True Detective Season 2 - 10 Reasons It's A Huge Disappointment
6. Sexual Deviancy Is Uncomfortably Brought To The Forefront
Sexual deviancy is a major theme that Nic Pizzolatto seems to like exploring in True Detective. Season one tackled sexual deviancy in a pretty graphic but not-overly-unsettling way. Season two takes it up to 11 and doesn't know when to stop. There's Ben Caspere's palace of the penis fetishist, an unhealthy weaving of sexual violence, deviancy, and just sex (or lack thereof) into each of the four main character's lives and backstories. It only gets more uncomfortable as the main narrative unfolds. It is revealed that young women are getting pimped out and Caspere's death is related to the dirt he has on Vinci's many important men and the orgies they like to throw every weekend. It all culminates in that unsettling orgy scene at the end of episode six. All the young women (and Ani) are gathered up, all are given drugs so that they 'loosen up', and there are seedy old men popping viagras everywhere. It's one thing to only hear the Yellow King and his sister going at it, it's another to explicitly see old men and young women doing the same in numerous unsettling positions. To top it all off, we're treated to a drug-induced flashback of the time a young Ani was sexually assaulted by one of her father's creepy hippie buddies. Thanks for that, True Detective.
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