True Detective Season 2: 5 Awesome Moments (And 5 That Sucked)

It's says something when a 4,000 word explainer (Four. Thousand.) does the rounds on the internet and still people don't understand what True Detective was about. Me, I've always been about not what a film (or show) is about, but how it's about it. That's especially the case with Noir. Inherent Vice is difficult; so is The Big Sleep. So is Chinatown and L.A. Confidential and The Long Goodbye. 

But True Detective's second season is something else. It''s not difficult, it's disorganised, and if you can't see the difference between the two then you shouldn't be watching Noir or any of its derivatives. 

Opacity is fine, but the second season's biggest problem lies in the fact that its obliqueness isn't intended. Pizzolatto simply wove too many strands together and got lost in the process, lost in the dream. His show isn't hard to follow because he wants it to be, his show is hard to follow because he tried to get us to follow too much. In the end, his strands didn't quite come together, and we are left with only the frayed edges of the material he never quite mastered.