Velcoro gets a bellyful and Semyon pulls some teeth.

Here is our True Detective, season 2 episode 3 review.

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I wouldnt put it past HBO to kill off the main character early on.

Thats part of why Im hooked on the internet.

Well they didnt lose him so much as they misplaced his head.

Nic Pizzolatto is playing with that very dynamic.

Hes a novelist, you know.

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Velcoro cant ID the shooter.

He doesnt say it, but its because the guy with the gun was wearing a crows mask.

The same mask that we saw in the passenger seat during Mr. Casperes last ride.

The shooter was probably wearing the crows mask because he knew the blast wouldnt be lethal.

Which means he killed Velcoro as a warning.

Velcoro is pretty strident for a guy who just got murdered.

He thinks he might have been set up and hes positively apoplectic about it.

This seems like an easy lie to catch.

Caspere took five million of Semyons dollars with him on his way out.

Mr. Velcoro, do you want to live?

says the doctor checking out the buck shot wounds.

Velcoro hasnt made up his mind.

Simpson conviction came down and tied his hands together.

Now he smokes high end dope and catches old Kirk Douglas movies likeDetective Storyfrom 1951.

He should hook up with the Mayors young bride who sucks her dope of a a little balloon?

Apparently, that is a high-end vaporizer.

Wonder where you get it, my eyes are killing me.

Bezzerides gives everyone the same amused parting glance that says shes filing them away for later.

Even Steve, the one-night-stand cop she found knocking at her backdoor, gets the look.

The movie director, who drinks, says he only remembers the suits.

Once again Bezziredes shoots Velcoro that look.

After he accepts the excuse that theyre burning dollars her sideways glance screams what?

Are you impressed with this?

We learn that almost getting blown in half doesnt clear you of suspicion.

Bezzerides doesnt look like shes doing it strictly for the collar.

Shes seems to enjoy the chase and probably goes through post-bookem-depression when she finishes the paperwork.

Antigone, the self-help child at the center of the investigator, probably doesnt even mind the paperwork.

Woodrough, on the other hand, would have a big problem with it.

Hell never get a personal serenade from Conway Twitty, Ill tell you that.

Bezziredes tells Woodrough to roll some of his angsty cop drama over the Vincis working girls.

Someone unknown tasks detective Teague Dixon (W. Earl Brown) with keeping a photo journal.

Again with the fucking e-cigarettes?

I have a feeling these references are more than just a running gag.

Black Mountain Security has to be based on Blackwater Security.

The Blackwater Private Security Detail PSD was escorting a U.S. State Department convoy to an International Development meeting.

The Iraqi Government revoked Blackwaters license to operate in Iraq on September 17, 2007.

Blackwater had charges of negligence, discrimination, prostitution, murder, and arms smuggling thrown at them.

The murder scene in West Hollywood was rented for Caspere by the Catalyst Group.

Who took the video from the hidden camera?

There was a fucked up psychology at that place before it was a murder scene.

It boggles the mind.

Woodrough is rolling on the right track because he bumps into Semyon just as hes entering the lions den.

Semyon has the most to lose.

Who the fuck would have something against Stan?

The guy was on board right away when Semyon explained how things were going forward.

He gave the imposing gangster a little back talk and immediately used it to fix some union problems.

Turns out Semyon is what he used to was.

He takes the teeth home with him as a kind of trophy that has no place on a shelf.

Miss Tasha escorted him to an expensive exclusive party.

The party was lavishly and lasciviously catered by the local ruling class.

The Mayors son is running Eastern bloc pussy as an event organizer.

I wonder what the Mayors son would look like in a crows mask.

Maybe Tomorrow was written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Janus Metz Pedersen.

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Rating:

4 out of 5