it started off promising but by episode 4 i started to think something was lacking and by the end im pissed that i wasted my time on this show. it was so poorly done that i feel insulted. boring and badly written. its like they didnt know where they were going with the story as they were writing it and just came up with the laziest ending possible. that one scene where jodie foster goes off on navarro and threatens to kill her after she brings up her kid had the weirdest dialogue in the whole series. like it was written by a 12 year old. and it seems like the hit from the fire extinguisher that navarro took would have killed most people, but she not only recovers in seconds, but is about to beat the dude to death before jodie foster intervenes. i didnt buy that at all. i dont understand why they had to cover up the death of kenny powers brother. he had just murdered someone and was about to shoot jodie foster. pryce was justified in killing his dad...again, no need for the cover-up and all the risks that come with that. overall, the series had too many boring and slow parts...but at least it was visually cool to watch. there were more severed tongues and ice dongs than boobs though, which was another disappointment.
The show was awful. I didn't really find any of the characters believable except maybe the wife, and that's probably only because they mercifully didn't make much of an attempt to flesh her out And the brooding...my god the brooding. This show had like 20 Bruce Waynes of all sexes, shapes, ages, races and sizes. That archetype was already halfway over the shark for me...now's it official. The peripherals of the show were great. It had a cool setting, cool cinematography and the general feel of True Detective. The writers just weren't up to the task of filling in the details, whether it be plot, characters or dialogue.
What the **** was the serpent thing that was frozen in the ice when they looked up at the ceiling? Feels like they forgot they wrote that part in there. My God this turned into a flaming pile of dog poo really quick. They really blew their load with Season 1.
Also, everyone was either a loner or in some communal living arrangement. Intact families didn't exist. No one was happy. Projection from the writers I imagine.
So where does this season rank for you guys? Haven't watched it yet. I'm intrigued by Jodi Foster as a nympho, but the other things you guys are saying...
I agree with someone else that for some reason I have trouble remembering details about season 3. I do remember that I thought it was really good and underrated. Season 1 - 10/10 Season 3 - 9/10 Season 2 - 5/10 Season 4 - 4/10
So, the supervisor Jodie was sleeping with and the mine lady both got off with no consequences? No karma at all for those two?
I'm out. I'll binge it if reviews somehow suggest that the next season is good, but I'm not holding my breath.
I liked Season 4. I didn't love it. Maybe I was expecting too much because of the hype. It was solid. I don't feel like it was exemplary or ground breaking enough to rank as top tier. I'm still glad I watched it, but I didn't love it.
The spirals and the ‘time is a flat circle’ were really bolted on to this series to ‘tie’ it to S1. I thought having Rust’s dad in there was a great nod. They could have done better with the spirals though.
Just watched it. Certain aspects of it were truly outstanding (setting, characters, acting, etc.). Others, like the supernatural crap took me out of it badly. It felt too long and I feel they could have done a better job cutting it by at least 1 episode, I would edit it down to just two and get rid of a couple storylines and the supernatural crap. Had potential to be a truly outstanding season, but it was marred by weird decision making. The director has potential but needed someone badly to edit out all the bad ideas.
