True Defective Redux
Sorry to keep harping on this, but I just saw that a Season 5 of TRUE DETECTIVE has been approved by HBO, with Issa López, the one who served up the dreadful NIGHT COUNTRY apparently greenlit to do Season 5.
Several things -- I saw rumors that López had wanted to do NIGHT COUNTRY as its own show, and that HBO compelled her to make it part of TRUE DETECTIVE -- if that's the case, then that can explain why it sucked so badly, with the ill-fitting and pointless nods to Season 1 thrown in there.
But how cynical is HBO being in giving Season 5 to Issa López because of the big audiences for Season 4? Way cynical. Despite the big audience, Season 4 stunk (for reasons I already stated).
The boosters will be ecstatic, and are even going on the attack to deride Season 1 as somehow inferior to this Season 4 drek. That's insane. Season 1 will always be the best season of TRUE DETECTIVE, and, in retrospect (and despite booster audience rankings), Season 2 will always be second-best of the four seasons so far. People may not ever realize that, or be afraid to.
Season 1 and Season 2 remain THE best seasons of TRUE DETECTIVE. The rest? Not a chance. Here's the quality gauge of the seasons:
1 > 2 > 3 > 4
It's not even debatable.
What's happened to the television world where people elevate junk and diss actually good stuff? While one can opine that taste is subjective, there really are good and bad television shows out there. People may love junk, but loving junk doesn't make it treasure.
I'd be curious if the DARK COUNTRY lovers would compare it to, oh, I don't know, THE SOPRANOS and claim it was better than that? Or BREAKING BAD? Or BETTER CALL SAUL? Or THE AMERICANS? Or even PENNY DREADFUL?
Seriously -- is DARK COUNTRY just the greatest television show in TV history? Stack it up against actually good shows, and you know what it is? Trash. It's junk, and it has fuck-all to do with the female-led cast. It was just poorly-written tele-trash.
It's like people thinking meatloaf and hamburger helper is the same as steak. "It's JUST as good." No. No, it's not.
Even though people are dogging him for griping about Season 4, I feel sympathy for Nic Pizzolatto -- I mean, he got the whole ball rolling with TRUE DETECTIVE, and while he's retained an executive producer credit, he's seen his series, what he created, gradually slip out of his control by way of HBO, and become something else. Further, people are actually slagging him, even though there'd be no TD without his original inspiration!
Are people just so acculturated to loving junk, now? Has the ability to make aesthetic judgments simply faded away before the mob? Season 4 burned me. I *wanted* it to be good, and it simply wasn't. I won't be fooled again.
Several things -- I saw rumors that López had wanted to do NIGHT COUNTRY as its own show, and that HBO compelled her to make it part of TRUE DETECTIVE -- if that's the case, then that can explain why it sucked so badly, with the ill-fitting and pointless nods to Season 1 thrown in there.
But how cynical is HBO being in giving Season 5 to Issa López because of the big audiences for Season 4? Way cynical. Despite the big audience, Season 4 stunk (for reasons I already stated).
The boosters will be ecstatic, and are even going on the attack to deride Season 1 as somehow inferior to this Season 4 drek. That's insane. Season 1 will always be the best season of TRUE DETECTIVE, and, in retrospect (and despite booster audience rankings), Season 2 will always be second-best of the four seasons so far. People may not ever realize that, or be afraid to.
Season 1 and Season 2 remain THE best seasons of TRUE DETECTIVE. The rest? Not a chance. Here's the quality gauge of the seasons:
1 > 2 > 3 > 4
It's not even debatable.
What's happened to the television world where people elevate junk and diss actually good stuff? While one can opine that taste is subjective, there really are good and bad television shows out there. People may love junk, but loving junk doesn't make it treasure.
I'd be curious if the DARK COUNTRY lovers would compare it to, oh, I don't know, THE SOPRANOS and claim it was better than that? Or BREAKING BAD? Or BETTER CALL SAUL? Or THE AMERICANS? Or even PENNY DREADFUL?
Seriously -- is DARK COUNTRY just the greatest television show in TV history? Stack it up against actually good shows, and you know what it is? Trash. It's junk, and it has fuck-all to do with the female-led cast. It was just poorly-written tele-trash.
It's like people thinking meatloaf and hamburger helper is the same as steak. "It's JUST as good." No. No, it's not.
Even though people are dogging him for griping about Season 4, I feel sympathy for Nic Pizzolatto -- I mean, he got the whole ball rolling with TRUE DETECTIVE, and while he's retained an executive producer credit, he's seen his series, what he created, gradually slip out of his control by way of HBO, and become something else. Further, people are actually slagging him, even though there'd be no TD without his original inspiration!
Are people just so acculturated to loving junk, now? Has the ability to make aesthetic judgments simply faded away before the mob? Season 4 burned me. I *wanted* it to be good, and it simply wasn't. I won't be fooled again.
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