The HBO series "True Detective" season 2 premiered on June 21, Sunday, with an episode titled "The Western Book of the Dead." Matthew McConaughey (Detective Rust Cohle) and Woody Harrelson (Detective Marty Hart) brought back the much-awaited bromance of two detectives.
[SPOILER ALERT: Read at your own risk.] Taking place in Los Angeles, "True Detective" season 2 features three detectives with a mission to investigate the murder of a city manager. Along with McConaughey and Harrelson, Rachel McAdams plays a tough detective named Antigone Bezzerides.
McAdams' role has a troublesome family and a quite surprising backstory just like her partner Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell). The detectives are tasked to find the killer of the person who was said to be helping businessman Frank Seymon (Vince Vaughn) close a very expensive land development deal.
While "True Detective" season 1 mainly focused on McConaughey and Harrelson's bromantic duo roles, season 2 is featuring an ensemble cast. In an interview with E! News, Farrell said, "There's a similarity and a certain tone that the piece has that I think resonated with me as having a tone that was reflective of the tone of the first year and a sensibility that's the same."
In addition, Farrell said the characters, the aesthetic and the pace in "True Detective" season 2 are very different.
Meanwhile Vaughn recently told British GQ that he is not blaming anyone else but himself for starring in several bad comedies. He said, "The machine can make you idle. You read a script and then you agree to a role, then soon enough you're on set looking at a scene that has had all the juice and the life sucked right out of it."