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

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    #122
    FootShooter
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭FootShooter


    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.


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    #123
    jenjenten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭jenjenten


    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.


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    #124
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


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


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    #125
    googled eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭googled eyes


    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.


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    #126
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


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


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    #127
    titan18
    Registered Users Posts: 11,932 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    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.


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    #128
    Eod100
    Registered Users Posts: 11,635 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    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.


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    #129
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    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!


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    #130
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    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


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    #131
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    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.


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    #132
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Ep 4 amazing


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    #133
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    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.


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    #134
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    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:


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    #135
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    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 :D the chemistry between Cole and woody its brilliant fantastic acting


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    #136
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 28,793 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    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.


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    #137
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    The show is trending in the top ten on Twitter.



    In Ireland! ;)


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    #138
    dr.kenneth noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭dr.kenneth noisewater


    Wow :D


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    #139
    SherlockWatson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭SherlockWatson


    Just amazing.


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    #140
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,571 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    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"


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    #141
    Cina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,387 ✭✭✭Cina


    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 :Dthe chemistry between Cole and Rust its brilliant fantastic acting
    Well that's not much of a surprise seeing as they're the same person.


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    #142
    D-FENS
    Registered Users Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭D-FENS


    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…


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    #143
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    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


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    #144
    bangkok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    cant wait for it


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    #145
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    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:


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    #146
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    it was all for naught though


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    #147
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    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


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    #148
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    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!


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    #149
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    kryogen wrote: »
    Sort of like the opposite of Johnny Depps career arc!

    And he's not an overgrown hipster!


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    #150
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Hipster?


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    #151
    Nuts102
    Registered Users Posts: 8,699 ✭✭✭Nuts102


    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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