It shared a lot of DNA with Chinatown and L.A. Confidential.

It's not going to be 'The Adventures of Rusty Cohl and the Kingdom of Carcosa!'

It looks like it's going to be a deep dark bloody noir in a rust-collared shithole in California nobody gives a damn about.

Four toxic lives circling the drain around a murder no one gives a shit about.

Or does it?

The biggest and only misstep is that the first season had sympathetic victims. I don't think this one is going to let the audience be that lucky, and that's going to impact viewership.

But I'm down for episode two.

I wanted the show to keep going.