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Originally Posted by ChrisV
The problem with this is that that isn't actually the profile of all the people who are involved. The Tuttle family, the actual upstanding pillar of society types, are clearly involved (the videotape found in the safe, etc). Where the show fell down was that it didn't even attempt to explain the connection between that and some deranged fat moron in the swamps ****ing his sister and slaughtering people.
I still give the show an A+. The acting, direction, characterization, atmospherics, dialogue, etc etc are fantastic. I don't think it stuck the landing as well as it could.
They explained it more than once. Sam Tuttle fathered a bunch of bastard children, including the Childresses. All his progeny he apparently raised to believe in this bizarre Carcosa cult, which is mostly a thinly-veiled justification for child rape and murder, and the older men (Billy Lee Tuttle, Billy Childress, maybe even Edwin Tuttle) participated in the rituals and passed on their beliefs to their children, including Errol, who is sort of the natural endpoint to this deranged belief system and treatment of children.
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Originally Posted by CPHoya
EDIT: I do have to say that if there's a real hole in the story, it's probably the part where Tuttle is able to convince a large group of powerful-in-their-own-right people to tolerate the systematic kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of children for ritualistic pseudo-religious purposes without ever really explaining what the benefit to them is. Some money or campaign support? He founds schools where kids go missing? Don't the teachers notice? Really?
Maybe I'm naive though, it's not like human trafficking can possibly exist without some empowerment.
I don't think it's a large group. Just a few people with the right family connections. And they might not even need convincing-- it wouldn't be hard to picture, say, Ted Childress recognizing that a missing girl or a murder shows signs of being a victim of the Carcosa Cult, and, knowing that it's family that participates in that stuff, buries it for that reason.
And, of course, they pick children whom they think won't be missed and/or whom no one will have the means or ability to look for.