What I am saying is I can’t even remember the crime or who ended up being guilty of it in season 2. 

Yeah I plan to give it a watch this weekend.  I honestly kinda like the idea of two different docs from different perspectives.   Like when doing research about historical info, the best thing you can do is read multiple sources and try to figure out fact from fiction.  

The problem I see there is if it was a real product, then they would, kinda have to tell the truth. Because they started marketing this festival before they even had any idea where or what it was going to be they literally just made shit up. I am surprised early viral marketing didn’t say you were going to get to…

“We’re selling a pipe dream to your average loser.”

Heh - for anyone who went, that’s got to be a low blow on top of everything else. Fyre Fest is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

I liked Season 2. I didn’t have HBO at the time, but I enjoyed the season enough to watch it weekly on Putlocker. It was perfectly serviceable. What ultimately disappointed me about it, was that I thought we were being set up for another slow and disturbing crawl through existential (potentially cosmic) horror, but in…

One thing I remember reading about the first season is it was the culmination of 10 years of work by Pizzolatto. Meanwhile, didn’t S2 come out just a year afterwards? No way was it as much a passion project as S1.

In a series where every season is supposed to be different, trying out new things is par for the course. But fuck did I love S1's gothic horror/implied cosmic death cult stuff. Even if they didn’t eventually pull the trigger on the King in Yellow, it was a fantastic ride and almostkinda genre fiction.

Same.

I didn’t love S2, but I liked it more than most. I even found the incomprehensibility of the plot somewhat appealing, eventually. It seemed that S2 meant to be just as scuzzy as S1, but without all the romantic mythos - and while I did love that mythos on first watch, it also made a lot of it too neat (I’d say all the…

I can wait to see the three documentaries about all the drama about these two documentaries.

Ugh, isn’t this why some states of Son of Sam laws? So you can’t profit from crimes you committed? Is fraud somehow exempt, or was it just in a state without them? Suuuuuuch bullshit

Good points. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man already covered a lot of those fairly well (aside from Gwen Stacy) and the fact we got the original Spider-Man origin story rehashed (poorly, I might add) with Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-Man.

All those liberties are…

Sony don’t owe Disney anything. They’ve held off pretty long as it is.

I’m surprised there’s not been much discussion about how the MCU Spider-Man takes the most liberties with its source material than any other MCU hero to date.

Personally, I think the writing has been better so far. Season one’s writing was overwrought (not just talking about Rust Chole, which was in character).  What I’m looking forward too is if Nick P. commits to post modernism like he hinted at in season one in that there is something to be said about how we conflate the…

He really is doing a good job in playing Hays as a young man and old man. He is not just letting make up doing all the work.

It’s only two episodes but this is a perfect example of how the same aesthetic, mood, and themes can be great to replicate as long as you have a good and compelling story. I don’t care if it “feels” like season 1 as long as it’s good and not a carbon copy.

Agreed, we knew what to expect from Ali, and we got it, but Dorff was surprisingly good in the partner role. The argument between the two was well acted as well as completely believable.

The entire tone may be familiar, the Southern setting similar to the first season, the lurid crime and sketchy characters beautifully cast, but damn does it not pull you in.

Ali was great, I expected that, but Dorff was sneaky good.