Shotgun Blues
Wow. HBO has officially become the number one slaughterhouse for main characters in any of its' many series, with the final scene of this week's True Detective episode seemingly killing off Colin Farrell's conflicted cop character, Detective Ray Velcoro at the hands of the same masked murderer (The Birderer as it were) who was seen driving the deceased corpse of Ben Caspere. This is HBO however, and in a similar vein to the death of Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, the death of Velcoro just seemed rather strange, if rather shocking, due to fact that not only was he undoubtedly the most interesting character on the show so far, but his storyline was slowly expanding into something much deeper and darker which was ultimately the backbone of the season so far. With this in mind, the fact that Velcoro took the bulk of his killers' shotgun blasts to the chest suggests that death may not be the outcome of such a tragic event, but hey, I assume we will find out in the near future.
"Night Finds You" also began to expand on the death of City Manager Ben Caspere, starting with the autopsy in which our trio of heroes were subject to not only being told he was privy to an STI or two, but to be shown the remains of his John Thomas which had been blown to shreds by a shotgun (eh, ring any bells?). Also on the agenda of Caspere's death was the financial game of cat and mouse he was supposedly playing with Vince Vaughn's Frank Semyon, with Caspere refusing to invest Semyon's livelihood in a field of industry swaying more towards the legal side of business than anything perhaps Semyon has encountered before. With money the hot topic on Semyon's mind, Caspere's death subsequently has sent him on his own personal investigation into his murder with the location in which Detective Velcoro was shot being one in which Semyon had found on his own accord. Was it just by accident that Semyon sent Velcoro to his supposed doom or was it in fact intended, with Velcoro's reluctance to continue playing puppy dog to Semyon's demands being the only justification for such that I can think of.
Episode Two in this season of True Detective definitely explored much more ground than the previous in regards to the main story arc that will be focused on in the coming weeks, with greater character development of our heroic trio being greatly needed, whilst suffering once again from some cringe-worthy lines of dialogue (Velcoro's speech in which an E-Cigarette was seen as a robot's penis springs to mind) that endanger it into falling into a satire of its' own existence. The final scene will get the headlines undoubtedly, but I believe the death of one of the series' most interesting characters is a decision come way too soon and will subsequently be sorted out in the coming weeks but hey, this is HBO, anything could happen.
Overall Score: 9/10
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