Anyone watching the TV show True Detective?

[CTWarrior]

spoiler alerts please! (I'm only up to episode 3)

Sorry, didn't think I was giving anything away.

[akmarq]

[mild spoilers]

I've been reading 'The King in Yellow' the last week and they really seemed to ramp up the allusion to the book this week. The scene in the mental health facility where Rust confronts Reggie LaDeux's (sp?) victim is a nice echo of 'The Mask' - the second of the two short stories in 'The King in Yellow' that references the fictional play 'The King in Yellow.'

That combined with the 'next week on' clips at the end of episode 6 make me think that the Carcosa mythology and occult aspects of the case are going to really ramp up next week.

[tower912]

Hmmm.    To borrow from Smokey and the Bandit.....they have a long way to go and a short time to get there.   

[ChicosBailBonds]

Hmmm.    To borrow from Smokey and the Bandit.....they have a long way to go and a short time to get there.   

They get there

[ChicosBailBonds]

Some of you might enjoy this conjecture

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/-em-true-detective-em-reinvents-itself-again/284141/

[mr.MUskie]

http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Matthew_McConaughey_Not_Returning_for_True_Detective_Season_2-248143231.html

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Matthew_McConaughey_Not_Returning_for_True_Detective_Season_2-248143231.html

None of them are.  Different story next year, different plot, everything.  It's an anthology series.

[Jay Bee]

No, I don't watch silly fiction.  Is that breaking bread show over and this is the new cool thing to watch?

[brandx]

No, I don't watch silly fiction.  Is that breaking bread show over and this is the new cool thing to watch?

Have you ever read one of them book thingies?

[Jay Bee]

Have you ever read one of them book thingies?

Yes, but I don't read fiction.

[brandx]

Yes, but I don't read fiction.

I'll go way out on a limb here, but I'm guessing you think Art and Music are a waste of time as well.

[Jay Bee]

I'll go way out on a limb here, but I'm guessing you think Art and Music are a waste of time as well.

No. I have a DEEP background in music. Art? Depends on the specifics, but generally think it's great.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Thoughts   

[WellsstreetWanderer]

that's why there are 9,567 channels (or more)  something for everyone. It would be a very boring world if we all liked the same thing. 

[brandx]

Thoughts   

I always thought that the story line was more about the relationship between Harrelson and McConaughy than anything else. For a show to be good, the characters have to be the story - whether it is a Walter White, or the Lannisters or whoever. And these two didn't disappoint. The final 15 minutes were the whole show in a nutshell.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Technology fails again

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/heavy/article/True-Detective-Finale-Causes-HBO-Go-Crash-5302413.php

[nyg]

I always thought that the story line was more about the relationship between Harrelson and McConaughy than anything else. For a show to be good, the characters have to be the story - whether it is a Walter White, or the Lannisters or whoever. And these two didn't disappoint. The final 15 minutes were the whole show in a nutshell.

- I agree, thats what the writers wanted, but not the public.  No conspiracy, etc. 
- First 15 minutes was slow, middle 30 was great, last 15 was Rust realizing he saw life/death.
- WTF was that hurricane thing coming from sky?
- BTW, now way in real life does Rust survive a six inch knife wound, with upward thrust to the       abdomen, ah, television.....
- Acting by all was off the charts the whole series.
- Now it's GOT time. 

[tower912]

Acting was superb.   The villain turned out to be smaller than all of the build up had led us to believe.   The Tulley's are still loose ends.   It was really exciting, tremendous middle, but somehow it left me somewhat unfulfilled.   

[CTWarrior]

Acting was superb.   The villain turned out to be smaller than all of the build up had led us to believe.   The Tulley's are still loose ends.   It was really exciting, tremendous middle, but somehow it left me somewhat unfulfilled.   

Pretty much exactly my take as well. 

OTOH, it could have been much worse.  They could have showed the villain "making flowers."

[willie warrior]

Pretty much exactly my take as well. 

OTOH, it could have been much worse.  They could have showed the villain "making flowers."

I think we did get to hear him making flowers near the end. That would have been a sight. The good thing of course, he ended up pushing flowers--daisies, that is.

[willie warrior]

- I agree, thats what the writers wanted, but not the public.  No conspiracy, etc. 
- First 15 minutes was slow, middle 30 was great, last 15 was Rust realizing he saw life/death.
- WTF was that hurricane thing coming from sky?
- BTW, now way in real life does Rust survive a six inch knife wound, with upward thrust to the       abdomen, ah, television.....
- Acting by all was off the charts the whole series.
- Now it's GOT time. 

Sure Rust survives, he was crazy tough--and it is the movies, right?

[Coleman]

The ending was fine. They tied everything up. Rust got some sense of closure with his daughter.

I guess I was expecting more. But it was fine. It just wasn't Breaking Bad good.

[brandx]

The ending was fine. They tied everything up. Rust got some sense of closure with his daughter.

I guess I was expecting more. But it was fine. It just wasn't Breaking Bad good.

Maybe we are just too used to big Hollywood endings where everything is tied up in the last act? Things don't happen that way in life.

That's the appeal of GOT. Good guys don't always win. Good people die and bad people die.

[jesmu84]

Just finally getting around to watching this. Great stuff all around. Finished up episode 6 and looking forward to the home stretch.

Between this and House of Cards (which I just also caught up on), I feel like the high end TV market is just as good, if not better, than what is currently playing in theaters.

[brandx]

Just finally getting around to watching this. Great stuff all around. Finished up episode 6 and looking forward to the home stretch.

Between this and House of Cards (which I just also caught up on), I feel like the high end TV market is just as good, if not better, than what is currently playing in theaters.

Totally agree with you here. I almost never watch movies anymore. Check out Bloodlines, as well, on Netflix. Kinda the same slow, southern vibe as True Detectives, albeit a much different story.