She was Adriana last. First she was Epyck.

Haha — I'm not feeling victimized, just weary of discussing things with someone who takes disagreement so personally he has to lash out with insults.

Fairly sure it was filmed there, like everything else at the time, though.

McCloud or go home, I always say.

That is Aristotleian of you.

I can't believe I'm defending a Semyon plot point but those two were portrayed as a happy couple at the beginning of the season, and Frank was about to make it big as Mr Legit. And they were already trying to have a baby at that point. So it's not like things started to fall apart and then they started trying.

They are already in an uncomfortable alliance with Semyon. He's the only person who has a compelling reason to find the real killer — he needs his money back.

If you praise True Detective someone might take issue with what you say about the show and engage in a debate with you. If you criticize True Detective there's a good chance someone will attack you and all your opinions on every subject and say that your children are ugly.

I would answer you, using the scene with Ani's female supervisor as an example of dialogue that is successfully tied to a character, but you've called me "ridiculous" so I won't bother.

Any philosophy spoken in a drama without dramatic context amounts to dorm-room philosophizing. There isn't deep philosophy and shallow philosophy; the depth comes from how the philosophy is applied.

Red Riding had some good things in it but it wasn't this seamlessly great thing. I thought the second installment was the tightest part. Thought the last one was a mess.

Ok but if this was all essentially backstory for the next four episodes it's a pity so much of it consisted of backstory for the backstory.

Yeah, agreed.

They were being set up by the mayor, but there should have been some awareness on their parts that this was a screwed up approach. And there wasn't.

When Ani's captain had that back-and-forth with her about her fling with a subordinate, what was established about his character in that dialogue? What needed to be established? How is Ani's boss important to the story at this point? My opinion is that he is not important enough for his opinions to matter. So instead…

I thought the freeze frame was just to say "This is the past now."

So this is the same damn plot as Season 1. Just with more characters and a different setting.

I'm assuming it based on the previews and the freeze frame. Ha! I've just realized I misinterpreted your original question. Sorry!

I will hazard a guess that the reasoning is that Pizzolatto can only tell one story. He can draw from dozens of sources and rehash many inspirations but can only draw the one narrative line through them all.

But I didn't see much conviction from any of them that this WAS their man.