TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - matthew mcconaughey, woody harrelson, michelle monaghan, fukunaga, pizzolatto

nah man I paused that scene on my tv, they're just hats, not hoods. you can see faces. the clothes don't look like cloaks even. it's fking weeeeeeird as shit.

and the little girl is just standing there in front of them eeeuuuuaaaggghhh so freaky

creepay

RIGHT?

I think that's why I already love this show so much -- i love creepy shit like that that keeps you awake at night. it's ~exciting~

well, ok so it's a sickness ymmv

well color me sick too haha

ya it def left me feeling a lil spooky

i think it was determined upthread that the picture showed people in mardi gras costumes.

ya makes sense

It's the way it's posed and even the echo of it in the barbies that's most creepy. I wonder if those hats have some sort of forgotten significance.

friend just pointed out that one of the detectives interviewing them is Brother Mouzone from The Wire, that had been driving me nuts I knew I knew that guy.

oh shit good call and the minister was det. lester freeman

I secretly think lester freeman is the guy they're after

aw not lester hes so good

there was some picture of the "yellow king" that kinda looked like him

Yeah remember they zoomed on the crucifix and it had twine tying it all together, I thought the same thing.

dang

he nailed cats to his own church thats weird

the twine kinda looked like the kind used in those tree brush sculptures

Pointy hat figures prominently in chambers' first King in Yellow story iirc

downloading the king in yellow.

I found them bringing in Clarke Peters for that "bit part" more than a little on the suspicious side.

I'm still getting over how the detective is irl Brother Mouzone

still not really convinced this isnt gonna be another creepy serial killer thing... i dunno. not quite onboard yet.

the big reveal at the end of ep 2 of... another picture of the antler thingies!!! left me cold

yeah I find serial killer stuff in general really boring too (I have a whole thread about it!) but hoping this continues to be more Twin Peaks than CSI

more like poo defective

-- ienjoyhotdogs

HBO bringing in part of their acting company doesn't mean much to me - if you're on one (popular) HBO show they'll find a way to keep throwing you work forever.

also, that is how casting works.

there were maybe more unknowns than usual on the wire, because baltimore/simon, but a lot of the working actors they used have been working all over the place since, not just on hbo

Probably filming Treme at the same time too

True, but he's the only one of the supposed randoms so far that I've recognized, which caused him to stick out.

Also Treme ruled and I hope you all watched it.

Still need to see the final season

It's basically one long denouement episode. Not spectacular, but satisfying for sure.

i recognized at least a handful, so i went trawling the imdb page, apparently at least five were on treme, another character was on veep (also hbo), michael harney (who has had a v. active character-part career—earliest run was as mike roberts early on nypd blue) spent a season on deadwood, one dude on boardwalk empire. so more in-house than i thought at first.

and not surprisingly, lots of southerners or people w/ southern parts on their resumes.

Still, having a one-scene guy be one of the leads from both The Wire and Treme is a little glaring. (Though of course the next few weeks may prove I'm an idiot.)

he cld just end up being a significant character

that would be the norm, casting-wise.

feeling in rather ok form and inspired, and that show comes along and it looks like some of the stuff that i am into are also in that show, maybe a bit of projection but not entirely; fictions that make themselves real, ryan nerdage seems upthread seems to indicate there could be more of this.

too drunk to read weird realism :lovecraft and philosophy. hope they talk about hyperstition

and that was my day to do so; just watched Voyage To The Planets half asleep by over heating

Still, having a one-scene guy be one of the leads from both The Wire and Treme is a little glaring. (Though of course the next few weeks may prove I'm an idiot.)

― Simon H., Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:03 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glaring... what? casting?

yeah, in a Chekhov's Guest Star kinda way. I'm probably just being thick though

this show seems pretty knowing about it's tropes so i remain hopeful it's not standard serial killer fare. fwiw those who've seen the first four eps say it gets weirder.

i think already with the layered narrative it seems like it's going somewhere else than you'd expect if you take the 95 plot by itself.

"I'm not interested in creating disgusting monsters or the most bizarre serial killer ever," Pizzolatto tells TVGuide.com. "My primary concern is always the humanism of the characters. Where the show gains its power for an audience, I think, is in things that aren't investigative at all. It's in two men talking to one another in a car. It's in a man coming over to another man's house for dinner and eating with his family. Those are the things that always interest me.

With the police procedural, I think there are a couple tropes there that audiences are incredibly familiar with. ... [I wanted] to use those things as sort of anchors of familiarity for the audience. Then you use that familiarity to gain their attention and trust and then subvert those conceits... through the characters themselves."

...dun DUN

fuck yeah bring it

final episode is a tired, auster-esque reveal in which a slow pan upwards from an aged typewriter reveals Pizzolatto, his face in sharp relief under an angle-poise lamp, slowly typing out the above confession, antlers bloodily meshed to his head

final shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweoMJS1DQ8