The NZA Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 One of the best shows this year, hands-down...had to bring the thread back. First 'True Detective' Season 2 story details leaked? To maintain the show's essence, the second season script was written by Nic Pizzolato again, who revealed that season two "is not about solving a murder mystery but a story of a detective chasing after an elusive criminal," according to Breathecast. Fans can at least rejoice as the script and other preparations for the much-awaited season are already ongoing. No idea yet if it'll tie back to the cult of season 1 ...also: ustin Lin Eyed To Direct ‘True Detective’, or at least a few eps anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 Colin Farrell confirms 'True Detective' role The Dub last night confirmed he’s been cast in HBO’s award-winning True Detective and added: “I’m doing the second series. I’m so excited.” The actor has signed up to star in the series, which has become the hottest new show on television. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Started it last night, finished it tonight. Pretty much agree with the general consensus, phenomenal show, best non Breaking Bad season of television last year. Can't wait for season 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 i mean, i know we lost the OG thread but yeah, this is totally one of those shows i'm surprised more hondonians don't love - good pacing, great character acting over dark lovecraftian tones/philosophy. no idea the extent (if at all) next season ties into the overarching plot here but i can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The fact S1 of this series didn't walk away with an arm full of Emmys and Golden Globes still baffles me. S2 has a lot to live up to. A lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) S2 starts June 21st! Edited April 10, 2015 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Calling it now: Vince Vaughn turns out to be the bad guy all along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 i hope this show stays the "prove you still have acting chops" dumping grounds, because i love that place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 anybody else hyped for next weekend sunday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) Okay, Hondo's, what did y'all make of S2E1? The new theme somg was awful. Just terrible. I wish they would've used the song from the trailers. Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams characters seem to be the most compelling for me so far. Four main characters and the "bad guy" were all introduced, so it was "busier" than S1E1, but still pretty damned good drama. I am excited to see where this all goes and how these four characters interact on this murder mystery. Edited June 27, 2015 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Meh. Seems poorly done so far. Still, I'll watch and see where it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Man, they have not been able to catch lightning in a bottle twice. I don't know about all of y'all, but 3 episodes in and it's been a snoozefest. Here's hoping it gets better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I wouldn't call it a "snoozefest" by any means, but I think ye ol' writer/creator Nick Pizzolato got a bit too full of himself after the success of S1 and maybe didn't take enough time to refine the writing like in S1. He's gone four episodes in and S2 is vacillating between good and mediocre whereas S1 vacillated between great and genius. The Taylor Kitsch character seems pretty superfluous four episodes in. And we've got so little progress on the "main mystery" but I'm hoping this connection to McAdams' character pays off as she and Ferrell's crooked cop are the two most interesting things about this show. Vaughn is playing his role well, it's just not a lot going on for him it seems. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 See, I just find everyone boring and an extreme version of what a real person would be like (except for Ferrell, he's been great and the only shinning part of this show). Dat episode four final 10 minutes was great, but not enough... yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Yeah, it was a big action piece but still lacked...something. I was more "blown away" by the end of S2E2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Yeah, yeah, of course, but... ... they turned out to be rubber bullets? Come on?! I thought we were on to something here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Ok, NOW we're getting somewhere. Fifth episode finally did some things (along with had some great things to say). Only took half the season. Here's hopin it keeps it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Season 2: had its moments. Potential galore. In the end... flat :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Season 2: had its moments. Potential galore. In the end... flat :/ Agreed. I felt like this would've been a potentially really good movie with the right director. As for the last episode, help me out here... Where have I seen that Vince Vaughn death scene before? I know Ihave seen something nearly identical before--injured man halucinating in the desert as he walks to his death and realizes he's already stopped walking. That whole thing reeked of deja vu in a not so good way. Ditto for Vaughn's goodbye to his wife. The writing really let me down most of all this season. Maybe creator/showrunner Nick P. let success go to his head or maybe he wasn't as instrumental to the success of S1 as I thought. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatella Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 HBO’s Michael Lombardo Takes The Hit For True Detective Season 2 True Detective premiered on HBO as a true original. An instant masterpiece, it starred two veteran film actors, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, who clearly enjoyed such an in-depth project. The writing was cleverly structured and broke new ground for television. It placed the satanic detective subgenre of horror into a police procedural, threw obscure literary clues around like they were yellow confetti and explored the dark mystical underworld of Louisiana outside the bayou. The first season of True Detective was written by one screenwriter, Nic Pizzolato, and every episode was directed by Cary Fukunaga. True Detective season 2 didn’t quite live up to the expectations of its premiere season. While not the failure most reviewers said it was, it abandoned the mystical for the profane, but mundane, political maneuverings of California’s wealthy elite. It had a different cast, a different setting and an entirely different trajectory. While it was still written entirely by Pizzolato, different directors handled different episodes. It was deemed a failure, unfairly, as far as we here are Den of Geek believe. HBO's President of Programming Michael Lombardo is a good fella. He’s a stand-up guy. Lombardo picks what we see on HBO and doesn’t throw people under the bus. If people think True Detective failed, which he doesn’t, then he says it’s his fault. He rushed it through, probably caught up in his own exuberance for quality programming. “When a show doesn’t work, how do you figure out what went wrong? I’m going to talk about a specific show, True Detective,” Lombardo told scpr.org in a recent interview. “The first season was extraordinary television. The second season — and you may disagree with me — but a lot of people think it was an inferior version of the first season. What are the lessons you take away?” The executive says he learned to let some people take it slow. “I’ll tell you something. Our biggest failures — and I don’t know if I would consider True Detective 2 — but when we tell somebody to hit an air date as opposed to allowing the writing to find its own natural resting place, when it’s ready, when it’s baked — we’ve failed,” Lombardo told scpr.org. “And I think in this particular case, the first season of True Detective was something that Nic Pizzolatto had been thinking about, gestating, for a long period of time. He’s a soulful writer. I think what we did was go, ‘Great.’ And I take the blame. I became too much of a network executive at that point. We had huge success. ‘Gee, I’d love to repeat that next year.’ “Well, you know what? I set him up. To deliver, in a very short time frame, something that became very challenging to deliver. That’s not what that show is. He had to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Find his muse. And so I think that’s what I learned from it. Don’t do that anymore.” I don’t know if this puts True Detective Season 3 in any jeopardy, but remember, this is the network that waited years before giving Lisa Kudrow a second season. (source) Gave up on it after one episode and now that's looking like it was a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 damn...don't see many owning something like this, certainly not as close to its airing date too. props for that, and i'm sure ill check back whenever season 3 rolls around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 True Detective Season 3 may be passed over for a new project While juggernaut Game of Thrones and the final season of Damon Lindelof's Peabody-winning drama The Leftovers shouldn't require too much of Bloys' time, other decisions, including the fate of True Detective, now fall to him. (HBO sources suggest a new project from creator Nic Pizzolatto is more likely.) damn, the fall from season 1 to 2 sounds tremendous, such a shame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Damn. I feel like S2 of True Detective wouldn't have been such a let down if S1 wasn't so damn perfect. I mean, S2 wasn't bad. It just had these super high expectations. I hope Nick P. gets another shot at episodic crime drama on HBO, whatever it may be called. They said after S2 they'd give Nick P. more time to come up with S3, so I wasn't really expecting a S3 this summer. So the really upsetting piece of that article for me was this: Meanwhile, the network was forced to delay or outright kill a collection of other high-profile projects, including two shows from David Fincher, a limited series from Steve McQueen, a Lewis & Clark mini and big-budget sci-fi drama Westworld, in which Bloys has become heavily involved trying to get it back on track. I was looking forward to Westworld on HBO. They even aired teasers for it! Also, I'd like to see what HBO would do with a L&C miniseries. You'd think the success of the Revenant would help get that one pushed through. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Yeah, sad to see Westworld might not/probably won't happen. Was looking forward to that one, too. And True Detective season 2 had ONE good episode, that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 I'd like to see what HBO would do with a L&C miniseries. You'd think the success of the Revenant would help get that one pushed through. :/ Considering that that movie has already slipped off the map mere weeks after it was consumed by the zeitgeist, I don't think it's going to blaze a lot of trails for pop culture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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