I was intrigued at the beginning and think the performances are good but it’s turned into Lost on Ice at this point.

This show is half-thawed garbage.

Really weird how bad the show apparently expects us to feel for Hank, after all we’ve seen of him so far is being an abusive father and probable racist.

I want to like it but the writing on this show is really awful. The build up and intended payoff is incoherent. The tone is very muddled. What are they going for exactly? Thriller? Family drama? Polemic screed? The whole show is aesthetic and Jodie Foster busting her ass to try and make it all work.

Not enough brutality in your version to really drive home the themes and lessons. You need to up that to Druckman levels—still too much softness in your version.
Lev wouldn’t go instead. Abby would go and Ellie would kill her leading to Lev going after Ellie and the two ending up as reluctant survival partners who…

“What kind of human garbage”

You don’t understand, she killed their Post apocalyptic self insert! Joel was everything they always thought they would be in a zombie apocalypse! You can’t just injure their main character syndrome like that!

Isn’t that literally just the new mode in the Ps5 port?

yeah, what she told him was not at all what we actually saw. I assume she doesn’t want him to know how the guy actually died (guessing either she or Eve shot him)

Only my opinion, but this entire episode seems like a step backwards for the show. The pacing was glacial and too much backstory.

I find it very refreshing that she looks like she hasn’t had injections, fillers and/or plastic surgery and she looks her age.

I had high hopes for this show, and no, it’s not bad, but it’s not really... good, either. It’s serviceable. I started watching the episode last night thinking, how many more episodes before it’s over. As much as I wanted something that would tie into season 1, I kinda regret that now, seeing the direction they took…

Woof, halfway through.  The end can’t come any quicker.

“How has it taken this long for an HBO series to figure out how to light night scenes without making us question our eyesight?”

GOT s8 called. I didn’t answer. If it’s important they will leave a message... or send a raven.

That’s because this wasn't even intended to be True Detective, let alone a direct sequel. It was a completely separate show that HBO decided to shove under the True Detective umbrella, at which point they then added in the callbacks to season 1.

My theory is that most of the supernatural happenings will prove to be caused by the microorganisms that were being studied by the Tsalal group breaking free of their frozen prisons and somehow infecting everyone’s brains.

Weakest of the episodes so far.

I think I would’ve liked this season better without any of the references to S1. I assume we’re going to get a timejump at some point in the next episode, so conceivably much of what we are learning now is set-dressing for later drama. That said it does seem like it needs to pick up a bit.  

Halfway through and feeling like we know very little so far is a little troubling. I guess it was around 2/3's of the first that they figured out the suspects and had ‘the shootout’ (I.e. murdered the 1 man in cold blood when they saw what he’d been doing and let the other explode on his own i.e.d.) so maybe the pace…

Why is Peter’s wife surprised that her cop husband has to work long hours on a mass-homicide case that they’re under a deadline to solve?