True Detective Season 3

[paeng]

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[Comrade Tulayev]

Umm... this kind of came out of the blue. I had no idea that a trailer had been released... Looks like we will be getting season 3 in January.

TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3 Official Trailer (2019) HBO TV Show HD - YouTube

[Evans]

I wonder if it will suffer due to proximity to the third season of Twin Peaks?

The second season lacked everything that made the first season unforgettable. I'd be more interested in a new show from this writer, but maybe it will be good. The casting is promising.

[Acutely decayed]

Quote Originally Posted by James

The second season lacked everything that made the first season unforgettable.

I disagree, the first season was derivative (although i really liked the shootout in the tenements) - Semyon made the second season - I liked the calling out on louche, the back story where he always thought he may not have gotten out of the basement (touched a chord), his belief he had to hold a line and even his death - none very subtle but I certainly found it watchable

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[cannibal cop]

Vince Vaughn wasn't bad, but the material was pretty iffy, a potentially interesting mystery soon reduced to an overcomplicated muddle of ersatz James Ellroy cop-conspiracy shenanigans.

The first few episodes were definitely watchable, and held more than a little promise of interesting developments. But then something unbelievably stupid happens around the third or fourth episode, a development so excruciatingly inept that I knew immediately the show could never recover from it, and unsurprisingly everything slowly turned to crap after that.

I don't remember S2 enough to criticise, while the cinematography and performances of the initial episodes of the first season are clearly etched into my brain. It was derivative, but a TV buddy cop show is the last place I expect originality. It was involving, atmospheric and memorable.

[J.T. Edwards]

I loved both seasons. Neither of them were perfect. I think I liked season 2 a bit more because I found it to be more devastatingly pessimistic. A lot of people acted as if season two insulted them on just about every level imaginable. I must have been watching a different show or perceiving from some different angle I suppose. There were hiccups but many things to like. I connected strongly with Velcoro's struggles. And the overall aesthetic was a gloomy, old, tired and hopeless sadness. I liked the mood, sense of place and overall atmosphere of season one but I didn't find it as satisfying as a whole. The main plots for both seasons are convoluted and flimsy but so is the plot of humanity. The meat and potatoes of this show are the sad creatures writhing in the muk and how they deal with it.

As for this season three trailer.. I don't know.. looks like True Detective with a black protagonist. Not much more to tell at this point. With all the negativity surrounding season two, I'm not sure what we will be getting intellectually and existentially speaking. And the question still looms; Will the majority ever even try to accept anything other than season one? I'm not convinced they will. But I'm just glad we're getting a third season. Hope its good. I'll definitely be giving it a chance.

[cannibal cop]

I can't say I took it as a personal insult on any level, but yeah, when a certain dumb thing happened within the first few episodes, I pretty much stopped caring about any of it.

To be fair, I probably should have stopped watching at that point.

[Ibrahim]

Quote Originally Posted by James

I don't remember S2 enough to criticise, while the cinematography and performances of the initial episodes of the first season are clearly etched into my brain. It was derivative, but a TV buddy cop show is the last place I expect originality. It was involving, atmospheric and memorable.

The cinamatography was good enough that it brought depth to an otherwise flat and derivative script, yes. Power of the image.

Case in point, the final sequence outside the hospital: horribly cheesy dialogue about 'the light is winning,' camera pans up to...absolute darkness.

It's filled with such moments, visuals working in great counterpoint to the text.