Guy goes on a rant about True Detective's Season 2 Episode 4

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Get ready to watch one of the most absurdly conceived, badly directed, improbable gunfights in the history of movies and/or TV. Cops arriving at a potentially violent no-knock raid, to arrest a known gang member suspected of murder, armed only with pistols, and no helmets? Check. Cops (including the battering ram guy!) walking down the middle of the street in front of the building they intend to breach, in broad daylight? Check. Bad guys shooting blindly at the cops for no apparent reason? Check. Unlimited ammo available to everyone involved (other than Rachel McAdams, who literally brings a knife to a gunfight)? Check. Cannon fodder (here, the protestors and workers in the building) milling around in slow motion despite the fact that tens of thousands of rounds have been fired over the course of several minutes, and a huge explosion has occurred, right upstairs? Check. (Not to mention the fact that the idea of a bunch of protesters carrying signs in front of a random warehouse, as opposed to, say, City Hall, makes no sense in the first place.) Cops coming out of cover for no reason, only to have their heads blown off by two gangbangers spraying and praying with AK-47s? Check. A bus full of passengers inexplicably driving into the middle of an enormous firefight (in the midst of a protest about the lack of bus service in the area, no less)? Check. No police backup arriving on scene even after what has to be the bloodiest shootout on U.S. soil since the Civil War? Check. Bad guy using his final rounds to murder a hostage, rather than shooting at the police? Check. Nobody but the three protagonists surviving a firefight that seems to have killed at least 25 people? Check. I'm sorry, guys, but TD season 2 has totally wasted the goodwill built up by the first season (which was brilliant at times, and very solid overall). The show is just ridiculous on so many levels . . .

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