True Detective

[archmagi1]

I'm going with the latter. While my wife recognized the face when I googled him for her, she had no idea who he was, and definitely didn't have memories of him trying to become La Magra the Blood God in Blade.

[Pan]

Yeah Dorf had a run with some indie films back in the late 90's early oughts, but since i think hes just done E-cig commercials...

[GM Niles]

I'm not watching for him anyways. I'm a giant Ali fan.

[Pan]

So episode one was pretty interesting. I feel the episode overall tried to do a little too much, but i'm still interested in where this is going.

spoiler:

The girl being alive still was an interesting twist, but i'm not sure if it was too soon or not to pull that curtain. The reaction to discussing the "trashman's" home leads me to believe that he might take the fall for this and actually be innocent.

[Fumarole]

Anyone notice the RPG book in the boy's room? The cover was clearly a first edition AD&D DMG but the spine said The Forests of Leng. I found that a nice touch and am curious if it will come into play later.

[Aberzombie]

Just started watching Season 4 the other night. They’ve already put out two episodes, but I had to wait for my new TV to be delivered.

So far it’s interesting. Jodie Foster, Fiona Shaw and Christopher Eccleston are the only actors with whom I’m familiar. And I didn’t recognize Eccleston at first. Story is compelling, with some call outs to Season 1. A bit more of the overtly supernatural in this.

I look forward to seeing where it goes.

[Aberzombie]

I didn’t realize this at first, but apparently the ghost that appeared to Fiona Shaw’s character is the ghost of the father of Matthew McConaughey‘s character from season 1. That’s cool.

And it seems the chick who got murdered six years prior had discovered something about what the scientists were up to. Or she just found something horrific. Maybe some eldritch microorganism that possessed her. And maybe they were keeping her on ice at their facility. Which could explain the “She’s awake” line. And I can’t help wonder if whatever’s going with the still births among the natives isn’t related to whatever has woken up, instead of the mine. Unless the mine is also somehow involved in what has awoken.

Either way, I’m enjoying this season. Jodie Foster’s character is particularly fun.

[Pan]

Aberzombie wrote:

I didn’t realize this at first, but apparently the ghost that appeared to Fiona Shaw’s character is the ghost of the father of Matthew McConaughey‘s character from season 1. That’s cool.

And it seems the chick who got murdered six years prior had discovered something about what the scientists were up to. Or she just found something horrific. Maybe some eldritch microorganism that possessed her. And maybe they were keeping her on ice at their facility. Which could explain the “She’s awake” line. And I can’t help wonder if whatever’s going with the still births among the natives isn’t related to whatever has woken up, instead of the mine. Unless the mine is also somehow involved in what has awoken.

Either way, I’m enjoying this season. Jodie Foster’s character is particularly fun.

It's not bad, I really like the occult mystery in the air. I don't care for htem working overtime to make every person possible seem awful.

[Aberzombie]

Yeah, now that you mention it, they do seem to be going overboard in the “everyone sucks” department. After last night’s episode, however, I did feel a twinge of sympathy for that older deputy, who got scammed by the “mail order bride”. Only a twinge, though, because he’s still kind of a butt head.

Damn, though. They’re really jumping into the heavier supernatural element this season. Ghosts everywhere. I’m really hoping they go a bit deeper into Lovecraftian territory.

[Aberzombie]

Last night’s episode was pretty cool. I’m liking the kid Prior more and more. He seems to be the the only one at least trying to be a good person. Sucks what he had to do in the end.

There’s only one more episode to go, and I have to wonder if they’ve got enough time to tie up all the dangling plot threads. At least we should get a resolution to the big mystery.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

We watched the first episode last night and are pleasnatly surprised. Not as gripping as S1, which we binged the first four episodes of, but far better than S2.

[Aberzombie]

I was both satisfied with and somewhat disappointed in the season finale.

Satisfied with because they wrapped up the main stories and the mystery deaths in a pretty solid way, with the slightest, tantalizing hint that perhaps something more supernatural did in fact occur.

Disappointed for much the same reason. After a season with a much more overt supernatural presence, the resolution to the murders was decidedly pedestrian. It made sense, though, given the show’s history.

Overall, a decent season. I’d place it third overall. Season one is still the best. Followed by season three. I’ve never even watched season two, having heard nothing but bad things about it.