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[True Detective] CURRENT EPISODE SPOILERS UNMARKED!
stevemarks44
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@Podly wrote a better OP so here:
I know, I thought the same thing. Matthew McConaughey is just a a dude that is in movies with his shirt off.
But he's in a show where sometimes he looks like this
and sometimes he looks like this
and does cocaine off a bowie knife
It's True Detective!
The best first season since Breaking Bad, True Detective is a murder mystery set in 90's bayou Louisiana. But it is so much more than that. It's like if the love child of Faulkner and Pynchon wrote Heart of Darkness and someone wanted to make a follow up to Twin Peaks.
I know that's all your favorite things! They're mine too.
A note on spoilers:
Please place appropriate labeled spoiler tags on anything outside of the actual canon of the show (interviews, previews, theories etc)
Anything in the actual television show will not be spoilered, so please be careful and make sure you're caught up before reading the newest posts!
I know, I thought the same thing. Matthew McConaughey is just a a dude that is in movies with his shirt off.
But he's in a show where sometimes he looks like this
and sometimes he looks like this
and does cocaine off a bowie knife
It's True Detective!
The best first season since Breaking Bad, True Detective is a murder mystery set in 90's bayou Louisiana. But it is so much more than that. It's like if the love child of Faulkner and Pynchon wrote Heart of Darkness and someone wanted to make a follow up to Twin Peaks.
I know that's all your favorite things! They're mine too.
A note on spoilers:
Please place appropriate labeled spoiler tags on anything outside of the actual canon of the show (interviews, previews, theories etc)
Anything in the actual television show will not be spoilered, so please be careful and make sure you're caught up before reading the newest posts!
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What sets off Cohle's relapse? What happened between them? They seem to have a strained relationship, but Cohle almost seems endearing at the end of the dinner.
Also, the way the show temporally jumps around, where will our anchor be? Are we going to get a present-day Cohle and Hart trying to solve a new case? Will the new case be the second season? Will we jump between the two timelines or was that a device only for the pilot? (doubtful)
I honestly don't have much to contribute yet other than questions.
My favorite part this week was definitely the scene where Cohle explains his worldview to Hart. Not only because it's a great monologue, but Harrelson sells his genuine world-breaking disgust in such a genuine way. He doesn't just think Cohle is weird, he feels like Cohle just violated his worldview. He's opening up a real darkness that Hart has either ignored or never known, and I think that will be very interesting as it plays out, especially since we see Cohle so broken down, and such a sterile version of Hart in the future.
What is Hart burying? And when will we see it come out?!
Really liked the first episode - looking forward to see how it develops.
I'm trying to teach my brain to accept a television model that doesn't drive characters I love into the ground with like 10 seasons. So I'll have to love these characters and move on.
And def give it a shot, DUE. The show doesn't seem "confusing", as in, if you don't like the first ep, I doubt the series will be for you.
But nope. I've lived in that place. It's not that bad. Is it
(Don't answer)
I think it says something about the show that we've even gone this many posts without really even talking about the actual plot.
Im surprised there isn't a cloud of smoke every time they get out of the squad car.
Next time, Archer is going after True Detective. It's a great show and it looks phenomenal, but Jesus it is some heavy heavy shit and I'm going to need something funny afterwards to improve my mood.
I do enjoy being reminded that Woody Harrelson is such a damn good actor. I forget that fact every so often.
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In any event, the wife and I really enjoyed the first episode, and we are hooked for the season.
And yeah, I am more like McConahey's character than I'd like to admit, myself.
You mean a manic depressed alcoholic with the most delightful combination of white trash hair and facial hair imaginable?
I've been waiting for this dream team reunion since Edtv. Not disappointed at all.
Now I need a neckbrace to recover from the mood and quality whiplash.
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And I don't see that happening, unless the writers really did watch Frailty and decide to turn it into an eight hour affair.
So my current bet? The governor's preacher brother. Just call it a gut feeling, but I think he's going to end up being the one ultimately responsible for the killings.
Obviously, it's a long shot based on a gut feeling. But what I'm all but certain of is that, whoever it is, it's someone that's already been on the screen. It could just as easily be one of the random witnesses they've questioned, like Clarke Peters' character.
Along these lines, the second episode had a quite explicit reference to
Why would you do this to yourself? I... I thought you were better than that...
The smoking thing throws me, why do they have to talk about it in that room? couldn't they do the whole process at a bar or rust's shack? I thought Rust was a prisoner at first, his shirt is similar but my eyes are bad and I realized it was just a regular button up shirt. But that could be an intentional illusion as well based on the other stuff. They act like he can't leave either, which fits in with him telling them to go buy him beer.
He asks them to get his beer, the reasoning so he can get drunk/drink. in ep 2 2 beers in he has a flask out. The dynamic is that he is a person of no power, but with the leverage(all of it so far), and he is deducting what is going on the whole time.
We also assume there being interviewed on the same day, and it looks like the same room. they just sit in different positions with very set camera angles. But I am not convinced. In fact,
edit: I understand some of this is reaching, even reaching really badly. I just like running with my curiosity on what is going to happen.
Regarding your first question/statement:
Seriously. I mean, I know this thread should be dedicated to deep meaningful conversation about the show and its themes, but, dear lord, Alexandra Daddario is spectacular looking. Premium cable + Actress looking to prove she can take more serious, "adult" roles = Wow.
Sorry. I'll stop being a perv now...
Then in episode 2
My mind ran like fuck with this. From a conspiracy theory angle a lot of stuff fits. How they are telling the story, how the story is going to change every season, etc. I'm prepared to be disappointing, but it was be the best bait and switch, especially after the first conversation
And I love how Matt McConaughey plays him, all walking around with dead eyes.
Eventually?
I am pretty awestruck by it.
I was so glad when I saw the show is going to be anthology style. Some of my favorite shows and the best shows of all time are the ones that run many seasons letting us see how characters develop and what not, but when it comes to stories like this one, I feel like there'd be no way to keep up the quality if you're constantly asking the viewer to wait until next season to get resolution.
It's like a great crime movie, except we get close to 8 hours of it.