What do you think of the changes in True Detective after you’ve seen the first episode?
ask me later tonight
watching now
I’m 34 minutes in and would describe it as a dark, confusing mess.
Do I continue, or do I shut it off? Or do I keep it as background noise while surfing the SDMB?
At least the music is depressing.
That’s what I thought of the first season. Well, that plus boring. I’m hopeful this will be more interesting.
I absolutely LOVED the first season.
I ended up shutting this current episode off a few minutes ago.
Maybe I’ll revisit it someday.
Oh well.
it’s OK but it seems like they are copying the David Lynch style of telling a story.
Too upbeat for me. I don’t like these sort of sugar coated TV shows.
I really enjoyed it. I read all the reviews whining it can’t possibly follow up Season One, but who says? I don’t WANT repeat of Season One. I want a good plot, good acting, and good directing and so far we got it all here. Im in. Colin Farell just devours the camera. I enjoy LA Noire, and this is a modern version of that. And we already have a good corrupt underbelly plot developing. What is not to like?
I don’t get the fetish those directors have with smoking. They are showing employees in the police department smoking at their desks. I’m sorry, this just doesn’t happen in CA. I don’t know the exact date of this show, but it’s well past 1998 when that became illegal.
Shut it off twice. It felt empty and the surface was too flashy, contrived. I thought Season One was hypnotic, poetically real, and wonderful. I miss Matthew McConaughey and his faulknerian monologues The Louisiana backwoods setting is gone. Director Cary Fukunaga is gone. Language you want to hear every word of is gone.
But i found Season One so impressive that I’m going to watch Episode One again and try to fall in love with it.
“Contrived”. That was exactly the word I was looking for to describe it.
Was not impressed with episode 1, but I’ll give it at least one more to see if it gets better. This was all about getting the three law enforcement officers together at the end. Season one had flawed but interesting characters; so far these are all just unlikable. The constant, overly dramatic music didn’t help.
All atmosphere. No substance. No “hook” to draw you in. In the fist season the hook was Rust Cohle and his crazy monologues. This time there’s no compelling character or dialogue and pretty much no interesting story.
I enjoyed it and am anxious for more. I thought Colin Farrell was terrific. He’s not just a pretty face.
Rachel McAdams is also very good. Not at all her usual sort of role.
I’ll be tuned in next week.
Needed more buttfucking with headless corpses.
Episode one sucked. It’s giving weight to the suspicion that season one was only good because of the superb acting and directing.
Actually the “hook” to draw you in are the four main characters. Four characters with nothing or little in common all being driven to a head on collision. Yes, most of this episode was just setting up the story, but that’s the point.
You know, after reading several comments on this post (along with other boards on the net) I’m still surprised how the modern TV viewers can’t grasp the direction TV shows are going.
Nearly every new drama’s (especially those on cable & Netflix) episodes are nothing more than chapters of a novel. Gone are the days when you could just sit down in fromt of the tube, click on a Law & Order, a CSI, an ER, etc… just watch the hour of entertainment and enjoy it. Now you HAVE to start from the first episode so with callbacks 2, 3 episodes later you’ll get it. So that wen a reveal occurs halfway through the season it’ll resonate more.
I’m not saying this form of storytelling is better or worse. I’m just saying you all better get used to it, because with the way audiences view television these days, this way of telling a story is the norm. Being able to judge each episode of any new drama, as an entity of it’s own is a thing of the past.
You’re describing the difference between a serialized drama series and an episodic drama series. I blame the current popularity of serialized dramas on Lost. Because so many of us got hooked on that early and stuck with the damned thing to the bitter end, most every show since has been trying to do the same thing.