True Detective S2E2 Recap: Velcoro Still Alive, They Just Concealin’ It
One day these recaps will be on time! A week late, but never dull, TND is back with its recap of True Detective S2E2!
Note: S2E2 spoilers are coming fast, like a shotgun blast to the nuts. Hit the jump for TND’s signature brand of insight and dick jokes.
First things first, there’s no way Velcoro is dead. Yeah, sure he got shot twice in brutal fashion, but cmon. From a “meta” perspective, if Velcoro’s out of the picture, is the show really ready to go all-in on Ani’s porno habit and Riggins’ Trapped in the Closet Vol. 38? Nah man, they aren’t. Plus, in trailers for TD S2, Velcoro appears in some scenes that haven’t happened yet. While, that’s no guarantee (plus there will be flashbacks), it’s a good indicator that we haven’t seen the last of Ray.
So if he’s still alive, what gives? The obvious money is on Vince Vaughn sending a message to Ray, via some rubber bullets/rock salt pellets, after Ray showed up to the restaurant all clammy and knock-kneed. Still, with that scene JUST having happened, that explanation feels a little too A-to-B for a show like this.
Also interesting, apparently Jessie’s Girl had a painting in his office of a bird that looked like the one the shooter was wearing on his head. Let the mass speculation and major disappointment begin!
At first I wasn’t sure if Velcoro was in his or Caspere’s apartment when he got blasted. It made sense that it was Caspere’s because of the occult sex theme, but how great would it have been if he and Ray shared the same taste? Like a witch sex phase was sweeping through Cali, and everyone was cool with it.
Caspere, though. Man. Nothin sexy about a shotgun blast to the gonads. They really just dropped that shit on us too. It’s one thing to see a man whose eyeballs have been scooped out, but that quick cut to the blank spot where his genitals used to be? Cmon man, I could’ve been eating a hoagie!
That opening monologue by Vince Vaughn was BRUTAL. And not in a good way. If you recall my several valiant efforts to watch S2E1, as it turns out, I did watch the first 10-15 minutes of S2E2 and just totally suppressed those memories, because wow. Yes, I ended up watching a blue-lit floating head yak about his daddy issues for 6+ minutes twice. Really felt his pain of being trapped in the basement eating rats.
Riggins is totally gay. If a character says the word ‘f*g’ and the writers might want to make him likable at some point, then he’s gotta be a closeted homosexual. That’s just rules of the road. Plus, he’ll use his gayness to prove that he wasn’t soliciting the road-side BJ. Also, when he was gettin sucked on by his girlfriend, he was looking up and off into the distance. He was tryin to imagine a man down there! Shoot, maybe he should try vaping.
Riggs getting all-but-molested by his mamma had some serious Game of Thrones nastiness to it. Speaking of Game of Thrones, what’s with the trend of TV characters having names with absurd spellings that you don’t realize until you look them up on Wikipedia? Paul Woodrough? Ben Caspere? Shit is indecipherable.
And can we just agree to call him Ray Velcro? Would really make it easier on my undiagnosed dyslexia.
