That was the reason why i put up my link. Better (drag to zoom):
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Oh, didn't see it. Yep, that's definitely a better Maggie booty shot.
I posted about this after last week's episode, but I don't think we as the audience were ever supposed to really put stock into Rust as the killer. The cops are because from their view he's suspicious as hell, but we've seen him investigate the case on his own numerous times. Both in 95 and in 02. Makes no sense for him to be in on it.
If we had only seen him with Marty or other characters then maybe, but that hasn't been the case.
Same. If that was the "twist," people would smack their heads in how predictable it would have been, I think.
Definitely a different vibe from this episode compared to the previous. But quite an important episode in terms of outlining the breakdown and split of both of the working and personal relationships between Maggie, Marty & Rust.
I thought Michelle Monaghan was fantastic in her turn as Maggie and I really liked the no-nonsense steely determination of her as the woman betrayed, and the way that she just goes for the jugular in getting her vengeance on Marty and ensuring that her actions would be the death knell to the marriage without question. It's brutal, ugly, devastating and without sentiment and there's something quite refreshing about that absolute warts and all honesty as to how things can go south. Despite the fact that there clearly existed some form of friendship between her and Rust, Maggie is ready to sacrifice that in its entirety by leveraging Rusts frailties and that small torch she knows that he does carry for her as the emblem of a life he lost, turning up at his apartment late at night with a bottle in hand.
That Rust is already half cut makes the seduction that much easier, and him losing himself so easily in her only to realise as she pushes him away in order to hitch up her panties that it was never about him and her and perhaps the possibility of a future was just raw, and it's no surprise that he is outraged that she played him so easily, or that he walks resignedly into the inevitable forecourt smack down from Marty.
I also thought it was great the way she laid it all on Marty and pretty much was goading him into punching her out. An act whose repercussions would surely of put paid to both his reputation and career in one fell swoop. Maggie is burning down the house. That Marty despite the tumult of emotions that he must of been feeling was able to rein himself in says a lot about how despite everything, he's a different man from that which we encountered in 1995 in terms of being better able to manage his anger (if not his libido) and is the pre-cursor to him wisely putting his gun away before confronting Rust lest he send him the way of Reggie Ledoux.
Albeit neither of the leads will be back for further True Detective, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing Michelle Monaghan return in a new role as perhaps one of next seasons detectives. Although her appearances have been limited I think she's done a great job in breathing life into Maggie, and I'd love to see her do more TV drama of this calibre.
Yeah, the way they portray real life as not being a bed of roses is refreshing. That's why a lot of people like it so much, too, I think. Not everyone's pretty, handsome, chiseled and not everything is falling the way traditional TV has laid it out before.
Rust being seduced so easily was a disappointment for me, I admit. At first, I thought he was going to resist it. When Maggie knocked and I saw her in a sun dress and with a bottle of wine, I immediately thought she was going to try and fuck Rust's brains out. But eh, even someone as jaded and "soulless" as Rust caves in to his inner caveman.
Well she said she gained weight because she was pregnant at the time. They had to size up for her fitting. She has long legs (5'7) and her small waist + body arch + camera angle = her fine ass booty. Look at me, fn Mr. Skin all of a sudden smh.
Ah, thought the actress confirmed it herself. Nonetheless, that scene almost gave me wood. xD What makes me doubt it is the angle, since she did go full on naked in Episode 2 or 3, right?
I caught up with the first 5 from my roomates DVR, and I'll watch 6 tonight.
I don't know if I love this show but I'm invested and I really want to see where this goes. It feels like they are been dancing around the possibilities and we are about to get some seriously weird shit about to go down.
How many episodes will this story/sesason be?
Eight episodes in total, and the cast will be all-new next season since it's an anthology. Come to think of it, has it been renewed for a second season, folks?
I both hope and suspect that we will not find out who the Yellow King is. The idea is obviously taken from Robert Chambers, and in keeping with that, the Yellow King should remain a distant figure of menace and malice, influencing others. I hope next season will have another, different connection to the Yellow King.
Wasn't there an earlier post here on GAF where Monaghan reveals in an interview that we will indeed know who the killer (Yellow King) is?
