Preface

• I try not to do episodic reviews of shows because I don’t watch a ton of shows that air week-to-week, I prefer the binge-style format, and when I do, I’m usually proven wrong.
  • Full Season 5 of Walking Dead Review will be up soon…
• But True Detective is the show, okay.
• If you guys don’t know how much I love True Detective, check out my Review of Season 1 here first of all. And when it comes to single seasons of television, the two I currently hail as the greatest single seasons of all time, the ones I reference in prayer to the TV gods are Breaking Bad Season 5 and True Detective Season 1.
• I loved the first season of True Detective so much that I literally lent my DVD of it to my English teacher! (Who also loved it.)
• Therefore, going in, I wasn’t expecting Season 2 to be nearly as good but this first episode was very decent overall.

Premise

• So True Detective is a show on HBO that began airing last year in Season 1 with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
• But it’s an anthology style show, so Season 2 has a brand new cast and a brand new case to be solved.
• Among that new cast is Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, and Vince Vaughn.
• And this first episode is mainly setting up these characters for the rest of the season, not dealing too much with the case.
• And even though I won’t be including too many spoilers, I’m gonna issue an official SPOILER WARNING.
• So if you haven’t seen this episode, feel free to check it out, I do recommend it, then come back and read the rest!

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