Season 2 of True Detective is over. So what have we
learned? Ben Casper’s killing was mostly a McGuffin. Colin Farrell probably
should’ve kept the mustache. Vince Vaughn is a good vengeance-seeking gangster.
John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) should check his corners during a gunfight and Rachel
McAdams’ Ani Bezzerides likes knives, she really likes knives.
If you read the Internet,
you would think season 2 was worse than an abomination. Was it really that bad?
I enjoyed it. It was True Detective.
It was dark, gritty and dark, just like the source material the seasons are
based on. Sure some of the dialogue was a little too over the top. Frank Semyon’s
gangster speak was a little bit much, but was it any worse than Matthew
McConaughey’s Det. Rust Cohle and his rambling philosophical rants, no, not
really.
This season
delivered on some amazing shootouts. And
while the mystery of “who done it” this season wasn’t as big a deal in the end,
it was still an interesting web of corruption. Anthologies are always hit and
miss. There are always stories that are great, some that are okay and others
that just don’t work. Season 2 of True
Detective was good, not great. But not everything can be great. Sometime
good is enough.
