Soundtrack Songs: True Detective (Season 2)

Leonard Cohen – Nevermind

Lera Lynn – My Least Favorite Life

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – All The Gold In California

Warren Zevon – Detox Mansion

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Bonnie – Intentional Injury

T-Bone Burnett – The Locked Room

Lera Lynn – It Only Takes One Shot

John Adams – Harmonielehre: Part II: The Anfortas Wound

The Black Angels – Black Grease

New York Dolls – Human Being

Lera Lynn – Lately

Spoilers! I re-watched the second season the other night and yeah, binge the whole thing  in one sitting on the weekend and off course it’s not as great as the first season but it’s NOT as bad as everyone did say at that time. I think, I’ve gone on record here on my blog somewhere else saying first season of True Detective is most likely one of my most fave TV shows ever made, it’s beyond perfect and total masterpiece! I’m going type a bit about this season in details. The third season came and when with very little fanfare at start of this year. No-one seem to care at all about that one but very quick review by me is I did love it too but I will blog post about that, hopefully sooner that later! I did blog some songs from True Detective (Season 1) but nothing about show itself last year, linked here.

Now want I love about this second season which I guess, is what most people hated: the three main characters or the main cops your following in this season is the best or nicest description of them is they’re three totally fucked-up cops thrown together to try to solve a case everyone wants them NOT to solve. So casting nice guy actor Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon who’s a gangsta but doesn’t like to be called a gangsta but is best buddy with fucked-up cop number one: Detective Ray Velcoro as played by Colin Farrell. The fucked-up cop number two is Detective Ani Bezzerides as played by Rachel McAdams, both her and Colin are under-rated great actors in my opinion. The fucked-up cop number three is Officer Paul Woodrugh as played by Taylor Kitsch which I can’t say I’ve seen him in anything else at all, sorry to say. I’ve never been a big fan of Vince Vaughn, most likely the biggest name in this season but he’s perfect casting really when you think about it. All these four main characters are not very likable, unlike Rust and Marty from the first season.

Main scenes: got to say something about the biggest bloodbath shot-out gone totally wrong in movie/TV show history which off coarse is a total red herring too. It’s such a over the top massacre because everyone dead by the end of it including pretty much all the cops minus these three, all the bad guys plus their meth lab that blows-up in the middle of all this. Then any member of the general public who just happened to be walking down the street is killed and then when you think your going to get a car chase it end as quickly as it started but goes up to the near-by street where a lot of people are protesting something and then bad guys automatic weapon a whole bus load of people because that’s what they crash into in their get away car so by the end of it all the only three standing are those three cops. It ends everything about this unsolvable case because the easiest thing to do is the blame the now dead bad guys, yeah they’re Mexican meth lab bad guys who shot-up the whole neighborhood but not the bad guys of this case. Most peeps seen the whole 2nd season as can I use a metaphor now: a mass gun shot-out gone totally wrong. When Rust and Marty faked a big shot-out in the first season and told everyone a pack of lies to find the case was not done but were celebrated heroes at the time, not so for this season’s cops. Everyone knows or all viewers did knew about the orgy scene before even seeing so over-hyped TD season two was! It turned out to be just rich-assholes but to me it was actually good and cleaver part no matter what everyone else says. For the fact what really happens is fucked-up cop number two cons her way into it, BTW she is a pissed-off feminism knife wheeling nutcase so she kills two rich tuxedo assholes pointblank, it’s a pity she didn’t do in anymore!

Other bits I loved: Lera Lynn plays recurring character as bar-room muso performing her songs in a dive bar frequented by Ray fucked-up cop number one and Frank not the gangsta. Somehow I’ve narrowed it down to only three songs above but all LL’s tracks in the season are total killer cuts and then her album was great too, you know? They did do a soundtrack album around this time but included some songs from the first one because that never did a soundtrack album then. I did buy it but got to say, I still don’t why they didn’t do two with a lot more of the songs as used in both because, I think people would have buy two or maybe they wouldn’t? I don’t know?

Also proves you should never trust anyone including all the other police offices not killed in that messy bloody shot-out because the more clear-cut they’re the worst they’re really,  or any kind-of politicians because the higher up they’re the most evil and corrupted they’re, land-developers or real-estate agents are just two-faced lairs who take everyone’s money and give you nothing in return and pretty much everyone living in California is guilty of something, if you wanna look? The Mexican drug-dealing gangstas are really the good guys compared all the scumbags I’ve just listed above. In the opening episode does have a scene showing how the best way to deal with high school kid bully and side-note I remember flatting two bully’s at school in the middle of full classroom twice and then the teachers punished me.

Well, by the end they do solved the case but it’s all too late because in the meantime two of the three fucked-up cops are dead by the end credits and the other one leaves California for overseas because they’re going to kill her next. The only kind-of happy ending is once oversea the now ex-fucked-up cop number two hand-balls all the case files to a New York Times reporter to blow it out of the water but final credits roll before we see that happening.

Conclusion: It seems to me watching it this time around, almost every part about the second season was done not to be liked/enjoyed or to be endlessly disappointing over and over because it goes with the theme of nobody can win going against the power’s-that-be because they’re in power for their reasons and they’re not going to give it up for nothing, you know? As watcher/viewers of police TV shows we’ve grown to must see the case be solved in half an hour or less but in reality things like what is explored here in True Detective (Season 2) will always be covered-up because that’s what does really happen. The show was called a flop and panned in 2015 because I think, most peeps don’t want to know or be told the biggest/worst or most evil scumbags in the world are in the biggest offices or houses everyone can see and are not some faceless nameless mass murder/s full-stop.

TD’s season two crime scene didn’t shown up until the very end of the first episode where Woodrugh finds Caspere on the coast in the middle of the night!

Cheers 🙂

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