Another Film Blog Comes to the Defense of True Detective
True Detective season two has gained another supporter. Could there be a change coming?
Just a couple of week ago it would have been mostly fair to see that nobody liked True Detective season two. Entertainment Weekly was (and still is) leading the charge against the series and just about all of the other media outlets were falling into line. And then something strange happened. In reaction to the renewed dislike for True Detective, people started to speak out in its defense.
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We recently wrote about bare*bones, an e-zine that actually liked season two. Now another blog has raised the flag of support. One Perfect Shot, a site dedicated to chronicling perfectly framed shots in films and television, didn’t hate True Detective season two. To be fair, that’s how it is phrased in the article — “didn’t hate.”
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It’s not some sort of grand defense, that’s for sure. But it is support, nonetheless. The article talks about the difficulty of following up a cultural phenomenon like True Detective with something entirely different, a point that HBO’s Doug Lombardo recently touched upon while taking the blame for season two’s failures. For what it’s worth, the cast is talked about as a pro.
Usually when discussing the True Detective season two cast the word “wasted” is found soon after.
There are now several media outlets that have defied the mainstream decision that season two was awful. That may not seem like much, but it’s actually a significant occurrence. It could eventually change the way that season is perceived in the future.
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It’s best not to be happy with what we’ve gotten so far, but the future of True Detective season two — critically speaking — is no longer looking so bleak.