Black Maps and Motel Rooms

As everyone knows, This season of True Detective has been insanely controversial and divisive it seems like since before it ever even aired. I think when the season started no one knew what to expect, and a lot of people were already ready to be disappointed, Ready to look for anything and everything to criticize and rip to shreds. It has been plagued by hype and backlash since season one ended. I feel that the season has been strong all along and has been a phenomenal slow burning character driven mystery, But after this episode, I think it is at the top of it's game and that season 2 is easily consistent in quality and entertainment value as season one. All of the things that were planted throughout the season and might have seemed confusing or random to some viewers at first glance, Are coming together now in a great way.

The performances are all top notch and The directing and cinematography is excellent as usual. This is a complex and complicated story that requires full attention and patience, and as we have seen in these past couple of episodes, Rewards it greatly. Much like season one, This is a season that begs to be re-watched, Every viewing adds more layers to the experience and when people do watch this season over as time goes on, I think we will see this season getting more and more of the credit it deserves. It already seems like the overall attitude concerning this season is starting to shift with a lot of people.

This was a great episode of television and a great season of television. The finale looks to be great and intense, But regardless of how it turns out, I think this season has already proved itself. Anyone that is debating whether or not they should watch this season, If you get past all of the hype, expectations, gossip, and all of the other things that have seemed to hover around this show for some reason, I think you will find an incredibly solid, entertaining, well made, and rewarding season. In my opinion this is one of the best shows on TV and everything that I want from a great HBO drama.

I saw the entire 2nd season few years ago. Revisited it recently. I loved this second last episode that i have reviewed it individually. This episode is so full of tension, suspense, action n emotions. Velcoro's relationship with his son, Woodrugh's brokenness n Semyon's relationship with his wife n business r affecting. Awesome songs, awesome characters n acting n sharp convoluted script.

Black Maps and Motel Rooms was perhaps the most engaging episode of the entire season 2. The penultimate episode was full of suspense and timely action. It is fair to say that the road towards the finale is nicely laid, after recovering from the mediocre start of the season. All the characters are finally coming into the places they were supposed to fill. The investigation finally has a direction and is heading towards an enthralling closure. For the first time during the season, I felt something for Taylor Kitsch's character and this should have been the way right from the beginning. The obscurity surrounding his character, made it dull and equivocal.

Vince Vaughn also had one of his best episodes and Colin Farrell was excellent, as has been the case throughout the season. I think Rachel McAdams's character throws F-bombs just to meet the TV-MA rating, otherwise apart from the "elite party", there hasn't been a lot to match HBO's TV-MA rating. Overall, the season has picked up since the 5th episode and hopefully, a good ending will prolong the idiosyncratic concept i.e; "True Detective", with a few more seasons

But I could not let the other write ups about how this is the best one in S2 stand. It's incoherent and rushed. They lost the tread of the whole paper thin plot here in an attempt to tie things up. But they introduce new characters, suddenly boost obscure plot points to the forefront and throw various characters for no clear reason. Look, it's simple. If you're doing Raymond Chandler then do Raymond Chandler. Don't make it so baroque. Keep the story clean and sparse. Guy's dirty partner dies and maybe ripped him off someone else ripped HIM off. Toss in a few me Fatale or two but tie them into the main plot don't create a whole separate story that was used as a crutch to bring in one of three main characters only to throw it away. Don't toss in personal details about another main character that's entirely superfluous to the story. Don't create a backstop you for a main character that's not important not used and doesn't lead anywhere.

Like I said it's simple. The fulcrum of the whole story is the first dead guy. Everything leads to that conclusion not 5 different ones. It doesn't matter if the story is advanced through a good guy, a bad guy or an anti hero.

All the reviews of this Ep are enamored that after nearly an entire season of slow moving fumbling, THIS is the moment where it falls together. But it doesn't. It tosses everything into the air. It's not a coming together it's an overly complex setup for what would be, in true Raymond Chandler style, the last 15 minutes of the movie. In thus case that 15 minutes is obviously more than an hour.

I swear to God I had to rewind certain parts of this episode over and over again to try to comprehend how insanely confusing this whole mystery is. I honestly thought I was following along with the plot perfectly well until I reached this episode. there's so many people involved in the conspiracy that it overreached at times due to how wide this thing spreads-almost every single person in the show is involved in one way or another, and it can be a bit much. Don't get me wrong-I still loved it, but damn if it didn't make me feel dumb at times. let's see how they wrap this all up. I wonder if anybody is even going to make it out alive.