tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post8178784251664329119..comments2024-01-21T11:18:54.087-05:00Comments on Lost in the Movies: True Detective season 2 episode 3 - "Maybe Tomorrow"Joel Bockohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-88546010094919796032015-07-12T03:00:49.279-04:002015-07-12T03:00:49.279-04:00Interesting...I had heard the stuff about season 1...Interesting...I had heard the stuff about season 1, but not season 2 yet. Some of the examples (mostly the follow-up edits touching on really unusual and/or important similarities) seem more convincing than others; the L.A. noir genre is such well-trodden ground at this point I'd be surprised if anyone could come up with something entirely original. More concerning to me re: Pizzolatto, is his general attitude/approach - he just comes off as very arrogant and possessive, but without the chops to justify his hubris. It seems like he really hungers to be the God-like showrunner but in fact he thrives more with collaboration.<br /><br />A backlash is definitely brewing. Did you read the Vanity Fair profile? Good grief. It all but calls Pizzolatto potentially the greatest auteur in TV (may show-biz!) history, a revolutionary changing the face of how writers are perceived. Guess whose name is never mentioned once in the entire article? Cary Fukunaga.<br /><br />I don't want to run to the other extreme and call Pizzolatto a hack/charlatan etc at this point - I do think a lot of season 1's attraction, especially the iconic/conceptual stuff at its center was due to him (albeit yes, heavily influenced - at the least - by other writers). Nonetheless, when season 1 came close to greatness for me it was the performance and the direction more than the writing. In fact I was very confused by the show at the end of its run. On the one hand, it seemed to have the potential to be a deep, meaty exploration of two troubled, ambiguous souls (I think episode 6 in particular places them almost in Tony Soprano territory). On the other it seemed to completely validate them in a slightly shallow way, reducing them to brooding-hero archetypes. Increasingly, especially after listening to Pizzolatto's interesting but very on-the-nose and kinda reductive HBO interviews - I think that the former was due to Fukunaga, and the latter to Pizzolatto. It seems like he likes to make feints toward complexity and ambiguity but doesn't want to go all the way. And of course there's the whole mythology thing too, which also feels like a tease in retrospect. The weird thing is he seems to be fairly clueless about how a lot of this stuff plays.<br /><br />I would love to read a tell-all behind-the-scenes book of season one and get a better sense of the creative differences on the set. I think if he isn't careful, Pizzolatto may play his cards wrong and fall quicker than he rose, due to over-adherence to a one-trick pony. Call it the M. Night Shyamalan syndrome.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-12355348780560598672015-07-07T13:19:28.273-04:002015-07-07T13:19:28.273-04:00Haha, uh oh... :(. Obviously this went up by accid...Haha, uh oh... :(. Obviously this went up by accident, episode 3 review will be up Thursday. Haven't watched it yet but this is foreboding. Ok, this is going back to draft mode, see you on the flip side.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-4289235511544616812015-07-07T10:39:27.787-04:002015-07-07T10:39:27.787-04:00I agree with you on that one... not much more to b...I agree with you on that one... not much more to be said anymore about season 2. Sadly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com