Edited by Robert Beach
Follow-ups are always
difficult. It’s a rule of life that a 2nd installment of
anything is severely hit or miss. The general logic behind this is sequels
are faced with a number of difficult choices: whether to provide more of the
same or take a different approach, for instance.
Even if the creators
decide to simply produce more of what’s already proven successful, there’s the
question of what worked so well in the original piece. A story is made up
of so many individual parts it can be hard to pinpoint the exact aspects of it
that resonates with an audience. This is where True Detective season
2 goes horrible, terribly, catastrophically wrong.
