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What was the letdown in season 1?
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What was the letdown in season 1?
Personally, I found the resolution somewhat dissatisfying, which is actually OK, because life can be that way. What I didn't like was the very final bit when Rust was in the hospital. It seemed forced. And then, of course, there was the dialogue ripped from Alan Moore, which, again, cool, but why the hell was Rust being optimistic?
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I like the ending.
Endings are always the hardest part of a story for the author. I thought that one was well done.
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Just that it was no one person. That The Yellow King was an idea and not some singular murderer going around.
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I thought the yellow King was that landscaper/painter huge dude.
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Miggs
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My recollection or take was that it was more of a concept. It/He changed over time. The lawnmower man seemed to be at that moment but more specifically speaking (or generally I suppose depending on your lense), it was an entity who’d carried out his acts for a couple of decades, as a cycle (that show loves circles) of abuse if you will.
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Speaking of circles... did anyone notice that the clocks in the police station were square analog clocks? I don't think that was an accident. Just sayin'.
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Haven’t watched the fourth episode yet. I’ll probably do so tomorrow.
My buddies only mentioned that the direction seemed different or off. Then they mentioned Pizz directed it. Dude seems to have quite the ego from what I’ve read on him and observed in interviews with him.
My buddies only mentioned that the direction seemed different or off. Then they mentioned Pizz directed it. Dude seems to have quite the ego from what I’ve read on him and observed in interviews with him.
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Not a great episode - there are a couple of scenes between Hays and his wife that go nowhere and kill the pacing.
There were some humorous moments that seemed uncommon and a bit out of character for the series and I wondered if there was a different director.
Miggs
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Watched it last night. It was fairly solid but unspectacular. At this point, I fully expect it to end with some semi-vague **** that it was institutional (probably the church) and that neither the lead nor the audience discovers the absolute truth, and that thematically, this season is about the detectives and how they’re haunted their entire lives by an unsolved case, like I’m sure dicks are in real life.
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Ali’s wife is pretty much a selfish, whorish, devil.
And I fully expect that at some point we’ll learn everything that we’ve seen will be shown to be a misrepresentation of what actually happened given Ali’s dementia, which started pre-1990.
He’s our lens and a narrative is really only as reliable as its’ narrator, even if it’s not from his actual perspective.
And I fully expect that at some point we’ll learn everything that we’ve seen will be shown to be a misrepresentation of what actually happened given Ali’s dementia, which started pre-1990.
He’s our lens and a narrative is really only as reliable as its’ narrator, even if it’s not from his actual perspective.