Bottom line is he likes to fvck younger girls, and he like to fvk chicks in the ass, I will say it's pretty standard. You're looking to hard into it.

^^^this.

please point out the hetero guy who's going to have some smoking hot chick beg him to bang her in the ass n be like nah sorry can't do it.

It definitely should've been 12 episodes rather than 8, it's not like the 4 extra hours of material would've prevented McConnaughey from signing on at all. But I think the problem goes deeper than that, it would require a drastically different storytelling style. The whole thing is set up as 'time is a flat circle' and we can kind of look at one moment in the sprawling story and see the whole picture thereby reinforcing the theme. As a consequence, you're going to have some viewers drawing bad conclusions like Rust is the killer and holding onto that misconception until they get surprised by reality at whatever stage. But the people that are tracking along properly are going to see a lot of signs pointing in a certain direction in '95 '02 and '12 and all of these big reveals have become way too obvious way too early.

It seems to have been set up that way on purpose, maybe to draw a broader audience trying to offset the deep and dark philosophical themes to let the show still become a cash cow. Maybe there's just too big of a gap between the ability of Gilligan and everybody else to embed and interweave the most important plot points to elevate the entire story. Idk why it is what it is exactly, but I'm sure that it could've been done much better even given the time constraints.

Obviously the plot development couldn't have come close to BB even if it was 12 episodes compared to 70 or 80 but it seems no effort was made at all to bridge the gap. If there were I could say to myself 'ok Breaking Bad wins on plot with 5 seasons to create everything but TD takes acting, themes and dialog to a new level for TV, and with a new cast and story each season I may actually prefer TD.' Instead I'm starting to say 'all of these nice window dressings sure are great, but where the **** is the heart of it, the well told surprising and inventive plot?"

It seems McConaughey is solidifying himself on a short list of best actors around today. If they can bring on someone to rival him next season, and that's a big if, I really hope it's extended by a few episodes and the show with Detective in the title adds at least an ounce of mystery in the process. If not I think it's squandering the first opportunity to put an A lister into a long form story with an amazingly created universe to create something fulfilling on every level.

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When Professor Hippy McCool inevitably writes his masterpiece, "Modular Immorality in the True Detective Ethosphere", I look forward to the chapter on eating ass.

It is a possibility, but in no way setup by the show. Decades of demeaning TV plotting programming us to expect "gotcha" moments is the setup. The show has actually setup the opposite, in that it's carried us along a fairly straight-forward trajectory. Within the first two episodes we know that whomever they got (Ledoux) was only a part of the picture, we know that there was a falling out between two men struggling with their flaws, we are led to believe the detectives suspect Rust, and it's intimated that there is a larger conspiracy with the church. The following four episodes have followed that path without fail, and at no point flinched towards Marty. Rust is a more likely possibility, but only as much as eating glass is a healthier diet than eating poison.

I think it'd be impossible at this point to have Marty be the killer and it be anything short of terrible. Even if they somehow managed to pull it off, it would only be successful in undermining the very things I've grown to love about the show. The best analogy I can think of is wanting to give a great gift to a friend's son by buying him a house while the rest of friends and family give thoughtful smaller gifts. The plot twist would just be selfish and out of place amid the collection of things that make True Detective great.

I'll paraphrase......It's fvcking great!

Did anyone else think it was weird how Marty checked his gun after Cohle pulled him over?

Like he's actually giving some credence to the idea that Rust is a killer now??

that's what Marty likes about these high school girls. he gets older, they stay the same age.

Mark,

Marty hasn't seen Rust in 10 years, was just given information that implicates him as a killer, and he looks like hell warmed over. If I had pistol, I'd bring it along just in case, too.

What the **** did I just read

Lol at thinking Rust could ever be the Yellow King

What did the detectives mean by, "We're trying to help him (Rust)" when they were interviewing the female?

They meant "We've trying to jam him up."

haha just came across this... wtf?

^^^obv troll is obv.
same as the moron trying to claim this show somehow makes sopranos n the wire look like CBS shows.
ignore the trolls IMO.

wat

you seem conflicted for zero reason

embrace the greatness when you see it

excellent

nothing wrong with a pink and a tight ****...

oh and anyone who actually thinks Russ is the killer is either a troll or a f***ing moron. The name of the show is 'True Detective'... As much as I like Woody, a true detective Marty is not.

i do have to admit the whole season so far i've been hoping MM at some point would say "it'd be a whole lot cooler if you did".

dear God please delete the last three pages

Reddit stuff again.



The left pic is from Marty's bedroom.

jesus christ

Assuming the picture is something his daughter drew/painted

That is some really damaging stuff