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True Detective

Cassie

Cassie

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I was not all that excited to watch this show, BUT I DID ANYWAY... and I am glad I did. It was really fucking good. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey were fantastic. They are actors that usually I can take or leave, but I don't think this show would be this good without them.

I thought this was going to be another investigative crime show, kinda like Broadchurch (which it is, a bit), but really I think it is going to be more about the detectives played by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey than it is about the bizarre crime. Oh yeah, the crime itself is a ritual looking killing. A woman is killed, she's naked and posed and she has a crown with deer antlers on her head, also there might be some Santeria connection. The crime is a bit like what you'd see in Hannibal,but this isn't Hannibal.

The show is very slow paced, but it is so interesting that you like the slow pace. They're not in a hurry to get all the information to the viewer, like a regular series would be.

Matthew McConaughey plays the weird detective named Rust Cohle. He obviously has a secret past that we don't know about. His daughter died, he's an alcoholic. I know some bad shit has happened in his past, and they're going to let us know eventually. He's also really smart and a good detective, but he is also nihilistic and depressed.

Woody Harrelson plays the good ol' boy detective Martin Hart. He's not a terrible cop, but he's also not a great one. He's impressed by Rust, but also a bit leery of him. Some of the best scenes are when he finally gets Rust to start talking about himself and then he wishes he would shut the fuck up.
 
OKAY I WATCHED IT and YES I agree I'll certainly be watching the whole season now. The two lead actors are very good and compelling in scenes where they just talk to each other! (I also liked Michelle Monaghan's bum but that's a shallow point.)
 
tv.com is saying there's a new episode tonight, but that doesn't seem right. I'm going to INVESTIGATE.


EDIT: I have no idea why they're saying the episode is new.
 
I watched it, and....ehh. These slow-moving, quirkly, small-town detective mystery shows are becoming a cliche for me. And Woody and Matt aren't giving me anything I haven't already seen from them before. (Matt actually makes my skin crawl; Dallas Buyers Club was the first thing I could stomach him in in a long time). It looks like the kind of show that is more enjoyable for them to make than it is for me to watch. It's David Lynch without the wow factor.

SO SAYETH THE IMPATIENT 3-MINUTE EGGS.
 
"Matt actually makes my skin crawl" pretty much sums up why I avoid his movies, so I don't expect to like it, but I will try to be open minded.
 
He doesn't make my skin crawl, but I never have been a fan. I was surprised by how much I liked him in this show.
 
He can't portray anyone who doesn't have his accent or speech patterns. He uses cheap versions of Brando mannerisms straight out of Method Acting 101. Every one of his characters has the same laugh.

He was even bad at portraying a fictionalized version of himself on Sex and the City.
 
This is now one of my favorite shows. I don't even care who is responsible for Dora's murder. I want to mainline the secret truths of the universe.
 
Woody cheating on his younger, hot wife with an even younger, hotter girl just shows the sexual magnetism of Woody Harrelson.
 
Every time I see gifs of him from The Hunger Games on tumblr I think of him handcuffed to the wall.

ALSO, wtf was up with his kids and the Barbie dolls?
 
Holy crap, this show gets better with each episode.

Everything Rust does is getting under the skin of the guys who are interviewing him.
 
Watched the first ep tonight and loved it. It's weird. Dreary colours, sometimes monosyllabic characters, a murder in a town so sparse it barely exists. But it's enthralling.

Rust is the murderer, right?
 
I don't think he is. He's weird, though. I think the cops interviewing him are suspicious of him.
 
I like it when Rust goes off on one of his thingoftheday rants.

"You MOWED my LAWN?"

Was that guy at the end the green spaghetti monster?
 
THAT WAS FREAKING AWESOME.

Definitely the best episode of the series so far. Even knowing that Rust and Marty were going to live through all that, I still was sitting there glued to the tv hoping they'd be okay.

Marty is a fucked up asshole of a husband, but he is a good partner. Rust just jumped all the way back into his narco character. It's cool they're both still sticking to the story about Rust going to visit his dad, and it's cool that Marty seems to be defensive about the two cops being suspicious of Rust. I think even though Marty thinks Rust is fucking nuts, he has respect for him.
 
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