![]() There’s no end to the darkness of this season’s set of characters, which makes these first two episodes a slog of moving from stone-cold face to stone-cold face, each one less convincing than the last. By the time this season has started, night has already befallen all of our characters, leaving no sense of mystery as to how they fell so far, the depressing details pouring out of every crevice Velcoro’s ex-wife (Abigail Spencer from Rectify) threatening a paternity test, Frank mortgaging his “empire,” and Paul and Antigone’s “struggles” with their sexuality (not to mention Antigone’s two siblings who killed themselves) are brought to the light with all the subtlety of the torture Caspere himself endured. What sticks out about “Night Finds You” is how damn hard it’s trying to be a literary work from the water damaged ceilings leaking into an image of Caspere’s removed eyes, to the closing shots of the man in the bird mask (more on that in a minute), “Night Finds You” isn’t really true to its title. They were few and far apart, yes, but there were moments where True Detective‘s time in the bayou led to pockets here and there where it didn’t feel like the entire crappy world was coming to a crappy end Season 2 of True Detective has forgotten this balance, delving so far into the deep side of dourness that it has, in the span of two short hours, turned into a parody of itself – and one that isn’t necessarily awful, but awfully hilarious. While the first season of True Detective wallowed in the depths of existential despair, it wasn’t afraid to let its characters crack a smile, be it the good or bad guys. ![]()
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