New Season of True Detective on HBO

[Anonymous]

Anyone start this yet? Jodie Foster is fantastic. The first episode took care of a lot of exposition, but I'm confused about the familial relationship between the three police officers.

[Anonymous]

I havent yet! Im going to wait until a few more episodes are out and then do a mini binge.

[Anonymous]

I liked it. Especially Jodie Foster. She was also excellent in Nyad.

[Anonymous]

It had to watch it twice (second time with cc because the first time I couldn’t understand anything anyone said, and neither could DH, was so frustrating).

Jodie Foster is the chief. John Hawks is Frank Prior who is a deputy. Finn Bennett is Peter Prior who works underneath both of them and he’s Frank’s adult son. They’re all with the local police department.

Kali Reis is Evangeline Navarro and she’s a state trooper. She USED to be in the local police department and was working with Frank on the murder case of the native woman Anna. The case went unsolved and closed or shelved or however you want to call it. Then sometime later Jodie Foster arrived and was made the chief of police and Navarro asked the new chief (Jodie) to reopen Anna’s case and Jodie said no (not clear why, also not clear why Frank had Anna’s files at his house and lied about them). This refusal started a riff between Navarro and Jodie Foster eventually leading to Jodie asking for Navarro to be transferred to the state troopers.

[Anonymous]

It's a good starter episode and we will keep watching. It doesn't have the immediate creepiness and eerie vibe that the first season of the show had that was so intense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It had to watch it twice (second time with cc because the first time I couldn’t understand anything anyone said, and neither could DH, was so frustrating).

Jodie Foster is the chief. John Hawks is Frank Prior who is a deputy. Finn Bennett is Peter Prior who works underneath both of them and he’s Frank’s adult son. They’re all with the local police department.

Kali Reis is Evangeline Navarro and she’s a state trooper. She USED to be in the local police department and was working with Frank on the murder case of the native woman Anna. The case went unsolved and closed or shelved or however you want to call it. Then sometime later Jodie Foster arrived and was made the chief of police and Navarro asked the new chief (Jodie) to reopen Anna’s case and Jodie said no (not clear why, also not clear why Frank had Anna’s files at his house and lied about them). This refusal started a riff between Navarro and Jodie Foster eventually leading to Jodie asking for Navarro to be transferred to the state troopers.

Np here-thank you for posting this! And are we thinking Jodie foster and Frank Prior were married or in a relationship before and have since had an acrimonious split? Because that’s what I came away with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had to watch it twice (second time with cc because the first time I couldn’t understand anything anyone said, and neither could DH, was so frustrating).

Jodie Foster is the chief. John Hawks is Frank Prior who is a deputy. Finn Bennett is Peter Prior who works underneath both of them and he’s Frank’s adult son. They’re all with the local police department.

Kali Reis is Evangeline Navarro and she’s a state trooper. She USED to be in the local police department and was working with Frank on the murder case of the native woman Anna. The case went unsolved and closed or shelved or however you want to call it. Then sometime later Jodie Foster arrived and was made the chief of police and Navarro asked the new chief (Jodie) to reopen Anna’s case and Jodie said no (not clear why, also not clear why Frank had Anna’s files at his house and lied about them). This refusal started a riff between Navarro and Jodie Foster eventually leading to Jodie asking for Navarro to be transferred to the state troopers.

Np here-thank you for posting this! And are we thinking Jodie foster and Frank Prior were married or in a relationship before and have since had an acrimonious split? Because that’s what I came away with.

Same here. Then I think Jodie Foster remarried and her new husband died in an accident, leaving her with the stepdaughter who was making videos.

I also love the Killing Eve actors in it - the husband and Fiona Shaw. Tbh, I have loved Fiona Shaw since Three Men and a Little Lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had to watch it twice (second time with cc because the first time I couldn’t understand anything anyone said, and neither could DH, was so frustrating).

Jodie Foster is the chief. John Hawks is Frank Prior who is a deputy. Finn Bennett is Peter Prior who works underneath both of them and he’s Frank’s adult son. They’re all with the local police department.

Kali Reis is Evangeline Navarro and she’s a state trooper. She USED to be in the local police department and was working with Frank on the murder case of the native woman Anna. The case went unsolved and closed or shelved or however you want to call it. Then sometime later Jodie Foster arrived and was made the chief of police and Navarro asked the new chief (Jodie) to reopen Anna’s case and Jodie said no (not clear why, also not clear why Frank had Anna’s files at his house and lied about them). This refusal started a riff between Navarro and Jodie Foster eventually leading to Jodie asking for Navarro to be transferred to the state troopers.

Np here-thank you for posting this! And are we thinking Jodie foster and Frank Prior were married or in a relationship before and have since had an acrimonious split? Because that’s what I came away with.

If Jodie and Frank had been married, I would have thought the son who is also a police detective would have been her son. Instead he calls her chief and they don't seem to have any kind of parent/child relationship.

But there is some sort of accident and other young child named Holden that I am sure they will discuss later. The girl who lives with Jodie (I assume it's a stepdaughter or niece) mentioned why they don't talk about "that night" or "what happened; Jodie has 2 flashbacks, 1) when she's approaching the drunk driver's crash car and 2) when she's in bed a child's hand reaches over to shake her and whispers "she's awake" [same thing the scientist said at the beginning], Jodie wakes up and says "Holden?" and then picks up the polar bear stuffed animal on the floor. I wonder if the girls father and this kid Holden died in a drunk driver accident or some other kind of accident (speculating).

[Anonymous]

So good! So creepy!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had to watch it twice (second time with cc because the first time I couldn’t understand anything anyone said, and neither could DH, was so frustrating).

Jodie Foster is the chief. John Hawks is Frank Prior who is a deputy. Finn Bennett is Peter Prior who works underneath both of them and he’s Frank’s adult son. They’re all with the local police department.

Kali Reis is Evangeline Navarro and she’s a state trooper. She USED to be in the local police department and was working with Frank on the murder case of the native woman Anna. The case went unsolved and closed or shelved or however you want to call it. Then sometime later Jodie Foster arrived and was made the chief of police and Navarro asked the new chief (Jodie) to reopen Anna’s case and Jodie said no (not clear why, also not clear why Frank had Anna’s files at his house and lied about them). This refusal started a riff between Navarro and Jodie Foster eventually leading to Jodie asking for Navarro to be transferred to the state troopers.

Np here-thank you for posting this! And are we thinking Jodie foster and Frank Prior were married or in a relationship before and have since had an acrimonious split? Because that’s what I came away with.

If Jodie and Frank had been married, I would have thought the son who is also a police detective would have been her son. Instead he calls her chief and they don't seem to have any kind of parent/child relationship.

But there is some sort of accident and other young child named Holden that I am sure they will discuss later. The girl who lives with Jodie (I assume it's a stepdaughter or niece) mentioned why they don't talk about "that night" or "what happened; Jodie has 2 flashbacks, 1) when she's approaching the drunk driver's crash car and 2) when she's in bed a child's hand reaches over to shake her and whispers "she's awake" [same thing the scientist said at the beginning], Jodie wakes up and says "Holden?" and then picks up the polar bear stuffed animal on the floor. I wonder if the girls father and this kid Holden died in a drunk driver accident or some other kind of accident (speculating).

I think he was her stepson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a good starter episode and we will keep watching. It doesn't have the immediate creepiness and eerie vibe that the first season of the show had that was so intense.

We found it immediately creepy and eerie! The very first three scenes are creepy with strong supernatural overtones. It goes on to have creepy/eerie events.

Alas, due to the graphic sex scene, we won’t be watching with our 17 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a good starter episode and we will keep watching. It doesn't have the immediate creepiness and eerie vibe that the first season of the show had that was so intense.

We found it immediately creepy and eerie! The very first three scenes are creepy with strong supernatural overtones. It goes on to have creepy/eerie events.

Alas, due to the graphic sex scene, we won’t be watching with our 17 year olds.

It’s the supernatural overtones that caught me off guard. It’s not that they are bad, but I wasn’t expecting that from True Detective. What I liked about the show was that it didn’t go supernatural or surrealistic. It was very much grounded in reality, even when the detective had dementia. I loved Nic Pizzolato and his vision. seeing his shoe felt like talking to a soulmate.

I didn’t know beforehand that he wasn’t working on this season. I noticed immediately that it didn’t feel like him and was very disappointed, but not surprised to see there was a different show runner. She’s also good, very but it wasn’t what I wanted from True Detective. I wish they’d just given the show a different name, kinda like Mare of Eastown. I’ll still be watching, but I was sad to get hyped up for Nic and end up with something completely different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a good starter episode and we will keep watching. It doesn't have the immediate creepiness and eerie vibe that the first season of the show had that was so intense.

We found it immediately creepy and eerie! The very first three scenes are creepy with strong supernatural overtones. It goes on to have creepy/eerie events.

Alas, due to the graphic sex scene, we won’t be watching with our 17 year olds.

Just fast forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a good starter episode and we will keep watching. It doesn't have the immediate creepiness and eerie vibe that the first season of the show had that was so intense.

We found it immediately creepy and eerie! The very first three scenes are creepy with strong supernatural overtones. It goes on to have creepy/eerie events.

Alas, due to the graphic sex scene, we won’t be watching with our 17 year olds.

That scene wasn’t graphic, there was no nudity. I wouldn’t want to watch that with my teen either, I would just fast forward it. But calling it graphic no. The scene where the state trooper is describing what she saw when she served in the military and the other woman had half her head blown off, that was graphic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a good starter episode and we will keep watching. It doesn't have the immediate creepiness and eerie vibe that the first season of the show had that was so intense.

We found it immediately creepy and eerie! The very first three scenes are creepy with strong supernatural overtones. It goes on to have creepy/eerie events.

Alas, due to the graphic sex scene, we won’t be watching with our 17 year olds.

It’s the supernatural overtones that caught me off guard. It’s not that they are bad, but I wasn’t expecting that from True Detective. What I liked about the show was that it didn’t go supernatural or surrealistic. It was very much grounded in reality, even when the detective had dementia. I loved Nic Pizzolato and his vision. seeing his shoe felt like talking to a soulmate.

I didn’t know beforehand that he wasn’t working on this season. I noticed immediately that it didn’t feel like him and was very disappointed, but not surprised to see there was a different show runner. She’s also good, very but it wasn’t what I wanted from True Detective. I wish they’d just given the show a different name, kinda like Mare of Eastown. I’ll still be watching, but I was sad to get hyped up for Nic and end up with something completely different.

I read that this season is based on two separate crime stories, one that remains unsolved. I also read that this season will someone tie into season 1. I already saw what I thought was a familiar tattoo on the crime scene photos of the murdered native woman that reminded me of season 1 (black markings going in a circle).