If we only included Season 1, I bet it would be top 5. Definitely a top 5 season all time.
I don't know. In retrospect it was a lot of nonsense (time is a flat circle?) that was never resolved.
At least that's my recollection
I just rewatched it and still think it's a master class of acting from both McConaughey and Harrelson.
I agree with both of you, which is why i ultimately left it off. Yes, i also thought it was a masterclass in acting and the direction and look of the show was great. However, like kupcho posted- the story was a bit of unresolved nonsense. I think its a bit overrated, even Season 1.
What i think about when in these types of threads is TV vs. movies. Maybe i am not wording it correctly, but i feel the opposite of most. What i mean is that if a movie is something i would describe as well acted, well directed, meandering, and without a resolution - it is usually some artsy crap that 80s and i get roasted for ranking highly. I find it weird that people will watch that for 8+ hours in a season of tv but seem to have no patience for it in a 2 hour movie.
You're missing the story here. People just don't like you and Ilov80s.
No, I think you're on to something and I think it's that the American public views the cinema with a bit of skepticism toward the foreign, yet embraces that same type of thing when it is in a format that it had as its birthplace and into which time divisions (a half-hour or an hour) make more sense for their consumption habits. Yes, I know people watch television differently now, but it's still that half-hour or hour show (aside from commercial interruptions) that make it palatable, even if the content is ponderous and somewhat foreign to America. (I think True Detective was pretty existential in outlook and philosophy, if I've heard correctly about the show, so that would qualify as pretty much not American—unless they were deists, which is another discussion for another time.)
Plus, there is at least some story line that begins and gets wrapped up in an episode most of the time, no matter how open ended some story lines in the show are or continue to be at the end of each episode. There's generally at least a superficial denouement somewhere, and people relate to that. It helps the pacing and piques at least a little bit of interest before there is a resolution to one of the matters at hand.
Otherwise, it's just like one of those long, ponderous foreign movies where people tend to babble a lot about nothing and there's no action and no resolution to anything—you know, movies that you and Ilov tend to love.
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