I don't mind Farrell and I'm even willing to give Vince Vaughn a chance on this. Its just as soon as I saw Rachel McAdams' name associated with this
Television True Detective | Season 2 Spoilers
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I don't mind McAdams too much, or even the other two -- it's just the names that were touted at the beginning compared to the names that actually signed on. Farrell is the only one I really like out of the three.I don't mind Farrell and I'm even willing to give Vince Vaughn a chance on this. Its just as soon as I saw Rachel McAdams' name associated with this
Slightly concerned by no McConaughey/Woody but I'll reserve any judgment until I actually watch in the morning.
Going to be weird watching a show that I love change completely.
Going to be weird watching a show that I love change completely.
McAdams is of a high calibre if she's playing a similar role to Monaghan last season, she'll be more than fine. It's the male actors that'll make or break it. In short, it's Vince Vaughn that has me worried.
I already hate the theme song.
Haven't heard it yet, but that's a gutter if true. Was hyped for the theme song, since the Season 1 theme and intro in general was so eerily superb.
Right so Vince Vaughn's character was bad. Some of the dialogue was cringey (what Colin Farrell said to the kid after he beat up his dad was pretty bad) but jesus, "Never do anything because you are hungry. Not even eat" was hilariously ridiculous. Lots of contrivances (the sister in the sting operation, whatever they are calling Tim Riggins just happening to find the body, etc) to bring the four characters together. Not very good. If they needed one episode to introduce everyone fine, but it's a far cry from season 1.
As soon as I heard the theme song, I knew it would disappoint.
Also, Rachel McAdams' arms are too thick. Needs to lay off the tricep curls.
Also, Rachel McAdams' arms are too thick. Needs to lay off the tricep curls.
Christ, the first twenty minutes... it's like a B-list film noir. All down hill from the first scene so far and all I can keep thinking is Vaughn is terrible -- that and where the feck are Harrelson and McConaughey.
The theme song of season 2 
Oh great I was kinda looking forward to watching this tonight
It's not much of anything. Kitsch is the least interesting thing in it.
I'm going to wait until it's all been aired. I think it's a show that benefits from being watched in a short time rather than from one week to the next.
I like the suspense nature of it to last.
Really ? I thought she was too skinny.
On second viewing, it's better than I first thought. 7/10 I would say, if a little underwhelming it's mainly due to the standards set by the first season.
I think Farrell is excellent.
I think Farrell is excellent.
Although
It is a little predictable. The part at the beginning where McAdams' boyfriend won't do what she wants (I figure this is fantasy rape of some sort, which ties in with Farrell's character/backstory. They're gonna get together + what happens next is reasonably easy to predict. It's also quite contrived as mentioned above, with serendipitous plot points
What the feck was this? It felt like I was watching one of Vaughn's typical '5/10 on IMDb' movies.
That Mexican stand-off at the end was very cheesy.
There are going to be too many "main" characters to really go in depth with them the way they did with Cohle and Hart.
It was decent enough, but that theme song made me feel nauseous. feckin' awful.
Four is okay, I think. It's clear they'll all consistently overlap in story progression too.
The theme song is shite.
Episode one was an extremely disappointing, clumsy mess. Half the time I couldn't figure out what they were talking about, the other half was just predictable and contrived. On this evidence Cary Fukunaga is a big loss.
Maybe I am being overly harsh due to the inevitably high benchmark set by season 1. If I saw this in objective isolation I might say it is ok. Framed within my known realty however, it's rubbish so far. Fingers crossed it improves.
Sunday was my favorite HBO night. GOT followed by Silicon Valley. Beep pretty good too. But now we have this followed by Ballers, which was just an embarrassment. Haven't seen The Brink, but the reviews are horrible. HBO look like they bet big on some star vehicles, and might end up flopping.
Maybe I am being overly harsh due to the inevitably high benchmark set by season 1. If I saw this in objective isolation I might say it is ok. Framed within my known realty however, it's rubbish so far. Fingers crossed it improves.
Sunday was my favorite HBO night. GOT followed by Silicon Valley. Beep pretty good too. But now we have this followed by Ballers, which was just an embarrassment. Haven't seen The Brink, but the reviews are horrible. HBO look like they bet big on some star vehicles, and might end up flopping.
Awful theme song, should have just kept it the same
Is this the tune you're all hating on?
Come on, it's not that bad!
Come on, it's not that bad!
No. The one that's crap sounds like Leonard Cohen having a stroke.
Just because she is Canadian, eh?I don't mind Farrell and I'm even willing to give Vince Vaughn a chance on this. Its just as soon as I saw Rachel McAdams' name associated with this
that's lacist.
Didn't even know she was a Canuck.
Its more the fact that she'll forever be associated as Regina George from Mean Girls for me.
Bit underwhelmed if i'm honest.
Then again after season 1 how could they really top it?
Then again after season 1 how could they really top it?
Decent start I thought although that Woodrugh fellow happening to find Caspere as he pussied out of his suicide stunt was beyond ridiculous. Some good stuff, some not so good but in general I spent most of the episode trying to figure out what the feck was happening.
More shots of nude male asses than tits. Not cool.
More shots of nude male asses than tits. Not cool.
Fraid not. It's this...
I can see why they've gone with it. It's evocative of the whole dark True Detective ambiance...But it's really drab. It doesn't help it's on the heels of something universally loved tbf.
It's not going to ruin the show though. I hated the last two 'Way Down in The Hole''s on The Wire.
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Is Fast and Furious directing all the episodes?
Was decent enough for a first episode. Need to see more to judge. As of now it felt a little more "normal" than True Detective, it's missing the gothic aspect of the show. Look forward to more.
So when they first show the dead guy being driven away there was a Maltese falcon in the car and the road sign was mulholland drive did I miss any other subtle clues to other movies?
Ok, that's not good.
It's not terrible though. T Bone Burnett is the producer and he knows what he's doing. The vocal's a bit cack but there's a Mark Lanegan vibe and I'm a big Mark Lanegan fan. So there's that.
But yeah, it's definitely not good.
My first thought was anal.
Why the hell didn't they use that? Odd because it's the same guy in charge of the music (T Bone Burnett) and he didn't put a foot wrong in the first season, even when the show started to dip after episode 5.
So yeah it was watchable. Didn't grab me by the testes and twist them like this time last year though. A lot of the writing felt a bit forced ("I'm gonna butt feck your father on the lawn with your mothers headless corpse"...what?!?) which probably didn't help the actors much (Vaughan had a few humdingers) and the direction felt like he was thinking "Ooh I better add in another overhead shot here as season 1 had loads of that" way too often.
No better or worse than I expected tbh. Let's see where they go with it.
I decided to watch it by completely forgetting the previous season as they have zero in common. Otherwise it'd be way too harsh to judge this show. I mean there is already a huge gap and it's only one episode..
'Weekend at Bernies' ?