Season one might be the best single season of television I can think of. It certainly helps that it was apparently written over nearly a decade by a college professor of fiction writing. The story just works so well, and the career-defining performances of the two leads makes it that much better.
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Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Season Two killed it for me. First season was phenomenal. Then to do it like that just one season later was not cool. I’d be ready for another round though, I think.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I take a couple of issues with this. One, I would agree it’s one of the best scripted tv seasons I’ve seen, but it doesn’t even come close to being number one for me. I would put the jinx above it, for one. Can’t say why, but it is just head and shoulders above it. Which I know is 110% subjective, but it’s what I think. And two, and I think this is a way more objective opinion than my prior one, there is no way that that series was the career defining moment for either Harrelson or McConaughey. I mean, Matthew has literally won an Oscar…
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 5 months ago
The Jinx was a docuseries though. Can’t really compare written television to documentaries.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You totally can. Imdb does. If anything, it’s harder to do a good documentary than it is scripted tv, cos you can’t just rewrite a doco if some of its a bit shit like you can with scripted tv.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I liked S2, but I’m a sucker for basically any noir (because we get so few of them) and also for Vince Vaughn playing in a dramatic role. It’s a shame that S2 was always destined to live in S1’s shadow; that first season was instant classic television. S3 was good, but I still would highly recommend not comparing it to S1.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
S2 would’ve probably been liked better if it wasn’t called True Detective.
Disco_Dougie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did you watch season three? It was no season one, but it was pretty good. I would not recommend watching it immediately after season one (because you’ll be comparing them a lot), but it’s definitely worth watching.
Super agree about season two though. It’s crazy that they tried to follow a nearly perfect piece of television with… whatever the fuck that was.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s too bad too because I was a big fan of Taylor Kitsch after his performance in Friday Night Lights.