[Cable Television] Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson's 'True Detective'

The person I had responded to had made the mistake of calling them two different people. He later corrected his post, which he states. If you had read the comment above mine, the comment below mine, or even the line I quoted in the post, you would of realized this.

 

I prefer true detective's storytelling and characters to breaking bad's. Simple as that.

 

Nothing is ever about the end, it's always about the trip.

 

I don't think it is fair to compare this series with a TV show. Breaking Bad gets to build a small universe of characters across hundreds of hours that include dozens of story arcs. The emotional attachment, the ups and downs, the roller coaster...

A mini series like this one, it's about attention to detail, getting every sequence perfect and having a definitive begging - middle - end (like any great story) that isn't convoluted with multiple story arcs, characters, etc...

With BB - writers would come and go. There was never an understood sequence, no beginning - middle - end -- thought out before they started filming.

TD is a movie. Maybe they should have released it as an epic with an intermission like they sometimes do in foreign countries.

 

I can't shake this image from the last episode - It comes right after Cohle interrogates the guy and finds out they didn't get their guy and hears "The Yellow King yet again. I don't subscribe to the theory that Marty is the "Yellow King" but I can't shake this image, prolly nothing but another awesome composition like many other shots.

Spoiler

 

So if it turns out that it was some random guy that has not been introduced and that none of the clues people saw meant anything, would u not be upset?

 

Awesome way to keep track of all the True Detective Characters

 

You do have a point in that its more akin to a movie than a tv show. But it cannot help but exist as a television show, with it's story being told in a serial and episodic fashion, week by week, each episode with it's own beginning, middle, climax, and denouement. And it is on the basis of that format that I argue that a comparison can be made.

I'll further explain and support my original assertion that it's mismash of style, tone, and genre (hardboiled pulp/crime/horror/philosophical treatise) is more enjoyable to me than what BB is and was on a personal level, and thus far I consider a better tv show with what we've been shown.

 

What do you think the significance is about the "all around cowboy 1982" belt buckle he was staring at in that scene?

 

No clue

 

It reminds him of his youth and how distraught he is about balding. Maybe starts cheating again.

 

People will have opinions no matter how it ends. After six years of Lost a lot of people did not like the end, but that doesn't make the 150 hours they spent entertained by it was worthless. It was quality time well spent. ( I actually was pretty happy with it).

But I have great faith in what I've seen so far from Mr. Pizzolatto as an artist. He taken great care to produce a complex story, he won't throw a way a schlock ending.

*uninformed spoiler*

(I think you aren't going to like the end because I think it's going to be an indictment of standard perceptions. That, no matter the illusion people put forth publicly, there is no hint of what they are privately)

 

http://www.wekeeptheotherbadmenfromthedoor.com/#map

map of the locations in Louisiana they've gone

 

not for many. Plenty of people were furious with Lost and hated the writers for giving them hours of clues that had no meaning and led nowhere.

 

I thought all the time I invested in Lost was worthless.

 

Question....I just think it seems a little weird that in the previews, at lest twice they showed Ledoux walking in the woods with a gas mask, machete, and his underwear. I haven't seen that actual scene during the show, yet Ledoux is dead?

 

the very last shot of episode 3 shows Ledoux walking with a gas mask in his undies. This shot

 

we haven't seen that full scene yet - although it was heavily hinted to be in the 'hero shot' scene. I'm sure they will add it to someones memory of events later. Maybe a survivor.

 

The episode is on again tonight, and watching it, Marty is wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt when they raid Ladou that seems out of character, so I assume it was chosen very intentionally:



When you look at in in context of the theme of the Yellow King and spreading insanity through, essentially, contact, the T-Shirt very clearly looks like it is related to that - the yellow squiggly "sound wave" transmitted by voice from one to another.

Whether this is just more misdirection and random insertion of thematically related elements, or whether it portends something for Marty, I don't know. But I thought it was interesting.

 

A lot theories online saying Marty is the Yellow King, i thought that was pretty interesting. Kind of a cop-out to me. I like how this show doesnt get dragged out, its just an 8 episode "movie" with a conclusion. The entire journey of watching this show has been awesome so far. The writer was also on staff for another show I liked called The Killing on AMC.