True Detective [HBO] [ Spoilers ]

Trippie · 30-01-2014 5:36pm

Grimebox wrote: »

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

ixoy wrote: »

Nope me too. They also tend to mutter a bit. Haven't had this much fun trying to decipher accents since listening to native Baltimore accents in "The Wire".

The country louisianan accent is pretty tough to understand, but this is a toned down version of it.

JONJO THE MISER · 30-01-2014 7:11pm

My new favourite show.

IvaBigWun · 30-01-2014 7:59pm

I binge watched this last night and my thought train went something like this:

Episode One: "Hmmm, this looks gorgeous and the two leads are stellar but its a bit slow innit?"

Episode Two: "Ok, still slow but has promise ... and there's a naked Alexandra Daddario there now too"

Episode Three: "Ok, last chance for this show for me, lets see what its got"

49 minutes later: "This tension is incredible"

55 minutes later: Is Detective Rust going to

slice his wrists with the ripped can?

Or is he about to

confess to being involved in the new murders?

Both thoughts seemed probable at the time, such is the brilliantly unhinged performance of McConaughey

The final 10 seconds of the show and that shot of

the guy in the field:

"Wow! Ive just found a favourite new show"

Damn you Superbowl. Damn you to hell!

Oh and news just in (although it was pretty much a given):

HBO preparing to order True Detective Season 2

The premium cable network is paving the way for the next season of its new crime series, this time without current stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. In light of the positive reception for True Detective among audiences and critics alike, it seems highly likely that HBO will
order a second season of the police drama, which premiered on January 12 to 7.7 million viewers across all screens.

According to Deadline.com, HBO has signed a new overall deal with the show's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, the novelist who honed his screenwriting chops on AMC's The Killing.

The Hollywood news website reports that Pizzolatto is currently working on a second season of True Detective to present to the network's executives.

More at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/television/hbo-preparing-to-order-true-detective-season-2/article1-1178437.aspx#sthash.hdsdpgso.dpuf

Syferus · 01-02-2014 4:52am

Best show I've seen in a long time that's not called Breaking Bad.

To do something so incredible within such a rote, stale genre is frankly stunning. That Harrelson and McConaughey are exceptional is obvious but having the same director and writer for the entire run really looks to have imbued a special level of consistency to this series that even the truly great series didn't have.

Grimebox · 04-02-2014 2:06am

God damn super bowl

IvaBigWun · 04-02-2014 2:40am

Grimebox wrote: »

God damn super bowl

Damn it to hell!

sparkle109 · 04-02-2014 3:34am

Loving this show... great acting, great storyline so far!

ronnie3585 · 04-02-2014 11:09am

Grimebox wrote: »

God damn super bowl

There was a little part of me that was glad it wasn't on last night. I'm dreading seeing what Reggie Ledoux has in store for them.

Brendan Filone · 05-02-2014 9:00pm

:eek:

xXDarkstarXx · 06-02-2014 10:37am

Loving this show, unreal acting and the storyline is coming along nicely. I think Rust has something shocking to tell the 2 cops next week.

PS It doesn't hurt to have someone like Alaxandra Daddario in the show either :pac:

googled eyes · 06-02-2014 3:09pm

So I've just caught up on this show and I have to say I love it. The tension between Marty and Rust is played out very well. Just hope that the show makers can keep it up for the entire season.

D.Q · 07-02-2014 4:03am

Decided to watch this tonight on a whim. Stunned. Just grabs you from the start. To echo what's already been said, the setting is perfect. The music is incredible and both leads performances are out of this world.

First film/tv show in a long time to give me an "oh... ****" moment. The split narrative really helps build the tension. I think I might be genuinely frightened.

D.Q · 09-02-2014 11:05pm

anyone know what time this is on tonight?

dr.kenneth noisewater · 09-02-2014 11:47pm

D.Q wrote: »

anyone know what time this is on tonight?

9PM EST I think

Grimebox · 09-02-2014 11:51pm

How did he go from one of my most hated actors to one of my favourite actors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSP4b-FRq7Q

Standman · 10-02-2014 3:59am

Loving the show so far.

Also glad to be watching a HBO series again so I can play "Spot 'The Wire' Cast Members". So far I've got Lester Freeman and Brother Mouzone.

Amazingfun · 10-02-2014 6:17am

Brilliant episode, and yes I stayed up to watch it. Addicted!

AbusesToilets · 10-02-2014 7:27am

Talk about intense, that last sequence was savage. McConaughey is phenomenal.

scottmcb04 · 10-02-2014 7:40am

Jesus that was intense, unreal TV!

Kilkenny14 · 10-02-2014 7:57am

This show keeps getting better and better. The last 10 minutes had so much tension, great work by everyone involved.

FootShooter · 10-02-2014 10:16am

That 6 minutes single shot at the end has got to be the most impressive scene ever in TV history. Holy ****.

The scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XFZmE3ZMo

How they made it:
www.mtv.com/news/articles/1722001/true-detective-long-take.jhtml

The episode has an impressive 9.9 rating on IMDb right now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2790174/

This show is with no doubt the best on television at the moment and can easily compete with shows like Breaking Bad and The Wire.

jenjenten · 10-02-2014 12:03pm

I have seen one shoters before....X Files, movies etc. - but they have edit points that seem seemless.

But the story below says its a trye one shot with no edits, so kudos.

FootShooter wrote: »

That 6 minutes single shot at the end has got to be the most impressive scene ever in TV history. Holy ****.

The scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XFZmE3ZMo

How they made it:
www.mtv.com/news/articles/1722001/true-detective-long-take.jhtml

The episode has an impressive 9.9 rating on IMDb right now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2790174/

This show is with no doubt the best on television at the moment and can easily compete with shows like Breaking Bad and The Wire.

TwoShedsJackson · 10-02-2014 2:08pm

Amazing stuff. The whole final sequence was really quite incredible.

googled eyes · 10-02-2014 3:46pm

Brilliant ! The tension on the final 10-15 minutes was amazing.

McConaughy is on another level in this.

Agree with Grimebox, he's totally turned his career around in terms of what he could do.

Grimebox · 10-02-2014 8:41pm

What happened with the gas mask guy at the end of the last episode? That was just a teaser?

titan18 · 10-02-2014 9:11pm

Grimebox wrote: »

What happened with the gas mask guy at the end of the last episode? That was just a teaser?

Think that's the guy they're looking for, the biker gang's cook, Reggie Ledoux.

Amazing episode, going to be one amazing watch when the season is done and can binge on it in one day.

Eod100 · 10-02-2014 10:00pm

Was finding it hard to get into this series before this episode. Wasn't a big fan of the switching from past to present and narrating through those interviews and Rust's ramblings on life but thought this episode was fantastic.

IvaBigWun · 10-02-2014 10:44pm

Is anyone else only aware of 50% of whats going on but loving it anyway?

:pac:

Or am I alone there?

I think I need to read some episode Wikis on this show as it seems so layered at times. Still though, a superb last 10 minutes!

Grimebox · 10-02-2014 10:50pm

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Is anyone else only aware of 50% of whats going on but loving it anyway?

:pac:

Or am I alone there?

I think I need to read some episode Wikis on this show as it seems so layered at times. Still though, a superb last 10 minutes!

I usually go back if I miss a bit. I have done a bit of pause+google if I didn't understand a reference. I am hanging on their every word in this. Its quite dense like any other HBO show. Love it

ixoy · 10-02-2014 10:56pm

Very good episode with phenomenal ending. It was the sort of thing most Hollywood movies couldn't even do - the seamless piece where everything goes to crap in the house and taking him through the suburbs. Not sure who is doing the music for this but they're doing a fantastic job. Really edges up the tension.

Lovely Bloke · 10-02-2014 11:13pm

Ep 4 amazing

Duggy747 · 10-02-2014 11:26pm

Tonight was a double bill of The Walking Dead and True Detective for meself and the GF. We put on The Walking Dead first because we're losing interest in it and the episode would seem even shìttier after watching this.

Fùck, that was a good idea. Amazing episode, it shifted gear in the 2nd half and then went into overdrive at the last 10 minutes.

Lovely Bloke · 10-02-2014 11:30pm

Duggy747 wrote: »

Tonight was a double bill of The Walking Dead and True Detective for meself and the GF. We put on The Walking Dead first because we're losing interest in it and the episode would seem even shìttier after watching this.

Fùck, that was a good idea. Amazing episode, it shifted gear in the 2nd half and then went into overdrive at the last 10 minutes.

are you my wife - we did exactly the same thing, for mostly the same reason :pac:

ricero · 11-02-2014 1:59am

wow what an ending. TV at its finest. also i was in stitches of laughter at the first scene with Cole saying how he felt your man in prisons pain listening to the ramblings of a mad man every day

the chemistry between Cole and woody its brilliant fantastic acting

CastorTroy · 11-02-2014 2:19am

That whole ending sequence was pretty ambitious and really paid off. Fair play to all involved to make it go so perfectly.

For some reason, listening to the opening theme, I can picture them doing a The Wire on it and having a different artist perform it each season.

IvaBigWun · 11-02-2014 2:37am

The show is trending in the top ten on Twitter.

In Ireland!

dr.kenneth noisewater · 11-02-2014 2:44am

Wow

SherlockWatson · 11-02-2014 6:13am

Just amazing.

Dont be at yourself · 11-02-2014 10:15am

Another great line, when Hart was opening up to Cohle about his failed marriage:

"Let me tell ya something... This is none of my ****ing business"

Cina · 11-02-2014 10:35am

ricero wrote: »

wow what an ending. TV at its finest. also i was in stitches of laughter at the first scene with Cole saying how he felt your man in prisons pain listening to the ramblings of a mad man every day the chemistry between Cole and Rust its brilliant fantastic acting

Well that's not much of a surprise seeing as they're the same person.

D-FENS · 11-02-2014 1:06pm

The show’s fragmented scenes are discussed a bit in this article, along with the style of writing and directing that is relatively unique to a modern TV drama, apparently..
Obviously the shot at the end of E3 was just to tease the introduction of Reggie Ledoux, I hope we meet him soon

http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2014/01/13/how-hbos-true-detective-will-change-the-way-you-watch-television/

As for people over-analysing the show, or any show, each to their own but what’s the point of this thread if everyone just comes in and said “Great show, thumbs up from me”

And again, different strokes for different folks, but after four hours, Russ Cohl is already one of the best TV characters I’ve ever seen.
We’ve seen mean and moody before, we’ve seen cops with dark pasts before, but the bluntness of McConaughey’s delivery is hilarious, like his response to Charlie Lang while leaving the cell, about whether he caused Dora’s death.
Some of his little negative monologues on life are brilliant, even without the reaction from Hart, I don’t find them tiresome at all. Harrelson is playing one of the best roles of his career, but he’s made to look like a sidekick out of Lethal Weapon at times in this due to the levels of crazy McConaughey can achieve.
And the back story of the four years undercover, the effect that has on him, coupled with the state of him in 2012, is done brilliantly.

To compare, do people actually remember how crap the majority of TV characters were, even 15 years ago…

ricero · 11-02-2014 1:22pm

Cina wrote: »

Well that's not much of a surprise seeing as they're the same person.

Haha my bad but you know what I mean. Woody is the man

bangkok · 11-02-2014 1:24pm

cant wait for it

Duggy747 · 11-02-2014 1:53pm

ricero wrote: »

Haha my bad but you know what I mean. Woody is the man

In fairness, I must've read 3 or 4 reviews of the episode where the author got the 2 character names wrong. :pac:

expectationlost · 12-02-2014 2:21am

it was all for naught though

kryogen · 12-02-2014 3:08am

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Another great line, when Hart was opening up to Cohle about his failed marriage:

"Let me tell ya something... This is none of my ****ing business"

and I dont wanna hear about it

Brilliance

In fairness the final 6 minutes of that episode are unbelievable televisiion from a technical point of view, excellently choreographed and executed

kryogen · 12-02-2014 3:12am

googled eyes wrote: »

Brilliant ! The tension on the final 10-15 minutes was amazing.

McConaughy is on another level in this.

Agree with Grimebox, he's totally turned his career around in terms of what he could do.

With him, the talent has always been there, you can see it in some of his early work. For whatever reason he just kept taking horrible roles in awful films, maybe they were paying the most money and now he is at a stage of his career when he wants to think about his legacy and do projects he actually cares about and can get stuck into on an artistic level

Sort of like the opposite of Johnny Depps career arc!

Ipso · 12-02-2014 4:47am

kryogen wrote: »

Sort of like the opposite of Johnny Depps career arc!

And he's not an overgrown hipster!

kryogen · 12-02-2014 11:38am

Hipster?

Backstreet Moyes · 12-02-2014 1:33pm

googled eyes wrote: »

Brilliant ! The tension on the final 10-15 minutes was amazing.

McConaughy is on another level in this.

Agree with Grimebox, he's totally turned his career around in terms of what he could do.

Have a look at an old film A Time to Kill if you get a chance. It is a fantastic film in which he was very very good.

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