I watched all 3 episodes consecutively tonight. It's just bad. Nothing much else to say. Everything is so forced and heavy-handed. The Semyon plot is a pure ripoff of Long Good Friday. Look it up and tell me it's not.

I got downvoted into oblivion in one of the threads for premature predictions, but every reservation I had regarding this season has manifested itself in a grotesque way. It's worse than I thought. Every lead wants to be Rust. Trying way too hard and the writing is just consistently below average. Don't know if I'll finish this one out. The pacing is just horrid.

Anyone trying to defend this is suffering from cognitive dissonance. This even makes episodes 6-8 from last season look good.

It's no secret how long Pizzolatto had been formulating Season 1. He had been writing and concocting and scheming that plot for years in his head, I'm sure. You can't expect someone to write every episode in a few months and expect it to be good. I see why he was cautious about doing a second season.

Wouldn't be surprised if this series gets the axe.

This post was edited on 7/5/15 at 11:39 pm

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Posted by abellsujr

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Posted on 7/5/15 at 11:41 pm to Carson123987

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It's no secret how long Pizzolatto had been formulating Season 1. He had been writing and conceiving and slaving over that plot for years in his head, I'm sure. You can't expect someone to write every episode in a few months and expect it to be good. I see why he was cautious about doing a second season.

This is a concern for any show, really. And season two of a lot of shows have been awful for that reason.

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Wouldn't be surprised if this series gets the axe.

Not even close to that yet. It will get another shot even in a worst case scenario.

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Posted by NIH

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Posted on 7/5/15 at 11:41 pm to Carson123987

Farrell is the only one who belongs. McAdams is trying too hard and Kitsch just seems pointless.

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Posted by Scoop

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Posted on 7/6/15 at 10:15 am to Carson123987

What we are seeing here is the second album thing you see with musicians. They spend years developing the material that ends up on their first album then they have to start from scratch for their second album and have to do it in a year or two which means it's normally not near as good as the first outing.

I'm gonna see it through but obviously this has been a big let down.

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Posted by shel311