New Season of True Detective on HBO

[Anonymous]

Danvers looks tired. Her character is unhappy. Not a ding on aging. She purposefully looks haggard.

[Anonymous]

It’s a breath of fresh air to see women on screen who look natural. I am enjoying this show for a lot of reasons including JF’s run down detective. I would look tired as he11 too trying to solve that grizzly mystery plus just living in that town.
I wouldn’t watch the show if an actress with a frozen forehead or noticeable fillers has been cast. To me it’s distracting.
I’m also ok with the realistic sex we see both female leads having. and I think Qqavik - Eve’s hookup - is attractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a breath of fresh air to see women on screen who look natural. I am enjoying this show for a lot of reasons including JF’s run down detective. I would look tired as he11 too trying to solve that grizzly mystery plus just living in that town.
I wouldn’t watch the show if an actress with a frozen forehead or noticeable fillers has been cast. To me it’s distracting.
I’m also ok with the realistic sex we see both female leads having. and I think Qqavik - Eve’s hookup - is attractive.

Qqavik is definitely my type. He also seems like a decent human (so far).

[Anonymous]

Latest episode SUCKED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Latest episode SUCKED.

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At this point, I am just hate-watching it. The jump scares are beyond ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Do we know the girl in the visions?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Latest episode SUCKED.

+1
At this point, I am just hate-watching it. The jump scares are beyond ridiculous.

Yeah, only reason I keep watching is because I’m now hours vested. It’s a terrible season/show.

[Anonymous]

I really liked and was hooked by the first 3 episodes. Pacing of the most recent episode was weird. The first 3/4 of the ep were slow and disjointed, and then the last 1/4 was stressful and creepy in a way I do not understand.

I am not usually averse to scary movies/TV and sometimes even enjoy the jump scares, but this show is too sad for it -- it just stresses me out. After really liking it until last night, now I am not sure I want to watch it anymore because I felt so unsettled and stressed afterwards and that's just not what I want from TV.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look people, I’ve already solved the case. The scientists unearthed an ancient bacteria that has hallucinating properties. It made the scientists go crazy. The town isn’t actually being poisoned by the mine, it’s the bacteria slowly seeping into the water from something like global warming. The one lady who thinks she saw her dead husband or whatever dancing in the snow and pointing to the dead bodies is probably hallucinating by being exposed to the ancient bacteria unfrozen under the ice. It also explains the swirly symbol. The lady says it had to do with some before the ice. That’s when ancient people were there getting high off the bacteria. Now that it is being unearthed again people are going nuts.


I dunno why JF can’t solve the case already, because I did. Too easy.

Ugh, it wouldn't be True Detective without wild fan theories based on red herrings in the show.

I don't think that's a terrible theory actually!

NP here. It is not a terrible theory but would be a lazy plot since it honestly is the plot to so many zombie apocalypse films/shows. I would be so disappointed if they basically took that premise for this show. It’s so unoriginal.

The season was not originally written as one of True Detectives so won't be surprised if the premise doesn't fit the True Detectives universe.

[Anonymous]

After the most recent episode I can’t take it anymore. Too bad to even hate watch. NCIS level bad.

[Anonymous]

I generally don’t like to pick things apart, but the number of times the characters get out of their cars and walk off leaving the headlights of their car on is baffling to me. Way to drain the battery in the middle of nowhere. Especially noticeable when they went to explore the dredges in last night’s episode — just leaving headlights on when they might be gone for a long time. And if the car was still running, not very smart with a suspect in the area who could jump in and drive away.

[Anonymous]

I tried with this show, I really did. But it cheats. Where I got off the bus: Navarro takes a vicious beatdown from the sketchy guy from Ep 1. It’s brutal and horrific. A handful of hours later, it appears, she is back in action at full strength, seemingly none the worse for wear with only a black eye and sone minor bruising to show for it. Implausible and cheap, just another kind of random jump scare without substance. Like the whole show: superficial, unearned, and dumbed down to the point of self-parody. Another turn of the screw in the Netflix-ization of entertainment culture.

[Anonymous]

Also how did the fisherman get a picture of the guy with the pink parka from a distance if it is completely dark since this happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a breath of fresh air to see women on screen who look natural. I am enjoying this show for a lot of reasons including JF’s run down detective. I would look tired as he11 too trying to solve that grizzly mystery plus just living in that town.
I wouldn’t watch the show if an actress with a frozen forehead or noticeable fillers has been cast. To me it’s distracting.
I’m also ok with the realistic sex we see both female leads having. and I think Qqavik - Eve’s hookup - is attractive.

For sure - and to see the contrast between how tired she looks now, and how alive and happy she looks in the flashbacks with her kid and husband. Life has worn her down but she's still fighting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a breath of fresh air to see women on screen who look natural. I am enjoying this show for a lot of reasons including JF’s run down detective. I would look tired as he11 too trying to solve that grizzly mystery plus just living in that town.
I wouldn’t watch the show if an actress with a frozen forehead or noticeable fillers has been cast. To me it’s distracting.
I’m also ok with the realistic sex we see both female leads having. and I think Qqavik - Eve’s hookup - is attractive.

Qqavik is definitely my type. He also seems like a decent human (so far).

A very very appealing human! I was listening to a recap podcast today where they speculated that he's perhaps a little too good to be true. I really hope that doesn't turn out to be the case - I need to believe in love.