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RichieTenenbaum 2,774 posts
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convz 1,239 posts
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Registered 10 years agoyegon wrote:
Same here. I felt like they overdid pretty much everything in this show. The writers don't seem to grasp the concept of 'more is less' .
Speaks volumes that the tragic ending left me feeling nothing, so little did I care for any of the characters. For reference, had the characters and story been written well, I would have felt a twinge, I'm far from a heartless brute.
Probably the best example is the character flaws, it's like they heaped as many 'quirks' onto each character as possible. Someone fighting against their homosexuality, using a girl as cover, questionable military history, celebrity scandals, suffering from ptsd, has some sort of weird thing going on with his mum, still caught up with a very shady military organisation, suicidal etc etc.
I enjoyed the season and managed to follow it for the most part (though some parts were a leap, i.e. "Oh it must be the photographer from earlier!") but season 1 was so much better.
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beastmaster 22,373 posts
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Registered 17 years agoJust finished series 1 and it was amazing.
What's so bad about series 2? Is the acting, plot or dialogue? Is it all a bit surreal too (not that it's a problem for me at all). -
beastmaster wrote:
The only thing surreal about it will be the dreamlike sense of deja-vu you'll experience with the introduction of every cliched character.
Just finished series 1 and it was amazing.
What's so bad about series 2? Is the acting, plot or dialogue? Is it all a bit surreal too (not that it's a problem for me at all). -
iancognito 2,476 posts
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Registered 14 years agobeastmaster wrote:
Yes, yes and yes.
Is the acting, plot or dialogue?
Acting isn't too bad in places. Plot is told in a very complicated way and confuses most people when it's actually quite a simple story. The dialogue is terrible. It gave me blue balls in my ears. -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoIt's not particularly surreal, unfortunately (aside from a couple of cool dream sequences). Dialogue is all over the shop, acting too, and the plot was way more confusing and meandering than it needed to be.
It's watchable, and has some high points, but most here seem to be in agreement that it's a bit of a step down from S1. -
Kichijoten 4,555 posts
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Registered 8 years agoJust finished it. Great series, thoroughly depressing end for the most part. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYeah I quite liked it, haters be damned.
The thing about it was that allthough superficially it looked like it might be a gritty realistic drama, it really was anything but. A high profile informer show up dead, and the only people who turn up are 4 off duty police who are *all* pissed? Bloke gets shot up by an intruder in a giant crow mask and just gets up and goes back to work? A massive conspiracy involving everybody ever and *litterally* a bus load of whores on drugs turns up and it's somehow kept a secret from everybody? Cop woman walks around with more knives than professional kitchen and nobody bats an eye?
It's completely OTT and mental. The mistake is to take it seriously.
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Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI didn't hate it, I was able to enjoy it for what it is, but it wasn't great by any means in my humble opinion.
It suffers from being the second season of an anthology series, in which the first season was superior to it in every possible way. Had it not been compared so much it would probably have attracted far less scathing criticism (and far less viewers to start with). -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYes and more generally we're also spoiled by some really consistently amazing TV series over the last 10 years or so. If something like this had been made in 2002 or whatever we'd be blown away by it.
However, it really has come in for a pasting that I think it didn't really deserve.
It's as if TV these days has to be either utterly amazing or it's dreadful. -
yegon 6,511 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI wouldn't have liked it 15 years ago. I thought it was pretty awful for a long list of reasons, not because my critical faculties are limited to binary judgements of good/bad.
It's nice that some people enjoyed it, but saying it was unjustifiably panned ignores the wealth of explanations of WHY a lot of people think it was pants. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoNo I agree that there are valid reasons for criticising it. It is a bit over complicated and I don't think I would have bothered sticking with it if I'd watched it as a weekly broadcast because it would have lost me. It had a "and previously" bit on a lot of episodes which is something that normally HBO don't seem the need to do.
I think it being *universally* panned by everyone is a bit unfair. It's hardly the worst thing I've seen on TV recently. -
Tuffty 4,954 posts
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Registered 15 years agochopsen wrote:
Certainly not, have you seen If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World?
I think it being *universally* panned by everyone is a bit unfair. It's hardly the worst thing I've seen on TV recently. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoTuffty wrote:
Truer words have never been spoken.
chopsen wrote:
Certainly not, have you seen If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World?
I think it being *universally* panned by everyone is a bit unfair. It's hardly the worst thing I've seen on TV recently. -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoIt wasn't universally panned. There was that charming article a few pages ago that suggested the viewers who didn't like it were the problem, not the show.
But more seriously, a few episodes got a bit of praise in many quarters, including from critics/viewers (even people on here!) who were down on the season as a whole. Sure, the general consensus was that it was a disappointment overall, but it's often a little more nuanced than "the whole thing was shit" or whatever. -
convz 1,239 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThat "overweight, meek ginger kid that may not even be his" was the only thing that was good in his life. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPeople without children imaging what parenting is like.
We've all been there. -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAlso: people who have limited communication with women imagining what women are like -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOddly enough Pizzalatte has a wife. -
Darth_Flibble 5,592 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIf it had the kid from family Guy with the upside down head instead of the ginger kid then would of been much better!. -
M83J01P97 7,607 posts
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Registered 14 years agoAn HBO executive explains why True Detective season 2 kind of sucked
No shit Sherlock.
The lack of confirmation on a third season for this year suggests they either haven't commissioned one at all or they are doing the right thing and letting Pizzolatto take his time to write the next season now. -
Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI never got around to finishing season 2 actually. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThis isn't bad but Jesus Christ they should call it Miserable Detective.
Is anyone in the whole season 2 not fucking miserable? -
convz 1,239 posts
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Registered 10 years agoNope. I like dark/gritty shows but I feel like the writers tried way too hard to make everyone overly broken/damaged -
Mahershala Ali to play the main character for season 3 apparently
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