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Finally got around to knocking out season one. Very clever, at first. I chuckled along viewing the first three episodes. It was like the Left and Right of Outside trying to work together in real life. Woody the grounded Right and Matt the off-center Left. "STFU" was most appropriate during their car rides and asides as Matt just went off the planet. Funny stuff.
We spent glorious amounts of time developing characters. Everyone was really fleshed out including Woody's wife, Michelle Monaghan. Lots of interpersonal drama befitting real life. Although the cast was excellent I feel Matt was severely self-indulgent with his character. A saving grace was the full-frontal of Alexandra Daddario which was breathtaking to the point producing a dead faint. The script was delicious, gritty, and well-churned.
Great script but what about the story? Well, I had not looked ahead and was expecting twelve or thirteen episodes yet around episode six things accelerated like dropping off a cliff. The story drew to a rapid conclusion faster than an executive producer shouting "cut" due to lack of funds. (Yeah, I know who the execs were.) Though the creepiness of the last two episodes help ease the pain of the concluding drama I still felt there was more to the story.
I was disappointed by the artificial brevity of the end but glad it was as good as it was.
PS. Season Two is going to be a real struggle as reported here earlier. I will attempt Epi-2 to see if I can hold on.
I just finished up on Season 1. Matt's character was really out there. Existential BS galore. But that was his character. And it tied into the finale as if destiny required it. Crazy. But crazy good.
The theme song, Far From Any Road, fit nicely into the plot toward the finale. Indeed it was far from civilization where the final struggle made its throes. T. Bone Burnett produced the music as it says in the credits. But the song credit actually goes to The Handsome Family. A song they recorded something like 12 years ago.
Anyway, I liked the first season.
-Steve
I'm not entirely enamored with McConaughey's style of delivery in movies of late. His Texas drawl slurs too many words. Off the set, if he spoke like that he'd have everyone asking him to repeat that last sentence. As in: "What?. Could you say that again, I didn't quite hear you."I guess it works in front of the camera 'cuz the production can get the mic's close enough to articulate his mumblings.
And the cigarette smoking. Have you ever seen anyone inhale a cigarette that deeply? In this series his character sucks on those cigs as like it was a joint.
Rust quotes:
"This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle."-----------------
"The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself."
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"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill."
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"F***, I don't want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. And that little boy and that little girl, they're gonna be in that room again and again and again forever."
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"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."
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Just a few pearls.
A thoroughly wierd and interesting first season.
-Steve
Edits: 07/26/15
Yeah, Matt reminded me a little of myself on Outside.
dividends if'n you can hang in there. The last scene in 2.4 just could possibly take yer breath away.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
No big dividends for me. Just watched episode 5 this morning. So I found episode 4 extraordinarily dull, despite the action packed finale. And episode 5 is little better, although there was in fact one interesting revelation that looks like it may result in an interesting interaction next week.
But all in all, it is pretty damn terrible. The dialogue is often way over the line from film noir toughness into just unintentionally funny.
In episode 5, the motorcycle cop and his mom have a big fight. It is maybe the worst scene of the series. The acting, the dialogue, the subject matter, it's all just so hyperbolic.
I'm down for the last 3 episodes since it looks like things will resolve plot-wise. But this was a huge disappointment. I kind of loved season 1. I'm more or less hating this season.
What a train wreck. People keep watching looking for salvation that ain't coming. Part of the fascination is seeing this after the first series. Unbelievable extremes.
Yeah, I'm joshing.
I found out you had to be 65. They made it a moving target but I finally hit it.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
Edits: 07/20/15 07/20/15
they kept moving the target but at a pace where I was always eligible. The senior discount, in theaters, is getting to be marginal here. It's just fifty-cents at out most tony theater (Malco) and a dollar at Regals.
When Medicare starts to pay for that catheter you need while watching any movie longer than 60 minutes.
You start saving big.
Then in the grave at 85 people will say "poor guy was just born."
of it. Somewhat like a Daniel Woodrell or James Lee Burke novel where there's so many interesting
little stories, scenarios, asides, et al happening there just isn't any real point in expecting a great through
line to hold it all together. Just get in the way.
True Detective was one moody-ass buddy film at root and very successful as such.
Would have been nice if the leisurely pace it started out with HAD been tempered better farther along.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I enjoyed the first season. I watched episode 3 of season 2 and I'm out. I'm just not interested in any of the storylines or characters.
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