the truth is it's a fucking NOIR, so all that complicated shit was more like a red herring
frank's death scene was pretty damn good actually
people are just piling on at this point
it's not just red herring complications.
guy is a cop. he is banging a married woman and she gets pregnant with his kid. twice.
cop breaks in to her jewelry store and kills her. also steals amazing diamonds that could never actually be pawned. i believe the back drop was the la riots as partial coverup???
his illegitimate kids hide but see him and the other cops involved.
kids disappear into foster care. separately.
kids find each other later in life.
girl grows up and sees the cop again as she is a prostitute and he is now frequenting them. he does not recognize his daughter. did they bang??
he hires her as his assistant but does not recognize her from his party time.
boy is pissed and decides to get revenge.
somehow gets a job on a movie set taking pictures because you know any old dummy can get hired taking pictures without a portfolio.
boy starts killing people to get revenge.
girl is upset with him?
that all happens off screen, is convoluted and was only explained right at the end because they had laid zero groundwork for all of this as an emotional reveal. it gets even more convoluted and confusing trying to watch what happens on screen. tim riggins runs through "miles of tunnels" under the city only to exit from the one door the crooked police chief is standing beside?
Yeah, I liked the season overall. I thought the season finale was pretty well done. Ray gets his vindication at being the father, Frank's rough life catches up to him and Bezzirides escapes. It doesn't live up to Season 1, but was never going to. Criticizing this season has simply become fashionable and that is what people are doing.
it really is not about piling on. it's almost everyone finding fault with a lot of what happened all season. it's ok you like it and hbo has already asked him to do a season 3 because the ratings have been pretty good and people clearly watched it and it's created discussion about it. i agree somewhat with one of the reviews i read that argued a large portion of the reviews were people hate watching it. i think it's more than that. everyone wanted this to be good. no one wanted to not like it and i don't think anyone expected it would be as good as season one. it did not need to be.