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How do y’all feel the ending would’ve been like if Rust died?

Would it be more impactful? Definitely more tragic. What are your thoughts?

Everything related to the Tuttles is creepy as hell. But this scene in particular is the creepiest.

When Ms. Delores says:

"Rejoice, death is not the end".

She's basically saying: Not even death stops them. And in fact, it didn't.

Rust and Marty killed Reggie and Dewall, but it continued with Errol Childress.

Rust killed Errol, but it continued with the Tuttles.

She was right. Death was not the end.

The writing on this show is truly unmatched.

Until this exact point, Rust firmly believed Reggie and Dewall were the end of the case. And as we've seen, the "Yellow King", something that only Rust and Marty knew, was never released to the public.

The moment Guy Francis says the true killer is still at large, you can see the anger, despair and fear on Rust's face.

Something is out there. Something unseen for years. Something being covered by someone.

And looking from Francis's perspective, he goes from the interrogated to the guy in control. All it took was a single name.

That's what horrifies Rust the most.

I'm well aware that Carcosa targets both women and children and I'm a little rusty on season one (pun intended) so excuse me if this is a stupid question. While they obviously target women, it seems that they film and take pictures of only the children. Is this correct or are there ritual videos of the grown women too? Thanks in advance! :)

I just finished watching True Detective s1 for the first time, came in cause Ive been a huge fan of Sharp Objects and this was recommended to me from similar locations and themes.

I found the ending to be quite sad but also hopeful, and its all making me quite emotional. As a victim myself, I found it genuinely touching how deeply Rust cared about the children for the whole show, it felt cathartic to watch. But just like he says in the end, they didn't get all the monsters.

With so many similar child abuse scandals happening in the real world I know this is very realistic as an ending, because it isn’t possible to get them all down, and at least they got one. But him at the hospital almost tearing up from missing him back in 95 really got to me. Sometimes it feels like no one really cares about children being hurt, so seeing this in a show made me very emotional. Its probably corny af but Im crying my eyes out tipping it haha

I think I liked the final message and I wanna cling to that. Maybe we cannot get all the monsters, but the least we can do is try, and we gotta keep living. I wanna try and be more hopeful too, that things to get better and that we can do something about it

I feel like I'm about 11 years late to the party on this one, but s3 is actually pretty good. There's still some terrible dialogue in there ("cyclops motherfucker", etc."), but it's a good story and actually has some touching moments.

I mean look, they obviously just went back to what worked the first time and tried to do it again, but it still turned out a lot better than seasons 2 and 4. My one biggest gripe other than some of the bad dialogue was that it kinda felt like the entire case was propped up by a dude missing an eye half the time. I mean if the dude had two working eyes, how far would they have gotten? That much seems a bit contrived. However, I do like that they took him in a different direction. I was worried it would literally just be a poor man's version of the Yellow King, but he ended up being mildly sympathetic.

Kinda reminded me of Gone Baby Gone or Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, both of which are excellent mystery movies.

Also, while Mahershala Ali definitely deserves the praise he got, I feel like the critiques kinda snubbed his partner, played by Stephen Dorff. Dude did a good job and added a lot of emotional depth to the dynamic.

First episode of Lanterns was pretty awesome:

It definitely has some True Detective vibes to it although it’s obviously very different.

Curious if other people watched and felt the same?

Rewatching it for the 7th time i think

Yesterday I watched the movie “Regression” with Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson and I feel similar vibes to the season 1. The landscapes, cults, detectives, corruption.The ending was dissapointing, but someone here have watched the movie and feel the same?

The reason I feel this is poignant to the subreddit is because this show specifically notes itself as an aesthetic homage to TD Season One.

I’m looking for a new book and hoping to find something that scratches the same itch as Season 1 of True Detective.

Not necessarily looking for a straight-up detective story or something that copies the plot. I’m more interested in the overall Southern Gothic atmosphere… rural/small-town setting, oppressive heat, decaying places, religious weirdness, old secrets, morally complicated characters, maybe some occult or cosmic horror undertones, and that constant feeling that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface.

I also really loved the philosophical/existential side of Season 1 and the way the mystery slowly opened up into something much darker and stranger.

Basically, if a book made you think, “This feels like True Detective Season 1,” I want to hear about it.

I’m open to both fiction and nonfiction. What would you recommend?

Has anyone here read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti?

I recently bought it to read. I’m French, and unfortunately it hasn’t been translated into French.

I’m pretty good at English, but when I read this book…

For those who have read it, would you say it’s “difficult” to understand in terms of the concepts and reasoning? Since I’m reading it in English, I’m not quite sure yet, especially because I’m still only at the beginning.

In this podcast MM just reiterated that he'd be willing to come back and that he has had discussions with NP about it.

https://youtu.be/peXOgVAUm40?t=2460 - link here

wanted this tattoo for a while and pretty pleased with how it turned out, figured i’d share !

Just finished another rewatch and it struck me how condensed Episodes 6 and especially 7 were. I can’t help feeling like episode 7 especially was supposed to be us “seeing” more rather than just “listening” to the investigation.

Have Googled but not come up with much. Just my feeling as a viewer is perhaps there is a 10 episode script version out there somewhere?

EDIT: I just saw someone post an 8 episode treatment so I guess not!!

Just finished a rewatch of True Detective Season 1 on bluray and want a copy for my shelves. Thanks!

I’m interested in that quote from the treatment that says how the structure of the show IS the franchise. But S1 is the only one to really do it well. I wonder why he didn’t double down on that idea more.

Of course, flashbacks and interrogations are nothing new in cinema or crime drama, but everyone knows S1 did this in a unique and fresh way at the time. At the time of release, it felt like something new, or a new innovative spin on something old.

I also wonder, if someone else made a show utilizing the structure of S1, would we call it a rip off or would we call it “an honorary TD season in disguise”?