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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the finale tied up the season really cleanly but it felt below par (the whole season) for HBO[/quote]

Huh? How?

I had a ton of questions...
What was on the hard drive? The whole season hinged on it and never revealed?
So the movie director, who was shown for all of a mere 3 min way back in episode 3 (good thing I didn't blink, I would've missed it) is the main guy behind everything?
Why did that lady cop (never picked up on her name) give a Venezuelan reporter the evidence - not like an LA Times reporter?
Whose baby was that and where were they going?
VV dies with the diamonds in his pocket. Um ok.

So anti climactic. Didn't see much justice or get the impression it was implied. Could've ended the show fast forwarding 15 years with the red hair kid (Valcoro's) graduating the police academy impinge he was going to avenge his dad's murder and clear is name.[/quote]

The baby was Velcoro's baby.  He and the lady cop slept together.  The lady cop is on the run (with her baby) because she is still a target because she knows what happened.  That's why she gives the evidence she has to the reporter.

I don't think they ever say exactly what was on the hard drive.  They just imply there's evidence of all of the corruption.[/quote]

I had always assumed that the hard drive contained footage of these sex parties where prominent city leaders and officials had attended and done salacious deeds. Wasn't that sort of implied earlier in the season?

I LOVED the subtlety of Ani saying "his sons deserve that" and me thinking "Wait? Did she say 'sons'?" and then realizing that Ani, with all of her f-ed up stuff, had Ray's baby. Ray, who thought he was incapable of producing a child, who thought the reason why his first wife didn't get pregnant was because of his low motility. It was like the best of both Ani and Ray came out in that scene where they had sex and then proceeded to lay it all out there to each other.

Given the fact that season 1 had no major female leads, I liked that Pizzolatto (the creator) allowed both Jordan and Ani to live at the end - and not just live, but to seek out justice against those who wronged them. I was so afraid that Jordan was going to be in cahoots with shady sex ring guys.

The guy Ani meets with at the hotel - I had assumed this was the reporter from the first or second episode - the one who was severely beaten. I don't think he was from Venezuela, but rather went there to meet with her.

Had they ended with a flash forward to Chad graduating from the police force, they would've lost me. It would've tied things up too neatly. Plus, Chad never struck me as that kind of kid. He hated violence - that's what Ray was talking about in the last voice recording he tried to leave for him. He said he thought more people should be like Chad - someone who is strong enough not to resort to violence.

I agree that this season, in many ways, wasn't as good as season 1, but they really had me in episodes 6-8.

I also think that Pizzolatto was really playing the whole "greek tragedy" angle. So many of our heroes died tragically. Many suffered from hubris. Many realized their flaw when it was too late. (Ani's full name is Antigone - named after a main character/play written by Sophocles)

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