True Detective Season 2

Year: 2015

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Pizzolatto

Review

not as good as season one. better actors that time around and the dialogue was a bit better as well. this season also was more serpentine and the number of characters made it more difficult to follow. thankfully you can just google “true detective (character name)” and find out which character they’re talking about so that wasn’t too hard to overcome.
kitsch was a highlight. vaughn and farrell were good. mcadams left something to be desired. kitsch actually played the only main character who was worth a damn the first half of the season. as the season progressed we grew to know the others and could find some redeeming qualities in them, but it was hard to like many of them at first. farrell’s storyline with his son was a tear-tugger. there’s some good material in here so long as you don’t get to mired in the plot twists and trying to figure out the mystery of why caspere was killed and by whom. just let that stuff happen and focus on the characters. ending wasn’t uplifting, to say the least.
good series, i hope they have more of this quality.

Watched on TV