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I didn't mind that so much as that he didn't really sell me on being a revival preacher. I've seen a couple in person, and he didn't really have it.
The preaching part didn't do much for me, but I thought he was fine in the subsequent conversations with Rust & Cohle.
uggghhhh why is this not seitz?????
Yeah, it's disappointing that he isn't writing them up. Hopefully he'll tackle a few episodes later this season.
 
I didn't mind that so much as that he didn't really sell me on being a revival preacher. I've seen a couple in person, and he didn't really have it.

Yeah I'm kind of with you. The words made sense, but he didn't have that fire and brimstone thing going on. Though maybe that in itself is perhaps a bit of a cliche and perhaps outside of the TV evangelists it's less aggressive. Also maybe they didn't want to play him up too much as a suspect.
 
Id like to thank True Detective for some truly fucked up dreams I had last night. The ending really was nightmare fuel

This show is legit. Rust is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in any show, period.
 
Why would they end this episode like that?! This is why I don't watch anything new, I can't wait for next episode. Now I hear there isn't even going to be one next week? This ain't right. Rust is right we should just walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
 
I didn't mind that so much as that he didn't really sell me on being a revival preacher. I've seen a couple in person, and he didn't really have it.
But have you seen a revival preacher for tent churches??

In any case I agree. Those preachers are charismatic as fuck.
 
How did he describe the handicapped kid's record?

He did something in somewhere for something?

The terminology/slang/dialogue on this show makes The Wire look like a Good Wife pitch session for technology titles.
 
How did he describe the handicapped kid's record?

He did something in somewhere for something?

The terminology/slang/dialogue on this show makes The Wire look like a Good Wife pitch session for technology titles.
really? I haven't noticed much hard to understand stuff. He was in jail for getting his knob out outside a school and his balls were cut off in jail, badly.
 
Despite being a diehard fan of this show, I must admit, present day Rust's soliloquies are starting to get grating. It was a nice window into his head for the first episode or two, but the guy is damn near insufferable now (keep in mind I still think MM is doing an amazing job). Old 1995 Rust is awesome though.
 
man, what a bleak episode

haha, just kidding, they're all bleak. Preacher guy seems like an obvious suspect, but that'd be too easy. He's definitely involved somehow though
 
really? I haven't noticed much hard to understand stuff. He was in jail for getting his knob out outside a school and his balls were cut off in jail, badly.

The Bloods neutered him in showers while he was in Angola Penitentiary, and apparently did a very sloppy job of it.
 
really? I haven't noticed much hard to understand stuff. He was in jail for getting his knob out outside a school and his balls were cut off in jail, badly.
Even knew what Angola was, since just last month I watched documentary called Life in Angola Prison.

No, I wanted to know the exact line of dialogue because it was so phenomenal, but I couldn't remember it.

HART: I could see this being some kind of retard job. Pays for it, gets ashamed, overreacts, tries to redeem the act, like, you know?

RUST: That's not bad, Marty...

HART: Well, yeah. I got all the way there without your help.

RUST: But it's not him. He did a deuce at the farm for dick wagging. Should've been in a mental ward to begin with.

HART: Give me the second half.

RUST: Angola. Some Bloods caught him in the shower, took his balls off with a razor. They were sloppy about it.

HART:Oh, Jesus.

RUST: Still, I braced him. He shit himself, literally.
 
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Even knew what Angola was, since just last month I watched documentary called Life in Angola Prison.

They also mentioned it when they interviewed the victim's (ex)husband in prison. They essentially told him to quit bitching about where's he's at, because it's a cakewalk compared to being in Angola.
 
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HART: I could see this being some kind of retard job. Pays for it, gets ashamed, overreacts, tries to redeem the act, like, you know?

RUST: That's not bad, Marty...

HART: Well, yeah. I got all the way there without your help.

RUST: But it's not him. He did a deuce at the farm for dick wagging. Should've been in a mental ward to begin with.

HART: Give me the second half.

RUST: Angola. Some Bloods caught him in the shower, took his balls off with a razor. They were sloppy about it.

HART:Oh, Jesus.

RUST: Still, I braced him. He shit himself, literally.

Bless you
 
Lmao last weeks preview literally showed the final shot of the next episode. Geez guys.

He yeah I thought the same thing, it's the only thing that put a damper on another great episode. May stop watching the next weeks previews. But loving this show and sucks there's no episode next week because of Super Bowl.
 
"Who walks that fucking slow" was actually one of the my favorite moments in the show so far. MM is stealing the show but Woody is very very good.
 
"Who walks that fucking slow" was actually one of the my favorite moments in the show so far. MM is stealing the show but Woody is very very good.
I think it's just that MM has more to work with. Woody's character is slowly but surely getting more interesting.
 
But have you seen a revival preacher for tent churches??

In any case I agree. Those preachers are charismatic as fuck.
I've been to revival, but not in a tent. It was bleachers for a high school, and he was on a makeshift dais.

Why did Rust even need a mower? He lives in an apartment
LoL - This is a valid question...
Is it an apartment? I thought it was like a tiny postage-stamp size house.

Half the time McConaughey talks, I don't know what he's really saying, but god damn is he saying it pretty.
I'm glad we finally have Southern accents that aren't used as shorthand for "stupid". Andy Griffith did his part for the longest time. He could be goofy, but the characters he played (Andy Taylor, Ben Matlock) were ultimately crafty and usually slicker than their supposed betters, many of whom did not have Southern accents.

Now McConaughey has made it stylish and smart. I like that, and I don't even have much of a Southern accent.

Edit: The name Ledeoux made me think of "the deuce", as a euphemism for Satan or Satan's work. (As in "what the deuce".) Not sure if it's a real connection.
 
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I think it's just that MM has more to work with. Woody's character is slowly but surely getting more interesting.

Yea the last episode was certainly a lot more MM narration. I think both guys will get their chance to shine eventually though. It seems like MM and Woody are moving in opposite directions. MM remembering what it meant to be a Dad and Woody shrugging off the responsibility while claiming to be a real man's man. So hype!!
 
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I didn't mind that so much as that he didn't really sell me on being a revival preacher. I've seen a couple in person, and he didn't really have it.

You know, we are beaten over the head with the idea of the revival preachers being super slick, polished hucksters in movies, and TV. I took Eli's acting as another indication that this region is basically shot, and gets a low-rent preacher.
I'm sure that casting got exactly what they wanted when they hired Whigham.
 
You know, we are beaten over the head with the idea of the revival preachers being super slick, polished hucksters in movies, and TV. I took Eli's acting as another indication that this region is basically shot, and gets a low-rent preacher.
I'm sure that casting got exactly what they wanted when they hired Whigham.
I'm OK with that interpretation. I love the actor -- I just wasn't sure I felt what I expected in that scene.

One point in your favor: there are certainly better things to give the preacher to say, that would have played to what I know of manipulative preachers. It would probably be best to go back and reread what he said in the context of what Rust and Marty are talking about. That is probably a better place to look for meaning.
 
shieeeet what a fantastic ending
only problem I have with this show us how edgy rust is, it's getting a bit obnoxious now. There had to have been a subtler way to write his character.
 
The two girls were echoing the dress style of the girls in the revival, I thought. Something's clearly up, at least thematically, with Marty's girls.
 
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