S2 of True Detective wasn't boring. It was just ultimately too poorly written. It collapsed under its own weight, and it did not develop its stories or characters well enough. It started off okay, included a great setting & subject matter, but it could not finish on the promise. The season failed overall, but it held legitimate promise.

but both were pretty boring. However, the second season did have that one awesome shootout.

Also, anything from Terrence Winter.

one of the greatest single episodes of the greatest television series of all times.

They weren’t show runners on that show. Most people aren’t gonna walk around and credit Michelle McClaren Or Rian Johnson for Breaking Bad instead of Vince Gilligan just because they directed and wrote some of the best episodes of the show. They are going to credit Gilligan.

I have no idea what happened in the second season after the third episode when I gave up.

Someone got high and watched too many David Lynch movies before that season. It wasn’t even fun to hate watch.

I don’t give Winters the credit for that since he wasn’t even part of the first season. The two shows he was show runner on definitely fit the bill. Vinyl was hot expensive garbage.