True Detective [HBO] [** Spoilers **]

Is anyone else having trouble hearing what they are saying at times? The southern accent is difficult

It makes a huge difference when you have A listers in a show like this. There hasn't been a bad episode yet and I don't think there will be one either.

Crazy tense last 10 or 15 minutes in that episode.

Don't forget that they will skip a week next week for the Superbowl.

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

I really hate how American TV just kills the momentum of a show by breaking up like this. Especially as we've been left on a cliffhanger.

Hardly a cliff hanger

Grimebox wrote: »

If it is a cliffhanger, it is the mildest one I've ever come across. We are introduced to a new character. That's it

Well, the knowledge of an ensuing firefight and a closing shot of a man walking around in nothing but his underwear and a gas mask with a machete in an undisclosed location who may or may not be Reggie Ladoux, and who also may prove to be nothing but a red herring make for plenty of tension, if you ask me. That last shot was a definitely a 'what the fcuk' moment for me.

Perhaps even more importantly, we now know that Marty is a little unhinged, maybe as much as Rust, and certainly may be inclined to do something rash, which means things are becoming more open-ended on that front. Who knows what he might end up doing at that firefight, or elsewhere? It also appears that Rust knows exactly what the interrogators are looking for from him now and is giving off the air of someone who has nothing to hide. Which is starting to make me think that Marty is the one who is keeping something under wraps (he has a very good way of turning things around to make himself seem like the good guy, I think).

So, I'd say that last episode left a lot of unanswered questions and tension left over from that episode. A cliffhanger doesn't have to be of Lost proportions to be a cliffhanger. It's simply ending an episode on a note of uncertainty or tension, be it of grand proportions or not, which is exactly what this episode did.

The gritty nihilist aspect pissed me right off in the first episode even with the narrative justification of his daughter's death. I haven't watched ep 3 yet so I hope it isn't laid on too thick because I really want this to be as great as it can be.

MilanPan!c wrote: »

Love his nihilism.

The whole thing is very literary and plays out like a written monologue come to life.

I think that's very cool in the hands of this cast/director.

No complaints.

To me it feels more like the frustrated musings of a tumblr user or something. It's my least favourite thing in the show. But so far it's really the only thing that I don't like. The fragmented narrative and all the ambiguities around it does feel very literary, almost like a Faulkner novel. I like the surreality of it as well.

AdamD wrote: »

I think they've really nailed it with the setting and cinematography, very eerie.

The setting is brilliant. If it was in some big metropolis, I don't think it would have the same effect. Having it out in the sticks in the South gives it a real sense of isolation. Like the encounter with the fisherman on Pelican Island or the brothel out in the middle of nowhere gives the feeling that anyone could be doing anything out in those places and no one would ever know about it.

Just on the nihilistic monologues, this thread here makes me cringe: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/board/thread/225145490

Reminds me of: http://i.imgur.com/vPI7t5S.jpg

But when the show isn't so caught up in its own existential psuedo-intellectual whatevers it is probably one of the most compelling dramas I've ever watched.