really leaning hard into the cosmic horror and I fuckin love it

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    121 year ago

    i’ve been really enjoying it, and like the creepy tone and pacing. I shoudn’t have been, but I was kind of surprised that it’s getting a lot of hate. It’s really leaning into the supernatural, which the other seasons hinted at or left ambiguous, so I can get being put off by that, I guess. But people are also trashing it because Jody Foster plays an asshole cop, or they have a problem with Navarro. All the cops in the show in every season are kind of jerks. I guess since the main cops in this season are female a lot of people can’t self-insert themselves into the “bad-ass cop who takes no shit and fucks a lot” characters and don’t enjoy it as much? A lot of the complaints seem wierd and nitpicky to me.

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        111 year ago

        I’ve never watched an episode of True Detective cause I assumed it was true crime shit. But we fot cosmic horror and Jody Foster being McNulty? Imma download this rn

        • carpoftruth [any, any]
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          111 year ago

          The first season is lightning in a bottle, but the others are good too. They all involve crime against children FYI, lots of grim stuff

        • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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          51 year ago

          I was the same but watched it randomly at one point. It really shows how shitty cops are while still having them as the protagonist

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      Yeah I’ve seen people complain about Navarro’s introduction trying “too hard” to make her badass by making her “too good” at fighting, having her fuck a lot and give no fucks.
      Meanwhile Rust in season 1 was an undercover biker with insane combat skills and he fucked a lot and took no fucks, but that was fine because it made sense for the character or was realistic or whatever lol

      • TheModerateTankie [any]
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        121 year ago

        trying “too hard” to make her badass by making her “too good” at fighting

        Kali Ries is a professional boxer, lol.

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          Yeah it’s silly lol, especially because every season has had a “badass fighter” detective and no one batted an eye, but suddenly the actor is an actual badass fighter and it’s an issue

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        They always do that. A 150lb woman can’t 1v1 a 200lb guy because it’s not realistic. But then a 170lb guy can 1v1 a 250lb guy because of the male bone structure and skull shape and hip ratio or some other caliper-brained shit.

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            But they very clearly don’t make Navarro out to be “average”. She’s buff, she’s mean and she’s been working in a male dominated environment for years where she has had to solve shit with physical force.
            A later episode shows she shirks away from a guy she previously beat up, because he is now sober and with a friend. Her martial prowess is very realistically portrayed. They more or less did it as a David v Goliath thing. She knocks down a huge dude because he’s drunk and he doesn’t see it coming