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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkL7cpG2UhE The new 6-episode season of True Detective, which premiered tonight at 9pm Eastern on Max. Starring: Jodie Foster Kali Reis Fiona Shaw Finn Bennett Isabella Star LaBlanc John Hawkes Trivia from the Wiki: quote:The season was filmed in Iceland, with a reported budget of $60 million. Filming began in November 2022, and wrapped in April 2023. The conditions included nighttime shoots at −23 °C (−9 °F), which director López commented on by stating "I’m Mexican, so I’m really not fond of the cold". She continued by referring to how viewers found the environment authentic: "because we were there, because the actors were cold, because the filmmakers were cold." Discuss! Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Holy poo poo, this had a phenomenal opening. I am all in for this season.
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Jan 15, 2024 03:36
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Holy poo poo, that effect with the head blown apart  e: A show that feels this cold is perfect for the arctic blast that's sweeping the US Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jan 15, 2024 03:39
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Well goddamn. Six episodes, right? Sad it'll be so short, but I'm excited that they have to really drive forward.
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Jan 15, 2024 04:03
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When the Extreme Polar Bear Ice Dipping Challenge goes awry. Theory time: ”She’s awake!” Dude had tremors. He was exposed to some ancient virus they thawed out… along with an Ice Woman! e: What’s dead chick connection? She’s an unfortunate witness to Ice Woman’s revival at the lab! Or she’s Ice Woman’s victim and had to be disposed of by Lab staff in a very public location to keep things unassociated from the Lab  Supernatural angle is that the ancient frozen virus the lab thawed out is now aerosolized and spread through the town and they’re having hallucinations due to it. Dead Son Travis gave me Killer BOB vibes. Inuit Cop’s spirit animal was that one-eyed polar bear she saw on the street, right? Odoyle fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jan 15, 2024 04:09
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the caribou looked like poo poo lol this is gonna be worse than s2
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Jan 15, 2024 04:33
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Whoops, I should have checked. I guess someone should kill mine.
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Jan 15, 2024 04:38
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I AM GRANDO posted:Whoops, I should have checked. I guess someone should kill mine. Once the killing starts, who knows when it will end?
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Jan 15, 2024 05:22
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The real question is which thread for this show will survive
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Jan 15, 2024 14:44
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I know (think?) it wasn't originally written as a True Detective season, just got the branding later, but I was surprised at how much I was feeling The Terror vibes from the first episode. I mean that in the best way possible, show looks great and I dig the two leads so far, and it's weird and spooky and unsettling and COOOOOLD.
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Jan 15, 2024 15:21
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Jerusalem posted:I know (think?) it wasn't originally written as a True Detective season, just got the branding later, but I was surprised at how much I was feeling The Terror vibes from the first episode. I mean that in the best way possible, show looks great and I dig the two leads so far, and it's weird and spooky and unsettling and COOOOOLD. It's got that Nordic subgenre Really Far North and its isolation, madness and despair feeling down pretty well. Set in A Place People Should Not Be but are there to take something from the earth and it costs them everything. I recognized the hunter in the opening, Angunnguaq Larsen, as the lead in Thin Ice, a show set in Greenland and I hope to see more of him, he was very good in a rather mediocre series.
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Jan 15, 2024 16:05
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I’ve been thinking about that scene with the delivery guy and the tongue. It seems totally redundant from a storytelling perspective, in that the police show up to investigate the missing scientists and find the tongue right where he finds it. What purpose will this scene and the delivery driver serve? We do get a shot of a fast-moving human figure in black jeans and a tshirt, sex ambiguous. I wonder if he will turn back up or if there’s something interesting about his truck, which doesn’t seem to be there when Jodie Foster shows up.
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Jan 15, 2024 16:55
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Odoyle posted:
Jodie Foster's kid's (I guess?) toy polar bear only had one eye a.s well Not sure what the connection is there,.
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Jan 15, 2024 22:48
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Syncopated posted:Jodie Foster's kid's (I guess?) toy polar bear only had one eye a.s well Not sure what the connection is there,. The smiley face patch on the ice station guy’s pink jacket, not present in the photo of the murdered woman wearing it, also has one eye closed.
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Jan 15, 2024 23:19
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I AM GRANDO posted:The smiley face patch on the ice station guy’s pink jacket, not present in the photo of the murdered woman wearing it, also has one eye closed. oh poo poo! Guess we'll be on the lookout for a one-eyed man...
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Just finished the premiere ten minutes ago. I'm not sure what I watched. It definitely feels like a True Detective show. Well, not all of it actually; the beginning before the credits was like a mid-budget film in the vein of Invisible Man or something. They even had that shot where someone runs past the camera so fast and so close to it that you can't tell what they look like. The rest also deviates somewhat from the pattern. Supernatural elements being hinted at and even (ambiguously) present are something that TD is known for, mostly for the first season. But here we have every other character hallucinating or briefly stepping into another world (although hallucinations are not supernatural I don't think that's what they're meant to be.) Lights flickering on and off at times that punctuate the drama is a bold choice too. I'll see where this goes. Final thoughts:
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I enjoyed the episode but it was kind of shocking to see how quickly and how hard they leaned into the "supernatural" stuff that is usually waaaaaay in the background. Definitely too early to judge, and I need a second viewing, but I'm always hesitant when a show wants to "ride the line" but then shows just the viewer (only) stuff that wouldn't be reconcilable with that. Need more episodes before I start to worry about it though. Found out today on one of my podcasts that the director Issa López did Tigers Are Not Afraid which is an absolutely incredible / beautiful / heartbreaking film that I'd recommend to anyone. Also the scene in the jail with Stacy wailing in the cell and Jodie Foster trying to ignore it is the most Twin Peaks thing I've seen on television since Twin Peaks and I love it.
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fullroundaction posted:Also the scene in the jail with Stacy wailing in the cell and Jodie Foster trying to ignore it is the most Twin Peaks thing I've seen on television since Twin Peaks and I love it. This scene had the opposite effect for me! I really liked this detail because it was such a contrast to shows and movies where everything is unrealistically quiet when exposition is being explained. Jodie Foster is a wild character so far. She tells Navarro that most detectives don't dwell on cases and that is a clever way to be realistic (for mostly better, I've never seen a colleague in the hospital pick one specific patient to carry around with them for a decade, haven't known my lawyer friends to do this, and I assume cops don't either). I was also a bit shocked that she's raising an IaIñupiat girl and was presumably married to an Iñupiat man but isn't above crudely taunting Navarro about her culture. I may have been hard on the show in my post above but there are some very fine elements. Especially little details. That scene where it shows the Rose looking through the window, and then shows her through the same window coming outside? More of this please! Oh, and, you don't have enough money to make me watch Tigers are Not afraid, because I don't have enough tissues. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Jan 16, 2024 07:33
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I'm hoping that Navarro's facial piercings get explained. Also the last shot in episode 1 is awesome.
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Odoyle posted:”She’s awake!” Dude had tremors. He was exposed to some ancient virus they thawed out… along with an Ice Woman! This is what I'm thinking too. It's a play on all these recent stories in the last few years of we dug up these ancient microbes from the permafrost, 40 million years old, and they woke up when we unthawed them. I think the oil company has been drilling, and when that woman was killed years ago, it was because some infected oil rig employee went nutso and killed her. After the oil companies internal investigation, the determine that the killer was infected with something, so they set up the lab to investigate. We can see they've been drilling core samples, and basically all their employees are focused around microbiology, most specifically that one guy who was a "paleo microbiologist". So after years of study, they finally realize discover the pathogen that has been dug up, but at that point they realize they're probably all infected, hence the "we are all dead" message. Same pathogen is what drove the caribou crazy and drove them off the cliff, and most likely the wolf was infected and got into the old woman, which is why she is now seeing/hallucinating the guy that has been dead for years. So I suspect more people in town will be getting infected and going crazy and doing snow crimes. That, or they drop all pretenses and actually go supernatural, instead of just hinting at it like previous seasons. There was that prominent copy of The Thing on display when Foster was trying to turn off Feriss Buellers.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:The real question is which thread for this show will survive Yeah that's the most interesting thing about this season for me so far. 
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Why am I waking up and hearing that the bros of the internet are trying to review bomb this already. For fucks sake.
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Shammypants posted:Why am I waking up and hearing that the bros of the internet are trying to review bomb this already. For fucks sake. Women make up like 4% of homicide detectives. A team consisting of two of them together wasn't due until TD Season 2541 at the earliest if they were being realistic. This is pure woke pandering. Is that the jist of it? Because I'm certainly not going to look into it myself.
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Jan 16, 2024 16:33
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It also isn’t being down rated at all. It’s currently at 92 percent from critics and 72 percent from an audience score
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e: Wrong thread sorry
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Jan 16, 2024 18:06
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Suspekt Device posted:I'm hoping that Navarro's facial piercings get explained. Also the last shot in episode 1 is awesome. What? What about her facial piercings need to be explained?
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I'll rewatch season 2 of True Detective if they do a director's cut where the motorcycle cop gets threatened with being outed as a gay man and he says,"....okay? Go ahead?  " and then the people trying to blackmail him go,"gently caress..." because they realize that it's not the 1980s.
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Jerusalem posted:I'll rewatch season 2 of True Detective if they do a director's cut where the motorcycle cop gets threatened with being outed as a gay man and he says,"....okay? Go ahead? Yea dude makes perfect sense for an up and coming state trooper who is purposefully closeted. Totally no problem there.
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Danger posted:What? What about her facial piercings need to be explained? i know what you're getting at here but this a a show mostly for elderly white americans her facial piercings need to be explained and mark my words they will be
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Jan 17, 2024 01:18
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Danger posted:What? What about her facial piercings need to be explained? I mean are police allowed to have dimple piercings while on duty? That is actually slightly confusing.
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Jan 17, 2024 01:39
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That’s such an insane thing to “need” to explaining. I’m very glad no one here writes for tv lol.
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Jan 17, 2024 01:59
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I’m imagining the episode of Lost about how Jack got his tattoo.
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Danger posted:That’s such an insane thing to “need” to explaining. I’m very glad no one here writes for tv lol. you didn't understand my post
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roomtone posted:you didn't understand my post I don't think anyone did.
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Jan 17, 2024 02:47
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What is the lore behind her huge muscles and long ponytail?
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Leon Sumbitches posted:What is the lore behind her huge muscles and long ponytail? 4 year old youtube video title for Abby from TLOU2
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Jan 17, 2024 18:32
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If someone is from a different culture you aren't super familiar with, it's not beyond the pale to wonder if a body modification you've never seen before has some kind of cultural significance or not. Like any of the rest of you have ever seen a cop with dimple piercings before.
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Jan 17, 2024 18:51
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The actress has dimple piercings. It's not at all a mystery.
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Closing this thread because people seem to be using the other thread instead and we don't need 2 threads for the same show.
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