That scene kind of seemed bizarre to me, but I didn't view it as being sexist. There was no nudity, nor anything suggestive. The Internet is out of hand.
The things I read were about the brass knuckles scene and how preposterous it was that someone would do that and not be arrested the next day. They'd have to see him around his kid's school. It wasn't dealt with in the first episode, so who can really say. The other scene I saw some laugh at was the motorcycle scene with Kitsch....which I found to pretty captivating since I wasn't expecting something as crazy and suicidal as turning his headlight off while going 100+ mph...just holy shit lol
Well, glad to read it. I sort of see a similarity between the "disappointment" with this show's first season and LOSTs. The difference being that there was much more invested into LOST because it had multiple seasons and many more hours of the show. But True Detective got into this really weird place where I think some people were expecting some sort of supernatural explanation to the case, which is just silly. With LOST, people were expecting everything to be explained, down right to even the most random, single-frame references from seasons past. I didn't think that sort of gripe was fair, since those little things couldn't have been the only reason people stuck with the show.
Especially considering that the bike cop was basically introduced with his impotence problem which seems worse to me.
I have to admit that Fukunaga´s absence could be felt in the first episode, i feel like the guy understood the script of the first season perfectly and was able to translate it while the new director tried to copy the style in the second season which does not work completely but people are really unfair to be honest. Last year, nobody knew anything about True Detective except that McConaughey and Harrelson were leading (which was not the most promising thing either btw) and the first episode blew almost everyone away. Now everyone expects so much with almost zero patience that season 2 has no chance to be regarded as good and successful. I read for example that despite all the main characters are so damaged and lost, you do not feel and empathize with them. Anyone who expects that to be the case after the first episode in which you spend maybe 15 minutes with each characters is delusional anyway. The reason why the first episode of the first season was that acclaimed was the atmosphere, the bizarre case they were dealing with, Rust´s ramblings and well, i think the interviews in the future created an interesting dynamic with the story when the case was investigated but it was not because the audience was instantly drawn to the characters, though i can´t deny that i felt sympathetic towards Rust pretty early because i partly agreed with his ramblings
. Season 2 first episode might be worse but that does not make it bad per se.
You know, everyone takes away something different from a piece of medium since people´s focus is mostly predetermined by their preferences and experiences but i sometimes can´t fathom how people miss the point of movies, shows or books. The mysteries in both True Detective (the case) and LOST were undeniably important to the narrative but they were not the central focus, the characters, who were confronted with those happenings, were the main point, and i can´t deny that i felt a little bit disappointed as well that some mysteries in LOST did not get resolved (like the black kid who could conjure stuff to the island) but that alone could not make or break the show for me.
Edit: Btw, watched the two new HBO shows, Ballers and The Brink. Former is basically like Entourage in the world of professional football with juvenile and overpaid athletes/actors screwing, partying and swearing all the time, pretty boring and pointless. The Brink on the other hand was nice, not as satirical as i imagined it to be but Robbins´witty remarks and Jack´s subtle representation of American ignorance i guess. It was not great but good enough to make me watch the following episodes.
... Nobody can see that coming.
