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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]

1) The hard drive was the hard drive from the video camera in Caspar's house (the one where Ray Velcoro gets shot). The implication throughout the season was that there was footage on the hard drive of various bigwigs/politicians/etc. in the orgy parties.

2) It wasn't the movie director who killed Caspar - it was a set photographer named Len who Velcoro and Ani talked to very briefly - I think he was the one who told them that the movie director sometimes went to "parties" with Caspar (maybe to throw them off his own trail?). Len was the son of the jewelry store owners who got killed when the corrupt police officers stole the blue diamonds.

3) The reporter Ani meets at the end is an LA reporter who was doing a story on how corrupt the city of Vinci is. He's the reporter Velcoro beats up in the first or second episode to try and get him to stop investigating the story.

4)The baby was Ani and Velcoro's baby. There's a scene when Ani is in the safe house getting ready to leave for the boat and she throws a box on her suitcase - hey, call me an expert on pregnancy tests (!) but I immediately thought that was a pregnancy test box. I don't know how she could think she was pregnant after having sex with Velcoro only a day or two before that, but then when they're in Venezuela or Mexico or wherever, she says to the reporter, "I want to honor his sonS." No idea where they were going, though I was happy that Ani and Jordan survived (and Jordan gets to help raise the baby) -- and Nails too. Oh Nails, what would we do without you. It's just like Stan, the mysterious guy who never seemed to appear in the show but everyone talked about his death for like, 5 episodes.

I thought the season overall was weak but the last 2 or 3 episodes were better. The beginning was really slow. Some of the dialogue was flat-out terrible. I think Vince Vaughan did a perfectly decent job given how bad the writing was, but his best moments were when he was allowed to show that he had a sense of humor (my favorite moment of the finale episode was when he tells Velcoro that "Blake is gone. He did not go...nicely" - he has the most hilarious expression on his face and he said it in such a witty yet dark way. I think if Vince Vaughan had played the character less "straight" and been allowed to show a little more of his madcap side, it would have been a stronger show - kind of the role that Woody Harrelson served in Season 1 (he was so funny, even though it was such a dark season). I thought Colin Farrell did a fine job and also got some of the better lines ("I support feminism. Mostly by having body image issues."). Disappointing compared to Season 1, disappointing in comparison to "Chinatown" (which I have to imagine is the movie this was supposed to be an homage to), but generally I thought Season 2 was meh.

My questions are: 
Why would VV be so slow to react when he realized his car was boxed in? Don't you think he would be smarter/quicker on the draw? 
Why wouldn't Velcoro instantly understand that he couldn't go see his son because, as a wanted criminal whose face was being plastered on TV screens everywhere, the police would DEFINITELY be staking out his son's school?! 
What was the deal with Ani's father's cult? I really thought there was going to be on that cult and it just didn't seem to go anywhere.
I assume Velcoro did "suicide by cop"?- deliberately came out guns ablazing because he did not want Burris and the other corrupt cops to torture him to find out where Ani went.
If the daughter of the jewelry store owners became a hooker and then ended up at Caspar's sex parties, and then (as it turns out), then Caspar was her father, then does that mean she had sex with Caspar (her own father)? Yuck.[/quote]

In response to your questions (I also posted similar answers to PP's questions):

I really think Pizzolatto is playing the hubris card, in one way or another, for most of these main characters. I think Frank was on a high - he had just pulled off this amazing heist, one that should've been the last of his career - and the Mexicans blindsided him. I think in the moment that he realized what was happening, it was too late. They already had him boxed in - there were several of them. There was nothing he could do.

I think hubris also plays a major part in Ray's decision to go see his son one last time. He was so prideful about not wanting his son to know who his "true father" was (God, so ironic that it ended up being him all along). Ray said "I thought we had time" and I think he truly believed they were that far ahead of everyone else. But we all knew when he was eyeing that exit sign that it wasn't going to turn out well.

I agree about the thing with Ani's dad and the cult. Seems like it was a red herring, and only important because a bunch of those shady guys hooked up there years before. And isn't this also where Caspar found Vera? Other than that, yeah, didn't really go anywhere. (there was that whole realization that her dad had about poor parenting because he was so lax but eh, I don't know)

I don't think Caspar necessarily had sex with Erica/Laura. I think that he knew all along that this was his kid. At least that's how I understood it based on the conversation that Ray had with the other cop in the airport before all hell broke loose.

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