True Detective
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darth_pies said:
Watched all 8 eps over the last week. Staggeringly good TV.
Did feel that the quality dipped a little in the last 2 episodes and a lot of what made it great was set-aside for a more standard police procedural. Some of the sense of decay and foreboding was lost as they quickly drove around a load of potential informants and it was all a little too neat and by the numbers.
Also a shame that the killer was ultimately just an insane hillbilly stereotype. I was expecting there to be more to the mythology and his motives rather than it just being a brilliantly executed - but cliched - chase of a nutter through some dark caves.
I get the sense that they weren't sure at the time if it was going to go beyond 8 episodes or into a 2nd season, then decided at a late stage to wrap it all up in 2 episodes.
Still, nothing's perfect and overall you'd have to say that hour-for-hour the 8 episodes are possibly the highest quality bit of telly ever made....brilliant.
There was a second season already planned, but each season will follow different characters: http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/true-detective/238707/t...Did feel that the quality dipped a little in the last 2 episodes and a lot of what made it great was set-aside for a more standard police procedural. Some of the sense of decay and foreboding was lost as they quickly drove around a load of potential informants and it was all a little too neat and by the numbers.
Also a shame that the killer was ultimately just an insane hillbilly stereotype. I was expecting there to be more to the mythology and his motives rather than it just being a brilliantly executed - but cliched - chase of a nutter through some dark caves.
I get the sense that they weren't sure at the time if it was going to go beyond 8 episodes or into a 2nd season, then decided at a late stage to wrap it all up in 2 episodes.
Still, nothing's perfect and overall you'd have to say that hour-for-hour the 8 episodes are possibly the highest quality bit of telly ever made....brilliant.
GetCarter said:
There was a second season already planned, but each season will follow different characters: http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/true-detective/238707/t...
Yes i meant whether the story from Season 1 would extend into Season 2, rather than whether the series would continue.Thanks for the link...Colin Farell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and the director of Fast and the Furious?!?!?
Sounds like an entirely different production, and not in a good way.....
darth_pies said:
Watched all 8 eps over the last week. Staggeringly good TV.
Did feel that the quality dipped a little in the last 2 episodes and a lot of what made it great was set-aside for a more standard police procedural. Some of the sense of decay and foreboding was lost as they quickly drove around a load of potential informants and it was all a little too neat and by the numbers.
Also a shame that the killer was ultimately just an insane hillbilly stereotype. I was expecting there to be more to the mythology and his motives rather than it just being a brilliantly executed - but cliched - chase of a nutter through some dark caves.
I get the sense that they weren't sure at the time if it was going to go beyond 8 episodes or into a 2nd season, then decided at a late stage to wrap it all up in 2 episodes.
Still, nothing's perfect and overall you'd have to say that hour-for-hour the 8 episodes are possibly the highest quality bit of telly ever made....brilliant.
Not sure how much more mythology they could stuff into it.Did feel that the quality dipped a little in the last 2 episodes and a lot of what made it great was set-aside for a more standard police procedural. Some of the sense of decay and foreboding was lost as they quickly drove around a load of potential informants and it was all a little too neat and by the numbers.
Also a shame that the killer was ultimately just an insane hillbilly stereotype. I was expecting there to be more to the mythology and his motives rather than it just being a brilliantly executed - but cliched - chase of a nutter through some dark caves.
I get the sense that they weren't sure at the time if it was going to go beyond 8 episodes or into a 2nd season, then decided at a late stage to wrap it all up in 2 episodes.
Still, nothing's perfect and overall you'd have to say that hour-for-hour the 8 episodes are possibly the highest quality bit of telly ever made....brilliant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcosa#Television
The real big bad was simply beyond the law. The two 'tecs had to satisfy themselves with the henchman.
I imagine it is rather true to life in that regard. There was rather a lot to the whole story they didn't go into, because it was POV from the 'tecs.
captain jack said:
MM has done himself a load of good with this and Dallas Buyers Club.
Started watching this and on episode 4. I remember him from s
tty rom coms and a good role in A Time to Kill. My mrs watches Fools Gold every time she is sick which pisses me right off. I watched Mud and thought he was good and then Dallas Buyers Club where he is awesome. So far TD is something else and Ive not seen interstellar yet. The thing that bothers me is that he doesn't look well. He's gone from a handsome buff bloke to someone that could be genuinely suffering from Aids and drug addiction. I know he's not but it's unerving just the same.
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Bloody hell what a series that was, sorry to bump the thread but we just finished this today. Simply fantastic and a wee bit freaky!
Any tips for any other gritty crime dramas would be greatly received
Assuming you are ok with SubtitlesAny tips for any other gritty crime dramas would be greatly received
Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Welshbeef said:
Assuming you are ok with Subtitles
Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Hamsters?Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
oobster said:
Welshbeef said:
Assuming you are ok with Subtitles
Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Hamsters?Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
oobster said:
Welshbeef said:
Assuming you are ok with Subtitles
Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Hamsters?Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Welshbeef said:
Assuming you are ok with Subtitles
Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Just finished watching Gomorrah, it was indeed pretty good.Gomorrah. Its a very dark gritty Italian gangster series based in Naples. Thing is the director wanted "real" characters and he actually recruited actors who used to be hamsters or had close family who are - one key individual is an active member in a gang in Naples and he was 1 of a group who murdered a rival gangs member at a metro station (clearly that real life bit of it is vile) but the aggression acting/as usual I suppose for many of them makes it my best series of 2014
Another subtitle one is the French "Braquo". Seasons 1 & 3 were excellent, season 2 a little far fetched, but good.
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