Advance review of Sunday's Season 2 premiere - some references to plot and character are made...
Corruption. Abuse. Sexual fetishism. A cop with a nihilistic world-view. A theatrically staged corpse. And a city littered with the shattered pieces of men and women who’ve been broken by the daily horror that life has served up for them. This is True Detective. Thematically and tonally the link’s between the first and second seasons of HBO’s neo-noir with a twist series are present within the first 15-minutes of the sophomore season’s opener. Yet – paradoxically – this is a whole new ball game.
Other than creator and sole-writer Nic Pizzolatto, the creative slate has been wiped clean. Gone are Emmy-winning director Cary Fukunaga. No longer will we witness the mesmerizing dance between Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson). What is left is the seed of an idea and a world of pressure on Pizzolatto’s shoulders.
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Corruption. Abuse. Sexual fetishism. A cop with a nihilistic world-view. A theatrically staged corpse. And a city littered with the shattered pieces of men and women who’ve been broken by the daily horror that life has served up for them. This is True Detective. Thematically and tonally the link’s between the first and second seasons of HBO’s neo-noir with a twist series are present within the first 15-minutes of the sophomore season’s opener. Yet – paradoxically – this is a whole new ball game.
Other than creator and sole-writer Nic Pizzolatto, the creative slate has been wiped clean. Gone are Emmy-winning director Cary Fukunaga. No longer will we witness the mesmerizing dance between Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson). What is left is the seed of an idea and a world of pressure on Pizzolatto’s shoulders.
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