I spent the past two days binge watching both seasons (3 and then 2). I saw s1 4 or 5 years ago.
Season 1 was probably top 10 if not top 5 TV kino for the whole decade. I don't think much discussion is warranted on that one.
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Season 2 - What the frick was that ending? It felt like they killed both of them without much of a reason and there was no payoff. They still could have reasonably done this if there had been some sort of payoff, but there wasn't. Every single moid main character was killed off, along with most of the minor ones, and the girlbosses were the only ones that survived. I don't actually think this was a woke thing, just weird writing. Plus all the usual complaints about the directing and general midness of the whole thing. Pre-sobriety Ray is literally me though, and Vince Vaughn urban warfare was fun at times.
I did notice that the raven mask character and several of the plot points surrounding him and otherwise in the show seemed to be lifted straight from the Hotline Miami vidya franchise.
Season 3 - Return to form. First half felt almost as good as season 1, but the 3-layer simultaneous separate timelines felt excessive and confusing at times and I wasn't as happy with the second half. The bipoc main character was fine and didn't feel forced. Grace Gummer's (I assume everyone here has seen Mr Robot) sister is in it and their faces are similar enough that I briefly thought it was her. Overall pretty good but not as good as season 1. The dementia stuff was kinda mid but they mostly pulled it off and the fake death was decently done as a plot twist, if not in actual delivery.
Season 4 - Haven't started. I'll probably binge it at some point after the entire thing is available online, mostly because of gilfmode Jodie Foster (she has aged impeccably).
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I'd rather talk about season one. That shit was deep and it was right in the money for how these child sexual abuse rings play out. They even had the libertarian spiral at the end
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And the investigation was ultimately shut down/prematurely closed before the whole thing could've been exposed, both times
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I also like that mchonagays character was almost like psychic and seemed to become aware of the increasing degeneracy of the town over the decades through physical senses like smell or whatever. It's been close to a decade since I watched it so i dont actually remember much now that I think of it but I did read a really good review of it that pointed out all the references the show contained including to real life events like the franklin coverup or the libertarian spiral symbol or whatever
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The depiction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder was also pretty realistic (speaking from experience), if you've done enough acid in your lifetime sometimes you randomly see fractal patterns and moving dots in places that you shouldn't. I haven't seen that season in a few years myself so I'm spotty on the details including the degeneracy sense. Does he talk about that when he's explaining his alcoholism?
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The problem with the later seasons of True Detective was calling them True Detective. If they had called it something else, we wouldn't be automatically comparing it to season one. There's was no way the following seasons were going to live up to season one.
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