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True Detective Season 2, Sky Atlantic 22 June
dosanjh1
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I'm suprised there's not a thread on this yet (apologies if there is but I couldn't find it) but TD2 is starting in what I'm assuming is the Game of Thrones slot a week on Monday week.
http://www.geektown.co.uk/tvairdates/true-detective/
Apparently simulcast with the US for a 2am airing.
Staring Colin Farrel, Taylor Kitsch, Rachel McAdams and Vinice Vaughan.
If season 1 is anything to go by should be cracking.
http://www.geektown.co.uk/tvairdates/true-detective/
Apparently simulcast with the US for a 2am airing.
Staring Colin Farrel, Taylor Kitsch, Rachel McAdams and Vinice Vaughan.
If season 1 is anything to go by should be cracking.
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I just hope they keep their nerve this time and don't cop out with a feelgood bog standard ending.
For the first six of its eight episodes TD 1 was streets ahead of almost everything I have seen on TV. Then suddenly eps 7 and 8 were a total gear change and the series turned into the kind of crap purveyed by the mainstream channels. To this day I am baffled as to why. It even occurred to me that the producers lost their nerve and rewrote the ending. Until then, what with member
s of the governors family possibly being involved, the freaky God squad chap and that team coming down from up high to 'take over the invstigation' it seemed there would be a denouement ending right at the top.
But all we got was the usual plastic slick wrapping up of clues and the pukey ending in the hospital car park. Christ was I disappointed.
To be honest nothing is going to beat season 1, ever. So i think they should forget ever having seen that because all they're doing is comparing it to season 1 and it's not really fair to be honest.
I'm going to give this a shot. Rusty and Marty, who?
Although that was the essence of season 1, they balanced the police procedural element really well but it's a hard line to tread and getting it wrong is easy.
There's 4 lead characters this season though. I think it's going to be different this time around.
The ending to series 1 was really weak.
Anyway, seeing as it's only 8 episodes I'm going to record the lot and then watch it over 2/3 nights. That's how I watched season 1, and enjoyed it all the better for it. I hope season 2 is good but I'm not expecting it to be as great as 1. That's not being negative, I just don't want to set myself up for a fall.
No. It's a brand new story with a whole new set of characters.
True Detective S1 is available in Sky On Demand Box Sets at the moment. Although it is quite a slow burner it's only 8 episodes if you wanted to zip through it.
He was great.
Everything was great again, I was so worried but it was brilliant. Colin Farrell's character has been written amazingly well.
I could have said the same about Matthew McConaughey for season 1 though
Ditto... never been a big fan but he was brilliant in TD.
It's on Sky Go already, but I'll put what I think in spoilers as it's not on TV until later
For me, all four main actors are doing very well. Vince is playing against type and doing a good job so far. Colin had some moments where I was like :eek: . Rachel is memorisingly cold and issue-led, and Taylor is intriguing because I think his character is going to be the one we are meant to really hate, but may end up feeling sympathy towards...but I could be wrong.
I'm not sure how much of the criticism is due to expectation from Season 1 though. Just going by the synopsis, you can't compare the two. There's double the amount of lead characters for starters.
Am I right in thinking that all critics have only seen the first 3 episodes? I also read somewhere that the 2nd and 3rd eps are better than the first....so surely it's going in the right direction for them anyway?
Lasted 3 episodes with TD1 - think I'll last longer with TD2.
CHiPs ths isn't.:cool:
I didn't actually enjoy the first season of this & gave up after a few episodes but I enjoyed what I saw so far & think I'll be sticking with this season! Although I'd say I'm intrigued by the characters & what their back stories are more than the murder!