[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by NewChief

My hunch is that this season won’t go as out there with the weird conspiracy stuff and is going to push the envelope more with storytelling technique and themes around memory and experience with the multiple timelines.

I may be wrong, and the dolls are indicating as much, but I don’t see some insane Carcosa mindfrick with all the infinite possibilities and insane speculation that we saw in Season 1. Which, I think, is ultimately a good thing. Much of our disappointment with season 1 was the letdown of the reality of the narrative vs the fantasy buildup we had all created.

For what it's worth, Pizz has stated that there's no unreliable narrator plot executed through Hays' dementia.

I'm thinking the angle is going to be police corruption / mob justice.

I haven't rewatched it, but I'm pretty sure one of the attorney's questioning Hays' memory issues in 1990 is going to be a reference to Hays' being caught lying about something from the past relating to a case and not demonstrative of people being aware of his actual cognitive faculties.