Short of him producing something on the level of The Wire season four, just about anything was going to be seen as a letdown. If you're interested, don't hesitate to PM me and reach out, open to offers on it. Well, no matter what you thought of, you were probably right. Before I put it up on eBay or Discogs, I thought I would give Reddit it shot first. Wait, of course, never mind: You said True Detective Season 1, 2, or 3. Both discs and cover are in mint condition. Pizzolatto caught lightning in a bottle, however, in that first season (helped in no small part by the happy coincidence of True Detective premiering in the midst of McConaughey’s Oscar run for Dallas Buyers Club). I have the True Dective season 1&2 OST on vinyl from Record Store Day Black Friday 2015 that I'm looking to sell. But given its HBO pedigree and the (still) relative novelty of movie actors doing a TV series, criticism may have been of the more measured, wait-and-see variety. Had this been the debut episode of the series, critics may have still noted the clipped way in which nearly everyone speaks, the relentlessly somber mood and the slow, exposition-heavy pace of the episode. Part of the problem may have to do with the burden of expectations. True Detective Season 1 show reviews & Metacritic score: A 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana begins with Detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) joining the search in. In terms of structure, it’s like a lot of crime shows viewers have seen before, give or take the savage beating of a middle-school bully’s father.Īll that adds up to a premiere that underwhelmed critics and some fans, if not the audience as a whole - season two’s debut ratings were the second-best ever for the series. The premiere plays no games with time - there’s one flashback, but it serves to illustrate the relationship between Vince Vaughn‘s Frank Semyon and Colin Farrell‘s Ray Velcoro - and the question of unreliable narrators is moot because the show takes an omniscient point of view. Season two of True Detective, however, is tracking very differently. It was slightly above average and watchable but also fairly forgettable. Amid all the literary references and Rust Cohle’s ( McConaughey) philosophical bent, there were very real questions about whether the 2012 versions of him and Marty Hart ( Harrelson) were telling the truth if not, what were they lying about and why and what had sent Rust off the deep end in the 16 years in between the two timelines. If we say season 1 was a 10 (I would say 8.5 or 9 because the very end was boring and predictable), my opinion would be season 2 was a 4 and season 3 was maybe like a 6.5.

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