It seemed like as soon as it became clear it wasn't gonna live up to S1, a lot of people decided he was the problem, but I thought he did well.

The writing in S2 wasn't great, and that Scooby Doo ass ending probably solidified it as a bust. I don't really think any of the True Detecive endings were very good, but S1 was so good up to that point, it was afterthought.

plus no performance really knocked it out the park the way McConaughey did