‘True Detective’ Season 2 Might Involve Cults, S&M, and the Transportation System
On the train this morning I had “Far From Any Road” from The Handsome Family playing on my iPod. (Yes, I still carry an iPod. iPhones can’t carry all my music.) It’s a haunting yet comforting experience, listening to the Handsome Family’s Americana sound while seeing run down buildings, swamps, and other grim sights whiz by that lie between the suburbs of New Jersey to bustling Manhattan.
I thought about how it was a year ago that True Detective came and went, impacting the TV landscape like a bull in a china shop. I knew a second season was coming, but I was somewhat surprised it hadn’t come already.
Now we have a better idea of what the next True Detective season will look like. Movie Pilot is reporting details that involve Satanic cults and a conspiracy theory that references an actual theory that the General Motors company prevented the state from developing a better public transportation system so residents would be forced to rely on cars. That Los Angeles at rush hour is like a circle of hell, this doesn’t sound too far-fetched.
From Movie Pilot:
Yes, very early on in the preparation for the second season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto revealed that the new season would be taking viewers into the messy quagmire that is the “the secret occult history of the United States transportation system”. Specifically, as it pertains to California and the long standing conspiracy theory that General Motors kept the state from developing a decent public transportation system so that residents would continue to have to rely on cars.
This does indeed seem to be where season 2 of True Detective is taking us. The season is due to kick off with the dead body of a corrupt politician being found along the Pacific Coast Highway with satanic symbols carved into his chest. California Highway Patrol officers Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch are assigned the case.
It turns out the victim is a known associate of Vince Vaughn’s character and this dead man had a dark side involving some associations with S&M clubs – but perhaps most importantly, the man was in the middle of brokering a big deal that would solve the state’s gridlock problem.
Also on Movie Pilot are a ton of unofficial set photos that show Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch and Colin Ferrell doing police-y things while Vince Vaughn looks like, well, Vince Vaughn, but in a suit.
A corporate conspiracy interfering with government laws sprinkled with the occult? It altogether sounds very True Detective but also new territory I’m excited to see the series explore.
What do you think? Should this be the plot of season two if the rumors turn out to be true? While you comment below, I’m going to listen to this again.
