veryfuller said:
I was patient. I gave the writers a chance to tell their story without getting too upset at some of the missteps along the way. I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they would pull it into some cohesion at the end, even if it wasn't my favorite. But, man, this was just truly awful. I haven't been this actively mad at a finale in a good bit.
The worst part, for me, isn't even all the loose ends/threads. It's the fact that, in a show called True Detective, about a murder investigation, the main detectives are in fact murderers and cover up murder because "justice" or something. And the show plays it straight….no moral dilemma there at all. Like we are all supposed to be cool with it. I am baffled by that choice. Taking a group of men to freeze to death is wrong, no matter what they did. Right?
This was a mess of a show that exists to underline some sort of POINT. The problem is it undercuts its own storytelling so much that all it succeeds at is confusing and frustrating its audience on its long path to its laughable conclusion.
I mean, Hank and the scientists were instrumental cogs in a massive corporate coverup responsible for the deaths of multiple people, along with the poisoning of what sounded like dozens if not hundreds of others, including children. While Connelly, the Captain of the police force, was aiding in the coverup as well.
So what were Danvers, Navarro, and the women who led the scientists to their death supposed to do? They would have had to go above even Connelly to get true justice, and then it's their word/evidence vs the corrupt but powerful Tuttle machine and its army of lawyers.
In other words, I totally get why they took matters into their own hands, and why Danvers and Navarro essentially looked the other way in the end. Should there have been more debate amongst them about whether or not they were doing the right thing? Sure. But the end result would have been the same.
(That's not to say I'm defending a rogue band of female janitors being the "killers" this season - that was pretty dumb - but given that scenario I at least understand their actions/motivations.)
This season was sorely missing, say, a reporter character, one who was working alongside Danvers and Navarro, who could have been their one true hope for getting the story out in attempt to bring down Silver Sky/the Tuttles in the court of public opinion (and then, eventually, in actual court). Basically circumventing Connelly/the corrupt police force, while also being a more reputable source than a bunch of female janitors. And then the other missing character I mentioned earlier, who would have essentially played the role of the "serial killer" this season - someone working on behalf of Silver Sky to tie off loose ends - could have killed the reporter, thus finally giving Danvers and Navarro the impetus to take matters into their own hands (and then, by extension, show the audience just how dire/hopeless the situation was, and want to root for them to take matters into their own hands).
