True Detective Thread

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by strombad

In a way, I absolutely agree with what Duff is saying. They left it open, but more so in the sense of setting the series on a course. They didn't get them all but as Marty said, "We got ours."

That line for me really set the series. It's not going to be vast and far reaching, but it's about detectives getting 'theirs.' This story is over, Marty and Rust did their part, and now it moves on to the next detectives.

For me, I'm kind of curious what direction they go in. New York and the 'big city' feel seems pretty played out, the dirty south was done perfectly, so I'd like to see something done in the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, or somewhere like that. The environment played a really fantastic role.

As far as detectives go, I'd love to see a female detective. Might be a little fresh with the Killing having recently done that, but the Killing isn't even in the same playground as True Detective.

Maybe they do a Fargo/North Dakota/Minnestota type setting?

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Maybe they do a Fargo/North Dakota/Minnestota type setting?

except I just saw there is a Fargo series coming out with Billy Bob Thornton.

I like the area they are in, which is why I was hoping it would stay around there.

[strombad]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Maybe they do a Fargo/North Dakota/Minnestota type setting?

I'd really enjoy that. As Duff said, Fargo is already happening, but honestly I don't foresee those two shows being remotely similar, so I don't think a similar location would be of issue.

[Kybosh]

I'm sure this has been posted somewhere in here, but True Detective borrowed heavily from "The King in Yellow" story.

[Cheerio]

Couple thoughts:

Spoiler!

So I was thinking the Yellow King was the altar thing in the room where Errol attacked Rust because it had a yellow skull or something.

And I was thinking that Errol's wife or whatever she was, was a girl that he had kidnapped an abused based off the way she she acted. It was almost childlike. Anyone agree or disagree?

[Ped]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Couple thoughts:

Spoiler!

And I was thinking that Errol's wife or whatever she was, was a girl that he had kidnapped an abused based off the way she she acted. It was almost childlike. Anyone agree or disagree?

Spoiler!

One of the detectives said she was most likely his half sister.

[Montana Moe]

Slate published a season finale FAQ that answers a lot of the questions being raised. I found it useful, anyway.

Pizzolatto mentioned a premise for next season:

This is really early, but I’ll tell you (it’s about) hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.

I've read somewhere that it was going to be based in Southern California. Of course, seeing how they portrayed South Louisiana, I'm sure it won't be the stereotypical Southern California that non-residents think of. Perhaps closer to the Barstow/Indio areas?

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Ped

Spoiler!

One of the detectives said she was most likely his half sister.

As if that one scene of them in the chair wasn't disturbing enough on it's own.

[JeanLucPicard]

Originally Posted by strombad

They didn't get them all but as Marty said, "We got ours."

That line for me really set the series. It's not going to be vast and far reaching, but it's about detectives getting 'theirs.' This story is over, Marty and Rust did their part, and now it moves on to the next detectives.

I had not thought about it like this! That is really well said man!!

[JeanLucPicard]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Couple thoughts:

Spoiler!

So I was thinking the Yellow King was the altar thing in the room where Errol attacked Rust because it had a yellow skull or something.

And I was thinking that Errol's wife or whatever she was, was a girl that he had kidnapped an abused based off the way she she acted. It was almost childlike. Anyone agree or disagree?

I think the idea of yellow king was shown in two different ways:

1. Its the conceptual driving force of the cult whos members set up their own remote sanctuaries (ledoux's and Errol's "Carcosa") to do all the "sacrifices". It is as if they're inspired and connected by the idea of the yellow king and try to "serve" that mythical concept. They've a collective belief but conduct their "work" independently. This way the yellow king can't really be "Unmasked".

2. Cohle was obsessive with this case. Major reason for that is his pessimistic (or whatever you call it) world view. This case reinforced that world view. At the end, while chasing Errol, he is not just going in to kill him, but also entering to confront his beliefs - He is entering his Carcosa as the Yellow King. He is stabbed and as he is about to embrace death, ironically Eroll prevents that from happening by asking him to take of his "mask". Cohle I think took that line to mean different than waht Errol was saying - It was Cohle's chance to "unmask" and fight back to get rid of the yellow king inside him.

I hope my ramblings made sense

[Alberta_Beef]

Loved the show. I am not sure how season 2 can live up to this, nor how the new actors can live up to these performances.

They say season 2 is about the occult history of the US transportation system. I wonder where they could go with that. Involve the Illuminati?

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef

Loved the show. I am not sure how season 2 can live up to this, nor how the new actors can live up to these performances.

They say season 2 is about the occult history of the US transportation system. I wonder where they could go with that. Involve the Illuminati?

Maybe the mass murdering train hopping hobos. Apparently, there is a few of them.

[Alberta_Beef]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

Maybe the mass murdering train hopping hobos. Apparently, there is a few of them.

That would be pretty good, I could get behind a season like that.

I decided to google train murders and I found an interesting case that involves politics and everything. Maybe loosely base it on this?

http://www.salon.com/1999/08/18/libel/

Wild rumors have swirled through Arkansas for the past 12 years about the mysterious deaths of two teenagers, 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry, on the railroad tracks in rural Saline County in 1987.

Initially, the boys’ deaths were said to be due to a marijuana-induced sleep. Later, a grand jury overturned that finding, and out-of-state pathologists determined that the deaths were in fact homicides.

At that point, controversial film producer Patrick Matrisciana entered the scene. Matrisciana, from Hemet, Calif., is best-known for his 1994 conspiratorial “documentary” “The Clinton Chronicles,” a mail-order film that’s an underground bestseller on the Clinton-hating extreme right.

Matrisciana’s resulting 1996 film on the railroad mystery, “Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection,” alleged that the teenagers were killed after they accidentally witnessed a clandestine drug deal in which top state officials were involved.

The film asserted that the boys’ bodies were laid on the tracks so a train would run over them and destroy evidence. It further alleged that two veteran sheriff’s deputies, Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane, were the boys’ murderers, and that the crimes were covered up with the help of state and federal prosecutors and — naturally — then-Gov. Bill Clinton.

[Ark2]

Arkansas would be an awesome setting for the next season.

[darockwilder]

I missed not being able to see a new episode of this on Sunday followed by the discussion on Monday.

Great show!

[CofR]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...y-9196502.html

The hunt for a new pair of True Detectives is on after Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson confirmed they would not be back for season 2, with Brad Pitt being one of the names rumoured to be in the frame.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by CofR

The hunt for a new pair of True Detectives is on after Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson confirmed they would not be back for season 2, with Brad Pitt being one of the names rumoured to be in the frame.

I hope Morgan Freeman is the second detective

[Displaced Flames fan]

I'm assuming McConaughey and Harrelson will continue to produce the show.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I hope Morgan Freeman is the second detective

While they were a great combination in Seven I doubt they would do that to avoid the obvious comparisons.

[nik-]

Seven could probably actually be made into a pretty good 8 episode miniseries. An episode per murder and then wrap up.

Not saying that fits the format of True Detective though.