True Detective

Watched the latest episode last night. I still think it might be some ancient virus that makes people go crazy from the whale bones or whatever, but I do like the theory that it's tainted water from the evil mining company, they just haven't shown anything with people drinking water, so the jury is still out on that one. Just no hints or foreshadowing about water, you figure at least somebody would say "man this water tastes weird!"

The one thing I did realize after getting through that slog of an episode is that there simply isn't any likeable characters. I was trying to give the show a chance, but probably realized it sooner.

Jodi - good actor, but utterly detestable, yeah I'm supposed to have sympathy because she lost her little boy or something

Cheek piercings - she's at least a little bit more interesting, but PTSD veteran has made her a girl boss bitch, oh and her mom died, and her sister's crazy, so I have to be sympathetic to her plight.

Mail order bride dad - doesn't move the plot whatsoever, just filler

Obedient cop son - he's just a device for exposition because he did the research on the internet because that's what kids are good at. Jodi I even think told him that in an episode.

That guys wife - who cares about their marriage turmoil with him working long hours

Cheek piercings sister - red herring for magical curse, schizophrenia, but has only maybe had 10 minutes total screen time, so what do I care that that she falls into the ocean

Bar owner guy - maybe the only sympathetic character because he's trying to be a good man, but he's simping so hard on the cheek piercings.

Mysterious professor lady - interesting because I think she'll end up having some important element to the plot, but all she is is mysterious professor lady, but she did make a big holiday feast

Dr.Who - politician that enjoys getting laid

I think that's about all of them. If I missed anybody important, sorry. I really don't care what happens to any of them, and that's a pretty bad sign if your audience just doesn't care.

It just seems like every episode is like Araysar said, contrived drama that's supposed to make you give two shits about these people, but it doesn't work. Then you just sprinkle in these mystery boxes, fuck you Abrahams, and have a creepy ghost / hallucination somewhere towards the climax of the episode. Just so much of every episode is just boring BS, and you're supposed to get excited waiting for the big clue.

I'm really starting to think they just had some stupid idea and wrote themselves into a corner. Instead relying upon the actors and the setting, which if there's any standout portion of the show it's definitely the setting itself, perfect backdrop for a well-crafted story. Let's deviate from the procedural crime drama in the past and make it supernatural, because that's what the fans wanted.

It's not going to pan out to be something supernatural. Ancient whale disease is still on my bingo card. We still haven't seen the vault door that they show in the opening credits, and that'll probably be saved for next episode or the finale.

Also, there seems to be a big lack of any sort of musical score to the series, instead it's a bunch of shitty pop songs but I've never heard before, but anytime there's a dramatic moment, hey let's play a song from bitch singing through pitch modulation. It's jarring and overused.

I think I might go back and rewatch the first three seasons. One is great, two I at least enjoyed even with its flaws, but I don't remember much about three. I do know the characters in all of those three seasons were a hell of a lot more interesting and at least relatable.

Sorry for the long rant. I just haven't really watched a TV show in a long time because most of it's crap, I was kind of excited about this series but it's really shaping up to be a waste of time. I'm sure I'll watch the last two just to see how the hell they might try to wrap this cluster fuck up, I want to know if it's the ancient disease infects everybody and they all go crazy.

Edit: forgot

Fat lesbian Eskimo daughter - oppressed person who committed statutory rape, but she's also an environmental activist, which forgives those other sins.

Whole goddamn show just reeks of women being involved with every aspect.