True Detective Season 1 (NO SPOILERS)

[Methodical]

This show because unlike most critics I've read, I was was actually terrified of a shock-fest ending. I didn't really want some crazy twist that while cool and shocking at first, would, over time, seem rather lame. The ending has real and inhabiting and rather sad and pathetic, which given the nihilism of the show, seems completely right.

I think Rust finally came to terms with his daughter's death. I felt Rust was hiding behind a mask just as much as Marty was. One man wore a mask that everything was fine, that he had this wonderful family, that it was all good, the other man wore a mask that said everything sucked, that life was a lie, that there was no good or love in the world. I think both of them had their masks pulled off; Marty realized that he never did have a perfect family and Rust realized that life wasn't as awful as he thought it was. The ending Rust had me

Not really happy, but eye opening for them.

 

[FlyRy]

What the fukk is up with emo dude on the right though?

Dude looks like they were shooting the fourth season of The Walking Dead nearby and he wandered onto the wrong set.

Dude looks like the runner-up in the 2014 Louisiana Michael Jackson look-a-like contest.

Dude looks like he caught AIDS twice.

legit died at work

 

[Methodical]

When they was looking for dude in them woods i never been so nervous watching a show

My only complaint was there was no need for the sex shyt between those inbreds that was disgusting

This!....that sh!t had me

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Aint that Erroll's sister in the front?

na

 

[hex]

it seems like one or both of the leads next season will be female, so keep that in mind when throwin out names

Nah. He never said that. Someone on Twitter asked him about having stronger female characters and he said "next season". The internet went nuts like "next season 2 women detectives, confirmed!" so he deleted the Tweet and has said he's not going to let people sway his creative process.

Fred.

 

[jwinfield]

Nah. He never said that. Someone on Twitter asked him about having stronger female characters and he said "next season". The internet went nuts like "next season 2 women detectives, confirmed!" so he deleted the Tweet and has said he's not going to let people sway his creative process.

Fred.

In his interview with Sepinwall he made a comment about season two having a tough woman, may not be the detective though

 

[hex]

Check this shyt out I found on reddit:

It's unexplained, so there is no right answer about why Audrey drew those pictures or set up the dolls in that tableu. But you want a theory?

This show is a metafictional adaptation of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. It wears this influence in its sleeve, and it uses what might otherwise just sound like nihilistic rumblings to actually be pretty straightforward about its intent.

In episode one, Rust tells us about how the towns he is in feel like poorly-remembered, faded memories of a real one, and he chides the present-day detectives on how their entire lives are just a dream they had that they were real people. Well, Rust is one of many partially self-aware characters on this fictional show driven nearly to madness by their small glimpses at the true nature of their world. Again, episode 1, Rust proclaims how he now sees that time is a flat circle, where their consciousness is on rails circling over and over through their lives, where there exist higher-level beings who perceive their time not as linear, but in this flat circle. I.e we the audience see time skips, changes in scenes, the inexplicable presence of a boat in the character's possession, etc.

This is the classic Lovecraftian notion of horror. To peer into the incomprehensible dimension of higher beings to whom you are of no consequence in a universe which is utterly indifferent to your insignificance. In True Detective, the audience are the Old Gods, and Nic is Cthulu. Other works of fiction are infinite parallel universes.

Exactly. I dunno who wrote this but I tried to tell cats this like 50 pages ago....not necessarily the drug part, but the Lovecraft shyt....I even pointed out "why do the actors constantly look into the camera" after the 2nd episode.

Fred.

 

[Pifferry]

One of my favorite scenes in the series

 

[bangbreh]

this picture
i need this on a poster.

 

[obarth]

I have no words for the greatness I just witnessed

 

[pickles]

I saw the latest episode and am djfdjfdfdfjsdlfjsldjfldsjfsdjfjdsjfdjfds right now.


My nikka Matthew, are you serious right now? They need to give him the Emmy right fukken now. You know the scene I am talking about. He shut that shyt down.

God damn. :wowwow2: How this nikka get so good? If I had emotions I would crying at that scene.

Other parts, the nikkas who did set design deserve some accolades, my chest was pounding when they were going through twig maze.

That is all I have to say for now.


Eta: So that little kid who was looking at the green man was the Matthew character as a little boy? I thought he grew up in Texas?

 

[gho3st]

One of my favorite scenes in the series

Dude was like "I see you again, i'm putting you down". with a str8 face too.

 

[obarth]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/true-detective-fan-develops-elaborate-theory-he-wi,35470/

‘True Detective’ Fan Develops Elaborate Theory He Will Be Let Down By Season Finale
News in Brief • television • Entertainment • ISSUE 50•09 • Mar 7, 2014

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LANSING, MI—Claiming that the clues have been in plain sight all along, local man and diehard True Detective fan Spencer Adams, 34, told reporters Friday he has developed an elaborate theory that he will be incredibly disappointed by the show’s upcoming season finale. “If you’ve been paying close attention to each episode so far, everything points to the fact that we’re headed for a huge disappointment this Sunday,” said Adams, citing as supporting evidence the impossibly high expectations scattered throughout the crime drama’s first seven episodes and listing off a labyrinthine catalog of loose ends and unresolved plot threads that, according to his hypothesis, the HBO series cannot possibly wrap up in the season’s final 60 minutes. “I’ve been watching every shot, every cutaway intently—sometimes viewing the same episodes three or four times each—and the signs are all there: the increasingly convoluted story, the massive amounts of filler in the more recent episodes, the numerous occult references that we clearly aren’t going to get a proper explanation for. All of that makes a satisfying ending virtually impossible, and if you’ve carefully followed every onscreen moment like I have, you’ll see they’ve been making that obvious from the very start.” Adams also noted that the show has been dropping numerous hints as to the arc of its planned second season, namely that the producers will be unable to cast leads on par with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson and that Adams will then stop watching.

 

[dtownreppin214]

Great finale, great final season. Errol is one fukked up villain. Could you imagine the funk coming from that shack.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Exactly. I dunno who wrote this but I tried to tell cats this like 50 pages ago....not necessarily the drug part, but the Lovecraft shyt....I even pointed out "why do the actors constantly look into the camera" after the 2nd episode.

Fred.

Where them extended thoughts at plehboi?