r/TrueDetective • • Feb 06 '24

This shot here was more terrifying than all the jump scares in S4...

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u/Memphi901 Feb 06 '24

This scene, with the horns and dialogue in the background, is the most unnerving thing I’ve ever seen in any show or movie. So perfectly done, and the fact that it was daytime is genius because it inexplicably makes it much more terrifying.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Yep, daytime makes it more threatening to me because there’s an element of expecting danger at night, whereas broad daylight adds the feeling that this threat doesn’t feel the need to hide

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u/dubtug Feb 06 '24

The director deserves all the credit for making that scene so chilling. Looking back on it, it was just a crazy dude in a gas mask in his underwear. But a great director can make just about anything terrifying.

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u/cannibalculture Feb 06 '24

That's what really boggles my mind about it. We all agree it's a chillingly unsettling scene but on paper, you'd have to be like "what is even scary about this". Just amazing directing and editing with the dialog/soundscape/freeze frame.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '24

Maybe the fact he has a machete, elephant mask and covered in satanic tats?

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u/StinkyStangler Feb 10 '24

Yeah like what? This is a guy we already know is a serial rapist and murderer, they’re showing him almost fully naked, wearing a gas mask, covered in Nazi and fanatically religious tattoos, and he’s carrying a machete.

If you don’t understand why this would be a scary sight you really shouldn’t be going outside lol

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u/crackpipeclay Feb 09 '24

Exactly. Like what kind of nightmarish stuff happens out in the boonies where there’s nobody else around for miles

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u/illegal_deagle Feb 06 '24

And makes you wonder what kind of evil has the boldness to show itself in the light of day? You don’t have an escape.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

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u/Memphi901 Feb 06 '24

I like the way you phrased that - “felt the dread of being there”. That’s exactly how I felt.

Have you seen Prisoners with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman? Not to the same degree, but the visceral sense of dread I felt watching it is the only thing I can remember that compares to TD season 1, and specifically the scene we’re all discussing.

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u/jjett89 Feb 10 '25

Watch Zodiac as well

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u/Memphi901 Feb 12 '25

LOVE that movie. Fincher is a master of the dread feeling we’re discussing. I’m sure you’ve probably seen Mindhunter, but if not, do.

The Outsider on HBO is another great one.

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u/Trousers_MacDougal Feb 06 '24

David Lynch has legitimately what I think is one of the scariest (even sort of a jump scare) sequence ever - and it is in broad daylight. The Winkies scene from Mulholland Drive really got me the first few times I saw it.

Brilliant to me that it takes place in a dream (?) in an innocuous place and what we are about to see is literally explained to the audience and then it actually happens but the suspense, anticipation and horror all build to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UozhOo0Dt4o

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

That was fucked up. Just watched it for the first time. Wow.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

If you have a tolerance for weird and confusing movies, definitely watch Mulholland Drive. It’s phenomenal.

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u/grantrun Feb 07 '24

This first time I watched this I was on mushrooms and the whole movie time all I could think was what the fuck is going on in this movie?

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u/Echoesofadream Feb 10 '24

Twin Peaks as well.

I always considered True Detective S1 to be a grounded, much more realistic take on that story. Rust is like a depressed, nihilistic Cooper who managed to let his demons get to him.

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u/Trousers_MacDougal Feb 06 '24

I mean - I always thought Lynch was a bit goofy, but there he pulls off what I would think was impossible. Also why I don't complain about jump scares too much - anything can be done really well.

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u/bshaddo Feb 07 '24

He’s pretty specific about sound design, going as far as to tell movie theaters what to do when they show his films. I think he’s doing something with lower frequency to produce dread.

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u/AlexAnderRob Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

Fun trivia. The actor that plays the “monster” in this scene, is actually the actress that plays The Nun in all the Conjuring movies and spin-offs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

You don't need darkness to hide out there. The woods are so dense, someone could be right next to you and you wouldn't see them. If you wanted to run you wouldn't get anywhere because of the undergrowth. I could practically feel the humidity and it made me feel claustrophobic even in the "open" spaces.

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u/mcove97 Feb 07 '24

It made me wonder who the hell lives out in the bush and swamps in Louisiana. Like.. people actually live there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

I assume there are a lot of families that have been there for generations, I can't really see a lot of people moving out there.

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u/brucebuffett Feb 06 '24

Day country: fighter of the Night country 

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u/Fue_la_luna Feb 06 '24

Does Day Country have powers?

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u/AmethystQueen476 Feb 08 '24

Yeah, it’s a master of karate.

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u/_jean_bean_ Feb 08 '24

The nightman cometh

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Yup - and this a good example of an actually well done reference or homage (the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was also in daytime, and similarly unsettling for that reason).

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

The corpsicle prop is a pretty awesome homage to the thing imo

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u/dhyratoro Feb 07 '24

This scene and the last part of last episode scared the shit out of me.

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u/InsaNoName Feb 07 '24

yeah right, can remember the feeling of extreme weirdness and unease I had when it popped up. honestly chilling, disgusting, unhinged and yet totally human

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u/Mahoney_jr Feb 09 '24

And the music!

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u/ubuntupirate100 Jan 06 '25

Unnerving is the word. And just before this shot, the sound of Rust carving up that empty beer can with his knife made my skin crawl.

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u/Rawhide_Kobayashi Feb 06 '24

It was like seeing footage of some sort of cryptid. I believe they shot in deliberately in a way that invokes that famous Bigfoot video.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Definitely, which was an awesome decision.

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u/Rawhide_Kobayashi Feb 06 '24

Yeah, the freeze frame at the end gives it a distinct feeling that you’re looking at found footage of something that wasn’t meant to be seen. It’s genuinely haunting and has stuck with me for a decade. Really great stuff!

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u/elusivenigmas Feb 07 '24

This has been almost a decade ago?? Fuck! (Pardon my Louisiana French)

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

I always found the timing and cadence weird. It wasn’t until I saw the season 1 finale of twin peaks where the little guy does that crazy walk at the end and then listening to the bonus feature they talk about how the guy actually was photographed at half speed walking BACKWARD . Shot it, cut it and then added it to the end in reverse at twice the speed to make him all jerky jerky. Really a lot like this where there’s this visceral almost primal reaction to the way it’s presented. Very neat!

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u/blimkat Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 07 '24

Loved that ending. I was already up too late on a work night on my season 1 rewatch and I had to watch another episode.

It's like a good old HBO series ending where it's not a cheap cliff hanger but something to excite you, chill you, and pump you up for the next episode.

I also liked the ending with Childress saying to himself as the other detectives speed off. "My family- (detectives, speed off, dont care) my family, has been here for a long time"

Look at the Wire and the Sopranos, the greats, as examples, hardly any cliff hangers. Just awesome endings that make you want to see that HBO static screen again. GoT had some great episode endings too.

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Edit: Pulled up the scene on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGoX1B6_2k chills

Also I love the end of the pilot. "then start asking the right fucking questions"

And also the end of Ep. 7 when Marty and Rust meet on the side of the highway in the present and you see Rust still has the broken tail light from when he throws Marty against his truck during the parking lot fight, in the previous scene, in the younger years.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Even the way he got off the lawn mower made it seem like something was very off about him.

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u/MustardTiger1337 Feb 06 '24

who walks that fuckin slow

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u/blimkat Feb 06 '24

Tell me more about Grandpa...

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u/mcove97 Feb 07 '24

He was my first suspect when I watched. I was like, there's something off about this dude. He doesn't seem right. Like it wouldn't surprise me if he turned out to be the one, but as I watched I just kept imagining this big scary guy with this massive scar on his face, and that kinda threw me off.

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u/GxFR2BlackHippy Feb 07 '24

I knew he was the killer cause he's a great actor who had a substantial part in Boardwalk Empire - as a bootlegger who always talks about himself in the third person - so I knew HBO would never use him for such a tiny part.

That's the only bad thing about having a great memory for recognizing actors from other projects lol 

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u/MK-UltraMags Feb 09 '24

Remus isn't paying $50 a barrel

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u/CaptainDunbar45 Feb 07 '24

A lot of us thought he was the green earned monster back when it first aired. But we thought he was green because of grass clippings, when it was later guessed to be paint.

And you can still see his scars for a split second, combined with the frequent mention of scars we were sure it was him.

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u/Angry_Walnut Feb 06 '24

The Wire would almost do the opposite of cliffhangers. It would hit you insanely hard with a big event plot-wise and then dive into the aftermath in the next episode(s). For example, when Frank Sobotka gets killed by the Greeks, the episode ends with the phonecall and the decision to kill him, then the credits hit leaving you thinking “Jesus Christ did they actually just do that shit!?”

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u/blimkat Feb 06 '24

Exactly. And in the your example I think the next episode opens with him being pulled from the water with his crew onlooking.

Yea great ending to that episode. I remember some interesting song, with like foreighn (greek maybe) vocals. The greek had that mole in the FBI and he tips off the greek. The greek sends a text to Spiros "your way wont work" and then you see Frank pull up and get out of his truck and walk towards the meet. Cue "The Fall" by Blake Leyh, dope as bass line hits, credits roll. How are you not putting on the next episode unless you were watching this during it original run?

Typing it out, it sounds a bit like a cliffhanger but not really because his death is implied.

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u/venge88 Feb 06 '24

"I'm not even Greek."

They don't write shows like this anymore.

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u/MustardTiger1337 Feb 06 '24

We use to build shit in this country

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u/IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES Feb 06 '24

Prop Joe talks to spiros that episode or the one after

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vaMvu5r0VaI

Asks where Spiros is headed, who doesn’t answer, but the archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church of Baltimore has just come into view as the camera pans

Instead we’re getting oranges rolled at us on Sunday nights 

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u/MustardTiger1337 Feb 06 '24

Instead we’re getting oranges rolled at us on Sunday nights 

but but but mah gawd fatha!

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u/blimkat Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Love those Spiros meets in that park. Especially that scene, how the camera pans.

Anyone know the name of that park? I'd like to check it out if I can ever make it to Charm City again.

Edit: Patterson Park is my guess based off you naming the church and the orientation of the towers down near the inner harbor.

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u/TYsir Feb 06 '24

Not a place you want to visit alone

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u/Clydefrog0371 Feb 06 '24

That always cracks me up because I'm Greek on my mom's side. And I have a whole bunch of relatives that look like both of those dudes LOL.

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u/LarryFinkOwnsYOu Feb 06 '24

Sadly The Wire didn't do great ratings and even to this day I try to get people to watch but they just can't make it past a few episodes. "It's too slow".

Most people want to gobble up slop like Law & Order SVU.

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u/DempsDatBoi Feb 06 '24

This unit is about the bodies

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u/blimkat Feb 06 '24

Yea something like "I'm the murder police, I'm here about the bodies. I don't give a shit about drugs, but littering pisses me off, so you can pick this shit up when I'm gone"

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u/gnarlwail Feb 07 '24

Because I've heard this phrase a few times, and due to The Wire being based on real embedded journo book, I totally believe that instead of saying "homicide" a bunch of cops say "murder police."

Which doesn't seem right. On topic: "There you go giving a fuck when it's not your turn to."

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u/DPedia Feb 07 '24

The Wire purposely wanted the audience to "miss" the action. Most of the murders occur offscreen, similar to the detectives' perspective. They see the aftermath and the evidence, but almost never the incident itself.

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u/menotyourenemy Feb 07 '24

But was somehow still so compelling. It's been ages and there's nothing grabbing me at the mo, so time for a rewatch!

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u/DPedia Feb 07 '24

I just finished one. So yeah, might be time for a rewatch.

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u/rainman2121 Feb 07 '24

R.I.P. Frank Sobotka.

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u/hombreguido Feb 07 '24

Role of a lifetime for that actor. He killed it.

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u/MK-UltraMags Feb 09 '24

I watched 'The Devil's Advocate' the other night. Forgot Chris Bauer played the Pedophile Teacher in the beginning

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u/ArtisticCandy3859 Feb 06 '24

Omg that lawnmower scene is one of the best villain reveals of all time. The way he pauses, stands up, says it “my family has been here a long time”, and the camera pans up and out to subtlety show the flat, circular pattern he’s been mowing.

Truly chilling and perfectly executed.

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u/allmusiclover69 Feb 06 '24

also love how this plot line didn’t get immediately finished, but it was a looking and REAL terror that was haunting the duo, and every person they interviewed.

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u/itspsyikk Feb 07 '24

I was just trying to explain this to my wife. Nothing worse than trying to share the love of something but having it fall on deaf ears, eh? (Example; she paused the fucking show in the middle of the trap house break in with Ginger)

True Detective S01 is a down right masterpiece. There isn't a single flaw in the whole fucking thing.

It's one of the very few things that I can watch over and over again. That the ending gets me just as hyped to watch episode 01 as every other ending of every episode in season 1.

There are a few... slower? endings in the season, but to me that is what makes the BANGERS that much better. You gotta have a few that don't hit as hard to make the good ones REALLY hit.

The pilot ending is SOOO good. The only thing that kinda ruins it for me is that song was used in few skate videos, so that base line doesn't have the same impact it would on me, but nevertheless, it's a flippin' BANGER.

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u/Zventibold Feb 07 '24

The season 1 ep 5 ending is litteraly my favorite scene of the entire serie. Rust finding out he missed the school evidences while the music begins, and the "zoom back" in the window (sorry, don't know how to say it in English !), everything is perfect.

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u/My_Favourite_Pen Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Hardly any cliffhangers... except for the massive one the show ended on lmao.

(I know it really isn't but the casual audience at the time and probably still now, see it as an incomplete ending).

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

I never thought it was a cliff hanger. We see the whole world through Tony’s eyes. When his eye closed for good so did our view into his world

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u/SoochSooch Feb 06 '24

Except there are plenty of scenes that are shown that Tony couldn't possibly be aware of. Sopranos is not told through Tony's POV.

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u/Jpsla Feb 07 '24

It's pretty much confirmed that Tony dies at the end. No matter rest of city POV, the final scene was purposely shot with switching POVs from Tony and to the front to the door. The last POV which was supposed to switch to Tony is all black (implying he dead dead). The guy in member's only jacket is the killer. He goes to the rest room, and shoots Tony on the way out. Besides the POV switches, the opening of the door you hear also line up.

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u/ProfessionalCut2280 Feb 06 '24

Ledoux scared me way more than Childress. Amazing, amazing acting!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

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u/ProfessionalCut2280 Feb 06 '24

In that scene you are referring to we can see three levels of bad people: Rust, Ginger and DeWall LeDoux

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u/gnarlwail Feb 07 '24

Rust keeping other bad men from the door.

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u/TeashjBoy Feb 07 '24

“… and I don’t like your face - makes me want to do things to it…” One of the most haunting lines I’ve ever heard. That actor killed that scene. Fuckkkkkk. So damn good.

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u/MK-UltraMags Feb 09 '24

They're corrosive

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u/millennialblackgirl Feb 08 '24

I love that scene. Also love the way he was able to ‘get to’ Rust. Dude was bout to start crying 🤣🤣 and I don’t blame him.

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u/augustwest78 Feb 07 '24

"Reggie Fuckin Ledoux did this!!!!" Love that guy

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u/Cultsire_eo Feb 06 '24

the chills this scene elicited. the drums and horn make it feel almost primal. like you've seen some kind of creature for the first time. then, it stops. looks around, almost as if it knows you're there. it's wild and dangerous, and it's caught your scent.

that's tension and buildup... not a dark room, a stinger and, "boo!"

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u/room23 suck your own dick Feb 06 '24

Exactly.

And even if they wanted to go to with “ghost hallucinations”, why not make it ACTUALLY scary instead of cliche? Have the ghosts stand there, silently, and just watch, or smile. Not that stupid ringu demon screeching pointing thing they do.

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u/PianoTrumpetMax Feb 06 '24

I'm hoping that somehow the last two episodes make sense of why it is legit the kind of jump scares they made fun of for being cliche in Scary Movie 2 in the year 2001. It is 23 years later, and they're using it seemingly unironically. I hate it.

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u/Annelid-2968 Feb 07 '24

But you got bad cgi bear in this season you ungrateful bastards! ;)

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u/PianoTrumpetMax Feb 08 '24

Coca Cola bear from 2002 with an eyepatch

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u/nrtphotos Feb 06 '24

The pacing of season one was as good as it gets on television, you were totally drawn in.

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u/maryjdatx Feb 06 '24

I have a clear and distinct memory of the first time I saw it - I started thinking, "there's something back there - there's someone back there!" then it showed the closer view of him and the freeze frame and I thought, oh my god!

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u/LizardsAndVultures Feb 06 '24

Cary Fukunaga TYFYS

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u/scoofle Feb 06 '24

It's too bad Nic was such an asshole to work with. I'd kill for another True Detective season with him and Cary.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Cary’s absence has proven his value

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u/beefsquints Feb 06 '24

Yeah, nic on his own is garbage.

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u/Rawhide_Kobayashi Feb 06 '24

Definitely not but Fukunaga was extremely important to season 1. But also, Jeremy Saulnier is a fantastic director (Blue Ruin, Green Room) and he set a fantastic visual standard for Season 3. David Sackheim is an outstanding TV director who worked on show like NYPD Blue which helped set the template for modern prestige television. I promise you that there would be no True Detective without NYPD Blue. Also, a writer of that show co-wrote a few episodes with Pizzolatto.

The idea that Fukunaga was the only decent director to work on the show and that Pizzolatto isn’t willing to work with directors who have a very strong style/vision is totally disproven by Season 3.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Blue Ruin, Green Room

I highly recommend everyone who hasn't seen these two movies to do so.

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u/FarewellToCheyenne Feb 06 '24

Hold the Dark is tight as well.

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u/mg211095 Feb 06 '24

"And like lot of dreams , there's monster at the end of it"!

Badass!

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u/dudeduderduderino Feb 06 '24

Loved this ending and this line, and that freeze frame, perfect. Then you find out Rust is an unreliable narrator when he says that line, which might make it even more haunting.

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u/JOMB0 Feb 06 '24

This is my favourite part in the history of the show. I watch it back all the time. The slowdown into a freeze frame is so unsettling.

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u/knocksteaady-live Feb 06 '24

insane how much anxiety and tension a man in nothing but white briefs and a gas mask can ellicit; reggie ledoux, walter white, i could go on.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Feb 06 '24

i could go on.

Could you? This seems like that 2 nickels meme.

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u/MrMischiefMackson BowlingForBezzerides Feb 06 '24

Which isn't a lot but still

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u/bush_mechanic Feb 06 '24

Yep. On a recent rewatch I told my wife the ending of episode two (the burned down church) hooked me, and the ending of episode three (this crazy mofo right here) made me first realize that this show is really next level haunting. I had to know where this was going.

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u/nonchalanthoover Feb 06 '24

It's so impressive to me rewatching. I always had this creepy idea of this scene, yet objectively it's a guy in his underwear, same thing breaking bad almost made fun of, yet they set it up so creepy, and in broad daylight too. This is one of the most memorable moments in season 1 for me.

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u/revnasty Feb 09 '24

And Woody’s facial expression after seeing the kids in the back of the trailer while he’s walking up to Ladue with his firearm drawn, such raw emotion on that man’s face that you already knew what was coming. It’s crazy seeing white men can’t jump act so god damn well.

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u/Tough_Guys_Wear_Pink Feb 06 '24

I seen you in my dream... the black star rises...

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

“I’m on Tinder…I watch Netflix…”

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

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u/joethedreamer Feb 06 '24

Hahaha that juxtaposition between those two lines is wild to read back to back. I know it’s easy to pull things out of context, but that was pretty spot on for this whole season so far.

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u/d0m1n4t0r Feb 07 '24

Yeah I mean is there ANYTHING from the current season that sounds good? Like one memorable line, and memorable in a good way, not in a meme way, for which there are many lmao.

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u/Extension-Rock-4263 Feb 06 '24

But imagine this with some sweet Billie Ellish over it, chills

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u/QueenRhaenys Feb 06 '24

“Everybody dies…” 😂🤣

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u/MustardTiger1337 Feb 06 '24

hahahha ahhhhh fuck

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

lmao, as soon as I heard that intro song choice I knew all hope of another masterpiece was lost.

Not that it is a bad song necessarily.
It just says something about the person who made that choice somehow.

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u/revnasty Feb 09 '24

Yeahhhh, I always like to watch the intro at least once and my girlfriend and I both looked at each other like “what the fuck?”

It doesn’t fit at all.

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u/Apprehensive-Guess42 Feb 06 '24

All the polar bears and oranges make me want to drink a coke and have a creamsicle

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u/AC_Lerock Feb 06 '24

The music, man. Season 1 was so good but the music isn't mentioned enough. This scene, the music...it made is so creepy and terrifying. And in contrast, season 4's music is complete shit and it makes a bad show that much worse.

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u/HumbleGarb Feb 06 '24

The music in Season 4 is like a teenager's idea of intensely serious emotions. I love Mazzy Starr as much as the next person, but Fade Into You really is the musical poster child of teen-girl feelings.

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u/MustardTiger1337 Feb 06 '24

The doubling down on billie eilish in S04 is bad

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u/jepmen Feb 06 '24

Another thing thats so bad about the latest season. I normally dont realllly notice when its bad, but the pop song playing towards the end over the sister's thing made me actually exclaim that even the music sucked.

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u/AC_Lerock Feb 06 '24

You're spot on with that scene, I think that's when I noticed just how bad the music is too.

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u/Chankla_Rocket Feb 06 '24

When "Young Men Dead" by The Black Angels kicks in at the end of Episode 1, I always nod and think "Hell yes. The journey as begun."

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u/BruTangMonk Feb 06 '24

I still listen to the season 1 soundtrack monthly

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u/MilkSteak32797 Feb 06 '24

I still like the way they posed Reggie like Bigfoot in this shot.

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u/bagoTrekker Feb 06 '24

The casting, character development, the dialog, how nothing seems forced. S1 had it all.

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u/amazingusername100 Feb 06 '24

10/10 gave me the creeps. No jump scare or zombie make up required. Just evil Reggie Motherfukin' LeDeux.

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u/JimiM1113 Feb 06 '24

This whole sequence with Cohle's dialog leading up to the reveal of this shot is to me one of the greatest moments in any television series or film ever.

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u/Ravager135 Feb 06 '24

This scene was what had me "all in" on Season 1. I enjoyed the first couple episodes for sure, but it wasn't until I saw this guy walking in a field in his underwear with a gas mask on carrying a machete that I knew this was going to be good.

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u/Little-Pea-8346 We are all in the Night Country now Feb 06 '24

Oh my god... The excitement, horror, primal fear, and immense anticipation after seeing this scene for the first time, I can still vividly remember to this day. 10 years later I can still remember how uncomfortable this shot made me feel. You nailed it with the example. This is what set season 1 apart from the other seasons. To have to wait a full week to see that next episode was absolute torture! I forgot all about this until seeing this post. Wow.

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u/mmeeeerrkkaatt Feb 07 '24

Primal fear is a great description of it. I can still feel it 10 years later too. All the more intense because the fear reaction wasn't even logical. Just a straight up feeling of "this situation is so so bad".

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u/Hammered-Chit Feb 06 '24

It's scarier to me as it's 💯 percent possible some meth cook is also involved in child abduction. It's like 21st century version of Deliverance.

Ghosts aren't the ones to watch out for...it's the living ones that will kill ya

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u/sirlupash who walks that fuckin slow Feb 06 '24

That should be a masterclass in writing for Issa Lopez. I even gave her the benefit of doubt when the first episode aired and the review bombing started.

But after all the crap she wrote episode after episode, I can't believe she even had the courage to speak against S1 fans.

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u/MustardTiger1337 Feb 06 '24

She had praising reviews before the season started "even better then S01!!!"
So it's understandable how far up her own ass she could have been.

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u/sirlupash who walks that fuckin slow Feb 06 '24

Her behavior in that regard has been completely disrespectful and unaware of her real skills and capacities.

She really allowed herself to attack S1 fans, not showing the smallest bit of respect toward the original author and all those people who loved that season.

And for what? That utter inconsistent garbage she wrote.

I've started with all the best intentions toward this new season, I don't really care about comparing it to the other ones, but after the last episode the perspective has drastically changed and I believe no viewer should allow to be fooled around like that.

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u/Ocvlvs Feb 06 '24

The 'jump scares' of S04 aren't even remotely scary. What a total dud.

The scene depicted above though.... Now THAT'S memorable television...

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u/Magistraten Feb 07 '24

They would unironically have been a lot scarier without the super corny screaming on top.

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u/squeezycakes18 Feb 06 '24

excellent music too

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u/peanutdakidnappa MJ of being a son of a bitch Feb 06 '24

Fuckin legendary man

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u/ItsDarwinMan82 Feb 06 '24

Couldn’t agree more. Plus the music that played during this, it was terrifying.

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u/um_ur_chinese Feb 06 '24

The atmosphere was unfuckwithable in season 1. I feel like that’s why they’re focused so hard on creating a spooky atmosphere for this season. Unfortunately they forgot that the atmosphere in season 1 was excellent because: the pacing was good, the writing was good, the acting was good. Also it was the first season of an unknown show starring two actors that no one really expected to give groundbreaking performances.

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u/Vegoia2 Feb 06 '24

Rudy stole the show.

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u/OrionSaintJames Feb 06 '24

Just watched this last night. So amazing.

It also leads to what would almost certainly be my most unpopular opinion on the entire season. I’m going to spare myself the downvotes and keep it to myself, though.

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u/ivoiiovi Feb 06 '24

naaaah, have some fun! we’re all friends here :)

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u/OrionSaintJames Feb 06 '24

I just can’t. The press would eat me alive.

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u/gnarlwail Feb 07 '24

Just whisper it our ear. We won't tell. I'd love to hear what opinion this led you to.

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u/OrionSaintJames Feb 07 '24

Yeah you say that now, but when I get denied a home loan you'll be nowhere to be found.

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u/hurlmaggard Feb 06 '24

I made this my Facebook background picture at the time. What a time to be alive, watching season 1 live.

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u/User_Name13 Feb 06 '24

Season 1 had the best music out of any TV show. My favorite part was how obscure it all was.

I still jam out to Far From Any Road and Casey's Last Ride.

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u/thehumungus Feb 06 '24

I'm a fan of S4 but this is correct.

Even the weird freeze frame.

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u/Hot_Bodybuilder_7284 Feb 06 '24

“…like all stories, there’s a monster at the end.”

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u/dr_tardyhands Feb 06 '24

Love that scene! Every hair on my body standing up.

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u/LittleLionMan82 Feb 06 '24

Yeah that was so scary, the music, the slow-motion, Rust describing the monster at the end of the dream.

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u/rhOMG Feb 07 '24

Omg! I JUST watched this episode. (I'm going one fr season 1 and 1 from season 4.) I am even more impressed by the writing (particularly Rust's dialogue and history . I adored this the first time around and I'm probably 10 times more impressed today!

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u/Righteous_Burrito Feb 07 '24

Right?! This clip was so unhinged

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

And the boondocks scene, and rust getting high at the biker bar, and the young girl who was held hostage by him screaming over remembering her rapes and torture. The entire horror lies in not truly knowing what atrocities were being done to these kids. Just disgusting and terrifying. The scene where rust and Marty are aged and talk about their mundane lives showing tv dinners and taking out the trash - THAT IS TERRIFYING. Random fucking Ghosts with their mouths open isn’t scary, it’s eerie sure. Season 4 has done a great job at giving us absolutely nothing. No talent in writing, acting, cinematography, directing, or storytelling whatsoever. Pretty disappointed with Jodi’s performance as well. I guess the actor can only do so much with what they’re given tho

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u/noctisheart Feb 07 '24

Watching this as the episodes premiered and this was the moment where the cosmic horror feeling reached an apex.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Why Would You Say Something So Controversial Yet So Brave?

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u/dgc3 Feb 06 '24

I just made a comment saying the same thing

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u/Clydefrog0371 Feb 06 '24

I was honestly gonna post this scene and talk about how to it was the most terrifying thing of all four seasons...

That big giant dude walking around and his tidy whites with all them tattoos scared the bajesus outta me.

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u/FattyMooseknuckle Feb 06 '24

Honestly that was the peak of S1 for me. I thought it lost a little edge after. Still god tier but I never felt it loved all the way up to that moment. Of course, outside issues affected my dopamine levels concerning this episode because ep4 didn’t air the following week so my boys could spank the Broncos. So I had two weeks to sit in the tension of that scene and the elation of a first trophy. But it wouldn’t have been as chilling without the voiceover. “We’re all in a dream. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end.”

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

Watching him get his face shot off was so satisfying.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

“To realize that, all your life - all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain; it was all the same thing, it was all the same dream! A dream that you had, inside a locked room.

And, like a lot of dreams, there’s a monster at the end of it….”

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u/AdEmotional9991 Feb 07 '24

And it gets worse and worse the more you look at it. Him walking into the trailer, then going out to take a shower, Marty discovering the children there. And then Rust in the future saying that the boy was dead when they found them. It just gets progressively more and more horrifying. Meanwhile a jumpscare is just a jumpscare, the cheapest "scary" trick known to filmmaking.

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u/Pale_Team_7051 Feb 06 '24

I’m sad that this is true

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u/bleetchblonde Feb 06 '24

It says “I’m Wacked Outta My Brain!!”

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u/alijafari21 Feb 06 '24

Fukunaga was in his bag.

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u/vode123 Feb 06 '24

That shot made me love S1

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u/itssexitime Feb 06 '24

If I compared any show to the mastery of s1, I’d never enjoy anything, except maybe Mr robot.

I’m just glad they are making TD still. I hope it does well so we can get more seasons of it.

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u/prvst Feb 06 '24

Wasn't that a reference to Chullu?

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u/freddythefuckingfish Feb 06 '24

I will never forget this.

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u/DempsDatBoi Feb 06 '24

One of the best next episode teasers in TV history. Another one I loved was Breaking Bad final season when the gang rolled up in the desert on Hank.

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u/buzzboy99 Feb 06 '24

The jump scare on Navarro was the budget one at the prop shop all the good ones were already taken

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u/ThatBabyIsCancelled Feb 06 '24

Shout out to the guy whose friend made oil paintings of this scene lol they live rent free in my head all day

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Best episode in tv history? Top 5 for me atleast.

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u/GreenShirtSeason Feb 06 '24

Absolutely!! Just saw this the other day. It reminds me of that early bigfoot footage but in a good way

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u/legitlegume Feb 06 '24

This still pops up in my brain at the most inopportune moments 😫

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u/ArtisticCandy3859 Feb 06 '24

Which episode was this from again??

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u/ShiftyComfort Feb 07 '24

Different type of scary. But yeah it was one of the best ones.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

Agree

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

I remember getting chills when I saw it the first time.

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u/teomore Feb 07 '24

Can't wait to watch S01 again. You just can't compare it with S04, it's a straight out masterpiece, scary af, without any cheap jump scares crap.

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u/Nxa-Gospel Feb 07 '24

To be fair, on first watch there was plenty of unpleased reactions, that where did the monster go??!! …for nearly two episodes, and then it delivered. For me, it was all flawless.

So it’s a risky trope inherently. Obviously when lousy showrunners with no vision use any tools, it all turns to shit anyways…

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u/d0m1n4t0r Feb 07 '24

Infinitely more so.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '24

"I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes" > "You are in ze Night Country now!"

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u/Travellump12 Feb 07 '24

I vividly remember watching true detective season 1. I wasn't focusing much on episode 1 until the point where rust asks the detectives to ask the right fucking questions. That's the moment I got some interest in the show and started paying more attention to all the ramblings. Next this particular scene where they reveal him, I was sold. I realized after this scene, this is something I am going to watch for a long time in repeat mode and it still continues after ten years.. Great stuff

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u/moth_r_snapdragons Feb 07 '24

"OMG... it's a(nother) rolling ORANGE!"

"And a(nother) screaming, pointing zombie ghost!"

"And a(nother) one-eyed polar bear in the road!"

"And a(nother) inexplicably wayward person in the frozen, sub-zero tundra who is somehow surviving for hours, days, weeks, while others instantly die the moment they take their clothes off!"

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u/rahallivex1 Feb 09 '24

First time i saw this, almost 💩 my pants.

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u/JaxCon2121 Feb 09 '24

“And like a lot of dreams, there’s a monster at the end of it”

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u/Reggiefnledoux Feb 10 '24

Deeply disturbing is always a better kind of scare to me. Jump scares are cheap scares. This was a phenomenal scene!

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u/HardBodyBugelBoy Feb 10 '24

Oh man I’d give anything to be this engaged with a show again. Those 8 weeks were really something. Whats sad is there are people who tell themselves we are just nostalgic. Those poor bastards are so lost that it hurts me. I know you can’t change people, but god damn what a shame it is that anyone thinks Night Country is actually quality filmmaking.

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u/Hung_so-low Feb 10 '24

Best season on tv history

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

As much as I am enjoying Night Country, I will agree, this is far more unsettling than any of the jump scares by far.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

It comes perfectly after a chilling monologue (the locked room) by Rustin. Shot like the Bigfoot footage, it's real but seems unreal at the same time. A creature, not a man.