheritors? Dude needs thereapy. 

There was *plenty* to criticize about Season 4 that had nothing to do with gender or race.

Ugh, this crap again...

For a show that coasted so much on *vibes* Pizzolatto sure has a high f’ing opinion of his own fun but stupid writing.

Exactly. Cohle hallucinated because of the past drug use, Frank hallucinating in season 2 because he was dying and Purple in season 3 was hallucinating because he had dementia. There was no real supernatural element. It’s not like all of this wasn’t obvious, Lopez apparently missed all of that.

1). Who left Annie K’s tongue?

Stray question I have: why did the “detectives” split up when searching the tsalal station? Great way to start the end to an eyerollingly bad season. 

Did we watch the same ending!?