True Detective

[Sejjr]

Get on board. Tonight's episode was masterful.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

They can't make episodes fast enough. I'm digging it

 

[showhorn]

Agreed. Thrilling work.

 

[RoyalCrowns]

So deep and dark. Hard to believe we're now halfway through the initial series. Good stuff!

 

[DBut82]

Best show on television!!!

 

[beevomav]

and the message from last nights episode....Any idea from a biker gang leader is nearly always bad.

 

[Juan]

Nice article about shooting that last scene in the last episode

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-the-amazing-full-6-minute-tracking-shot-from-true-detective-20140211

If you like the show, you will like this piece

And ....

If you like the general topic of "Extended Takes" then have a look at this as well

http://www.geekweek.com/2010/01/20-greatest-extended-takes-in-movie-history.html

 

[Sirhornsalot]

The wife isn't digging it. She can't stand seeing McConnahey looking so thin.

 

[bwub60]

Beaumont representing itself well last night

 

[bbdude]

Beaumont representing itself well last night

Noticed the Beaumont Highway sign on last Sunday's episode.. Love the fact that McConaughey is promoting Texas in the show. Lone Star beer is everywhere.......

 

[bwub60]

Yep even through alittle Orange in there. Lol I was trying to figure out where they would put a redneck biker bar. I know one place that kinda looks it but its just not shady enough

 

[Conch Horn]

Glad to find something to fill the "Breaking Bad" void. Hell of a great show...and the final 10 minutes of the last episode was absolutely genius direction and camera work.

 

[Juan]

http://io9.com/the-one-literary-reference-you-must-know-to-appreciate-1523076497

The One Literary Reference You Must Know to Appreciate ​True Detective

Two episodes into the series, True Detective dropped a reference to one of the strangest, most compelling tales in the canon of weird fiction: Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories published in 1895. Knowing this book is key to understanding the dark mystery at the heart of this series.

This collection of stories has influenced writers from H.P. Lovecraft and Raymond Chandler, to Robert Heinlein, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman and George R. R. Martin. The King in Yellow and his legendary city of Carcosa may be the most famous character and setting you've never heard of.

In fact, the more of the show you watch, and the more carefully you pay attention, you'll find a number of Easter eggs aimed squarely at hardcore fans of the weird fiction genre. I'll touch on a few of the more prominent ones, but I have a feeling the rest of the series will be a bonanza for true detectives of strange fiction.

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

Stranger: Indeed?

Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.

Stranger: I wear no mask.

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

—The King in Yellow: Act I, Scene 2

The King in Yellow is a fictional play within a collection of short stories—a metafictional dramatic work that brings despair, depravity, and insanity to anyone who reads it or sees it performed. Chambers inserts only a few selected scenes from the play into his story collection, and all of them are from the first act. This act, we are told, is a bit of a honeypot, luring readers into the cursed text. If they read even the first few words of Act II they are driven insane by the revelation of horrible, decadent, incomprehensible truths about the universe.

Anyone familiar with Lovecraft's "cosmic horrors" should see the thematic similarity. For his unfortunate protagonists, the ultimate truths of the universe are too much for their overloaded minds to handle. It should not be surprising that Lovecraft incorporated Chambers's The King in Yellow into his overarching Cthulhu mythos, embellishing the elements of the story and adding the fictitious play to his growing bookshelf of equally fictional mythos tomes.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,

Where flap the tatters of the King,

Must die unheard in

Dim Carcosa.

—Cassilda's Song in The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene II

For many fans of weird fiction, the surprising appearance of this madness-inducing play into what ostensibly appeared to be just another police procedural was a bolt of lightning. Suddenly, the tone of the show changed completely, signaling the descent into a particular brand of horror rarely (if ever) seen on television. The first mention of the play comes in episode two when Rust Cohle, the cynical, nihilistic detective played by Matthew McConaughey, finds the journal of a young former prostitute, Dora Lange, who has been ritualistically murdered.

"I closed my eyes and saw the King in Yellow moving through the forest," Cohle reads aloud from her journal. "The King's children are marked. They became his angels."

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It continues.

 

[JimsTexas]

I am not one who will follow an episode but I did get hooked on "Friday Night" Light and now "True Detective" . I know it coming to an end just like Friday Night Lights did. I am trying to get into "Black Sails". My friends y'all have a great weekend.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Is this the 1st season and what channel?

 

[JimR]

Is this the 1st season and what channel?

HBO, maybe, which I do not have. i'll order the season from Amazon.

 

[streettopeschel]

The wife isn't digging it. She can't stand seeing McConnahey looking so thin.

better not let her see 'dallas buyer's club' then. good movie and he's good in it, but he looks like hell.

 

[HornNdriftwood]

Just went to Amazon to check out The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.

You can get the Kindle Edition for $0.00!

Had it downloaded to my IPad in under a minute for no charge.

 

[RoyalCrowns]

Is this the 1st season and what channel?

SF,

This is the first year for the series. The neat thing is each year will be an entirely different plot, complete with a new cast of characters. If this debut is any indication, this will become a cult classic. I got HBO specifically for the series. My wife strongly urged me. Something about that Matthew character.