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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
True Detective, 1st season was very good gothic horror. The second season, I liked a lot, but my wife did n ot. she found it TOO bleak. I thought it was a cool season. Enjoyed it much more than the critics who seemed to wish that Macconoughhay was back so they could slobber over him again....
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I had the same experience. My girlfriend did NOT like that ending (specifically what goes down in the desert). Somehow, despite loving the first season, the last episode of TD season 2, like,
disturbed her. Deeply. She was just not ok with it. I had to really do some real persuading to get her to even finish the episode with me. Something about the connection she had with the character and how things shook out for him just really threw her off.
Trying to honor Slambang by not posting spoilers, but hopefully you get where I'm coming from.
For me, the secon season's ending can really be summed up by the series' tag line, "You get the life you deserve" (or something). I think it applies to literally every major character, and there's a very old-school moral reason why each character ended up where they did.
More on that later maybe.
But yeah, he critics were fucked on season 2. It was quite good. It suffered from Joker syndrome. That's all. Mcconaughey being the Heath Ledger here.
I've heard that the show's on hold. Effectively cancelled, though Mcconaughey says he'd entertain the possibility of playing Rustin Cole again. Probably won't happen, though I think it would be interesting to uncover his deep cover pre-TD days.