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Old 07-05-2015, 06:22 AM   #3471 (permalink)
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Season 2 of True Drunk is good. However if you are triggered by the cast being hammered 24/7 then don't watch it. But other than that no complaints.
I just binged all the way up to the latest episode and...

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If I hadn't been looking at the beginning credits of the 1st ep of season 2, I would have been totally confused that there was a completely new cast. I honestly don't know why it's even the same show. I have to assume that the shotgun dude with the crow mask at the end of ep 2 is somehow connected to the animal masks from the first season, or else these are two different shows.

So far it's cool and all, but there's no character as compelling as Rust, the urban setting isn't nearly as amazing as Louisiana, and I'm dubious that the story is going to be anywhere near as engaging as season 1. I'll give it time, but for the time being, season 1 was a mini-series and season 2 is completely unaffiliated, or else I'm just going to ruin it by comparing the two.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 07-05-2015, 07:27 AM   #3472 (permalink)
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How about your take on season one as a whole? What did you think of the finale? So many great scenes but how about Woody's acting when Rust first shows him the VHS tape in the storage shed?
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Old 07-05-2015, 09:52 AM   #3473 (permalink)
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How about your take on season one as a whole? What did you think of the finale? So many great scenes but how about Woody's acting when Rust first shows him the VHS tape in the storage shed?
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Fantabulous. I watched the entire thing in a day, so it really felt like one long movie. "Intense" would be the word I would use if I could only use one.

And I'm actually happy I knew about the weird fiction connection going in, cause I was always in Lovecraft mode while watching it. Rust almost felt like a Lovecraft protagonist after he'd seen something that he wasn't supposed to: broken, nihilistic, and with a crushing sense of his own tiny place in the universe.

The VHS tape was some great weird fiction-style horror as well. Just enough to be creepy, but in the end it tells you nothing and let's your imagination horrify itself.

Even Louisiana was a perfect setting. It had that same kind of desolate, isolated, creepy atmosphere as the kinds of New England ****holes that a Lovecraft story always takes place in.
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Old 07-05-2015, 10:07 AM   #3474 (permalink)
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Really cool read here:

True Detective?s Glenn Fleshler on Playing Errol -- Vulture

Huge Lovecraft fan. Didn't make the connection until you mentioned it. Nice!
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Old 07-05-2015, 10:11 AM   #3475 (permalink)
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Huge Lovecraft fan here. Didn't make the connection until you mentioned it. Nice!
Technically not Lovecraft, but adjacent.

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Ordered via Amazon. Can't wait to read.

Have you read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"?
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Ordered via Amazon. Can't wait to read.

Have you read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"?
I have not.
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I have not.
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Greatest novel of the century IMO.

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Old 07-05-2015, 11:44 AM   #3479 (permalink)
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Dude...

Greatest novel of the century IMO.
Well have you read Sandman?
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Well have you read Sandman?
Not yet. But it's now on my list. Thanks.
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