True Detective S2E4 Recap: I Thought it was Spelled “Loosh”
Aww, yeah we're gettin it in ON TIME! Keep your eyes peeled for a big facebook post about it. Because everyone's way more likely to check the blog before facebook.
Also, the SPOILERS warning is finally relevant! And there is a heavily-veiled Friday Night Lights spoiler, somehow.
Without further ado, the first on-time True Detective recap of the season:
Yeah, we'll get to the shootout or whatever later, but first things first: my girl is BACK and lookin FOINE (well, technically she popped up last week, but I probably slept through it, smdfh). That's right, the original Jessie's Girl checked in as Mayor Chessani's disenchanted daughter, and frankly I couldn't be more pleased. Now that Brock is buried in a shallow grave under some lily of the valley and she got kicked out of East Dillon High, apparently she's got nothing but time on her hands.
Really digging the "prestige TV" crossover potential here. Did Epyck and Riggins ever share the screen in Friday Night Lights? Probably not, but who cares? Oh and eff Friday Night Lights for failing to have D'Angelo do a scene with Wallace. Like damn man, let me have this, ya know? Still, the top floor of that building exploding was some real Heisenberg shit. All we need now is Todd/Landry to show up as a manic, gun-toting bass player.
I'm starting to feel real bad for Frank. Not only is his dongpiece on the fritz, dude had to go back to shaking down bakeries and apartment buildings just to afford his word-a-day calendars. Speaking of, I get clowning the guy for using the word "louche," especially since he referenced how obscure it was, but were people really that put off by him saying "apoplectic" and "stridency?" Read a fucking book, you rubes.
The final action sequence was pretty great, and while it felt like a bit of a knock-off of the epic Beaumont scene from last season, that probably has more to do with the timing (both happened at the end of E4) than anything else. Well, the timing and the copious gunplay.
Due to the grave consequences of bum rushing a meth lab and getting dozens of people killed, this is likely where there's a major break in the narrative, like when last season shifted to the present and Marty and Rust continued the investigation on their own, without police support.
Nostradolphin prediction of the week: S2E5 is where the show shifts into overdrive. There will be a 2-4 month flash forward. The law enforcement higher-ups pin Caspere's death on the dead pimp (a la Reggie LeDoux), and our three true detectives are likely removed from their respective forces as fallout. HOWEVA, Frank keeps up the investigation because he's the only one with a real stake in finding Caspere's killer, as one dead pimp doesn't bring back his $5 million. Also, it's revealed that the shootout was a set up, possibly by the fat, dead cop (before he died). Frank, who's more or less been in his own show the whole time, uses Ray to recruit Ani and Riggs to form a lil super squad to expose the conspiracy in Vinci.
The conspiracy itself is another story. Frankly, I have no idea what's going on, which is disappointing because when it's time for the shocking reveal, I want to be shocked immediately, not the next day when I read about it online. I am taking solace in the fact that after reading all the Wikipedia episode summaries, it seems like we aren't SUPPOSED to know what all the connections are. Just gotta pray it all comes back to Chessani's girl.