100 TV Shows #79-True Detective
True Detective
I'm posting late (six months since my last entry for this meme) and I was late to the party, nearly oblivious when this was actually being shown. I knew it was on HBO, but after my experiences with The Sopranos and Mad Men, I was afraid that any pay-channel based drama would be too dark. (I'm still only on the second season of The Wire.) I also somehow had the idea that it was based on "True Detective" magazine from the 50's. I'm not sure how or why I decided to put it on our Netflix queue. I honestly had no idea what it was about and neither McConaughey or Harrelson are among my favorites. Basically, I was desperate to find something Hubby would watch besides going through the same Misomer Murders over and over and OVER!
OMG! I was hooked in the first five minutes, maybe with the first few chords of the theme music. (Loves me some T-Bone!)
The writing, the acting, the direction, did I mention the music. Everything was absolute perfection. Suddenly, Rust and Marty were the first slash pairing I'd shipped in ages, as opposed to faking it to be in with a fandom in-crowd. There was no crowd. It was just me and Hubby and when I mentioned that Woody was totally looking at Matthew's ass in one scene, he gave me the old non-shipper "can't they just be friends?" routine.
(Oh yeah, I'm a sucker for unreliable narrators, as one Mr. Humbert can vouch for...assuming you want to believe him.)
We whipped through those disks in like three weeks and I didn't want it to end. It's the first time I've gone looking for fic for any fandom in months. This show re-ignited every fannish/shipper/slash gene in my body, at least temporarily.
I was watching it during the last days of the Desk of Doom, when I was miserable at work and desperately trying to get the new job, but not really believing it was going to happen. My new co-worker at the time was a native of Louisiana, who had seen the show and agreed with me about the awesomeness.
I know it's really more like a long movie than even an arc-driven TV show, but a TV show it is and I loved every minute of it. It's the first thing I've really liked Woody in since Larry Flynt and pretty much the ONLY thing I've really liked Matthew in. I love them as the fictional pair and I love the idea of them as pot-smoking buddies in RPS as well.
I was sad to get to the end, but the ending WAS perfect, so I know I have to let it go. Not sure if I'm at all interested the 2nd season. Vince Vaughan? On the other hand I would have said that about Woody Harrelson.
Either way, it was fun to feel that way again, if only for awhile.
Click to viewI'm posting late (six months since my last entry for this meme) and I was late to the party, nearly oblivious when this was actually being shown. I knew it was on HBO, but after my experiences with The Sopranos and Mad Men, I was afraid that any pay-channel based drama would be too dark. (I'm still only on the second season of The Wire.) I also somehow had the idea that it was based on "True Detective" magazine from the 50's. I'm not sure how or why I decided to put it on our Netflix queue. I honestly had no idea what it was about and neither McConaughey or Harrelson are among my favorites. Basically, I was desperate to find something Hubby would watch besides going through the same Misomer Murders over and over and OVER!
OMG! I was hooked in the first five minutes, maybe with the first few chords of the theme music. (Loves me some T-Bone!)
The writing, the acting, the direction, did I mention the music. Everything was absolute perfection. Suddenly, Rust and Marty were the first slash pairing I'd shipped in ages, as opposed to faking it to be in with a fandom in-crowd. There was no crowd. It was just me and Hubby and when I mentioned that Woody was totally looking at Matthew's ass in one scene, he gave me the old non-shipper "can't they just be friends?" routine.
(Oh yeah, I'm a sucker for unreliable narrators, as one Mr. Humbert can vouch for...assuming you want to believe him.)
We whipped through those disks in like three weeks and I didn't want it to end. It's the first time I've gone looking for fic for any fandom in months. This show re-ignited every fannish/shipper/slash gene in my body, at least temporarily.
I was watching it during the last days of the Desk of Doom, when I was miserable at work and desperately trying to get the new job, but not really believing it was going to happen. My new co-worker at the time was a native of Louisiana, who had seen the show and agreed with me about the awesomeness.
I know it's really more like a long movie than even an arc-driven TV show, but a TV show it is and I loved every minute of it. It's the first thing I've really liked Woody in since Larry Flynt and pretty much the ONLY thing I've really liked Matthew in. I love them as the fictional pair and I love the idea of them as pot-smoking buddies in RPS as well.
I was sad to get to the end, but the ending WAS perfect, so I know I have to let it go. Not sure if I'm at all interested the 2nd season. Vince Vaughan? On the other hand I would have said that about Woody Harrelson.
Either way, it was fun to feel that way again, if only for awhile.