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True Detective Season 2

Fishy said:
He comes back as a white walker in episode three.
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Feel like I'm the only one who never watched Game of Thrones, gave it a try but couldn't get into it. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.
 
superjohn said:
Feel like I'm the only one who never watched Game of Thrones, gave it a try but couldn't get into it. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.
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Not sure what Dungeons and Dragons is, but Game of Thrones is quite good.

With all these shows, the trick is looking past the gimmick - swords and dragons here, zombies, crystal meth, whatever - and figuring if you like what's left.

But nothing's for everyone. (E.g. I've watched about ten minutes of the Sopranos and will never watch an 11th.)
 
Sorry, but Vince Vaughn is garbage. Kudos on turning McConaughey into a dramatic actor but Vaughn is a catastrophic miss and threatens to make the whole season unwatchable.
 
SAMCRO said:
He's alive. There was no blood, I'm guessing it was not bullets, but instead some type of sand blast to stun him, or he had a vest on.
Good episode tho.
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Yeah, I watched that scene again last night. No blood. It might have been a low velocity rubber slug or a shell filled with rock salt.

In the preview the Lieutenant knows that his guy was shot there, and I am thinking that if he died he probably wouldn't have been found. Or at least his body would have been relocated.
 
i suppose ferrell could be dead, there was a ton of foreshadowing after his ex confronted him. however he is probably the strongest actor of the bunch so i see no reason why they would ax him.
 
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Fishy said:
He comes back as a white walker in episode three.
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Damn. Was hoping for the second coming of Azor Azhai. Farrell brandishing a flaming sword would really have sparked my interest in this season.
 
superjohn said:
Feel like I'm the only one who never watched Game of Thrones, gave it a try but couldn't get into it. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.
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You're not the only one.
 
superjohn said:
Feel like I'm the only one who never watched Game of Thrones, gave it a try but couldn't get into it. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.
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I didn't think I'd like it either sj as I hate shows that are similar with dragons and . But the battle for the throne and the wars within are worth giving it more time I promise.
 
Did anyone pick up on what happened with Tim Riggins and his army buddy in that scene. I was really confused, it almost seemed like he hinted they had some kind of love affair?
 
NorwalkHusky said:
Did anyone pick up on what happened with Tim Riggins and his army buddy in that scene. I was really confused, it almost seemed like he hinted they had some kind of love affair?
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No doubt they had a fling in the army by the looks of things. He's hooked up with Rachel in real life now huh? She gets around the sets she's in. LOL
 
Season 2 isn't as good as Season 1 thus far, but I chalk that up to what I call the Ferrell-Alba Corollary. Colin Ferrell and Jessica Alba are very attractive A-List stars, but anything they are in is automatically 20% worse than is would have been had someone else played the role.

Still, the show I good and I think Vaughn has been solid. I liked last night's episode and it seems to improve each week.
 
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MilliniumPrince said:
Season 2 isn't as good as Season 1 thus far, but I chalk that up to what I call the Ferrell-Alba Corollary. Colin Ferrell and Jessica Alba are very attractive A-List stars, but anything they are in is automatically 20% worse than is would have been had someone else played the role.

Still, the show I good and I think Vaughn has been solid. I liked last night's episode and it seems to improve each week.
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Agreed on the season 1 v 2 comparison. At this point I was definitely more in to season 1, but still like this season (haven't watched last nights episode yet though). In terms of performances, I actually see it almost the exact opposite. Vaughn wears me out. It's the same shtick he always plays, minus the punch line or awkward laugh at the end of his lines. I think Farrell and McAdams have been solid, and to a lesser degree Kitsch too.
 
SAMCRO said:
Agreed on the season 1 v 2 comparison. At this point I was definitely more in to season 1, but still like this season (haven't watched last nights episode yet though). In terms of performances, I actually see it almost the exact opposite. Vaughn wears me out. It's the same shtick he always plays, minus the punch line or awkward laugh at the end of his lines. I think Farrell and McAdams have been solid, and to a lesser degree Kitsch too.
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Man, I think Kitsch has absolutely sucked. He's too wooden most of the time, and the rest of the time he comes off as fake.
 
Through Episode 3. This show is growing on me. I like the dual investigation of Vaughn and McAdams both trying to find the killer separately for different reasons. I think Farrell is excellent spiraling out of control, and Vaughn and McAdams are doing good work too. Even the secondary characters are good. I like Vaughn's wife a lot. I can't figure out what the Russian guy's deal is, but I like him too. David Morse (who must come back at some point), the mayor, the clubowner that Vaughn funked up, all good. Overall, the backstory is more interesting and credible than the cult in season 1.

Kitsch is in over his head with this cast. He should stick to acting with CGI creatures. I couldn't figure out what he was trying to communicate in the club.
 
Vince Vaughn makes Taylor Kitsch look like Anthony Hopkins.
 
I don't think the script is at all fair to Vaughn's acting abilities, Daniel Day-Lewis would have trouble making some of that corny dialogue seem believable. Asking any actor to try and look tough in front of a gangster by whispering in his ear, "I've never had a cavity in my whole life" is just laughable.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Through Episode 3. This show is growing on me. I like the dual investigation of Vaughn and McAdams both trying to find the killer separately for different reasons. I think Farrell is excellent spiraling out of control, and Vaughn and McAdams are doing good work too. Even the secondary characters are good. I like Vaughn's wife a lot. I can't figure out what the Russian guy's deal is, but I like him too. David Morse (who must come back at some point), the mayor, the clubowner that Vaughn funked up, all good. Overall, the backstory is more interesting and credible than the cult in season 1.

Kitsch is in over his head with this cast. He should stick to acting with CGI creatures. I couldn't figure out what he was trying to communicate in the club.
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Season 1 was a masterpiece, this season looks like something Fox would produce.
 
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I had no idea the Taylor Kitsch character is gay. In thinking about it, that miss is probably on me and not the show.
 
Didn't know he was gay??? That is about the only thing that isn't confusing about this season, the hints were not exactly subtle.
 
superjohn said:
I don't think the script is at all fair to Vaughn's acting abilities, Daniel Day-Lewis would have trouble making some of that corny dialogue seem believable. Asking any actor to try and look tough in front of a gangster by whispering in his ear, "I've never had a cavity in my whole life" is just laughable.
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They use a lot of big words that people like Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn's characters wouldn't use. Such as "apoplectic". There have been a few other instances. The diaglogue seems pretty stilted at times.
 
Apoplectic isn't even a medium-big word.

How do you get past the first episode without realize Kitsch's character was gay? I don't even remember his name, but I knew that.
 
Fishy said:
Apoplectic isn't even a medium-big word.

How do you get past the first episode without realize Kitsch's character was gay? I don't even remember his name, but I knew that.
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had to pop a bean to get aroused by his smoking hot girl. actually continued to feign it post poppin the pill so yeah, it was obvious.
 
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James said:
had to pop a bean to get aroused by his smoking hot girl. actually continued to feign it post poppin the pill so yeah, it was obvious.
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And last night his Momma used that fact as blackmail over spending his Military discharge war chest.
 
Still a lot of loose ends after last night's episode with only 3 episodes remaining to tie them up.
 
Fishy said:
Apoplectic isn't even a medium-big word.

How do you get past the first episode without realize Kitsch's character was gay? I don't even remember his name, but I knew that.
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How many gangsters and crooked cops use a word like that in passing? They had another one last night. It's like scripwriter had a word of the day calendar on his desk.
 
coachcap said:
Still a lot of loose ends after last night's episode with only 3 episodes remaining to tie them up.
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Well, yeah, that's how mystery TV shows tend to work

Last night's episode was basically only like an episode 7 or 8 of, say, a season of Dexter
 
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superjohn said:
I don't think the script is at all fair to Vaughn's acting abilities, Daniel Day-Lewis would have trouble making some of that corny dialogue seem believable. Asking any actor to try and look tough in front of a gangster by whispering in his ear, "I've never had a cavity in my whole life" is just laughable.
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eh.... this show really hasnt grabbed me, I strictly watch for Vince Vaughn dialogue. It is frickin' hilarious. We make up our own Vince lines now.

For example tell me which of the following was NOT in the show:

If you give a mouse a cookie Ray, you know what he's gonna want? The same thing we all want....Money.

I'm busting my ass every day trying to dig us out of this hole and you have the nerve to call me dirty? Honey, look around you. This town has enough filth to give Mr. Clean an superjohn the size of a skyscraper.

im so deep in the jungle i cant even see the ocean, and youre asking me for water. if youre so thirsty you better damn well learn how to make it rain.

"Except you're forgetting that it's a dog-eat-dog world out here Stan...and right now you're wearing Milk Bone underwear, my friend"

You know what you are Ray? You're the last rat on a sinking ship trying to find every piece of cheese. The rest of the dying world is trying to find something solid to hold onto and here you are, water up to your tits with a mouthful of Limburger.
 
I am fine with most of the dialogue, including Vaughn's. If you wrote down some of McConaghy's lines from last season and just looked at them rather than hear him say them, you would ask yourself "WTF was he talking about?"

I am less fine with the stares. That doesn't work in Twilight, and it certainly doesn't work in a show designed for adults.

Kitsch is entering the category of "cool character ruined by awful acting" (see Paula Malcomson on Ray Donovan for another example). He is playing the gay angle in such a self-loathing way as to be borderline offensive to gays. The scene with the mom should have been much more powerful. He started off OK, but he has spiraled.

My biggest fear is that the previews make it seem like the show is about to jump the shark in a major way with this party.

Farrell is doing very good work, and deserves an Emmy nomination for this.
 
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