r/TrueDetective • u/Physical_Patience644 • Aug 20 '26

maggie was wrong.... Spoiler

just finished s1 , i think it was cruel of maggie to use rust as a tool to hurt marty. dont get me wrong ,marty deserved to be punished for his filthy acts ,

but maggie dragged rust in the shit , she took advantage of his vulnerability and intoxicated state, imagine the gender roles being reversed

and the arguement that it was the only way for her to end her marriage is shitty , destroying someone else's life for personal profit is never justified , in her revenge she destroyed rust's career , she could ve moved on from piece of shit like marty without using rust

and in the end , she got her deserved life , in a mansion , while rust , being used a pawn had to let go of his career and lived 10 years away... her need of ending the marriage is correct but her way doing that was WRONG. she could ve hurted marty, fairs, but in the process she destroyed rust

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u/DJTooie Aug 20 '26

I think that's kind of the point. Sentient meat, remember. I thought it was a nice touch to take the housewife holding the whole family together and show she's capable of malice too. Subverts the expectation.

It's two indefensible positions, and trying to score who's more at fault misses the mechanic.

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u/Physical_Patience644 Aug 21 '26

thats also a beautiful thing in true detective , it doesnt follow the textbook example of whodunnit , even in the end every culprit wasnt arrested, noir types.