HBO's True Detective

He’s having Lynchian visions. Of course he’ll be around for a bit.

Have to disagree about this part. Southern Gothic is fucking cool!

Leave your rings on… It wont matter to me.

What kind of way is that to greet the world?

Is that a fucking e-cigarette?

Never called the writers gutless, but in this instance they went the easy clichéd route.

Killing Velcoro now would create a huge break in the plot that would take a helluva lot of writing chops to mend, that takes guts. Not to mention an A-list and seemingly principal actor being killed this early would be less expected and generate more “Oshi everyone gets shot!” hype. The mortality of the rest of the principal cast would now be called into question and create more tension in dicier scenes. (aka drama)

It’s not like I’m spazzing out over it, I just thought it would’ve made for an interesting change of pace. I’m sure they probably mulled it over in the writers’ room.

I learned over the weekend that Ossip is the star of my favorite commercial ever.

Opulence. I has it. kisses pygmy giraffe and giggles

I would have preferred areal shot, too. Who goes around blasting people with riot rounds, anyway? That’s some silly shit. If I have a shotgun, it’s going to be loaded with real slugs. 99% of people who don’t shoot at unarmed protesters would do the same.

That fighting scene seemed ridiculous. Guy has an easy 100 lbs. on Frank and he couldn’t have just lifted the fucker up? I’m 175 lbs. and I’ve lifted and slammed someone in a fight at least 25 lbs heavier than me so if I could do it I know that fat Samoan fuck could, too. Getting boxed out in such an enclosed space seemed unrealistic to me.

Is anyone else noticing how Vince Vaughn is dropping the broody, dark Frank motif and going into Vince Vaughn mode from every comedy he’s ever done? There are times where I just think he’s going to go all:

We will probably find out why they were used. Perhaps they were yet another movie prop? Keep up.

And you got a bajillion aerial shots in ep1 you cinematic pleb.

Also, aren’t those riot shots supposed to be used from at least 30 feet away? A pointblank shot like that would have put more holes in the motherfucker than any of @tataki’s arguments supporting Gamer Gate.

He could have just charged him. Sure, he would’ve taken a blow or two, but that’s a bargain for getting the dude on the floor and flattening him out like a crepe.

Another thing. Apoplectic. Stridency. These are very uncharacteristic words for a a shit cop and a gangster to be using, respectively. At least Frank stumbled on the former and made the scene somewhat humourous. Seriously, though, when’s the last time you heard the word “apoplectic” be used in a conversation as a substitute for “angry” or “indignant”?

I wish he would have done this right in Paul’s face when they bumped into each other. Angst cop drama or no. Probably would have died laughing.

Frank had some pretty positive Dip Dodge Dive Duck and Dodge skills though.

The guy tailing paul is the 4th detective in the hangar. Vinci PD guy.

He’s using this to blackmail the dude, obvi.

Someone pointed that out on reddit, “People don’t talk like that, Nic.”

Apparently whatever book Ray had in his apartment Ani picked up while he was outside dealing with the ex is also a philosophical book that would normally be way over our shit cop character’s head. Some christian mythology that got the author labeled a heretic.

You don’t have that much duct tape? You obviously don’t know the proper way to break up with a woman.

Niggas getting mad at an American for having above average vernacular. Smfh

Last season we had a Jake talking about M-Theory. Why are you guys being picky now?

Rust seemed like an intellectual. Ray does not seem like a guy who’s interested in all that book learnin. Not that I think he’s dumb but we knew rust as a smart guy frpm the jump.

We were introduced to his nickname “tax man” early on. That’s a part of his character being smarter than everyone else.

Ray is passing out in bars and beating up a kid’s dad. Not what you would expect to see from a ‘smart’ guy. “Well I want you to know I support feminism… mostly by having body image issues”

Rust went on and on about shit he read up about. He might have been a social pariah but he wasn’t dumb. It made sense for him to know shit like that.

And we are counting out these guys just cuz they didn’t brag about what is in their Kindle? Hahaha

Missed that part where I talked about ray passing out in bars and flying off the handle and beating an innocent man to a pulp, huh?