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

[zzzippper]

By all accounts the finale was a mess and the season a disaster. I read that two unknown characters turned up in the finale with no explanation of who they were or why they were there.

 

[Hapworth]

By all accounts the finale was a mess and the season a disaster. I read that two unknown characters turned up in the finale with no explanation of who they were or why they were there.

Nope. Except perhaps to viewers who weren't paying attention. It was a convoluted season to be certain, but characters weren't inexplicably thrown in at the end.

 

[zzzippper]

Nope. Except perhaps to viewers who weren't paying attention. It was a convoluted season to be certain, but characters weren't inexplicably thrown in at the end.

One reviewer said that when Frank was walking wounded in the desert and seeing people he passed a guy that the audience didn't know and he probably didn't either. Also, Ferral's kid suddenly had a half or step brother.

 

[Watchdog]

I haven't seen the first season yet but it sounds interesting. I'll start there.

Last night I watched The Big Sleep with Bogie and Bacall. That was considered a complicated plot in 1946. And it had the same type of tarnished lawmen but presented in a cultured manner. It holds up very well.

It is a complicated plot for sure. Read the book, you gotta read the book. By the end of the book (and the film) we still don't know who killed Owen Taylor, the Sternwood's chauffeur (the guy found in the limo that was fished out of the drink off Lido Pier). Hint: It was not Joe Brody. The book and the film are in regular rotation on my reading/watching list.

Howard Hawks, the film's director, even asked Raymond Chandler who killed Taylor. Chandler replied, "Damned if I know."

 

[zzzippper]

It is a complicated plot for sure. Read the book, you gotta read the book. By the end of the book (and the film) we still don't know who killed Owen Taylor, the Sternwood's chauffeur (the guy found in the limo that was fished out of the drink off Lido Pier). Hint: It was not Joe Brody. The book and the film are in regular rotation on my reading/watching list.

Howard Hawks, the film's director, even asked Raymond Chandler who killed Taylor. Chandler replied, "Damned if I know."

Thread drift as an art form.

 

[Hapworth]

One reviewer said that when Frank was walking wounded in the desert and seeing people he passed a guy that the audience didn't know and he probably didn't either. Also, Ferral's kid suddenly had a half or step brother.

Well, not quite.

SPOILERS:

Frank, as he's dying, hallucinates people we the audience haven't seen before but it's immediately clear who they are and why they'd be part of Frank's death dream. None is introduced as a flesh-and-blood character with any relevance to the current story.

Ray's kid doesn't suddenly have a half or step-brother; in the epilogue, we discover Ray and Bezzarides' one night together produced a child, who would, technically, be Ray's son's step-sibling.