Mrs. Shullivan and I sat through all of season 2 and the continuing reflections of the three (3) main stars, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and Vince Vaughn past lives were such poor displays of nothing but blistering, blathering bull (rhymes with SIT) that it became quite evident by the second episode that the writer, Nic Pizzolatto, must have wanted to deliberately sabotage season 2 for one or more reasons.
I did not forget about Taylor Kitsch's contribution to this "mess"terpiece either, it's just not worth mentioning because no one will even remember he was starring in it because every time he was given screen time, I was more pre-occupied reading the daily obituaries. Kitsch's performance reminded me of a Walking Dead zombie.
And I must comment on the last two episodes which cranked up the series volume with non-stop guns a blazing but that's all I can say. The "sound" increased by fifty (50) percent from the artillery but the audience heard guns fired and absolutely nothing else.
Season 2 was abysmal, the acting from Vince Vaughn was catatonic, he mumbled, and Colin Farrell tried his damnedest to imitate a Jeff Bridges raspy voice. Neither of these two actors came through as appealing what so ever.
I don't want to be harsh, but watching season 2 of True Detective was like driving by a ten car pileup, it's tragic and horrifying but one can't take their eyes off of the carnage. My advice....drive by and avoid season 2 and watch season 3 instead.