True Detective......more (or less) HBO awesomeness
very stoked for this, esp after Woody's performance in out of the furnace, which was an outstanding turn in a mediocre m
Surprisingly, I've had two friends just watch S1 for the first time. Both thought they better start with S1 before they watched S4. Worst case scenario is S4 is driving some new people to watch S1.
Gonna be impossible for me to gauge how much I am enjoying the show until all the episodes are out and I can binge it at once.
Definitely enjoying it more than season 2 or 3 despite doing the week by week thing.
But this week was my least favorite episode so far.
This season is so awful, I'm kinda surprised it didn't go straight to streaming. Best thing that can be said is we're halfway done.
For those who do like the idea of strange goings on at a remote wintry area, I recommend season 1 (not season 2!) of Fortitude, a British show which aired about a decade ago. Great watch.
Not a good sign from a critic who watched all 6. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20...
I don’t understand the pacing of this show. First episode they throw a lot at you and since then each episode has gotten slower. The actress playing Navarro has been the bright spot.
Gave up on this garbage and am re-watching S1 again with the wife who has never seen it and are both having an amazing time.
I like this episode more than 3.
The problem is they just aren't going anywhere with the case and the characters aren't interesting. They set the case up to be interesting in episode 1 and have done nothing with it.
Yes, it's not good, but it's only 2 more episodes, I want to see how bad it can get. lol
The next episode comes out early I guess because of the Super Bowl. It will be available on Friday 6pm PST.
Gave up on this garbage and am re-watching S1 again with the wife who has never seen it and are both having an amazing time.
Did the same and have no regrets. S1 is elite, S4 is terrible and really don't see a path out of the **** soup they are trying to pass off.
Never saw S2 and am about halfway thru S3 which may not stack up to S1 but crushes S4
I probably watch season one every 16-18 months. After one of those rewatches early pandemic, I went through S2 and 3 and… 3 held up pretty well for what it was. S2 was a rough watch but I can appreciate what it did considering what it was up against. Hopefully the “failure” that S4 has become will get the powers that be interested in another season from Nic. I’m sure he has some outlines and such sitting in a folder somewhere. Given the time between S3 and now, that might be all he needs to get close to S1.
Or they could just stop chasing the season 1 dragon. They will never recreate that magic by trying to recreate that magic
If I remember correctly the writer spent close to a decade writing season 1, then HBO asked him for another script 9 months later. Then again.
There's no way that was going to work.
If I remember correctly the writer spent close to a decade writing season 1, then HBO asked him for another script 9 months later. Then again.
There's no way that was going to work.
I think he stole a lot of stuff for S1 as well
The Frorbes article ripped the call back as well. Now I’m looking forward to it.
I'll say it - I'm not hating this season. I totally understand the criticisms and I'm not saying they're unjustified. I think I just came in with VERY low expectations and thus have not been as disappointed. Plus I like the setting and whole no daytime thing. And if the current season being seen as terrible somehow gets Pizzolatto back in the mix, then that works for me.
Christopher Nolan did a movie titled Insomnia staring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank. The film was set in Alaska in a town where the sun never set weeks. The constant sunlight both day and night had a profound effect on people, particularly the detectives brought in from out of state to investigate a murder. True Detectives, season four, got off to a crazy start in episode one mentioning the constant night time, but then that theme slowly disappeared. I would have like this more if they truly kept the constant night as an additional villain and obstacle.
No. Alaska is one of those funky places that has areas that are completely dark for weeks on end or completely daylight for weeks on end. If I recall correctly, the elk scene in episode one showed the sun setting to start weeks of night time. To keep the night time theme I would expect everything else will be night time scenes even flashbacks just to keep the show in a certain mood. But besides the hectic first episode they haven't really been using the constant night as a problem, villain or obstacle in anyway...even thought this season is called "Night Country."
The setting is Alaska, but it was actually filmed in Iceland which has similar darkness periods of time.
Just wasn't feeling this season, gave up after ep3. The black cop is not a good actress, at all. The plot is a convoluted mess. And sorry but I legitimately lol'ed at that Jodie Foster sex scene.
Rewatched S1 for the first time since it aired, and the obvious reason it's so superior is Harrleson and McConaughey. They were phenomenal and the chemistry between them is something that is difficult to reproduce. The plot itself is kind of all over the place, and the ending was a bit of a letdown, but the acting (and cinematography) elevated it.
