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EPISODE
SEASON
True Detective is back with its second season which shows an uncanny killing. Now a career criminal and three law and order officers have to join their hands for this case, and in the process all of them have to go through a path of conspiracy and unfaithfulness in the hot locality of California.
15 March 1963, Waco, Texas, USA
4 April 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 August 1983, New York City, New York, USA
15 November 1962, Rochester, New York, USA
12 May 1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14 November 1974, Bronx, New York, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
12 August 1984, Alexandria, Egypt
8 May 1951, Mobile, Alabama, USA
13 December 1983, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
10 July 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 December 1974, Notting Hill, London, England, UK
22 October 1973, Kensington, London, England, UK
24 December 1990, Zephyrhills, Florida, USA
May 08, 2017
This season seems to be parodying itself. Sometimes, the romance between a show and its viewers ends badly. To paraphrase True Detective 2's tagline: Maybe we get the television we deserve.June 18, 2015
True Detective is a very different beast in its second season: less Cthulhu and more garden-variety lizard. It doesn't haunt so much as slither.June 18, 2015
Is it the breakthrough, landmark television of the first season? No. But it is a rock-solid crime drama with film caliber production values, intriguing plotting and great performances.June 19, 2015
It may be impossible for it to strike TV lightning twice, but True Detective in its second iteration definitely has a charge.June 18, 2015
Pizzolatto is a terrific writer who crafts elliptical dialogue that builds the mystery and intrigue. The story, too, is the classic onion variety, with character reveals, motives and backstory arriving as each layer is peeled away.June 19, 2015
True Detective Season 2 may not be subtle ("this is my least favorite life," a performer mournfully sings at the Vinci bar.) But the actors provide enough light to make it worth navigating the gloom.June 19, 2015
The story is dark and atmospheric -- just the way fans like it. Meanwhile, the first three episodes hint at enough buried secrets and fresh angles to indicate that the story still has a lot to give.September 26, 2016
Vaughn does not have half [McConaighey's] charisma, however, and Semyon's wordy meditations on his ambition and paranoia do not work nearly as well.June 19, 2015
There's a lot of plot that makes the first couple of episodes a bit difficult to ease into, but at the end of the second episode, Pizzolato's penchant for abrupt violence with a side of freakiness will leave you with panting for more.June 18, 2015
This go-round - not as surreal, except for the episode that opens with a cheesy lounge singer performing The Rose in someone's Twin Peaks-style fever dream - is a straight-ahead, contemporary L.A. noir thriller.