According to many fans, True Detective's second season wasn't nearly as good as the first. The numbers show it, too—the finale ratings couldn't match up to Season 1. HBO's President of Programming Michael Lombardo says it's his fault, and that he put too much pressure on True Detective's creator Nic Pizzolatto to deliver too much, too fast.
Lombardo doesn't necessarily think the second season of the show was a failure, but he does recognize that it was rushed to air. He says he "became too much of a network executive" after the show's massive success and was determined to repeat that in the next year. Pizzolatto, Lombardo says, is a "soulful writer," who, with the second season of True Detective, "had to reinvent the wheel."
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Lombardo doesn't necessarily think the second season of the show was a failure, but he does recognize that it was rushed to air. He says he "became too much of a network executive" after the show's massive success and was determined to repeat that in the next year. Pizzolatto, Lombardo says, is a "soulful writer," who, with the second season of True Detective, "had to reinvent the wheel."
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