True Detective (spoilers)

Pretty late to the party, but we don't have a thread for it anyway.

Thoughts?

The story telling was excellent, although some parts were dissatisfying. Marty's daughter enacting the rape scene for one. Why show that if you're not going to tie that into the plot eventually?

And who the hell has 5 Ken dolls lying around?

 

I think ultimately the reality of the community was that the cult had powerful leaders (including potentially Harrelson's character's FIL) and were much more ingrained in the fabric of that society than people had thought. The girl's reenactment scene, along with many other hints being dropped weren't meant to be leading to an ending, but subtly hinting towards the inevitability of more murders to come long after the show's storyline ended.

 

The ending of ep4 still gets me.

 

Really picked up at the end of episode 4, didn't it?

To me the point where the interview ends acts as a natural divider. As long as the interviews were on, there were no blemishes to the show. Once they got out, the story did fail to live up to it's promise.

 

Isn't that true of every film and tv show ever made? I don't know too many shows that would be better or just as good if the main characters were poorly acted.

 

Best episode was number 4 IMO. Funniest scene is when they're sitting in the bar and Marty's trying to hash out the problems with his wife and Rust uses some not so subtle ways of letting him know he doesn't give a fuck. The look on his face when Marty takes the ever-present cigarette out of his hand is priceless.

The undercover scenes and those preceding them, (knocking off coke from the evidence room, making fake tracks, etc.) are the best in the whole show IMO. McConaughey as Crash, the greasy-haired, slick talking, junked up piece of shit gangbanger is superb. I liked the bloke who played Ginger too. The whole mood was pitch perfect. So many movies/shows fail to produce the seriously edgy feeling (which I've somewhat experienced myself) when you're in the company of genuinely heavy people. The real deal cut-throat. Fucking love the part where he's quizzing them on the plan if the shit hits the fan and they give the typical gunslinger' line, and he's like "So you have thought it out......My bad." ...

 

My favourite scene was the 'mowing my lawn' scene. Marty is fucking awesome in that scene.

 

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