Colin Farrell may not like Ray Velcoro, his character in "True Detective" season 2, but he has a lot of sympathy for the officer.

In an interview with Detroit Free Press, he said, "Ray is not the kind of guy I would find myself wanting to spend too much time with but I had a fairly deep sympathy for him from the first time I met him. He can't find his way back to that place where life still held some potential to be noble."

"The birthplace of a character is the writer's mind and heart," Colin Farrell said. "But there should come a point where, as an actor, you arrive at the doorstep of more knowledge than the writer. By episode three or four, I felt I understood Ray."

"But it wasn't like I was ever going to get to tell Nic, 'He's mine now.' Ray, and all the characters, lived within Nic, too, while we were shooting the show."

"True Dectective" season 2 got off to a slow start which got critics concluding that it couldn't hold a candle to the madness of the pilot season, especially with the genius portrayal of Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle.

But the second episode of "True Detective" season 2 changed all that when a man in a raven mask pumped bullets into the body of Colin Farrell's character, which had the fans wondering if he's already dead.

Joanna Robinson wrote for Vanity Fair, "When you compare the electric charisma of Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle and the shocking occult staging of that first female victim to the dreary exposition of the first two episodes of this season, there's no doubt that, so far, True Detective is operating on a different caliber."

"We need that shock of weirdness (a.k.a. a gunman in a raven's head) to spice up the gloom," she commented of "True Detectives" season 2 starring Colin Farrell.