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#201 Post by Grisbi » Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:56 pm

Dylan wrote:
In addition to Vaughn, Elisabeth Moss is also in talks to star (an exciting, inspired choice if she gets the role).
Moss would be phenomenal. She slayed her very True Detective-y role in Top of the Lake. This would be a real coup for the show if they could land her.

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#202 Post by Perkins Cobb » Fri Aug 08, 2014 5:09 pm

And did you notice that Moss's character is named (sigh) Ani Bezzerides? Not on the nose at all there.

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#203 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:59 pm

Well HBO, good work screwing almost everyone out of their Emmys with the category switch

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#204 Post by Roger Ryan » Tue Aug 26, 2014 8:03 am

domino harvey wrote:Well HBO, good work screwing almost everyone out of their Emmys with the category switch
I'm pleased Fukunaga got "best director" though - unlike the other nominees, he was at the helm for every episode which may have given him an advantage even if he was only nominated for one of them (the one containing the tour de force tracking shot, of course).

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#205 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:16 pm

The show didn't even make it to Weird Al's parody.

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#206 Post by Andre Jurieu » Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:51 pm

... aaaaaand that would mean what exactly?

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#207 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:59 pm

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#208 Post by Andre Jurieu » Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:12 pm

Well, I guess I feel like Homer trapped in a bomb shelter flipping through a "The Far Side" calendar.


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#210 Post by domino harvey » Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:19 am

Rachel McAdams in talks for the female lead, which would obviously be a much bigger "get" than Moss

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#211 Post by Murdoch » Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:26 am

Although I'd much prefer seeing Moss in the role, especially after Top of the Lake.

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#212 Post by domino harvey » Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:37 pm

There are many, many actresses circling this one role, including Brit Marling, Rosario Dawson, Malin Akerman, and Jessica Biel in addition to McAdams and Moss


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#217 Post by jbeall » Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:37 pm

Rachel McAdams confirmed as the lead.
Since the end of the summer we've learned that Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, and Taylor Kitsch have all agreed to prominent roles in the upcoming second season of 2014's most talked-about drama. Creator Nic Pizzolatto had previously divulged that the new season, which will take place in California, would also feature a female lead, and McAdams had long been the frontrunner to land the role.

According to a press release, McAdams's character of Sheriff Ani Bezzeridesis is a "Ventura County Sheriff's detective whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with the system she serves." She also reportedly has drinking and gambling problems, so it will be interesting to see how McAdams is able to inhabit a more troubled character than she's accustomed to playing.




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#221 Post by Zot! » Fri May 08, 2015 5:08 pm

Works for me...the spooky thing was the biggest deference to cliche and the weakest and least interesting part of the first season. Though I will miss the LA atmosphere.

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#222 Post by John Cope » Fri May 08, 2015 10:05 pm

Zot! wrote:
Works for me...the spooky thing was the biggest deference to cliche and the weakest and least interesting part of the first season. Though I will miss the LA atmosphere.
It wasn't particularly interesting to me either as I never thought that the show really took its metaphysical angle genuinely seriously. That always came off as a byproduct of the banal psychological realism, an epiphenomenal extension of it (i.e. what the show really took seriously, reduced everything else to ultimately and read everything else through). Because that was so banal though, it was welcome. As the show supposedly devolved into more gothic pulpy campiness I appreciated it more for shedding pretensions it never had any real interest in developing or following up on and just embracing the underlying Pulp that it always was. Having said that, the gesture toward metaphysics was at least what distinguished it from the endless reams of other cop shows out there and made it distinct. To blow that off in favor of presumably more "psychological realism" seems a real bad move to me. Hopefully the Pulp will rise and save the day.

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Re: True Detective

#224 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:01 am

Early reviews are not kind. Also, apparently one of the characters in the new series is a negative and thinly-veiled depiction of Fukunaga...

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#225 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:42 am

Matt Zoller Seitz really likes it

Alan Sepinwall a bit more mixed, gives it a B- and mentions the Fukunaga thing Domino did

Take note though that the reviews are of the first three episodes, and if I remember correctly, the first season didn't quite get going until further in than that. I'm cautiously optimistic.

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