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[Burt]

Holy shit this show is too good.

 

[A Serious Man]

Fucking bananas.

 

[talisayNon]

OH MY FUCKING GOD

 

[RustyNails]

Rust

 

[Cru]

Afraid to watch Walking Dead. Don't want to ruin my buzz.

 

[Elwood Blues]

Unbelievable hour of television.

 

[Sanjuro]

 

[talisayNon]

im still fucking shaking

 

[DukeSucks]

damn

 

[FTF]

Fuck, that shit was intense!

 

[Jayhawk]

The action really ramped up this episode. Wow.

 

[Protag]

That WAS intense, heart was racing a bit

 

[tycoonheart]

That was one of the best TV show episodes I've seen in the last 15 years. This includes The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, make your pick. Fucking flawless.

Harrelson's performance in the first half. Amazing.

MM in the 2nd. Rush is batshit inside.

And that camera work during the shootout. God fucking tier.

 

[OdysseusVA]

So damn good

 

[Sanjuro]

Now, it's time to imagine the cast of Girls getting shot up in that drug house.

 

[talisayNon]

Alfonso Cuaron esque holy fuckkkkkk

 

[blainethemono]

That tracking shot was almost 6 minutes long. I'm gonna have to watch that again right now

 

[Cornballer]

- Sepinwall's review

 

[Burt]

I knew it was going to be amazing once I saw Rust's go-kit.

Any time there's a go-kit on a show, you know i'ts about to get amazing.

 

[~Kinggi~]

OK im starting it now. Walking Dead ep wasnt good btw, i feel like a filthy cheater.

 

[Zabka]

That was awesome. How much of that final sequence was one shot?

 

[Cornballer]

- Promo for next week's episode (please spoiler tag any discussion)
- Inside the Episode #4
- Episode #4 recap

 

[ActStriker]

Such a great sequence. Gotdamn

 

[torontoml]

I Fucking Love This Show.

 

[oneils]

Great stuff. Catching up on ep 5 of banshee, now.

 

[Chiggs]

Fucking incredible. Wow.

 

[neoism]

:O wooow

 

[Cornballer]

- Onion A|V Club review

 

[neoism]

im still fucking shaking

lol I smoked a nice bowl that shit was insane :O
Rust is my favorite character in a long time
this fucking show

 

[Psychological Intellect]

Sounds like it was a good episode, can't wait

 

[Rixxan]

edit:

whoops, beaten by cornballer

(as always)

 

[potam]

Rust is reaching new levels of badass unknown to mankind.

 

[kaskade]

- Onion A|V Club review

Before I clicked the review I was thinking there is no way this episode doesn't get an A.

The sequence is blocked for maximum confusion, and its more terrifying in its incomprehensibleness than anything in the most recent seasons of The Walking Dead or American Horror Story.

I felt the same way. That's the reason I kind of fell off TWD. The show lost so much of it's sense of danger, which is pretty much the biggest part of TWD.

Sorry to go a little off topic there.

 

[aFIGurANT]

Hot damn. That was like what every heist movie wishes it was. And to the nay-sayers who said that Rust is clean, [preview spoilers]

Spoiler

clearly the detectives in 2012 suspect he has dirt he isn't sharing. At the least he is suspected of withholding evidence and at the most (and I'm speculating a lot here) he is a wanted on the new murder if not all of them.

 

[Chiggs]

What a goddamn work of art. Literally shits over anything in Sons of Anarchy/The Walking Dead.

 

[jvm]

I was on edge for the entire last 20 minutes. Every shot I thought something could go wrong.

And I know the guys make it and live for years, so that tension's not there. But what will they do to live? Oy.

 

[Mononoke]

Yeah that was an incredible hour of TV no doubt. I think we already knew this, but this is definitely shaping up to be one of the best thing on TV in recent years. And that's saying a lot, given the amount of incredible dramas that have been coming out in the last 10 years.

It will be interesting to see how the short season impacts the plot (how it wraps up), and how the show sustains itself given each season is a new cast/story.

 

[RustyNails]

That whole sequence from when Rust puts on that black jacket till the credits roll, nothing is remotely comparable. Amazing television. The tension was palpable.

Fukunaga's hollywood profile just shot up into the stratosphere with this episode.

 

[Stoze]

Was not prepared for HBO to bring back Band of Brothers at the end of the episode. That shit was intense.

 

[LordCanti]

Aaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaazinggggggggggggg

 

[Kobe24]

AMAZING OH MY

 

[Tallshortman]

Wow the camera work during the shootout was nothing short of amazing. What a well shot sequence.

 

[oneils]

- Onion A|V Club review

Great review. Gonna check out the rest.

 

[Kobe24]

This show is becoming the Michael Jordan of AMAZING

 

[dave is ok]

That scene probably made Alfonso Cuaron cry

Literally the most impressive thing I've ever seen on TV

 

[shadyspace]

First show to really rival The Shield for me. Jesus fuck that was tense.

 

[Chiggs]

That scene probably made Alfonso Cuaron cry

Literally the most impressive thing I've ever seen on TV

I couldn't agree more. And that lighting!

 

[blainethemono]

'True Detective': How Did They Pull Off That Final Shot? - Director Cary Fukunaga walks us through the epic six-minute take.

 

[Cornballer]

More reviews:
- Rolling Stone
- Nola.com
- IGN

 

[RustyNails]

Near the end when Rust is escorting Ginger out the building and Rust gets attacked by baseball bat dude and Ginger runs away ...Rust takes care of the baseball bat dude and pursues Ginger, but Ginger turns around and comes running back to Rust in confusion, who then punches him