Reviews of the opening few episodes -Based on the three episodes HBO sent to critics, the second season of True Detective is nearly as addictive as the first.
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv ... -2-review/True Detective Is Back, and Here's What Makes It Great
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Did I mention that the show also still a ton of fun? Pizzolatto is far too shrewd, and far too base, to let his grander meditations get in the way of a rollicking story. Unlike with season one, which was set in Louisiana and unfolded at a bayou-worthy pace, season two begins with its four main characters careening off the rails, and they're only gathering more speed. So okay, fine, season two isn't as good. Of course it's not. But so what? Give me more.
http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2015/0 ... al_twitterTrue Detective’s Second Season Is Brooding, Sour, and Totally Fascinating
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The result often plays like a cousin of The Wire as directed by Michael Mann — the kind of series that presents its broken, brooding heroes as if they were characters in an opera about the many different flavors of corruption, institutional and personal. It takes everything so seriously that you have to laugh at it a little bit, then admire it for being true to whatever it’s trying to be and not really giving a damn what you think of it. You’ll probably miss the humor of the first True Detective — the needling banter between Cohle and his partner, Woody Harrelson’s Marty Hart, that spawned a thousand memes and probably made the graphic violence and philosophical monologues palatable to a wide audience — but the brooding sourness of this one is fascinating in a different way, though it loses points for showing us a world that feels far more familiar than the one showcased in season one.
http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/review-t ... son-2.htmlAt least in the first three episodes of True Detective season two, that magic is missing. Maybe when the various strands of the complicated story come together, the payoff will be there. Or none of that could happen. And what we’ll get is a sophomore slump. The pressure is now on for the remaining five episodes.
The Bottom Line: Let's just say it's no season 1.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review ... -tv-802085Score a second bullseye for “True Detective.”
HBO’s neo-noir crime mystery franchise returns next weekend with a new cast, new city, new era, new case and new look.
But the switch to Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn instead of Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey has left one detail intact. It’s still the kind of show that makes TV viewers reach for phrases like “golden age of television drama.”
4 out of 5 stars
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.2254923
