Right after it happened, Velcoro turned to mobster Frank Semyon (Vaughn) for help in avenging his wife Semyon, unsurprisingly, now owns Ray. Director Justin Lin (of the Fast & Furious franchise) looks to be going for the impact of a Hollywood movie rather than the more hard-earned granular approach that characterizes most great drama on the small screen.įarrell plays Ray Velcoro, a troubled detective (we are reminded of this a lot) whose wife, Spencer, was trying to get pregnant before a terrible incident in which she was beaten and raped. An eye-rolling final shot in the first hour looks excessively ominous. There’s a heavy-handedness to the direction that raises some early red flags: The stylized coolness starts to feel a bit overdone. It does, however, set up a complicated game of trust and allegiances - and the entirety of the first episode is spent a little too emphatically letting viewers know that everybody involved here is broken in some way. True Detective‘s second season employs the same flashback and time-jump elements as season one, but not nearly as confusingly, which is a bonus in the early episodes. Hell, the casting for season two got more ink than nearly all the pre-premiere hype of season one. Earl Brown ( Deadwood, American Crime), Ritchie Coster, Afemo Omilami, James Frain, Lolita Davidovich, David Morse and Rick Springfield. It stars Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch, with a string of impressive names in the ensemble including Abigail Spencer ( Rectify), Kelly Reilly ( Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), W. If season one was a brilliant surprise, season two sure isn’t sneaking up on anyone.
And not because any one individual has to one-up McConaughey or Harrelson, but because expectations and interest will be (fairly or not) higher than the first one, which came in as an intriguing idea on paper and then went way past that with its execution. But after watching the first three episodes that HBO sent to critics (of eight total episodes), the completely revamped cast of this True Detective has its work cut out for it. Season two may yet reach those magnificent if flawed heights, provided a little bit of magic dust falls on the right places. Read more ‘True Detective’ Season 2 Gets Moody First Teaser, Premiere Date Its accomplishments were born of a rare alchemy that’s hard to accomplish and even harder to duplicate.
That is to say that whatever True Detective accomplished in season one - tons of acclaim and 12 Emmy nominations (with five wins) - was directly related to the core group at the center of the show and how Pizzolatto’s words and Fukunaga’s incredible sense of place and composition managed to be more riveting than the whodunit nature of the plot.
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