True Detective (HBO)

The Bill · Post by **The Bill** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:46 pm

With Penny Dreadful finished for the year, I'm now down to this shit and Hannibal (as far as I know) as the only things I watch. Sure, I'll finish it but unless it takes a right turn into crazy land I want this show gone after this season. Make room for Steven King's Gunslinger or some shit.

spacehamster · Post by **spacehamster** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:13 pm

The Bill wrote:Sure, I'll finish it but unless it takes a right turn into crazy land I want this show gone after this season.

I seriously doubt it'll get better. I mean, I'll be happy if it does. but it's becoming increasingly obvious to me that the entire first season worked because the Rust/Marty duo was a stroke of genius and basically carried everything. But really, Rust was one cliché stuck into another clichéd situation, and what made it work was that someone like Rust isn't supposed to be the good guy in a cop show. This season... they're pretty much just taking the clichés and playing them straight. Alcoholic divorced father, gangster trying to go straight, bitter woman in a man's world, sleazy mayor, ethnic gangsters, pervy movie business guys, etc etc etc.

Is it doing well ratings wise? I really can't imagine this show getting a third season, but then again, Homeland should've never gone beyond one season either, and it's about to start its first, so...

FVBTVS · Post by **FVBTVS** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:57 pm

i hope this shit is a nuclear fireball of prurient intrigue and grim faced sleuthing by episode 6 and all you false detectives have to turn in yer badges..

Necrometer · Post by **Necrometer** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:43 pm

I certainly hope you're right, pal

and I was this close to dropping "false detective" into a post but I wouldn't have pulled it off anyway

The Bill · Post by **The Bill** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:01 pm

FVBTVS wrote:i hope this shit is a nuclear fireball of prurient intrigue and grim faced sleuthing by episode 6 and all you false detectives have to turn in yer badges..

Well, I have always been more Dirk Gently then Poirot.

ThePhillyExperiment · Post by **ThePhillyExperiment** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:05 pm

For the mustache to be a burnout cop, he's a pretty attractive, in shape cop. Couldn't they get fat Val Kilmer, fat Alec Baldwin, fat John Travolta or fat Ray Liotta?

ThePhillyExperiment · Post by **ThePhillyExperiment** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:09 pm

The Bill wrote:With Penny Dreadful finished for the year, I'm now down to this shit and Hannibal (as far as I know) as the only things I watch. Sure, I'll finish it but unless it takes a right turn into crazy land I want this show gone after this season. Make room for Steven King's Gunslinger or some shit.

Penny Dreadful started out weak but man it finished strong.

Rose

ThePhillyExperiment · Post by **ThePhillyExperiment** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:14 pm

At least The Brink is pretty funny.

copstache · Post by **copstache** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:28 pm

colin ferrel yelling at children is definitely the highlight of this season so far

FVBTVS · Post by **FVBTVS** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:36 pm

ThePhillyExperiment wrote:At least The Brink is pretty funny.

BUNGVOX · Post by **BUNGVOX** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:18 pm

ThePhillyExperiment wrote:For the mustache to be a burnout cop, he's a pretty attractive, in shape cop. Couldn't they get fat Val Kilmer, fat Alec Baldwin, fat John Travolta or fat Ray Liotta?

i vote liotta.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:22 pm

I'd take him over Vaughn, even in spite of those terrible tequila commercials

FVBTVS · Post by **FVBTVS** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:29 pm

man liotta wouldve been fucking awesome

TheMooretician · Post by **TheMooretician** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:32 pm

Shit's starting to falter for sure. Still better than most other television but definitely not on par with S1 and edging close to being a jarring decrease in quality. Plenty of time to right itself but it could go either way. Farrell totally rules though.

ThePhillyExperiment · Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:26 pm

FVBTVS wrote:man liotta wouldve been fucking awesome

I would love to see Liotta as his Narc character, but more grizzled, burned out and fat.

godofdeadlydeath · Post by **godofdeadlydeath** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:17 am

FVBTVS wrote:
ThePhillyExperiment wrote:At least The Brink is pretty funny.

VEEP is awesome, smart satire with brilliant jokes. The Brink is a show that thinks it's smart satire, with awful, awful jokes.

Cascade Whore · Post by **Cascade Whore** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:13 am

godofdeadlydeath wrote:
VEEP is awesome.

HahahahahahahahahahahaahaHahahhahahahah

elephants gerald · Post by **elephants gerald** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:24 am

what?

I'm in total agreement there

better than fucking silicon valley

Necrometer · Post by **Necrometer** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:58 am

I couldn't handle more than 10 minutes of The Brink - total disaster

elephants gerald · Post by **elephants gerald** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:05 pm

I've never even been able to sit through a trailer

FVBTVS · Post by **FVBTVS** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:24 pm

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

antinatalism · Post by **antinatalism** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:26 pm

This show has been an absolute fuckin snoozefest so far. I'll check back in when the season's over, maybe.

godofdeadlydeath · Post by **godofdeadlydeath** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:26 am

Cascade Whore wrote:
godofdeadlydeath wrote:
VEEP is awesome.
HahahahahahahahahahahaahaHahahhahahahah

I'd love to hear a rebuttal.

copstache · Post by **copstache** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:28 am

FVBTVS wrote:
SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

assault and mirage · Post by **assault and mirage** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:44 pm

VEEP is hilarious. Probably my favorite show currently running on HBO. Actually pretty much anything done by Armando Iannucci is worth watching.

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