10 Reasons Why Season 2 Of True Detective Is Actually Awesome

10. Vince Vaughn's Performance Made Frank Sympathetic

Having spent the decade since the career high of Dodgeball trying to reclaim some of that success by starring in a seemingly endless stream of lacklustre comedies, Vince Vaughn seemed an odd choice for Pizzolato to pick as one of the central stars of True Detective's second season. Perhaps he hoped to duplicate some of Matthew McConaughey's recent success - he having being another actor who had previously spent many a year in rom-com limbo.

Vaughn, it must be said, lacks much of the gravitas of McConaughey and at first it seemed that he was struggling to convey the various facets of his character - his delivery of some of Frank's half mumbled philosophising was usually monotonous and often far from convincing - his "Never do anything out of hunger. Not even eating." is a line so bad that it wouldn't have looked out of place in the godawful Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez turkey, Gigli. Gobble gobble.

After a while though, something remarkable happened and, along with the other central characters, Vaughn grew into his role and Frank became believable (or, at least as believable as a character in True Detective can be). Soon his monotonous mumblings began to add to the character rather than detract from it and Frank's focused, almost level-headed panic as he struggled to keep his business and his marriage afloat at the expense of his own morality became intriguing; his Machiavellian determination to come out on top and avoid "Managing an Applebees," made his character both utterly deplorable, and sympathetic - something even McConaughey might have overcooked.