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…

I would say that in TV or movies, yes indeed all questions be must provided satisfactory answers. They don’t need to be complete answers, or prove only one answer while disproving all others, or be the answers the audience wants, but the show must provide satisfactory reasoning(s) that function within the logic of the…

S1 of True Detective is one of the most over praised show’s ever created. What made the show memorable had nothing to do with Pizzolatto’s amateurish film school writing but was more so because of Woody Harrelson/Matt McConaughey chemistry, Cary Fukunaga’s directing & Alexandra Daddario’s physique.

A one-hit-wonder desperately craving for attention?

Pizzolatto is a pretty arrogant guy who thinks he’s a genius - not uncommon in Hollywood - who uncommonly doesn’t try to filter this at all, which I suspect is one contributing factor why most critics were really rooting for Lopez to succeed since they grew tired of his act a long, long time ago. Being a jerk over…

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

Seasons 2 and 3 are so universally reviled, and so utterly dissimilar to Season 1, that it’s fair to say that Pizzolatto probably never really fully understood his own lightning. There was a lot of stuff I didn’t like about Season 4 (especially as an Alaskan, questioning why the show felt the need to cast a non-AK…

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,…

THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT! Now, can you say it louder for the trolls in the back?

NOTHING will ever make me appreciate Chuck Lorre. He's a hack.

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.

It was better for the industry when they tried to maintain some mystique and keep some things behind the curtain. Being this petulant - esp when you’re making money off it anyway - just looks immature.

Thank you. I don't know what others in these comments were watching. This whole season was a hot mess. I hate sticking with a show hoping it gets better, only to watch it totally crash and burn in the spectacular fashion I suspected it might.

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…

I’ve seen season 1 and I’ve seen season 4.  There was some parts of season 1 I liked better than four, and there was some parts on season 4 that I like better than one. But I enjoyed both. Why do we have to pick sides?

Holy crap, no wonder my friends are telling me to watch seasons 1 and 4 but skip 2 and 3...

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…

I think a lot of people tuned in to the finale hoping for an answer about what the hell was going on, only to be left with about 90% of their questions unanswered.

The people I know who are watching S4 don’t even know the creative team changed, they just know it got good again after 2 seasons they didn’t like. I tell them it’s a new creative team and they’re super surprised.