He has no interest in learning whether that is true or not, instead mumbling “my son is my son,” when asked if they ever had a paternity test.
Ray is fighting to get some sort of custody of his son, although we quickly learn that his wife was the victim of a vicious sexual assault and it’s possible – very possible, from the look of the kid – that Ray’s son might not biologically be his at all. The episode opened with an introduction to Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), a detective right out of the darkest of dark noirs. If this first episode is any indication, it looks like he is right. Pizzolatto is out to prove that he doesn’t need to repeat himself in order to find the surprise success he had with the first season. The cast has grown from two center characters to four, and none of them seem to possess the crazed time-space ramblings of the first season’s Rust Cohle. The lush and haunting Louisiana landscape has been exchanged for the foul and cancerous industry of Southern California. Writer and showrunner Nic Pizzolatto has jettisoned all the hallmarks of the first season and crafted a world that looks and feels like True Detective, but is different in just about every other way imaginable.
True detective season 1 episode 6 series#
The first episode of the second season of True Detective makes it very clear that the standard television series rules do not apply here. It also contains discussions of sexual violence and abuse, as these subjects play heavily into the story of the show. As such, it contains spoilers for this season as well as the first season of the show. What follows is an examination, recap, and review of the first episode of True Detective Season 2.