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[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This was going to be some rich guy kidnapping his bastard child with one of his workers! They were going to softball the ending. Play up pizzagate only to give it a mundane ending and solidify the normie opinion.

Well your gut was wrong: It was about kidnapping a child, covering up the accidental murder of one and people killing people in pedo-hysteria. It's not a happy ending: a whole life teared apart (and that's only talking about the cop). A rich man who pays people off with his money so his daughter can drug up a child in captivity. Oh and then the drugged of semi-grown teenager escapes and is taken advantage off in the underground sex industry (one of the first episodes they interview a girl who knew Julie/Mary and tell about the horrors.) It's exactly like the Wife of demeted-cop says: (paraphrasing) "the story had to go on to fix the cruelty it had began." aka There is life after a messed-up childhood. Seeing the disappearance happened in the 70ies, so Julie escaped somewhere in the 80ies that's a hell of a time to end up alone as young drugged up girl in the middle of nowhere with only some thin garments.

But I was right - softball ending - "happy" ending all that garbage.

What ending did you watch? A demented cop solves the case fully, but not to his knowledge. The bad guys got away. Oh and they killed a colleague because they were on the pedo-hype train. All hyped up by that (meth?)-cousin spouting bullshit. It's a messed-up story, but no child got raped (well Julie as teenager after her escape probably did).

movie producer lady and her quest

Maybe you missed it, she was fucking his Son... That's how they all came into contact about the case and a bit like you the reporter wasn't satisfied until a child got raped. (She is the one dragging in the case of Season one, maybe season 4 will feature her or her work)

Season 1 ended the same way: they killed the serial killer but never caught who employed and covered for him. Same here, the rich guy 'fixing' it all for his daughter died in peace, innocent people died.

It's not a mundane ending, still child-trafficking, still very messed-up.

[–]Vigte[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What ending did you watch? A demented cop solves the case fully, but not to his knowledge. The bad guys got away. Oh and they killed a colleague because they were on the pedo-hype train. All hyped up by that (meth?)-cousin spouting bullshit. It's a messed-up story, but no child got raped (well Julie as teenager after her escape probably did).

The ending where Julie is still alive and has a family with the boy she loved? Where the cop with a disease sits down and happily watches his family play? Where his partner and him make up and are friends again. Naturally too, where Henry has the address to Julie, which he kept - and I assume, will go see and find out for himself.

I know the son was fucking the movie producer but she said "I have more evidence, I'll tell you later" - never shows up again. Just seems like odd writing.

Well your gut was wrong: It was about kidnapping a child, covering up the accidental murder of one and people killing people in pedo-hysteria.

Exactly, it's basically the opposite of Season 1 - which was so far the only really revealatory season. Aside from a few mentions here and there in this season - which all turned out to be completely unrelated.

They made what could have been a big reveal about child trafficking NETWORKS and turned it into some small-time rich dude and his daughter's obsession with wanting a daughter of her own.

Pretty mundane when compared to real world events... I was hoping for something much more like Season 1.

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well True Detective is just a Crime anthology... Not even based on true events like the X-files.

I don't think the narratives just were hoping for would even come to the Big-screens for reasons of finance.

[–]Vigte[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree and that's why I felt let down when I realised the show was going in different direction.

Oh well.