True Detective - I'm REALLY Working Hard to Like It

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I've watched every episode of the current HBO series. I've even watched a couple of them twice to make sure I'm not missing anything.

However, it seems like the producers are conspiring against me! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Sex, drugs, police corruption, burnt out cops, and political intrigue are right in my wheel house. With this one, not so sure.

Anyone else?
 
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Lotsa problems. Seems like 2 episodes back a bunch of "civilians" got whacked in a crossfire, no questions or consequences. Last night the young cop had his "thing" go very bad. Seems like if it was true to real life, with all the money and political power in play, everybody involved in the trench war get whacked and back to business as usual. Will be interesting how they play it. Joe
 
I like this season. It has a different feel than the first season, and will always suffer in comparison to the Woody/Matthew pairing, but it has it merits. They have a lot to wrap up in the final episode (which is supposed to be 90 minutes).
 
The wife and I absolutely loved the 1st season but haven't watched any of the 2nd yet...DVR'ing them all then going to have a TD marathon. When I first heard that they were doing a 2 my first thought was, "they'll never be able to follow the first season."
 
I was trying to watch it, mainly because the first season was so good. It was OK but, when the young cop woke up with another man, it ended for me. I want to be entertained, not disgusted.
 
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I've all but given up. The night it went all "Mission Impossible" to rescue the lady cop from the mansion orgy pretty much lost me.
 
I've never heard of it, but if a show fails to keep me interested, I turn it off. Generally pilot episodes have a hard time introducing characters and the plot in a way that makes me care, so I'll usually try two episodes.

After that, I don't waste time trying to get into a show if it doesn't grab me.
 
I have watched the first season and the current season. It keeps me interested but, it seems all the characters are so tortured, they are drunks, dopers, killers, sex deviates, and generally all around low lifes. And these are supposedly the good guys. What gives? They seem to make law enforcement look bad.
 
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I've all but given up. The night it went all "Mission Impossible" to rescue the lady cop from the mansion orgy pretty much lost me.
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Roger that. I understand it's fiction but that was over the top. Recently I have been watching reruns of Hill Street Blues, that and Southland the two best cop TV shows, IMO.
 
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I cancelled HBO last night so I am officially done with it.

Seth Myers did a funny bit called "Is it True Detective of a Fortune Cookie?" game show. The dialog is identical to a fortune cookie: "It is better to walk before they make you run." and "Never do anything out of hunger. Not even eat."
 
Season two has been hard to follow, both with the story and trying to follow the great first season. Sometimes I think the old cop shows were better. I would say a remake of Adam-12 might be interesting, but I would be willing to bet they would make it overly negative.
 
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