True Detective Season 1 (NO SPOILERS)

[lutha]

damn, this show just keeps getting better and better....aight, couple thoughts:

- the writing, acting, camera work, pacing, etc. is just top notch...I mean, damn...

- I see why the cops looking at rust now....him and marty never told how that shyt really went down, and rust just look/sound like a crazy muthafukka lol...

- I see why marty holds rust in high regard till this day...that man had his back with the fam, even when he didn't give a shyt....that's the type of shyt a man holds dear for a long time....

- marty really fukked up with the young broad...all he had to do was play it cool and talk to her, he still would've been tapping that ass, and she never would've went to his wife with all the details...on a side note: i like how the natural born killer came outta woody: 'bytch, i will skull fukk you'..shoutout to full metal jacket too...

- I see why rust was that dude while he was undercover...he was using everything and still focused, damn...and I like how he was prepared if that shyt came back on him....even had a bottle in his stash to get his mind right lol...

...i can see them using the next 2 episodes to wrap up the old case and point the fingers at rust...then the last 2, gonna be all about the new case and shyt really gonna hit the fan...i cant fukking wait...as soon as this drops on dvd, i'm copping, and one lazy day, i'm getting a bottle of good drank, some good food, and watching this shyt straight through...

 

[HookersandIceCream]

shyts not fair

I mean 2 weeks off and this intense eposide

 

[lutha]

oh yea, when rust told marty how the cartel used to do people when comparing to what would happen if the iron crusaders found out who he was, damn....'yea, a bullet to the head, aint that level'...

 

[robb]

oooooofukingweeeee
damn thats a good episode.
had my heart racing, and in melody with the baseline.
good thing i watched TWD before this.
its been a great nite of feasting brehs

 

[beanz]

hbo does it again

 

[jwinfield]

Exactly, that last 15min was crazy...

What the fukk.

Holy shyt.

Last 15 minutes was just

Everything from the acting, the cinematography, the long ass tracking shot, the music, making people get the feeling even though you know Rust is gonna survive.

Just fukking brilliance.

Matthew is killing this role

 

[tru_m.a.c]

- I see why rust was that dude while he was undercover...he was using everything and still focused, damn...and I like how he was prepared if that shyt came back on him....even had a bottle in his stash to get his mind right lol...

Now I see how Rust fell off. He was way too dedicated

son, my man Rust was taking them joints to the HEAD

he's a baaaad baaaaad man

This episode completes the picture of his "cynical" world view. Losing his wife and daughter. Going undercover and having no meaningful contact with the real world. Getting shot in the ribs and managing not to be killed. Taking EXCESSIVE amounts of drugs while undercover. Then sobering up and being one of the best detectives on the squad. Dude has been to hell and back. I no longer see his disdain for religious people/beliefs as purely an academic/philosophical stance. He fukkn LOATHES them. His tombstone would read, "What in the fukk do you know about salvation?"

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

@ Marty catching feelings for that smut...yea them titties is GOAT status but not worth child support and alimony breh...He should of let her walk and I know I wasn't the only one thinking that fool was going to kill the phone battery by doing something stupid like tryna call his wife...

The acting and camera work in this episode...

The entire episode was tense as fukk and the execution on the final 15 minutes was flawless...I salute this crew especially Mcconaughey...I have never been a fan of dude but he's officially added another one to that bandwagon...

Anyways hopefully this don't mean the case ends anticlimactically because this episode is a hard one to follow...

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Yeah you have to pick your battles....he fukked up that night at the dance when she said "its ran its course" and he caught feelings.....

He didnt play it G-code because she was cool to fukk for a while til she found what she was looking for.....he kicked in her door and blew up the spot.....put nothin past a scorned woman...he should have walked away...

cant have your cake and eat it too

Even though he did all that, if he didn't get all high and mighty at the court house, shyt would've gone away.

Marty did the same shyt that got Cain clapped in Menace II Society. Not only did Cain dismiss the shorty he got pregnant, he stomped her cousin (or was it brother) out.

Now I will say, what the fukk was shorty talking about with her feminist rant. bytch was talking about "listen to how you talk to/about women" blah blah blah

How you gonna talk about respect me after sleeping with a married man?

 

[lutha]

son, my man Rust was taking them joints to the HEAD

he's a baaaad baaaaad man

This episode completes the picture of his "cynical" world view. Losing his wife and daughter. Going undercover and having no meaningful contact with the real world. Getting shot in the ribs and managing not to be killed. Taking EXCESSIVE amounts of drugs while undercover. Then sobering up and being one of the best detectives on the squad. Dude has been to hell and back. I no longer see his disdain for religious people/beliefs as purely an academic/philosophical stance. He fukkn LOATHES them. His tombstone would read, "What in the fukk do you know about salvation?"

the way he walked out on Maggie when she tried him with the smartass comment, cold blooded...rust that dude...

on a side note: i wonder who this miles character is? and if he gonna come into play

 

[Czerka]

i feel like im a better human being after watching that masterpiece

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Went from watching this magnificent show to watching The Walking Dead. Like going from Filet Mignon to Slim Jims.

Fam, its downright DISGUSTING how atrocious the writing/acting on that show is.

 

[mson]

I new Matthew had it in him since Reign of Fire.

 

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Here's an article from MTV talking about that heist and escape scene, which was done in one continuous shot.

Before reaching the halfway point of the series, Fukunaga decided to end the episode with a six-minute oner, or long take, that follows Cohle into a heist inside a housing project, through a number of shootouts, outside to escape from swarming police, through another house, over a fence and finally into Hart's car. It's the kind of incredible shot that's worth watching again and again to catch every detail in it and further blurs the line between television and film.

To find out how he pulled off the complex sequence, I reached out to Fukunaga to see if he would walk me through the planning and execution of the best "True Detective" scene yet. Off the bat, it's important to know that the oner is nothing new to Fukunaga. Having used the technique in both of his feature films, "Sin Nombre" and "Jane Eyre," Fukunaga signed onto "True Detective" knowing that he wanted to include a long take at some point, because he considers it a tenser kind of directing. "The best ones, you don't even realize that they're oners," Fukunaga said. "They're the most first-person experience you can get in a film." Reading Nic Pizzolatto's script for "Who Goes There," Fukunaga knew almost immediately that the heist was the scene to make his oner. All he had to do was convince the entire crew that it wasn't impossible to pull off.

To cover as much ground as he wanted to in the sequence, Fukunaga needed to shoot in an actual housing project, and that was the first complication in planning the oner. It took weeks to even get permission to film on-location, but once received it, Fukunaga went straight into mapping the shot and finding "the most interesting path, but also the most logical path" for Cohle to escape with Ginger. That interesting and logical path eventually takes Cohle and Ginger over a chain-link fence, a maneuver that proved to be the most complicated of the intricate sequence. Watching just the fences portion of the oner back, the camera floats over the high barrier in a movement that almost looks effortless. Getting the shot, however, was anything but. Because the location was an actual housing project, the "True Detective" crew wasn't allowed to take down any portion of the fence, so they had to improvise. "At one point, we were going to build a ramp, and the operator was going to walk up it," Fukunaga said. "But that wasn't very safe."

The solution ended up involving placing the Steadicam operator on an elevated jib, or a weighted crane, which carried him over the fence and back down to earth. Once the camera movements were figured out, the production carefully choreographed everything that had to happen in front of the lens with the help of a stunt team led by Mark Norby, who personally worked with McConaughey to develop a fighting style for Cohle. The crew even built a replica of the stash house for the stunt team to practice in before the big shoot. "We had ADs [assistant directors] all over the neighborhood because we had to release extras, crowd running background, police cars, stunt drivers. There were actual gun shots and stones being thrown through windows. There were a lot of things to put together," Fukunaga said. "Even the action, the stunt sequences were complicated. We're working on a television schedule. It isn't like a film where you can spend a lot of time working the stunts out with the actors. We only had a day and a half to get Matthew and everyone else on the same page."

All told, the sequence clocks in at around six minutes. Fukunaga and the crew ran through the whole thing seven times while the cameras were rolling. The director built in possible edit points if two takes had to be combined to make the perfect version of the shot, but anyone who is wondering should know that the sequence everyone saw in the episode is, in fact, a true single take and one of the great achievements of filmmaking for television.

http://m.mtv.com/news/article.rbml?id=1722001&alt=http://m.mtv.com/news/index.rbml

 

[tru_m.a.c]

the way he walked out on Maggie when she tried him with the smartass comment, cold blooded...rust that dude...

on a side note: i wonder who this miles character is? and if he gonna come into play

Yo she reeeeeally fukked up there. She came at Rust like he was on his regular guy steez. Him trying to save the kids was him trying to save HIMSELF. That's why the conversation about him taking a leave of absence to see his father, and that sit down synced perfectly.