Posted on 01/18/2014 1:32:05 PM PST by PJ-Comix
"True Detective," a quietly terrific new series debuting Sunday on HBO, takes its title, though not its style, from a famous old real-crime magazine, popular back when people turned to reading for the sort of stimulation they get mostly through television now.
The title might be misleading — there is nothing fact-based about the show, but like its namesake it is planned as an anthology. As in FX's anthology "American Horror Story," each season will tell a discrete story — a strategy that, if nothing else, might attract commitments from name artists interested in long-form storytelling, or prestige television projects, but less sanguine about signing on to a series that could run for years. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star in the first season, which has been entirely written by novelist Nic Pizzolatto and entirely directed by Cary Fukunaga ("Jane Eyre").
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I read some interesting comments on a True Detective forum that perhaps the lawnmower man at the school was the perp. Remember, Rust said he just needs to talk to someone for a couple of minutes to figure out that if he was guilty but Hart honked his car horn after only about a minute. Plus the lawnmower guy was said to have some scars on his face below the beard. I have to watch that part again.
Another thing I thought was strange was preacher Theriot smoking a cigarette. That is way out of character for preachers.
I thought that was just a southern thing — but, I don’t know much about the U.S. South.
I don’t think you will find many (if any) preachers in the South smoking cigarettes...at least nowadays (or even in 1995). That just stood out for me as going against the image of a preacher. However, I did get a big chuckle out of preacher Theriot’s incredibly exaggerated muttonchop sideburns.
Yeah, I laughed at those sideburns — blatantly obvious stereotyping.
Which makes me think that Theriot is trying a bit too hard to APPEAR to be a preacher but was that cigarette a slip on his part?
Which makes me think that Theriot is trying a bit too hard to APPEAR to be a preacher but was that cigarette a slip on his part?
Wow! I never considered that (probably because I didn’t know about preachers and cigarettes). That would make for an interesting twist. I will say that I would have put some money in the tray, if I were listening to Theriot preaching (and I’m a whole lot smarter than Rust would have assumed, based on that). He does seem to know how to connect to his congregation.
Psst! Was Martin Hart’s older daughter doing copycat murders in 2012? Think about that. Especially her drawings.
I’m going to have to stop deleting episodes of TD, after watching them once. Clearly, it will require a final binge reviewing, before all the little Easter eggs are found.
You can watch them online or at HBO On Demand. Plus they repeat the episodes. I tape them and then analyze the details. Like the lawnmower guy. I kept doing freeze frame for the side of his face for analysis.
“I kept doing freeze frame for the side of his face for analysis.”
Is that you Rust?
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