Yeah, that was definitely a good, tense scene. It really captured (in a way most cop shows don’t) how frantic and scary a shootout could be. I liked how the characters were shaking afterwards. It was easily the best part of the show so far.
I agree with not what you’d expect: Vince Vaughn is bad in his role. Better casting for that character could have improved the show quite a bit.
I really like the Vince, but I have to agree. He just doesn’t seem like a bad ass.
Vaughn is weak but I feel for all the actor having to deal with the dialogue they’ve been given. The writing really is weak IMO. This is the biggest issue to me. All the conversations are stilted and it’s making it hard for me to stay with the show.
All in all pretty disappointing but enough to keep me watching as there’s not a lot else to watch at the moment.
I thought the shootout was goofy as fuck, how are you going to kill dozens of cops and only let the three main characters survive? this is supposed to be “True Detective” not “generic_action_movie003”.
The best thing about this season is the theme song.
“I dug some graves
you’ll never find”
That there is Leonard Cohen!
My thoughts exactly!
Man, they really didn’t get much out of him. 
I’m enjoying the show, but the rest of you are correct in that it isn’t quite living up to the first. I am hoping this show is just burning SUPER slow and the second half becomes amazing.
Saw the epi, everyone is talking about the special “Freeze frame ending” which I don’t remember. What was it? 
The last shot is a freeze frame before it cuts to credits. It’s hard to even tell unless you’re looking at the cops coming in from the background.
what was the freeze frame of?
Them standing there looking at all the dead bodies. The scene didn’t change, it just froze for a few seconds before cutting to credits. Kinda like you would see in an 80’s sitcom.
thanks.
Ah, that’s what I remember, no big deal, so why so many mentions?
Because it’s weird. Like, as mentioned in the post you quoted, something cheesy you’d see in an 80s sitcom.
Maybe those were rubber bullets and Detective Dixon will be around for the next epi.
Just deleted it from my “series program” list on my DVR.
What surprised me is that I’m kinda liking “Ballers”, which comes on right afterwards and which I thought was going to be pretty stupid.
Well, my HBO Now subscription lapsed right after last week’s shootout. I’m not motivated to renew it based on what I’ve seen so far.
I just watched last weeks episode. Am I the only one having trouble even following what’s going on? Who was the woman they were talking to who was smoking the water pipe? The one who’s schizophrenic mother killed herself in the hospital.
You’re definitely not the only one. I know someone who worked for Vince Vaugh’s character is dead and some people are investigating it, but I haven’t been able to follow many of the details at all. Maybe if the show had made me care about the characters even a little I would put more effort into it, but I really don’t want to.
Tonight’s episode actually managed to be the worst one yet, I think. The dialogue was irredeemably awful. (“How’s that, friend?”) The sexual harassment scene was completely cringe-inducing. I continue to not care about Mr. Velcro and his rape-baby. The storyline for Detective Closet Cop very nearly got interesting, but they managed to handle it ham-handedly enough to rescue the show from brief watchability.
For the last couple episodes I’ve only been watching for the train-wreck factor.
I think that was the mayor’s daughter.