![]() 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. 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. 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.
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