New Season of True Detective on HBO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!! So glad I'm not alone.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain to me how her sister drowned in a frozen sea? And how the coast guard knew exactly who to call after pulling a naked corpse from the water?

This season is horrifically bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me how her sister drowned in a frozen sea? And how the coast guard knew exactly who to call after pulling a naked corpse from the water?

This season is horrifically bad.

Far enough out would be moving water, I guess. But she wouldn't make it far with full body exposure in that weather. Also, the coast guard would not have been able to identify her. This season is getting messier.

[Anonymous]

There are so many aspects of this story I’m interested in: living in a remote arctic climate, Annie’s murder, the father/son policemen, the son’s relationship with his wife, Danvers and Eve’s past incident where they covered up a murder together, the town’s complicated relationship with the mine.

But I’m not real interested in these three guys who I guess are suspects: Clark the scientist w the RV, the scary cranky guy who lives in that hut, and the map maker who suddenly was introduced as a critical character (and I think was in the frozen barge).

Somehow the writing has failed to make me invested in learning what happened to the scientists in the ice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me how her sister drowned in a frozen sea? And how the coast guard knew exactly who to call after pulling a naked corpse from the water?

This season is horrifically bad.

The sea wasn’t completely frozen.

She left a trail of belongings.

The coast guard may have found her wallet.

They could find her next of kin from that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me how her sister drowned in a frozen sea? And how the coast guard knew exactly who to call after pulling a naked corpse from the water?

This season is horrifically bad.

The sea wasn’t completely frozen.

She left a trail of belongings.

The coast guard may have found her wallet.

They could find her next of kin from that.

Did the frozen scientist also take off their clothes and neatly fold them by their shoes? I remember Navarro finding clothes while she walked around on the ice and I think she got distracted when she visualized the orange rolling towards here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me how her sister drowned in a frozen sea? And how the coast guard knew exactly who to call after pulling a naked corpse from the water?

This season is horrifically bad.

The sea wasn’t completely frozen.

She left a trail of belongings.

The coast guard may have found her wallet.

They could find her next of kin from that.

Did the frozen scientist also take off their clothes and neatly fold them by their shoes? I remember Navarro finding clothes while she walked around on the ice and I think she got distracted when she visualized the orange rolling towards here.

Yes. The scientists left folded clothes with their shoes.

[Anonymous]

This show is awful. I can’t believe it’s tied to True Detective. And sadly, I’m starting to think that maybe show runners do need to be White men and I’m a minority woman. Ugh!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!! So glad I'm not alone.

There is a lot I don't like about this season but the "leaving the cars running" thing is not one of them. In very cold places, a lot of people have remote starters that start your engine while keeping the doors locked. if you turn off the car, there's always the chance it might not start up without being plugged into the block heater, or the windshield might freeze over, or the tires get frozen. Lots of people leave their cars running when they go into convenience stores, for example.

During polar night, while investigating crimes, it makes a lot of sense to leave the car on with the headlights on bright. It's not like they're paying for the gas, anyway.

What I think is crazy unrealistic in the show is how people don't have their faces covered when they are outside--that's really dangerous in -20 temps! The actors must have been freezing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This show is awful. I can’t believe it’s tied to True Detective. And sadly, I’m starting to think that maybe show runners do need to be White men and I’m a minority woman. Ugh!!!!

She took the show to HBO and they said ok yes we love it and we will green light it but we need you to do this one little thing. We need you to make it True Detective so get that arctic pop deep fried and let’s make a show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!! So glad I'm not alone.

There is a lot I don't like about this season but the "leaving the cars running" thing is not one of them. In very cold places, a lot of people have remote starters that start your engine while keeping the doors locked. if you turn off the car, there's always the chance it might not start up without being plugged into the block heater, or the windshield might freeze over, or the tires get frozen. Lots of people leave their cars running when they go into convenience stores, for example.

During polar night, while investigating crimes, it makes a lot of sense to leave the car on with the headlights on bright. It's not like they're paying for the gas, anyway.

What I think is crazy unrealistic in the show is how people don't have their faces covered when they are outside--that's really dangerous in -20 temps! The actors must have been freezing.

+1
And their jackets are flapping around them, not zipped up, no hoods on, no gloves. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me how her sister drowned in a frozen sea? And how the coast guard knew exactly who to call after pulling a naked corpse from the water?

This season is horrifically bad.

The woman was crazy and ran through the town naked on multiple occasions. A small community like that and people will know who they are pulling out of the sea, especially with so many tats on her body everyone has seen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This show is awful. I can’t believe it’s tied to True Detective. And sadly, I’m starting to think that maybe show runners do need to be White men and I’m a minority woman. Ugh!!!!

I'm curious to see how it ends but I think I don't like it because of the constant night. I can't tell when they show someone tiredly eating if it's breakfast, dinner, or a midnight snack. It's always pitch black outside their windows and i would go nuts in that environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tried, but I can’t watch this show. The writing is terrible and Kali Reis cannot act. She has two expressions that she keeps switching back and forth from. It’s especially comical next to Jodie Foster. I can’t believe this is an HBO show. And why or why did HBO label this as True Detective and get my hopes up even more?

I’ve started watching Monsieur Spade on AMC instead. The acting, the writing, the directing are all so better and what I would expect from a high quality detective.

I completely disagree. I am so impressed by Kali Reis and am glad hbo takes chances on actors and doesn't rely upon big names. I hate Tom Hanks because Speilberg uses him for everything and he's a fing one note actor.

Are you the person who was referring to her as ugly in previous posts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tried, but I can’t watch this show. The writing is terrible and Kali Reis cannot act. She has two expressions that she keeps switching back and forth from. It’s especially comical next to Jodie Foster. I can’t believe this is an HBO show. And why or why did HBO label this as True Detective and get my hopes up even more?

I’ve started watching Monsieur Spade on AMC instead. The acting, the writing, the directing are all so better and what I would expect from a high quality detective.

This isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure.

It’s comments like yours that make me think PR people have infiltrated this board. The whole point is to discuss opinions. Wanting to stop watching a show is one of them.

Np. I didn't make that comment but we've been derailed by some nut job who hates what she views as non beautiful people and is kind of dim.