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

Harrisment · Feb 9, 2014

So freaking good.

Keyser Soze · Feb 9, 2014

OH MY GOODNESS. That final sequence with no cutting, all in 1 take. Best show out there

Relentless · Feb 9, 2014

So this will be 8 episodes right? That's it?

Convictedstupid · Feb 9, 2014

shiiiit man

J Sizzle · Feb 9, 2014

That final escape sequence scene is one of the best scenes of television in recent memory. All in one take, so intense, just insane. This show is terrific.

ROXTXIA · Feb 9, 2014

I felt like I drank an espresso, watching the end of the show.

We'd recorded it; couldn't watch it at 8. We just watched it. Even my wife was like, "Rewind it, watch it again!"

Really good.

nachbarFTW · Feb 9, 2014

J Sizzle said: ↑

That final escape sequence scene is one of the best scenes of television in recent memory. All in one take, so intense, just insane. This show is terrific.
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If you watch closely it was not all in one take. Maybe 2-3 for the entire scene once they arrive at the Hoston projoects

J Sizzle · Feb 9, 2014

nachbarFTW said: ↑

If you watch closely it was not all in one take. Maybe 2-3 for the entire scene once they arrive at the Hoston projoects
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Eh, guess I didn't watch closely enough. Still doesn't take away the effect. Amazing scene.

tallanvor · Feb 9, 2014

I hope this is the end of the Woody Harrelson(sp?) family drama. Not very interesting to me.

LosPollosHermanos · Feb 9, 2014

Keyser Soze said: ↑

OH MY GOODNESS. That final sequence with no cutting, all in 1 take. Best show out there
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Thats why it felt so awesome, even if it was 2-3 takes that was a long time. It felt you like you were there with them escaping.

LosPollosHermanos · Feb 9, 2014

tallanvor said: ↑

I hope this is the end of the Woody Harrelson(sp?) family drama. Not very interesting to me.
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It hurt that they called Alexandra Dadoria's character crazy p***y .

His wife is pretty hot though, but thats not why people cheat anyways.

Rip Van Rocket · Feb 9, 2014

Good Gawd!!!!

This show is going to win all kinds of awards.

Commodore · Feb 10, 2014

http://m.mtv.com/news/article.rbml?id=1722001&alt=http://m.mtv.com/news/index.rbml

Before reaching the halfway point of the series, Fukunaga decided to end the episode with a six-minute oner, or long take, that follows Cohle into a heist inside a housing project, through a number of shootouts, outside to escape from swarming police, through another house, over a fence and finally into Hart's car. It's the kind of incredible shot that's worth watching again and again to catch every detail in it and further blurs the line between television and film. To find out how he pulled off the complex sequence, I reached out to Fukunaga to see if he would walk me through the planning and execution of the best "True Detective" scene yet. Off the bat, it's important to know that the oner is nothing new to Fukunaga.

Having used the technique in both of his feature films, "Sin Nombre" and "Jane Eyre," Fukunaga signed onto "True Detective" knowing that he wanted to include a long take at some point, because he considers it a tenser kind of directing. "The best ones, you don't even realize that they're oners," Fukunaga said. "They're the most first-person experience you can get in a film." Reading Nic Pizzolatto's script for "Who Goes There," Fukunaga knew almost immediately that the heist was the scene to make his oner. All he had to do was convince the entire crew that it wasn't impossible to pull off. To cover as much ground as he wanted to in the sequence, Fukunaga needed to shoot in an actual housing project, and that was the first complication in planning the oner. It took weeks to even get permission to film on-location, but once received it, Fukunaga went straight into mapping the shot and finding "the most interesting path, but also the most logical path" for Cohle to escape with Ginger. That interesting and logical path eventually takes Cohle and Ginger over a chain-link fence, a maneuver that proved to be the most complicated of the intricate sequence. Watching just the fences portion of the oner back, the camera floats over the high barrier in a movement that almost looks effortless.

Getting the shot, however, was anything but. Because the location was an actual housing project, the "True Detective" crew wasn't allowed to take down any portion of the fence, so they had to improvise. "At one point, we were going to build a ramp, and the operator was going to walk up it," Fukunaga said. "But that wasn't very safe." The solution ended up involving placing the Steadicam operator on an elevated jib, or a weighted crane, which carried him over the fence and back down to earth. Once the camera movements were figured out, the production carefully choreographed everything that had to happen in front of the lens with the help of a stunt team led by Mark Norby, who personally worked with McConaughey to develop a fighting style for Cohle. The crew even built a replica of the stash house for the stunt team to practice in before the big shoot. "We had ADs [assistant directors] all over the neighborhood because we had to release extras, crowd running background, police cars, stunt drivers. There were actual gun shots and stones being thrown through windows. There were a lot of things to put together," Fukunaga said. "Even the action, the stunt sequences were complicated. We're working on a television schedule. It isn't like a film where you can spend a lot of time working the stunts out with the actors. We only had a day and a half to get Matthew and everyone else on the same page."

All told, the sequence clocks in at around six minutes. Fukunaga and the crew ran through the whole thing seven times while the cameras were rolling. The director built in possible edit points if two takes had to be combined to make the perfect version of the shot, but anyone who is wondering should know that the sequence everyone saw in the episode is, in fact, a true single take and one of the great achievements of filmmaking for television.
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B-ball freak · Feb 10, 2014

Good lord, that was intense. MM's character is a serious badass.

Asian Sensation · Feb 10, 2014

****! I felt like I was there taking lines and getting high with them. Heart pounding and all. God damnnnnnn!

UTAllTheWay · Feb 10, 2014

Well I didn't think it was possible, but this show just reached an even greater level.

That last sequence was absolutely amazing. It seriously doesn't get any better than that. The great shows have this uncanny ability to put you in a position where you know what's going to ultimately happen, but you still sit there on the edge of your seat while it's happening.

Like the moment when the woman saw them running and started screaming, so the guys turned around and started going after Rust and Ginger.

I knew they were obviously going to make it. I mean, they had to make it.... but I still questioned it for a few seconds.

I just became even more obsessed with this show.

ItsMyFault · Feb 10, 2014

Best episode yet.

LonghornFan · Feb 10, 2014

Just...wow. That last scene, all of the drugs...I felt high going to bed. Freaking intense. This is one of the best series I have ever seen and we're only halfway in and I cannot wait to watch that episode again tonight. It's like I go into a trance watching it trying to pick up every detail of dialogue. Now if the wife would listen more intensely and quit making me pause it to explain what's happening it would be much more enjoyable.

Anyone else watch all three of the first episodes over the weekend in anticipation for last night?

davidio840 · Feb 10, 2014

Wow that episode was down right amazing. That was one incredible single take scene. I love this show.

whiskeyred · Feb 10, 2014

How high can Cohle get?

Few minor observations, MM's eyes as he entered the stash house, crazy to watch him shift gears like that, like a riding a bicycle for him.

And the Ginger character, I felt like i could watch him all night, must be the beard.

Also, Charlie Lange dropped some solid nuggets in the beginning scene - devil worship, rich men, children sacrificed, etc.

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