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

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Kraftwerk said:
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motherfucker -_-
 
HalfBakedProphet said:
I was trying to watch The Wire but I wasn't paying attention. Duck Dynasty was on
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:lol ice cold.

I haven't been this excited for a season finale since Game of Thrones. TD is the first show to grab me by the balls in a few years, feeling I haven't felt since Breaking Bad and GoT first aired.

I'm rewatching the episodes through this week and am continually amazed at all the detail and information that's in most shots. Knowing more of the case and going back to re-watch reveals some pretty awesome stuff. For example, the first time I saw the end of episode two where they find the burned down parish. Rust gets out of the car and sees a flock of birds fly off, but they fly off in the shape of the spiral tattoo. Really great stuff.
 
Soyongdori said:
I wasn't paying attention. I was watching Walking Dead at the same time.
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My condolences.

Does anybody think this show would have benefited from having a standard 12-15 episode run HBO/ AMC serials usually get, or do you think the 8 episodes was just right for the amount of story told?
 
Artakartel said:
My condolences.

Does anybody think this show would have benefited from having a standard 12-15 episode run HBO/ AMC serials usually get, or do you think the 8 episodes was just right for the amount of story told?
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We probably could have gotten more fleshed out supporting characters, but I'm not sure it would have been necessary considering the laser focus the show has on the two leads. I would have loved a 10 episode season though.
 
Anyone else kind of disappointed that the hallucinations/visions are completely confined to episode 2? In a way it feels like the sort of stylistic choice one director would make over another but obviously that isn't the case here. We get them introduced then he never has any in any other episodes. Feels unbalanced on rewatch to me.
 
The Illiterati said:
Anyone else kind of disappointed that the hallucinations/visions are completely confined to episode 2? In a way it feels like the sort of stylistic choice one director would make over another but obviously that isn't the case here. We get them introduced then he never has any in any other episodes. Feels unbalanced on rewatch to me.
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I actually was thinking about this either earlier today or yesterday, and I'm kind of hoping we realize at the end that Rust had been having these hallucinations the entire time, but they weren't pointed out.

If that's not the case though, I think the blame would lie more on Nic's script and not Fukunaga's direction.
 
The Illiterati said:
Anyone else kind of disappointed that the hallucinations/visions are completely confined to episode 2? In a way it feels like the sort of stylistic choice one director would make over another but obviously that isn't the case here. We get them introduced then he never has any in any other episodes. Feels unbalanced on rewatch to me.
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I guess. But Rust basically said that he had a control over these hallucinations, and could tell what was real or not. So to me, that was a cue to the audience that he has hallucinations, they just aren't going to show us every time he has them.

EDIT: I see where you are coming from though. I personally didn't need to see them, since the character established he has control over them. So seeing them again would just be for visual effect, and not plot.
 
Yeah, I'm a huge, huge fan of this show. It's the show of all shows in my opinion. I'm totally obsessed at this point.

I've just been lurking this thread on GAF ever since the first episode aired, but I haven't really felt compelled to post in it. Well... not until I read this quote:

Soyongdori said:
I wasn't paying attention. I was watching Walking Dead at the same time.
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I hate your guts, dude.
 
The Illiterati said:
Anyone else kind of disappointed that the hallucinations/visions are completely confined to episode 2? In a way it feels like the sort of stylistic choice one director would make over another but obviously that isn't the case here. We get them introduced then he never has any in any other episodes. Feels unbalanced on rewatch to me.
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Or are they?
 
Rewatched the first 4 episodes. One interesting thing I noticed was that Gerasi was the dude who covered for Marty when he disappeared for a while. Cohle says Gerasi wouldn't pull him because he hates him. Before now that name didn't mean anything to me and I didn't realize he wasn't just talking about Quesada
 
I finally noticed that the lawnmower man is the actor who plays Remus in Boardwalk Empire.

I knew I saw his face somewhere. Thats been bugging me the whole time.
 
hmm, so he is the yellow king, I didnt expect that honestly, I was sure the killer and the yellow king were different people. I cant imagine lawnmower man being the leader of the cult, so I guess the yellow king is probably the cults exectutioner.
or whatever he is (haunting cult members, killing on his own because he got crazy), the yellow king is the name the cult has given him.
 
SpacLock said:
Yeah, I'm a huge, huge fan of this show. It's the show of all shows in my opinion. I'm totally obsessed at this point.

I've just been lurking this thread on GAF ever since the first episode aired, but I haven't really felt compelled to post in it. Well... not until I read this quote:



I hate your guts, dude.
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Dunno how anyone can think this show is the GOAT after the last few eps. Opinions tho. It's kinda just morphed into a slick, well written procedural. Which maybe it was all along.
 
Just to make sure, the lawnmower guy at the closed school is the same guy from the end of episode 7? How did Rust not see the scars and remember him when they found out about the descriptions that mentioned scars? Did he not get a good look of him because Marty called him back? Did I miss something?
 
peterb0y said:
Dunno how anyone can think this show is the GOAT after the last few eps. Opinions tho. It's kinda just morphed into a slick, well written procedural. Which maybe it was all along.
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You can't call a show GOAT before it's over with no matter what. But this is a great show and if they finish strong it will be talked about with the greats
 
KeRaSh said:
Just to make sure, the lawnmower guy at the closed school is the same guy from the end of episode 7? How did Rust not see the scars and remember him when they found out about the descriptions that mentioned scars? Did he not get a good look of him because Marty called him back? Did I miss something?
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This was discussed a couple of pages back. I think someone posted an image that showed that the lawnmower guy had a beard and looked at Rust with the less scarred side of his face. If you know what I mean.

Also, it didn't help that Marty was impatient.
 
peterb0y said:
Dunno how anyone can think this show is the GOAT after the last few eps. Opinions tho. It's kinda just morphed into a slick, well written procedural. Which maybe it was all along.
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Procedural? I thought this show was the opposite of a procedural show (like CSI) for instance. Apparently I don't know what procedural means.
 
Tence said:
Procedural? I thought this show was the opposite of a procedural show (like CSI) for instance. Apparently I don't know what procedural means.
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From Wikipedia:

The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story. While traditional mysteries usually adhere to the convention of having the criminal's identity concealed until the climax (the so-called whodunit), in police procedurals, the perpetrator's identity is often known to the audience from the outset (the inverted detective story). Police procedurals depict a number of police-related topics such as forensics, autopsies, the gathering of evidence, the use of search warrants and interrogation.

I guess you could argue that it's a procedural, but it definitely doesn't follow the same formula as CSI or other shows. It's a character study disguised as a procedural, I guess.
 
Alpende said:
This was discussed a couple of pages back. I think someone posted an image that showed that the lawnmower guy had a beard and looked at Rust with the less scarred side of his face. If you know what I mean.

Also, it didn't help that Marty was impatient.
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Ah, thanks for the clear up. I just joined the thread and didn't know how far back I would have to go. I also thought he could have had a beard (apparently I didn't pay enough attention during that scene) but then I wondered if scarred tissue like that is even able to grow hair. I have a few scars on my head that are completely bald.
 
KeRaSh said:
Ah, thanks for the clear up. I just joined the thread and didn't know how far back I would have to go. I also thought he could have had a beard (apparently I didn't pay enough attention during that scene) but then I wondered if scarred tissue like that is even able to grow hair. I have a few scars on my head that are completely bald.
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Heh, that too was mentioned. I think it came down to that some beard hair might have covered a bit of the scars and Rust didn't get a direct look at the scars.
 
Alpende said:
Heh, that too was mentioned. I think it came down to that some beard hair might have covered a bit of the scars and Rust didn't get a direct look at the scars.
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Thanks! I guess I should follow this thread more closely but I'm afraid to read someone's theory about the end and if that theory ends up being true it would ruin it for me a little. I want it to be a surprise until the very end...
 
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