A rust belt city might be fun.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Houston would be an amazing choice but too close to Louisiana I suppose.
― ryan, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah Pizzolatto has said that S2 will take place in Los Angeles and will be about "the secret occult history of the United States transportation system," so i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that it will be more in line with the first season than just a generic LA noir thing. xp
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
"the secret occult history of the United States transportation system,"
I'm in.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
i have a suspicious that this will be totally amazing and even better than season one because i think there's a tendency for writers or artists to sort of exhale and realize once they get their dream project realized and then that often leads to a surge of creativity. the possibilities expand.
― ryan, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
realize = relax
It's not like creepy hillbilly noir is particularly fresh at this point either.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
so, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Toon Detective
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
he didn't say Los Angeles specifically, just hinted at southern California
and Fukunaga said, "The next season, I think, has to do with something industrial in California."
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
feels like detroit is a missed opportunity but maybe that's just me
― building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
i'm still rooting for Helsinki in the 70's
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
i mean, of all the cities in america detroit is easily the one i could see some serious noir/gothic/nearly metaphysical cult shit go down since it's basically thunderdome at this point
― building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
Even when Detroit wasn't halfway to a ghost town, it had some of the best architecture in the country and should've been the home to more shows.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
agreed, and now that it has that 'ghost of a town' feel to it, it seems like a sure thing.
― building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
there's always Herzog's lieutenant
first description of s2 plotline put me in mind of lot 49
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
New Orleans would be also an acceptable option though it was already kind of part of S1
― building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
s1 kind of was a gritty remake of who framed roger rabbit when u really think about it
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
if only they had conceived an ending half as terrifying as WFRR's
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
being steamrollered by cliche was still quite upsetting tbf
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
ugh ugh ugh woody Jessica rabbit aghhhh
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
― ryan, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:36 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes, the "sophomore slump" is definitely not a thing
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
something tells me you won't be terribly predisposed to like season two.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
i would actually be totes happy if it was good. prove me wrong n-piz!
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
sending positive vibes to NP
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
^ true detective season 3
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Salton Sea would be cool.
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/11/ASOS-Jessica-Chastain-the-help.jpg"I'm gettin' too old for this shit"
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
California love
http://www.mtv.com/news/1832253/true-detective-season-2-location/
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
"And we're going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in season one."
fuck, this dude says "psychosphere" irl
― Clay, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
i listened to the interview with himhe says vuh-he-cle in a kinda mcconaugheyish way also
― schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
i think ozzy had a psychosphere on the ultimate sin tour in 86
― balls, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I'm biased but I kinda love how unpretentiously pretentious he is. would be curious if MM modeled any of his performance after him.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
i think you mean "unabashedly"
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Convincing Barman Nic Pizzolatto,
― schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
xp: either way I am for it!
plus he's given me the word "psychosphere."
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
he was a bartender in Austin and FYI they are all like that.
maybe it's a type that extends beyond Austin but there's definitely Alex Jones crossed with an eternal phd candidate type of dudes all over the place.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like a Central Valley story, with that desolation we saw in the Zodiac hitchhiker scene.
― That's So (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
ooh yeah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
ha ha, radi meant that sincerely in support of your unpretentiously pretentious thesis, btw
― schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
hope the dude goes for it in season two and has characters swilling cheap beer and quoting hegel at each other f the haterz.
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
should we all read this in preparation?
http://www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk/wordpress-3.2.1/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/EOWCoverFnl.jpg
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
1915 San Bernadino
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
oh damn I think I'm gonna!
― ryan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/didfredwestmurdertoorder.htm
let's send rust to europe imo
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I thought "the other California" was kind of a popular literary/filmic subject
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
I mean IDK, maybe no moreso than anywhere else
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
forget it hurting, it's
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
and i am not using my powers for evil, everyone here is capable of not watching the thing they think is bad, and i walk a lonely road
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 12 February 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
I watched it because you thought it was good! and to your credit I'm glad I did if only because I think it finally cured me of my Colin Farrell allergy and I might be able to finish The New World at last
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
then it served its purpose
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 12 February 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
ok seen first two episodes, and i'm sort of enjoying it. the morass of psychosexual collapse as a foundation for everything that's going on is quite palpable, which is good. the sense of people being on the edge works. aerial shots of freeways and intersections are unfortunately not enough to connect place to that morass, which is a shame. vince vaughan is a totally empty vessel, a complete void of acting and presence, but that in itself is sort of ok for who he is. there's an internal and meta sense of 'what the fuck are we participating in'. skating badly around in a messy, degraded chandler landscape of cheap casinos.
could it be very much better - yes by god, but yes actually quite enjoying it. i wonder if it was partly fucked over by being a follow up to true detective. it's a different sort of animal.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
and they have a *lot* of fun with interior decoration. the bel air mayor's pad is great.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
This revive is reminding me that I really wish Too Old To Die Young was available on DVD, because I want to see it and will never get Amazon Prime
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Thats the stuff fizzles take it as it is and theres a hollow dread to it, and tbh vaughn delivers as it goes on
― scampsite (darraghmac), Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
Interested what you think the farther you get into it. My first post in this thread, after a couple of episodes, was positive too. By the end, I was exhausted.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 February 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
The acting was really good imo. Some of those monologues were super-clunky but they (esp Semyon and his girlfriend) sold it well
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 February 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
The monologues were almost showily awful, like it cannot have been purely incompetence imo
― scampsite (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
aerial shots of freeways and intersections are unfortunately not enough to connect place to that morass, which is a shame
I felt the opposite, in its attempt at being a Great California Novel. It felt like so many strands of California fit into the story, from agriculture to casinos to cults to the landscapes. I wish the Guerneville/Bohemian Grove sections either had a greater sense of place/location or were moved to somewhere plausible in SoCal.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 14 February 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
Also, maybe it was shared way up above, but the NY Times did a good story on Vernon, CA.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 14 February 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
interesting. there was a bit where they were going to interview someone out by some crop irrigation, and i did think that it was good the way they were weaving in hard industry (toxic waste), casino and prostitution and driver services, crime and cults. so, yes, in fact i think you're right. i guess i felt that it didn't quite map on to a topography for me, which might have made it more powerful. oddly you get very little sense of them driving along via those intersections. unlike the first TD, there's perhaps not so much external sense of them driving.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 14 February 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the first episode, ending with that amazing shot of the crime scene pulling away off the coast at sunrise, sets up the show for having a greater sense of how areas connect, rather than cutting from one to the next with the same freeway shots.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 15 February 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link
well too old to die young sure is something, like taking all the boring parts of td2 and patiently stretching them into taffy. thx brad and thread
― adam, Monday, 15 February 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
seems like as good a place as any for this Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties
Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture.Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s awardwinning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
“The familiar, monochromatic picture of Los Angeles in the sixties—all Hollywood pop and Didion ennui—required a million people of African, Asian, and Mexican ancestry to be ‘edited out of utopia,’ as Mike Davis and Jon Wiener put it. What those people actually did, alongside antiwar feminists, high school students, and others, is the heart of this book, and it’s a big heart. No one could tell these intersecting stories better than Davis and Wiener, and their book gives us back a great city’s greatness in its movements, edges, and other centers, so many of them forgotten.”
I don't know, maybe those people could have told their own stories better than Davis and Wiener. We'll never know, though, will we?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
i hope they’ve got a good bibliography of primary sources. but i liked mike davis’ city of quartz v much (still need to finish it ofc) and may give this a go. my god my reading backlog though :/
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
“This angst cop drama you’ve got goin’ on”
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 26 March 2021 10:56 (three years ago) link
Did everyone watching this report back, im v curious as to how the endings stick
― Marry and Neghim (darraghmac), Friday, 26 March 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
with your angst cop drama and your cocaine tongueyou get nothing done
― righteous oxide (PBKR), Friday, 26 March 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
I feel like this season is conscious of how ridiculous it often is (and I like that)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link
i have paused on this, but will be returning.
― Fizzles, Friday, 2 April 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
Re-watching this now for the first time since it was new and liking it a lot.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Every time you watch this show Anthony Kiedis reproduces a clone (asexually, but you never know).
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
liked it the second time around much much better maybe they shouldn’t have called it True Detective idk
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Seriously; just calling it Nick Lottapizza's California Noir would have been just fine.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
happy to have been on the right side of history for this one
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:26 (seven months ago) link