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I really enjoyed True Detective Season 1, although I think there were three stages of “Watching True Detective” that pretty much everyone felt. Stage 1: What’s up with pacing? It doesn’t matter because the acting is so great. Stage 2: This is the best show ever!! Stage 3: Okay, I’m still into this even though they didn’t really wrap up the story and I don’t think the emotional epitaph of the season should be “Oh, but at least Rust found God in the end.” A lot of people held fast to Stage 2 and some people transitioned to Stage 3 and began wondering how Season 2 would flow, story-wise and character-development-wise.

Well, we’re getting our first real glimpse of everything. HBO dropped the teaser trailer for Season 2 yesterday. This has an all-new cast and an all-new major, season-encompassing crime. Rachel McAdams plays a Ventura County sheriff’s deputy. A ‘stached Colin Farrell channels his Miami Vice sleaze to play a “compromised” detective. Taylor Kitsch plays a pair of cheekbones with a badge. And Vince Vaughn plays a very tall mobster type. Oh, we also see a glimpse of Kelly Reilly as Vince’s character’s wife. Here’s the teaser. No dialogue.

Rachel looks good in a vest. Colin looks like… he’s recycling Sonny Crockett. Taylor sort of looks like the weak link, but maybe that’s just because I’m not crazy about Taylor Kitsch. Vince looks… well, if he’s trying to sell a gangster with some ethical thread, I’d probably buy it. We don’t really know much about the plot, but yes, I’ll watch. True Detective starts June 21.

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Photos courtesy of HBO’s Twitter.
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