True Detective is probably dead

I haven't seen s2 yet but I knew s1 couldn't be topped unless they had the same cast return, which wouldn't have worked within the context of the story.

I'd rather see pizza do something else anyway as opposed to have the show continually decline.

s1 had two strong characters investigating what appeared to be a cult that murdered people. The cult spookyness remained until the end of the season

s2 had 4 main characters whose stories were all kind of weak. the crime they were investigating was again, murder but to facilitate a white collar crime and landgrab. The whole strong empowered womyn thing was annoying, detective edge was annoying, his fat son was annoying, the gay cop was annoying; the only one that seemed to have his shit together was vince vaughn

Same. Shit characters, acting? and constant helicopter shots of the city to make the show seem deep. You can't make shithead characters with no redeeming qualities and expect people to relate to the show. I don't think I even made it to the main plot of the season – at least I can't remember what it was.

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Good. We need original works and not endless sequels and lower quality seasons.

\Thats the thing, Taylor didn't exactly do a bad job with acting as him. He was a solder, his mom was abusive, he had other things to work with, yet it was all about him being gay. they didn't even mix his problems together, like, his mom burned his back with candlewax after finding him sucking a dudes dick.

Nope, The main focus is that he's gay and he doesn't want to be.

He could have been way more interesting.

Well they forced this prog on the creator (gay character/stronkwomyn) and he cucked out and did it.

At least he tried to make them semi-believable.

It was moving away from the buddy-buddy formula that caused all the drop-off. Everything else is just the symptom.

not really. the only thing I took away from it was that brokeback mountain is a good shot. The rest seemed kind of half assed.