TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

it should be a la carte but if you write for the internets it is prob required for optimal thinkpiece production

he just seems like a self-serious dbag

― call all destroyer, Thursday, April 9, 2015 8:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does he though? the one interview i read he just seemed like a normal guy stoked to be making a tv show

i dunno about "dbag" but can you realistically make popular (or even unpopular) entertainment in mass media without having extended periods of being tremendously self-serious? your ideas are being realized at the cost of millions of dollars and thousands of man hours, that's pretty serious.

lol i'm not invested in this one way or another but the stuff i've read w/him has not made me think "cool guy" is all i'm saying.

His name sounds like a giant pizza haha =]

i love pizza

i love pizzajitos

his statements about his upbringing in Louisiana makes it seem like he comes by his self-seriousness pretty honestly. in any case, he just strikes me as a bit clumsy in managing his media persona. probably didn't occur to him that citing Faulkner etc as an influence is to invite mockery.

part of why I was charmed by TD is that its "pretentiousness" (if you want to call it that) seemed so unguarded and earnest in some ways (though he's always careful to ground things in Marty's hilarious reactions to Rust). i guess in that sense it's the opposite of pretentious--these are ideas and feelings he was really invested in!

I will always have time for earnest nihilists

and I think that's what people are getting at with the "dorm room philosophy" jibes--as if they're made uncomfortable by that earnestness. too bad for them, I guess.

xpost: me too!

some boobs always helps seal the deal

i know its dumb but i hate it when my illusion of ilx as a sort of sophisticated place is shattered. there is no 'blog quota' and b/c i am an editor i only write things when i want to. 'slow news day'! sheesh. pizzolatto comes across like a schmuck in that thr article and i stand by every word in my post. max out.

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well i guess max has fulfilled his lying to ilx quota for the day smh

maybe he should set his stuff in idk Finland or something then

― Οὖτις, Thursday, April 9, 2015 1:38 PM (Yesterday)

would be cool if it was set in like 1970's Helsinki or something

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:28 PM (1 year ago)

:)

4real does being a "sort of sophisticated place" mean being hyper-acutely aware of the way in which a web gossip news org (which i enjoy, much love, but c'mon) manages its editorial process and publishing schedule in the day to day. i know y'all are into radical transparency with regards to how and why things are published but for people to be sophisticated do they actually have to _care_?

I mean pretty much everything Nick P has ever said in public makes him seem like a pretentious douche. That's beyond dispute

we should all be very worried...for season two, which isn't set in Louisiana but rather in L.A. Pizzolatto's leather-jacket philosophizing spoken by...Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell? In Los Angeles? A show about two brooding, masculine detectives in Los Angeles. Talk about disruption.

yup. even season 1 abandoned what made it unique and unravelled into cliche, pizzolato doesn't have enough critical distance from the characters he creates. Rust basically transforms into batman around the halfway mark. mcconaughey's ego can't resist the hero worship of the script and what was up to that some convincing method acting disappears for four episodes of A-lister camera posing.

s1 would have been so much more interesting if it was about Rust bringing Marty over to the dark side instead of the watery redemption story it farted out instead.

goddamnit guy
Max do you still think I'm sophisticated?

I didn't say anything bad about your blog

haha i should remember to just shut up about my job here.i think everyone is v sophisticated

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Judging from the trailer, what we know about the season's plot from the initial press release, and the filming locations that they've been to, I think it's going to be set partially in Norther California, for the scary rural white people setting of the show, to repeat what rural Louisiana could do in season one, and then they seem set to go to the San Fernando Valley (they filmed near Ventura Blvd and Studio City a little bit) for their LA proper section, and I think that's where Vince Vaughn will come into play.

The trailer opens on the 14/5 interchange that takes you out of Los Angeles County and to either Palmdale or Bakersfield, and further than that to Central and Northern California, but that opening shot is a hint that the division between big city California and its rural and poorer counterpart will be a theme. That some parts of California are poor because some parts of it are rich, with transportation being for this story what California water was for "Chinatown" (this theme was alluded to in the press release from a year ago, so we're just connecting the trailer to that).

And visually I'm guessing a cross between Vince Vaughn playing the kind of scumbag that would've been in "Magnolia", and Colin Ferrell driving in the same parts of town, and in the same moral atmosphere, that Ryan Gosling explores in "Drive," or that's featured in the show Justified, which is supposed to be Kentucky but is actually filmed in Green Valley, south of Palmdale.

Vince Vaughn obsessively caring for a one story Sherman Oaks home, and then cutting back to Colin Ferrell in a cowboy motel an hour north, packing and unpacking an old school briefcase over and over again.

That'll be the show.

True Fact: All of Season 1 was filmed in and around Acton, Ontario.

Here's where they run across Green Ears for the first time.

are you frigging serious?!

ok. you almost had me there.

pp is fulla beans tonight

if an ilxor posts about burritos but no one hears it...

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wow rude

xp poster otm

hope they manage e-ink billboards with that gif; that is a world i deserve

Great Gif! Karl Malone to thread...

love it.

yeah that's a great poster

Jeez, tell that to a Syrian cobbler.

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oboy more nihilism

those posters are borderline satirical lol

not that nihilistic, really. closer to moralistic!

eh the implication is clearly: a) things are bad and b) we deserve it

they are and we do

We Get The World We Deserve

A Television Show Featuring Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell.

lol