My opinion is very clear, the first season is a divine drama (complimentary), and the second season is a well-produced type of police and bandit drama.
From the background of the story, the plot of the first season takes place in Louisa-New Orleans, which is located in the Mississippi Delta. It is mixed with the traditional American South that is conservative and even uncivilized, and the strange characteristics of French-Haitian culture, and there are many more in the plot. Not including supernatural elements such as Cult cult and voodoo, fermented in the desolate southern swamps, and the two masters' acting skills, it is not surprising that IMDB still has a score of more than 9 points.
As the second largest city in the United States in the traditional sense, Los Angeles, due to the diversity of its population, is stronger than Louisiana in its degree of openness and drastic changes in various cultures. Perhaps the worst footage you've seen in season 2 is just the low-rent housing for illegal immigrants and the hard-working Asian-Mexican coolies in sweatshops, but you never see the piles where the bad guys live in the first episode. waste paper and wandering wild "mansions" of women in oil-soaked, sweat-soaked skirts.
That's right, the second season focuses on the sins and conspiracies hidden in the shadow of the angel's wings behind the prosperity and luxury of the city of angels. Let’s just say that in the iconic opening scene of the drama series, the heavy industry factory is still entrenched on the horizon. These industrial facilities that once laid the foundation for the city’s development and absorbed tens of millions of jobs are now Because of the transformation of the economic type and the increase of pollution, it has become a burden on the Los Angeles economic circle. The whole atmosphere of the second season is depressing, sleepy, broken and sad. The three policemen each with mental or physical scars wrestled with the enemies beside them and in their hearts in a dimly lit environment, and they did not know how to escape. Everyone's heart is full of pain and despair. In addition, the gangster who fought and struggled all the way, and still wandered in the front line of heaven and hell even after the age of the year (never thought that Vince Vaughn could play a serious/normal person so well).
Not to talk about the detailed plot, but only from the state of the protagonists in the play and their temperament and taste inside and outside the plot, the story of the entire second season is transmitted from the voice of the decadent resident folk singer in Felicia's bar. , with a drowsy and drunk electric guitar, a magnetic and heart-touching voice with a dreamy lyric repeated over and over again, like a person who escapes the crowd and uses his last dignity to maintain his sense, crying against the wall of their own experiences and indignation at life. "The Only Thing Worth Fighting For", this song alone is enough to rival all the episodes in the first season (not counting the ghostly opening song, which is really classic). Several protagonists worked their way through the season for the only thing they had left. In the end, the murderer became Ren, and the survivors continued to move forward for the world they wanted to go to. We get the world we deserve.
Finally, let's talk about the opening song of this season, the title song "Nevermind" in Uncle Cohen's new brick. The song is a good song, but I always feel that it is not very good here. If you listen to the album version (the version of the opening song of the series has been edited to some extent), you may feel a completely different temperament from the second season of True Detective. In the lyrics: "The war was lost, the treaty signed"; "Your victory was, so complete"; "I was not caught, though many tried"; and "I live among you, well disguised". According to Cohen Uncle's famous political sensitivity and metaphorical style, plus the strong Middle Eastern chanting in the original version (that is, this part was deleted at the beginning of the episode) made me directly wonder if it might be Cohen's imagination that has never been used by Americans Captured bin Laden's inner monologue at this moment...
Jokes aside, although the second season is not as powerful as the first season, but in all fairness, it is still very good. Maybe the change from the dual hero setting to the four protagonists of good and evil 1.5+2.5 scattered some space that could have further described the character details, but it is still an excellent work. Colin Farrel's uncle image is surprising, from Bruges to seven perverts to this season's true detective, 囧mei brother brings more and more surprises.
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