"True Detective" both gives and takes away. Just when I thought the show had finally found its footing and was ready to deliver on its promise, here comes an episode like last night’s "Down Will Come." Two-thirds concerned with a fairly slow-moving, muddled procedural and one-third with a fiery and harrowing shoot-out, this episode overall represents a lot of the second season’s flaws.
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Once again, I’ve hopped on the phone with Brad Brevet from Rope Of Silicon and we’ve dug into the latest episode of "True Detective." With only four episodes to go, the mystery is as tangled as ever, though some clues are now beginning to emerge. Meanwhile, we’re pretty curious how the other threads will tie together, or if they will in an organic manner. Meanwhile, will Frank ever get the avocado harvest he deserves? Will that woman find a gig in another bar so we can stop listening to those songs?
You can listen to our talk directly below: download here or subscribe at iTunes and check out the preview for episode 5, "Other Lives."
I love this season, much more than season one. It\’s a great LA noir story with interesting characters and an intriguing mystery. I\’m baffled by the idea that this season is a failure.
bit of a stretch to have the same character who killed Caspere to find him, too. not saying you\’re wrong here, just that it\’s lousy writing.
In the first four episodes of the second season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto has offered a number of clues to the identity of who killed Vinci city manager Ben Caspere and subsequently complicated gangster Frank Semyon’s (played by Vince Vaughn) multi-million dollar land deal ahead of a planned a high-speed railway project.
Caspere was killed by Paul Woodrugh (played by Taylor Kitsch).
Only Detective Dixon (played by W. Earl Brown) suspected Woodrugh thus far, but now Dixon is dead.
And don’t forget, there is a videotape in the second season of True Detective, just as there was in the first season. There is always a videotape . . . it’s a necessary ingredient in the Pizzolatto formula.