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

i'm pushing the joke too far with that last sentence but i think it could be a fun thing to think about.

there's a well-known dutch (?) detective novelist whose character practices zen—can't remember the name at the moment.

tv's 'life' had a framed and unjustly imprisoned cop damian lewis who picked up self-help zen while in the joint and then compulsively broke into puzzled quasi-koans about the ordinary things people around him said while he was working cases. not sure that was methodically effective tho.

also philip kerr's 'a philosophical investigation', somehow.

Cohle: This place is like someone's memory of a town, and the memory's fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle.

Hart: Stop sayin' shit like that. It's unprofessional.

Cohle: Oh, is that what I'm going for here?

Hart: I just want you to stop saying odd shit, like you "smell a psychosphere," or you're "in someone's faded memory of a town," just stop.

Cohle: Given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account, Marty.

if this is writerly I'm fine with it

I'm guessing the occult angle is a misguided assumption a la WM3.

McCounohay holds his cigarette like a joint

― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:32 PM (54 minutes ago)

Yeah, this was distracting, the exaggerated drags on the cig and the way he held it. After a while I started looking for exhaled smoke and not seeing any -- often there were cuts away just as he would have been exhaling. Otherwise, I thought this was really good, looking forward to the rest.

there was a weird bit where he gets ash on the table and swipes it away before the other detectives turn around and see it.

I've been told I hold my cigarettes like a joint, been trying to work on that.

some ppl hold their cig like a dart, too: probably not in texas unless the guy is "weird".

the taxman takes notes, wonder how he "holds em all together" .he draws some of em so i assume conscision must be a part of his system . i'm having a bit too much fun with this, maybe. don't let me down, television!

when i saw antlers i thought: aw no, not again. hannibal got that covered already

the crime scene looked like tumblr art

throw together some antlers and naturey paganish symbols and stuff

Pinterest these pagan ritual twig pyramids

pagan iconography hack

Some spoilers in this but also some interesting speculation:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/12/true-detective-premiere/

… man possessed by ungovernable rage…

omg i love this

i wonder if it was set in the 90s just because pizzolatto wanted this retrospective structure, or because he actually wanted it then for some reason. at the very least, that puts it pre-internet, sorta pre-cell phone, pre-computerized crime investigation, which seems like a conspicuous difference from the norm now.

It seems evident that the duration of the case is important what with them arresting the wrong person.

I wonder if, since this show is following the anthology format, that every season is going to be a flashback of sorts to a different time or will a season (if it lasts that long) take place in current time.

“There could be a season that’s much more of a wide-spread conspiracy thriller, a season that’s a small town murder mystery, a season where nobody is murdered and it’s a master criminal versus a master detective,” Pizzolatto said. “Even the title True Detective is meant to be, of course, purposefully somewhat generic. There are deeper indications, the word true can also mean honorable….as long as there is some crime in there.”

It was not made clear if — like FX’s American Horror Story — the anthology would retain a few faces from season to season. For his part, Matthew McConaughey, who stars alongside Woody Harrelson, made clear that this season’s story was “contained,” but Pizzolatto was hesitant to agree with the actor when he claimed, “That’s it.” “We’ll talk later,” said Pizzolatto.

o thanks gukbe, that's good

this new trend of anthology series is pretty cool and a good way to get around the limitations of long-arc storytelling. like how long did prison break go on after they actually broke out of prison? or did they keep sending them back or something?

maybe they went back to break the others out

or life lost meaning on the outside so they started deliberately getting arrested so there would be more prison breaks

I was surprised by (and liked) the minimalism of T-Bone Burnett's score. Maybe I don't listen to the guy's work enough but, yeah.

already lobbying for the next one to be a LA noir.

What is Woody doing with his voice and/or jaw? He's almost got this lipful-of-Skoal underbite thing happening, which makes him sound grittier than he usually does.

Also: Starts in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 22 February at 9pm

Pizzoletti's novel Galveston is good, tough guy crime fiction if you're into that sort of thing

Superb opening episode, although the lasting influence of Fincher's Seven (which came out the year this was set(?) is surprising.

McConaughey and Harrelson make a great pairing though. Woody's reactions to his partner's "one last midnight" pessimist speech during the car drive were priceless.

i felt like them wearing fitted shirts and suits was just a way of not calling attention to the period setting too much...it's like the flipside of American Hustle

rust's suits are fitted, different from the other detectives, hart's seem less so - his suits are different from the other detectives but not nearly as much as rust's. suspect this is meant to indicate something about the characters though if there's anything like janie bryant level coding going on here i have no idea.

rmde at all of you - cool creepy halfway decent show comes on tv & all you want to talk about is maybe their suits were too tight

did I mistake this for I Love Tailoring

anyway i fucking love this & I am on board and ready for the antler weirdness #bringontheantlers

Yeah I'm super excited for tonight

i would say i'm definitely... interested... in seeing how the shirt thing plays out tonight

Script leaked... Big surprise reveal at the end...Harrelson breaks into McCoughnahay's apartment and finds some pleated khakis

*clutches pearls*

McConaughey and Harrelson make a great pairing though. Woody's reactions to his partner's "one last midnight" pessimist speech during the car drive were priceless.

biggest lol of first episode for me was "when you get to my house you're going to need to chill the fuck out"

"the car is now a place for silent reflection"

yeah they have awesome chemistry already

harrelson takes ep1 10-9 for his rendition in the dinner-table scene of a man struggling to keep his own face from exploding

i loved that so much

"you got some pussy on you"

Oh shit R.W. Chambers refs!! I am all over this shit now.

oh man mcconaughey's drunk reflective face

also, HIDTA vision gif, plz

ah! I fucking love this. goddamn it's so unsettling & weird, loving it so much

Those boobs will be remembered alongside Nick Sobotka's girlfriend.

so I think maybe they're trying to pin it on McConaughey or is that too obvious?

At the very end I started thinking about how mind-blowing tv/film is in that a giant crew of people built that burned out church, artfully placing the remaining roof boards and aging everything just so, just for a five minute scene.