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[johnny_park]

I canceled hbo a few months ago but for some reason the time warner ipad app still let's me watch hbo.

Also as soon as Daddario took off her shirt I had flashbacks of my ex. I fucked that up

 

[ganon]

Kids dolls are always naked.

Guess I used to buy the wrong dolls then.

 

[Socreges]

+1 to Daddario

Great show so far. Definitely has me struggling to think of who did it. I agree that we've probably already seen on screen the murderer or at least a conspirator. I don't think it was Rust or Marty at this point, and I don't think either of them are conspirators, at least not willing conspirators.

Put me down for 'I don't think we've seen the killer or conspirator yet, and I don't think we will for at least a few more episodes'.

By the way, for those unaware, as I was, this season will only be 8 episodes.

 

[Dan]

Doesn't sound like it was the first time this has happened, too. He also tells the story in the bar where he was hooking up early in his career and her roommate gets home. There's no telling if he was married at that point, but it sounds like something he's regularly involved with.

And as I recall, that was some woman he pulled over or arrested, right? Using his position of authority to get laid. Despite his facade, he seems to have very loose ethics and morals, and no shortage of rationalizations.

And it's not something he's reflected on by 2012 and decided it was a bad idea, so it definitely sounds like it's always been there.

It was for the good of the marriage!

 

[pulga]

Great episode, but holy tits Daddario stole the show. Had to fap one off RIGHT THERE AND THEN

 

[BikoBiko]

Great episode, but holy tits Daddario stole the show. Had to fap one off RIGHT THERE AND THEN

My man

 

[squidyj]

My memory is a little fuzzy but was the dead girl raped not long before her murder?

Either way i get the sense that whoever set up the scene and (i believe) killed the girl believed he was trying to help her, trying to save her, he set up the little wood things to protect her or protect her spirit. I think rust's comments about putting a daughter into this 'thresher' come into play here, as it represents what the killer might have believed he was doing, sending off this damaged woman to someplace better.

 

[Kadayi]

Seriously read up on The King in Yellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow

Interesting. So it's referencing a real work. Good find duder.

BTW you can get the kindle ebook for free via amazon.co.uk at least: -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00847UYWA/

Not sure about amazon.com though.

Also not getting the criticisms about the glacial pace of the investigation. Beyond a body they don't have a lot of evidence to go on as there's no prints/DNA, so it's all about finding out more about the victim and retracing her steps and understanding her world to get an idea as to how she fell through it and more importantly who she knew/who knew her.

 

[brianjones]

Great episode, but holy tits Daddario stole the show. Had to fap one off RIGHT THERE AND THEN

holy shit you virgins are embarrassing

I think we've covered the tits at this point

 

[maquiladora]

holy shit you virgins are embarrassing

I think we've covered the tits at this point

lol

 

[pulga]

holy shit you virgins are embarrassing

I think we've covered the tits at this point

oh id love to cover those tits if you know what i mean

 

[neorej]

A friend of mine just told me about this show. I told him I would check it out because of Harrelson. He took over my keyboard, googled Daddario True Detective, and DAYUM! I was sold.

 

[Tugatrix]

Yeah, the people who thought Rust was the killer needed a good slap to the head.



Is it really 35mm!?

I'm already jerking off thinking about some of the shots.

Yeah they made a featurette about it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoYq2bDaGt4

 

[Kreunt]

Just watched second episode.
Alexandra Daddario might be the hottest woman alive right now.

 

[CloudWolf]

+1 to Daddario

Great show so far. Definitely has me struggling to think of who did it. I agree that we've probably already seen on screen the murderer or at least a conspirator. I don't think it was Rust or Marty at this point, and I don't think either of them are conspirators, at least not willing conspirators.

No no no, this show does not need conspirators. I want none of that The Following-stuff in this show.

Spoiler

Actually, I don't mind some conspirators, as long as it's not the entire village like in The Following.

 

[Linius]

Wow great boobs

Spoiler

episode

this week!

Nice to see Rust going hard on these dudes, I didn't expect anything like that. Only stuff I don't care so much for is what Marty does at home, as long as he keeps visiting Lisa though.

 

[forgeforsaken]

Supernatural? MM or Woody being the killer? Are we watching the same show?

The show at the very least is being intentionally vague in regards to the supernatural. There have been multiple call outs to The King in Yellow now on the show, a book in which there is a supernatural dread and madness. The King in Yellow although written by Chambers well before Lovecraft's works was eventually worked into the Lovecraft Mythos, by Lovecraft himself if I'm not mistaken. The overall plot of the show at this point bares a resemblance to The Tale of Inspector Legrasse, the middle chapter of Call of Cthulhu, in which an inspector recounts via interview how while investigating the case of missing children and women he tracked down a cult in the backwoods of Louisiana. A hallmark of a lot of Lovecraft's work are characters unsure of their own sanity suffering strange dreams and hallucinations, which does sound a fair bit like Rust. Also Rust spouts off some very Lovecraftian lines like, paraphrasing, "at times I thought I had gone mad, while others I thought I had tapped into the secret truth of the universe." There is also in general a lot of weird around the edges of this show.

One thing of note though, is that The Tale of Inspector Legrasse was the middle chapter, and like with a lot of Lovecraft's works the big supernatural reveal doesn't come until the final chapter, as such I wouldn't be surprised if there is no big supernatural reveal at the end and it is instead left very ambiguous throughout, but it seems very clear to me that we are meant to at least feel that there is something unnatural about everything that is going on.

 

[duckroll]

I don't think the show is being vague at all with regards to the supernatural. I think it's being vague with regards to the boundaries of how this society perceives religion, and how aware a person is of his grasp on reality. There's nothing in the show which suggests that there is anything supernatural going on. People engaging in occult activities is not supernatural, and that's the main direction the investigation is heading in now.

There is no indication of things that could not have been done by a human, there is no indication that there are forces at work beyond human understanding. Cohle is the only one so far who has been seeing things, and he certainly doesn't suggest with any seriousness that he feels they're supernatural in any way, 17 years after the fact. These are people who were involved in a strange case, and have obviously seen things which changed them, but if there is something supernatural about the story, I think the tone and the direction would be fairly different with regards to Hart and Cohle's respective views of the events.

 

[Deku Tree]

Put me down for one who says we haven't seen the killer(s) yet.
Whomever they caught is going to be somewhat surprising I imagine considering they are saving that info for later for some reason.
Regarding the promo for next week:

Spoiler

was that possibly the killer walking around with what looked like a chain saw in the promo?

 

[forgeforsaken]

The birds in Rust'shallucination form the sign on Dora's back. When people say supernatural these days I think it generally implies the more obvious, but I'm thinking more of a subtle seeping madness and dread.

 

[TheOddOne]

The birds in Rust'shallucination form the sign on Dora's back. When people say supernatural these days I think it generally implies the more obvious, but I'm thinking more of a subtle seeping madness and dread.

That would be my guess as well.

 

[Linius]

That shot was so beautiful.

 

[duckroll]

Insanity is not supernatural though.

 

[TheOddOne]

Forgot to post Dora's back in episode 1.

 

[forgeforsaken]

Insanity is not supernatural though.

If everyone who reads a play goes insane, what would you call it?

 

[RangerX]

Another fantastic episode. I'm loving the occult vibe and the character development. I wonder do the cops suspect Cohle of somehow being involved. Looks that way to me. The relationship between Cohle and Marty is really fascinating. I can't wait for the next episode.

Also between this and wollf of wall street McConaughey has impressed me so much i went and watched Mud. I've probably had the biggest change of opinion on an actor ever in McConaughey.He's fantastic. I only knew him from Rom Coms previously.

 

[duckroll]

If everyone who reads a play goes insane, what would you call it?

I don't think you should confuse the show itself, with what the show uses as supplementary material in the setting. Macbeth clearly has supernatural aspects in the story for example, but a story about a killer being inspired by Macbeth and making allusions to it is not supernatural in any way. The King in Yellow is a classic which has inspired and been referenced in various works in the last century.

 

[DrBo42]

Cinematography in this show is just insane. Two good leads AND we get naked Daddario & eventually Lili Simmons. This might be the perfect tv show at the moment.

 

[forgeforsaken]

I don't think you should confuse the show itself, with what the show uses as supplementary material in the setting. Macbeth clearly has supernatural aspects in the story for example, but a story about a killer being inspired by Macbeth and making allusions to it is not supernatural in any way. The King in Yellow is a classic which has inspired and been referenced in various works in the last century.

Sure but then you add the hallucinations and other edge weirdness. Also what exactly did Rust mean by meta-psychotic, was it a reference to metapsychosis?

 

[tino]

Forgot to post Dora's back in episode 1.

Dreamcast

 

[kirblar]

Dreamcast

Oh, so this is Shenmue 3.

 

[TheOddOne]

It all comes back to VIDEOGAMES!

 

[bud]

does woody's character contribute anything to the investigation at all?

it seems like mcconaughey's character's doing all the work while woody's cheating on his wife.

 

[forgeforsaken]

does woody's character contribute anything to the investigation at all?

it seems like mcconaughey's character's doing all the work while woody's cheating on his wife.

You can see Marty takes a bit of offense when the modern investigators ask him to recount how Cohle worked the case.

 

[duckroll]

The Dreamcast was released in 1998. The murder took place in 1995. What is going on?! Supernatural confirmed!

 

[ElectricBlue187]

does woody's character contribute anything to the investigation at all?

it seems like mcconaughey's character's doing all the work while woody's cheating on his wife.

To me he seems to be the buffer between Rust and the rest of the world. He both recognizes Rust's genius and makes excuses for his strange behavior to his peers and bosses. Without him Rust would get nowhere in that police dept.

 

[Acidote]

I just watched the episode:

The owl in the church. That fucking owl, why did nobody address it. It bugged me through the whole scene.

 

[tycoonheart]

That would be my guess as well.

This scene reminded me of Take Shelter. In some ways Rust isn't much different from Michael Shannon's character in that movie.

does woody's character contribute anything to the investigation at all?

it seems like mcconaughey's character's doing all the work while woody's cheating on his wife.

He found the church tho.

 

[DrBo42]

I just watched the episode:

The owl in the church. That fucking owl, why did nobody address it. It bugged me through the whole scene.

The owls are not what they seem.

 

[HerbertFish]

I just watched the episode:

The owl in the church. That fucking owl, why did nobody address it. It bugged me through the whole scene.

Agreed. Not addressing that bothered me.

 

[TheOddOne]

I just watched the episode:

The owl in the church. That fucking owl, why did nobody address it. It bugged me through the whole scene.

I kept waiting for them to acknowledge it, but that scene after it was just so good that I kind of gave it a pass.

Sorry for posting too many large ass pictures, but it looks so great.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

I think the unreliable nature of Rust's perspective means he will sometimes not remark on the strange shit he sees if he's thinking it's just a hallucination

 

[Chuckie]

I kept waiting for them to acknowledge it, but that scene after it was just so good that I kind of gave it a pass.

The not acknowledging it is what made it so fucking creepy (and potentially important later on)

If the came in and the bird flew away, or Woody would say: "Fuck off bird! " it would have been less creepy/impressive in my opinion.

It's the fact that it was just kind of there that makes us talk about it.

 

[Cornballer]

Someone on another forum noted that in the making of video they pointed out that they had to keep birds of prey (owls & hawks) on set sometimes because the local birds made too much noise for them to shoot in certain locations. Not sure if it's related at all (probably not?) but I thought it was an amusing anecdote.

 

[TheOddOne]

The not acknowledging it is what made it so fucking creepy (and potentially important later on)

If the came in and the bird flew away, or Woody would say: "Fuck off bird! " it would have been less creepy/impressive in my opinion.

It's the fact that it was just kind of there that makes us talk about it.

At this point anything is possible.

 

[Cornballer]

I haven't seen any confirmation from HBO yet, but based on Wikipedia, True Detective will be off on February 2nd (Superbowl Sunday). They're moving Girls & Looking to Saturday, Feb 1st, but it doesn't look like they'll shift TD.

 

[PersonaX]

TD is beautifully shot indeed, this reminded me of Ivan's Childhood

 

[DKehoe]

Seriously read up on The King in Yellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow

In a weird coinsidence I downloaded this book to read on my Kindle, then I watch this most recent episode and it's referenced.

This show is fantastic. I love the tone.

 

[Steelyuhas]

I haven't seen any confirmation from HBO yet, but based on Wikipedia, True Detective will be off on February 2nd (Superbowl Sunday). They're moving Girls & Looking to Saturday, Feb 1st, but it doesn't look like they'll shift TD.

Yeah it's on HBO's schedule on their website as well, no ep on the 2nd.

I'd link, but HBO's site is a flash hellhole and you can't directly link stuff like the schedule.

 

[Cornballer]

- Darknessbecomesyou with a few still photos from Ep 2 (includes the church)

Yeah it's on HBO's schedule on their website as well, no ep on the 2nd.

I'd link, but HBO's site is a flash hellhole and you can't directly link stuff like the schedule.

Cool, thanks for confirming. iirc, Tim Goodman mentioned this when lamenting how long it would be before he could see Ep 5. Also, HBO's website is in desperate need of a refresh. It takes forever to load.