True Detective (HBO) TV Show • Page 14

I’m currently watching season 1 with my sister and brother-in-law. They watch network tv shows (NCIS, Chicago PD, etc) so they were a little bored by the first 3 episodes, as I tried to explain that the story is spread out through the season and things aren’t resolved in a single 40 minute episode like they are accustomed to. We watched episode 4 last night (biker gang episode), and now they are pumped to see how everything plays out.

 

Cool they are finally getting into it but how can dialogue like this bore people?

 

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I thought the Amelia/Lucy scene in the last episode was absolutely incredible writing and acting. barely managed to keep my eyes on the screen when she was rocking back and forth saying "god forgive me"

although if one of the two turns out to be the killer this scene will play very differently in hindsight lol

 

The “soul of a whore” line almost turned me off, but the rest of it really sold me. That was a great scene.

 

that was definitely a super blunt line. I have a sneaking feeling it might be explicit foreshadowing of something important, given that Lucy's infidelity/possible affair seems to be steadily becoming an important clue. then again, it could be Pizzo just being Pizzo and throwing in a super blunt line because he likes to do that shit. remember the S1 scene where Rust just casually tells the woman he's interrogating "you should kill yourself if you get the chance?" yeahhh

 

I loved that line where he tells the woman if she gets an opportunity she should kill herself. Obviously in real life that's an atrocious thing to say to somebody, but I thought it worked great in the show for his character.

I also loved the line in season 2 where Velcoro tells the bully that if he ever bullies or hurts anyone ever again that he's going to butt-fuck the bully's father with his mother's headless corpse on their front lawn.

 

Whenever someone asks me about season 2, I just tell them about that line. It haunts me haha.

 

easily one of the worst lines of dialogue I can remember seeing in my life. that season actually gets a lot better after the first episode but sitting through that whole thing without cringing to death? impossible

 

My money is on either Amelia, Lucy (directly, or indirectly because of her Hoyt connection), or Julie herself. Pizzolatto definitely seems like he takes criticism(s) to heart, and one of the biggest leveled at him is that the female characters have always been kind of flat. Making the actual culprit female could be a way to address that, though of course someone deciding to take the life of another doesn't automatically equate to depth of character.

I had a day off for cold temps on Wednesday, and I re-watched all of Season 1. I'd forgotten how so many of Rust's best lines all occur at once in a handful of amazing dialogues. In my head I think I had remembered them being more spread out. I also noticed a couple of interesting minor details that perked my attention a little more after having seen season 3. The first is that Dora Lange was posed as though praying, just like Will was. The second is that the newspaper headline shown in 1995 (after Ledoux's murder is thought to solve the killing) comes from the same paper appearing on Elisa's laptop in the 2015 scene coming this week. Neither are particularly consequential, but just nice attention to detail.

 

Whenever I rewatch S1 and Woody, in the deposition goes "You mean Dora Lange? Kid's in the woods?" IDK why shit just creeps me out.

 

Another thing I'd forgotten about season 1 was that the whole present-day timeline interview was being done because they thought Rust was actually the killer. Interesting because I don't think it's that far-fetched that Elisa is doing a documentary focusing on Hayes' guilt in relation to this case.

 

About to watch ep 5. Right now I'm sold on:
- Will's death was an accident as a result of the WM3 kid chasing him in the woods
-WM3 kid might have met Julie's "abductor" that night but doesn't remember it
-Lucy and Dan were going to sell Julie (drug debt?) and whoever took her was trying to help
Edit: Lucy's grief is real, both over Julie's "abduction" and Will's death

 

Yes, yes, and yes. I'm also pretty convinced the Julie may have killed Dan at some point down the line.

I usually wait until shows are normally on to watch them, but I think I might cave and watch this episode early.

 

Idk if the goatee but Ray Fisher looks so intimidating every time he’s on screen. Makes me with JL did better because I think he did a real good job as Cyborg.

 

I am very ready to find out what they did

 

I caved and watched episode 5. No spoilers, but the final scene is so incredibly well-acted.

 

Yeah holy shit

 

Final scene is maybe the best written/acted scene the show has ever done, wow

 

Such a good episode. I really liked the Woodard scenes

 

Very much so. The last scene of this ep was brutal and great.

 

Holy shit that ep was stupid good. I’ll echo that last scene being extremely well acted. I never really considered Dorff before this show, but that was just an incredible exchange. This season came out of fucking nowhere.

“I can’t remember my life.”

 

Also this

 

Dorff is my MVP right now.

 

That line broke me. Ali has been as good as you'd expect, but Stephen Dorff has held his own.

This season is so much better than the second in every way. I made myself re-watch the first episode of season 2 last night, and it's just a mess.