True Detective (Season 1)

[Ezee E]

I appreciate you singling out Monaghan. Been rooting for her since Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and think she is underappreciated here due to the heavy one-two punch of the male leads.

She's a pretty great actress, that just hasn't had the distinguishing role that she needs. She's pretty great in Trucker and even Eagle Eye.

[Ezee E]

Rumors have the second season taking place in SoCal, with Ellen Page/Kate Mara as the leads. Nothing confirmed.

[EvilShoe]

I really don't get the Kate Mara hype.

Unless there isn't one. In which case: good.

[ContinentalOp]

What a huge step down that would be in terms of casting. I want them to pick bigger names and not people who I am going to have a hard time accepting as detectives, as in not someone who could still play a teenager or someone who looks like a model. I've never much liked Page, except in Super. She strikes me as kind of one-note as an actress. I've never seen Mara in anything.

[Lucky]

Pick up Elisabeth Moss. And maybe Marisa Tomei.

[Lazlo]

Pick up Elisabeth Moss. And maybe Marisa Tomei.

Mad Men still be going on when True D needs to start shooting.

And yeah, that casting would be a step down. Show needs bigger stars and heftier actors. That's one of the main points of the structure of the show.

[Ezee E]

I'm curious as to why Kate Mara is getting these roles, when Rooney is clearly the better actress.

I could buy Ellen as a detective-in-training, but not as a partner to Kate. I'm going to guess that casting won't be true when it's all said and done.

I'd actually find it surprising to have two female detectives together anyway.

Meanwhile, Charlize Theron seems to not have anything big going on.

In the end, I'm most curious as to who they take on as director.

[Henry Gale]

Trying to brainstorm what directors I'd like to see brought in for Season 2, but I realize the thing that make Fukunaga so great was how unestablished he was with me.

Jeff Nichols, Andrew Dominik, Terence Davies, Derek Cianfrance, Martin McDonagh, Sean Durkin, and Bart Layton all crossed my mind.

Beyond those names, I guess I'd like to see someone I've found myself admiring the abilities of more than their actual films, who could use this as a platform to show what they can really do for eight hours or so.

[Lazlo]

I'm curious as to why Kate Mara is getting these roles, when Rooney is clearly the better actress.

I could buy Ellen as a detective-in-training, but not as a partner to Kate. I'm going to guess that casting won't be true when it's all said and done.

I'd actually find it surprising to have two female detectives together anyway.

Meanwhile, Charlize Theron seems to not have anything big going on.

In the end, I'm most curious as to who they take on as director.

I like the Theron suggestion. Jodie Foster crossed my mind too. I think Pizzolato has alluded to them not having just one director this year. Kind of a bummer as it takes some of the singular vision-ness away but really it's always been Pizzolato's show. I've heard rumors from a friend of mine who knows Pizzolato well that he and Fukunaga did not get along and he wouldn't want to wrangle with that control dynamic again. Also the reality of the show taking six months to shoot is prohibitive to the single director model.

[Ezee E]

Sounds like Jessica Chastain is being offered the lead.

[DavidSeven]

That would be a huge get for the show. But for her, I dunno. I feel like she already sort of nailed the obsessive detective thing in Zero Dark Thirty.

[Lazlo]

Sounds like Jessica Chastain is being offered the lead.

Rumor has been denied.

[number8]

“Right now, we’re working with three leads. It takes place in California — not Los Angeles, but some of the much lesser known venues of California — and we’re going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in season one,” he said. “The characters are all new, but I’m deeply in love with each of them. We’ve got the entire series broken out with a couple of scripts, and we’ll probably start casting in earnest in the coming months.”

Nice. They can do the same for desert sprawls the way they did the bayou.

[slqrick]

Yeah, there are a lot of smaller, desolate parts of California that would fit right in for the atmosphere of the show. Glad they're staying away from LA.

[Ezee E]

I was thinking it'd be more Inland Empire area. While I was living in OC, I was kind of shocked at the amount of prostitutes that were killed and discussion of sex slavery, but only for it to basically be mumbled in the newscast.

[Morris Schæffer]

Those tits!!!!

[DavidSeven]

Colin Farrell in talks to take one of the Season 2 lead roles. Being reported by Variety, so this is likely more than pure internet speculation.

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/coli...wo-1201261235/

[Henry Gale]

Taylor Kitsch too. Of course I have no idea what the characters are like, but him and Farrell seem perfectly suited for this sort of thing, in terms of them not quite seeming to land that great piece of work in film that shows off what they can do best.

I think everyone (them included) would much rather see them do a season of this than another risky tentpole with their faces front and centre taking a hit when they underwhelm financially.

[Lazlo]

I'm sure they'll both do great, but it's not shocking given their career trajectories that they'd be on a TV show by now. It's not the big huge get that McConaughey was and the way (the rumored) Pitt and Chastain would have been.

[megladon8]

This was just too damn good. Makes life unfair for other shows.

Start to finish brilliant.

[Morris Schæffer]

It was rather exceptional. My reservations are small such as when hart [

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is granted access to old case files because he's writing a detective novel and needs the research. I would reckon that the way that whole case went, and with the suspicions on the Cohle character they wouldn't let him in particular near it.

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[EvilShoe]

Rumour of the week: Vince Vaughn to star in season 2?

[Lazlo]

Rumour of the week: Vince Vaughn to star in season 2?

Sigh. Again someone who isn't a surprise to be involved in a TV show at this point in his career. I get that this show is a massive time commitment for a big movie star, though.

[Ezee E]

At this point, we may as well wait for cameras to shoot, because it seems like everyone is in talks.

[EvilShoe]

Now rumoured, Elizabeth Moss!