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True Detective - McConaughey/Harrelson crime series - S2 starts June 21st

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Content Round Up - Episode 7 - After You’ve Gone
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Sickbean said:
I wonder if they'll keep the same theme tune? I love it but it really is tied to the setting in style.
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New song, I'd guess.

"Far From Any Road" is totally linked to S1/Louisiana. Creole, etc.

EDIT: gonna be fucking HARD to top the S1 credits/theme. GOAT tier stuff all around.
 
Solo said:
My only desire for S2 isn't a casting thing, but a location one. I'd like to contrast the hot, murky, soggy backroads of Louisiana with a harsh, cold, winter setting.
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Minnesota or something would be cool.

I think we'll get a man-woman pairing next season, if it is to follow the guidelines this one put down. I can see Pizzolato trying to challenge himself and writing about something different though.
 
lamaroo said:
A serious selection, Garret Dillahunt and Brad Dourif.
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If there were anyone more worthy of the chance to really shine on his own than Garret Dillahunt, I haven't seen em. Dude needs the opportunity and he'd slay something like this.
 
potam said:
When I was rewatching it this morning, that scene was pretty tough. Marty was seemingly on top of the world: hot wife, good-ish kids, solid job, and well-liked at work. Like Rust said, he could have been boss had he wanted it. Watching him sit alone on his couch eating a microwaved meal with his gut sticking out was hard. At least Rust seems content with his existence.
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I thought that seen was way too hammy.
 
Solo said:
New song, I'd guess.

"Far From Any Road" is totally linked to S1/Louisiana. Creole, etc.

EDIT: gonna be fucking HARD to top the S1 credits/theme. GOAT tier stuff all around.
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The lyrics actually have nothing to do with the South; they're about the Arizona/California desert (it's creosote, a tumbleweed, not creole soul.) The song is about someone who wanders into the desert to watch a rare cactus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_queen_of_the_night) bloom, and is so smitten with the beauty of the desert that he/she just dies there in bliss. The second verse that makes this most explicit isn't used in the credits, but mesas, creosotes, rattlesnakes, and sand are all desert, not bayou, images.

"From the dusty mesa,
Her looming shadow grows,
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote.
She twines her spines up slowly,
Towards the boiling sun,
And when I touched her skin,
My fingers ran with blood.

In the hushing dusk, under a swollen silver moon,
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom.
A strange hunger haunted me, the looming shadows danced.
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt a trembling hand.

When the last light warms the rocks,
And the rattlesnakes unfold,
Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones.

And rise with me forever,
Across the silent sand,
And the stars will be your eyes,
And the wind will be my hands"
 
Yeah, I think the daughter will be a victim of abuse unrelated the cult but still of institutionalized nature, I also think that Hart will pretend to not get the full extent of it and pull it under the rug like he did last time. Which by the way was the lowest shit that he probably will do during the duration of the show, someone you love was abused by two older guys and you turn this horrible thing and you make it about you and your desire for revenge so hard that you let a couple of criminals go? What a piece of shit.
 
So what the heck is wrong with Marty's older daughter?

- They made a conscious effort to show the Barbie gang bang with the Ken doll dolls when she left her room for dinner
- Drawing dicks and titties on stickmen at a young age
- The MMF threesome in a car with two older fellas
- Now in the present day she's on "medication".

WTF happened to her? Especially since the younger one turned out so normal
 
Messypandas said:
What about.

Jesse Eisenberg:

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Michael Cera:

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Set in Baltimore[/QUOTE]
Let's keep the Baltimore setting, but instead of Eisenberg and Cera, let's go with:

Dominic West

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and

Wendell Pierce

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xtrasauce said:
I don't think hammy means what you think it means.
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Haha possibly. I'm just saying that the overly sad music playing while Marty eats a frozen dinner in front of the TV was pretty heavy handed. Borderline over the top.

Edit: After googling it... hammy was the correct term.
 
That episode wasn't my favorite and seemed a bit more heavy-handed and sloppy compared to the others, but still had some great moments.

Harrelson is killing it as 2012 Marty, man.
 
Artakartel said:
Collapse to a flat circle if old.

I was watching the last scenes of episodes 3 and 4 on youtube immediately after episode 4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGoX1B6_2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qlkRt6lK4

When Rust is giving the great speech at the end of episode 3 looking at the DBs, one image quickly flashed by that stood out to me: one of a little girl. And the first few times I watched this, I just noted "how sad". But then I noticed:

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She's taking her pulse.

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Quite a mannerism to pick up isn't it? Everytime Rust goes into a dangerous situation he checks his pulse, as if checking his own mortality before he goes back into the darkness. He did the same thing in an earlier episode.

I'll even go a step further: there's a chance that THIS is Rust's daughter, and that she did not in fact die in a car accident. We learned in episode 4 that he's not above lying about things (like his father having leukemia). And of course the big lie about the shootout. There's a chance things are much more tragic than he lets on, and may tie into the thematic ending of the show.
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Alright, gonna start building up my theory going into the finale.

There will be some narrative bookend showing the tragedies that have befallen both Rust's and Hart's daughters. We will see a mournful recounting of how Rust's daughter died (see above for my earlier theory) and then we will see Marty's daughter revealed as being sexually abused by the cult (as seen in early theories with the pictures and all that).

I also think the lawnmower guy will go down with even less ceremony than Reggie LaDeux. Like Rust gives him a slap and Mart down a well or something in the first 20 minutes. The real drama will be confronting the Yellow King and/ or Tuttle.
 
Dark FaZe said:
Was it ever explained why Rust gave up on his relationship in 02?
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he mentioned in one of the first few episodes that he was close to marrying her but that he could be "hard to live with" and it didn't work out. Maybe there was a more specific reason I missed.

Combined with the look on his face when they were sitting on the couch watching TV, I think he was disillusioned and knew it wouldn't work out long term. I could see Rust sabotaging the relationship.
 
Anyone know when the blu ray goes on sale. I cant wait to start watching, seems to a great show, right up there with breaking bad from what i heard. An since its an anthology i know the story will be self contained and i wont have to wait for other seasons.
 
HalfBakedProphet said:
he mentioned in one of the first few episodes that he was close to marrying her but that he could be "hard to live with" and it didn't work out. Maybe there was a more specific reason I missed.

Combined with the look on his face when they were sitting on the couch watching TV, I think he was disillusioned and knew it wouldn't work out long term. I could see Rust sabotaging the relationship.
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I'm pretty sure there were more scenes with Rust's girlfriend, but they were left on the cutting room floor.
 
Dark FaZe said:
Was it ever explained why Rust gave up on his relationship in 02?
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It was all there in that brief scene with them watching TV. Rust as a "regular" guy was just a facade, an act. He could only keep up the charade for so long. Eventually his obsessions, his vices, etc, crept back in and he gave up on the relationship and once again immersed himself in the only thing he ever had a calling to do or was good at.
 
Solo said:
It was all there in that brief scene with them watching TV. Rust as a "regular" guy was just a facade, an act. He could only keep up the charade for so long. Eventually his obsessions, his vices, etc, crept back in and he gave up on the relationship and once again immersed himself in the only thing he ever had a calling to do or was good at.
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From McConaughey's notes:
2002 Cohle
"A little looser mix of Crash and the '95 Cohle. A guy who's made his boundaries clear and has to mark less territory, so he's relaxed into his way in the world. But the case is still his lifeline. He has some small hope that there's going to be a way out of his being and pain and criticism, so he makes an effort into domesticity, a la the girlfriend. Only to prove that he was not made for it, and there is no way out. So what does he do? He resigns to his nature, once again."
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Ok, this just got funnier.
I had previously mentioned that someone was putting up post-its in my office with the spiral symbol on them.

I had a new post-it note on my monitor today. The funny part is that I haven't talked to anyone else at work who has seen the show. Maybe it's my boss.

I can't scan it now but it reads "Spring Break, Carcosa 1666: A hell of a good time"

Stupid but funny :p
 
monocle_wearing_hyrax said:
Anyone know when the blu ray goes on sale. I cant wait to start watching, seems to a great show, right up there with breaking bad from what i heard. An since its an anthology i know the story will be self contained and i wont have to wait for other seasons.
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Few places here in Finland are advertising that it's coming out on 11th of June. Don't know about other regions.
 
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