(1) The Hardline is not out of the mainstream on this, but I am: Season Two of "True Detective" was not terrible. I thought it was very good, if not as linear as Season One. Hard to follow, but I loved the atmospherics of sun-baked Los Angeles. Had kind of a Twin Peaks getsalt that I enjoyed.
(2) Ditto Season Three: It is being hugely overpraised by The Hardline (The Hardline? Overpraising something? Surely not) and most other observers. Again, I'm an outlier here. The writing is sharp, but it suffers terribly from the Breaking Bad Disease -- endless lingering takes of Ali looking anguished, a la Bryan Cranston. For having a two-hour premier, precious little happened except for shot after shot of said anguished Ali. Hey, did the True Detectives kill that ex-con in the trunk?
Two stars.
(3) Is that new Desperados ad the cheapest, cheapest-sounding, and overall worst commercial ever aired on The Ticket, with the possible exceptions of The Bulldog and those wall-removal guys with their ten-year warranty? (What -- the wall might reappear after 10 years? if the house falls down after ten years for lack of a supporting wall, no problem?) Wait, I forgot those mortifying Tight Ends Sports Bar and Grill girls. Good Jah, the mumbling, almost incomprehensible, unconvincing copy by some offspring of someone followed up with the goofy coda. Awful.
Is Desperados as good as the Ticket guys who get the free grub make it sound?
Which makes me wonder if there is some review of commercials for suitability for the air. Actually, I guess I don't wonder: There must not be any.
(4) Any of you out there voting for the top Ticket moment? I've heard so many of them so many times over the years I don't have much interest in it. I've assumed the Nolan Ryan Great Snow Monkey Battle will win, but dunno.
