True Detective Season 2 Stan [work] -

We see him in the background of half a dozen scenes. He hands Frank a file. He stands in a doorway. He nods.

“What did he do?”

And when he dies, ask yourself: Did anyone in that show really notice? true detective season 2 stan

Ouch. That line is the thesis of the entire season. In the grand machinery of corruption, nobody sees the cogs. Not even the man turning the wheel. In a season obsessed with fathers and sons (Ray and his boy, Frank and his lost fertility), Stan is the ultimate forgotten child of the noir genre. He doesn’t get a cool death scene. He doesn’t get a final speech. He gets a closed-casket funeral and a widow who will spend the rest of her life wondering why her husband’s boss can’t even fake a tear. We see him in the background of half a dozen scenes

Then she drops the knife:

Then, one night, Stan gets into his car. The engine turns over. And the car explodes. Here is where True Detective Season 2 does its best, most brutal work. After Stan dies, Frank has a conversation with his right-hand man, Ray (Colin Farrell). Frank isn’t crying. He isn’t raging. He’s confused. He nods

“What do you mean?”