The buzz around season 1 was so intense that on the day after episodes, even the Chicago sports talk radio stations were spending big amounts of time discussing it.
good, it deserves an even-handed consideration, and not just to be compared to the first. It's like comparing Beethoven's 7th with the 6th
season one was good but really got by on atmosphere and acting - story was no great shakes and the finale was just ok (imo) season 2 kind of fell apart and I wanted to like it ill check out S3 but expectations have been lowered.....
Season 3 begins this Sun. -- Jan. 13, on HBO. It involves a murder mystery set in the Ozarks -- popular locale these days it seems.
Season 1 was new golden age of TV good. I didn't think Season 2 was a bad as it was made out to be. But I thought it was unfocused because they tried to tell too many stories.
I thought tonight's S3 premiere was a great first couple of episodes. Heavy subject matter, and an almost identical framing device here as in the first season, now with Wayne "Purple" Hays recounting his story at different points in the narrative. I thought the way the first episode jumped around was a bit off putting, but I'm getting used to it, and they use it to trippy effect in the 2nd episode. Definitely keeping the audience guessing as to what happened and how it happened with the missing children. Mahershala Ali, always watchable, is coming into his own so far here with some marvelous acting. I mentioned to my girlfriend that it looks like he's having his Denzel moment with this series (I'll get her assessment when she watches it). Very telling that Pizzolatto wrote Hays as saying his favorite characters to read were Batman & Silver Surfer, a detective and an alien, to mirror Hays' own outlook and situation. Strong start to the season so far.
And I think in the first season we didn't know if Rust was telling the truth. Here too we don't know if Wayne's retelling is accurate.
Yeah, they establish pretty early on here that Wayne is having memory problems, at least in the 2015 setting. Made me wonder if we're in for some Memento-type scenarios.
Enjoyed the first two eps. Very reminiscent of season 1 that's for sure. If this series was available to binge watch I'd probably be up tonight watching most of it. Wondering if anyone caught this bit: Spoiler In episode 1 when the two kids in the VW big pick up the other kid, as he get's into the car, the driver says "Hey watch the leather" Matthew McConaughey's character in Dazed and Confused says that when one of the other kids is getting into his car. Likely a coincidence but I did wonder if that was a little shout out.
Yeah, the similarity was pretty obvious and therefore disappointing. I'm not saying that it wasn't well done, just that it felt like a safe recycling of the hit S1, after a disastrous but different S2. It all felt very familiar.
Enjoying Stephen Dorff's work as well... looking forward to how they present him in the 90's and present day (2015, I believe) timelines... caught little glimpses in the preview after EP2.
So far so good. The framing did seem a little too much like Season 1 but it also served to wipe the awful season two from my memory.
I didn't even recognise him at first. I had a look at the cast list and then realised it was him. I can't even remember the last time I saw him in anything but he's been working consistently according to IMDb. Enjoying his performance in the first two eps.
