True Detective Season 2’s main problem was that creator Nic Pizzolatto worked mostly

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"Pizzolatto had the classic songwriter’s problem,” says James Poniewozik. "You have your whole life to make your first album, and a year to make your second. He didn’t do it entirely alone (the fourth episode was the series’ first to feature a co-writer), but he mostly did. And it showed.There were flashes of beauty–YMMV, but Ray’s final, unsent recording to his son was lovely–but a whole lot of notebook-emptying. Many of the season’s weaknesses might have been improved by an empowered room of writers to talk back, cut the fat, handle fundamentals like breaking a coherent story. Yes, that would diluting the voice, but the 180-proof Pizzolatto we got this year could have used it.” PLUS: The plot was too messy to be characterized as dense, but coherent, and True Detective gets mashed up with Star Wars.