Just finished True Detective season 2.
Agree with Groff's point re characters, but maybe there were just too many main characters. If you took it back to just Rachel McAdam's character (swoon) and probably Colin Farrell's character I think it'd might've been better. They seemed to have decent back stories which could've been explored more throughout, but were sort of glossed over (especially McAdams' Bezzerides, could've been some cool story arc's there).
I guess the type of crime they were investigating didn't lend itself well to build that awesome spooky tone of the first, but then it didn't really have it's own tone. Doing to many things and skimming the surface so many things.