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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2015 15:56:43 GMT -5
New season premiers tonight. Anyone watching? Anyone excited? How do you think it will stack up to season 1?
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Post by MacReady on Jun 21, 2015 16:03:49 GMT -5
They really caught lightning in a bottle with season 1.... I have high hopes that this season will be great, but there's no WAY it can touch the first season, or recapture that magic they had with season 1.
Either way, I can't wait!
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Post by Word™ on Jun 21, 2015 17:08:56 GMT -5
I'm very excited.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Jun 21, 2015 18:03:29 GMT -5
Vince Vaughn is the worst thing to come out of Chicago since Jim Belushi.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 0:26:34 GMT -5
I don't have HBO so can't watch this but the first season was amazing. I have it on BluRay.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 2:03:34 GMT -5
Don't really know what to make of the first episode. I loved the opening credits and I really liked Colin Farrell's performance. Hopefully it picks up some steam as the end of the episode I feel really kicks things off. I almost felt like nothing really happened in this first episode.
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Post by King Silva on Jun 22, 2015 3:51:18 GMT -5
It was solid I guess but nothing special.
I'm not going to stop watching the second season but hopefully it gets a lot better.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 22, 2015 6:01:00 GMT -5
I think I'm gonna try and wait until the season is over for this one, then binge watch the whole thing. The wait from one episode to the next was terrible with the first season and it was actually better when watched back to back all at once. Now, whether or not I can hold out for ten weeks is another story. LOL
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Post by 5th Horsewoman on Jun 22, 2015 6:25:48 GMT -5
Should have just continued with Matthew/Woody.
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Post by jakksking1 on Jun 22, 2015 8:38:27 GMT -5
It sucks because all future seasons will be judged against season 1. It was a decent start but nothing really drew you in like in the first episode of season 1. The first episode I instantly wanted to know more about Rust. I could care less why John Carter is impotent or that McAdam has s hippy father and sister who does webcams.
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Post by Himmy! on Jun 22, 2015 13:32:34 GMT -5
I echo that it was a solid episode but nothing special. Colin Farrell was the stand out for me and I'm not a fan of his. His character is intriguing.
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Jun 22, 2015 13:52:43 GMT -5
I really liked the episode. It is setting things up, just like how season one was. Making you have a lot of questions and as the season go on. Like is the girl into S and M stuff, is Collins son his, what happened to Casper, what is Vinces connection with him, what happened to the one dudes body? Lots of stuff and I look forward to finding out.
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Post by Quanthor on Jun 22, 2015 14:03:48 GMT -5
It sucks because all future seasons will be judged against season 1. It was a decent start but nothing really drew you in like in the first episode of season 1. The first episode I instantly wanted to know more about Rust. I could care less why John Carter is impotent or that McAdam has s hippy father and sister who does webcams. Yeah! character development! I'll admit some of it was trite but it was still necessary to give them something. You can't just have generic detective-A with generic detective-B chasing generic serial killer. You'd start treading down CSI territory.
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Post by Word™ on Jun 22, 2015 16:50:37 GMT -5
Maybe it was just me but I couldn't even tell Colin Farrell was doing an American accent.. I heard his Irish accent every single time he spoke. For someone to have been an actor as long as he has, he sure has a really tough time breaking away from his accent.
I'm intrigued by the season.. Colin was the stand out, McAdams was in 2nd and I was letdown by Vince Vaughn.. I'm really hoping this role gives Vaughn more opportunity to stretch his legs. I've always stood by the statement that Vince Vaughn does have acting range but just never gets a role to show it.. Season 2 of True Detective will prove me right or wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 16:52:07 GMT -5
Slow build. I liked it.
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Post by cordless2016 on Jun 22, 2015 17:26:42 GMT -5
Very disappointing episode. Besides a couple scenes with Ferrell they gave us no reason to be interested in these character. Nobody cares that McAdams has daddy issues or doesn't approve of her sisters career. Nobody cares that Taylor Kitsch can't get it up. And I can't take Vaughn in any serious role hes in.
I'll keep watching but disappointing start. Ballers was much more entertaining.
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Post by jakksking1 on Jun 22, 2015 18:38:30 GMT -5
It sucks because all future seasons will be judged against season 1. It was a decent start but nothing really drew you in like in the first episode of season 1. The first episode I instantly wanted to know more about Rust. I could care less why John Carter is impotent or that McAdam has s hippy father and sister who does webcams. Yeah! character development! I'll admit some of it was trite but it was still necessary to give them something. You can't just have generic detective-A with generic detective-B chasing generic serial killer. You'd start treading down CSI territory. I'm all for character development, but I'm not sure how Kitsch not being able to get a hard on will contribute to the overall story. I hope it leads so where interesting because that was brought up at least twice in the episode
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Jun 23, 2015 2:02:55 GMT -5
Yeah! character development! I'll admit some of it was trite but it was still necessary to give them something. You can't just have generic detective-A with generic detective-B chasing generic serial killer. You'd start treading down CSI territory. I'm all for character development, but I'm not sure how Kitsch not being able to get a hard on will contribute to the overall story. I hope it leads so where interesting because that was brought up at least twice in the episode Very disappointing episode. Besides a couple scenes with Ferrell they gave us no reason to be interested in these character. Nobody cares that McAdams has daddy issues or doesn't approve of her sisters career. Nobody cares that Taylor Kitsch can't get it up. And I can't take Vaughn in any serious role hes in. I'll keep watching but disappointing start. Ballers was much more entertaining. It seems this season is taking it down a disturbing sexual path that goes down into the underworld of pornography. Look at the missing girl, Ceaser in the world of porno, McAdams character (her sexual oddities) and her sister being a webcam girl, the C.H.I.P. character and impotence, Colins wife (and the fact Vinces character showed him a photo of a man that also look nothing like his son to control him). A lot happened the first episode, I just don't think we all see it yet, like season 1.
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Post by Quanthor on Jun 23, 2015 3:15:43 GMT -5
Yeah! character development! I'll admit some of it was trite but it was still necessary to give them something. You can't just have generic detective-A with generic detective-B chasing generic serial killer. You'd start treading down CSI territory. I'm all for character development, but I'm not sure how Kitsch not being able to get a hard on will contribute to the overall story. I hope it leads so where interesting because that was brought up at least twice in the episode It's called nuance. Would you rather them just bluntly tell the audience " he's really ing depressed"? It's little to do with his dick and more to do with his inability to connect with people in a meaningful way. That's how I saw it, especially when you couple that with the conversation he had with his chief + the more obvious suicide attempt. I think the issue, is that there's more to digest in the first episode than there was with the first season. There's more characters and it was a clear introduction to them moreso than establishing some sort of event.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jun 23, 2015 8:35:04 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the hell out of the first episode. I mean did anyone other than PB pick up on the heavy Lynchism that took place in the episode? Between the overbearing use of sexuality and the pan on the Mulholland Drive sign, I think that connection was made pretty clear. I'm actually going to attempt to watch Lost Highway before the next episode because I think there were probably some easter eggs from that I'm not even remembering. I have all kinds of questions about TK's character. What happened to him before he was in the military? I'm assuming he was a victim of sexual abuse but there is certainly more there if his demons are pushing him to suicide. How does his role land in the investigation since he's out on suspension? Are they going to essentially let him tag along? Collin Farrell was ing fantastic. I think him beating the sh*t out of that kids dad was something that all parents would like to do for their kids but don't/can't for obvious reasons. So that was a really gripping scene. I really liked how they showed us his pov with his son too. Like his son talked about the camping trip and we don't know how much time has passed. So when he shows up to give him the sleeping bag you're kind of caught off guard that the trip already happened. We know he's dirty but we also know he was driven to that place. So I'm really looking forward to seeing more of that backstory and potentially seeing how his relationship with VV evolved. I thought Vince Vaughn was great. I mean we really have no idea what his characters motivation is right now. You know he's some kind of mob boss, of sorts, and he, seemingly, wants a legit legacy, but we have no idea what he's capable of yet. He does seem to actually care about Collin Farrell's character, even though the relationship was likely created with external motives. I look for that to be almost a Wilson Fisk type of situation where we will figure out at some point just how villainous the guy can be. I thought the Rachel McAdams character felt really authentic. She's chasing something, a life, feelings, stability, but she'll never get there outside of her job. She's broken and her character development pointed directly at that final scene where the trio was standing around the body. You get to see exactly why she has the job she does and what motivates her actions. I think there is probably more than meets the eye with her father, outside of him being a hippy lunatic, but I haven't trusted David Morse since Twelve Monkeys haha. And then there is the murder. Which we know virtually nothing about, other than Caspere was a bit of a sexual... adventurer? So does that play into why he was murdered? One would assume. The murder doesn't have that southern swamp ritual murder "charm" from season one, but, then, this isn't season one. I watched the first season 8 episodes in a row, straight, as one big story. I'm trying to keep in mind that isn't happening right now. So getting one piece of the puzzle at a time is an entirely different, more patient, experience. I do think there is far more going on in Season 2 right out of the gate, as it's a much bigger spider-web, or so it seems.
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