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

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.

I will be disappointed if in the end, McConaughey's character did it in a Keyser Soze-type situation. Ugh.

yea i dont think theyll do that

This is getting way more Twin Peaks than I thought it was going to be

there's obviously another shoe to drop with Rust. My guess is that he's not a straightforward detective but maybe even on another kind of undercover assignment. So many signs seem like he was sent there for a purpose.

signs in teh sky

Sent there to investigate Harrelson's character?

I dunno maybe, stuff like the redacted files and the others calling him a "fed" and the like. I'm reaching obviously.

though I won't be disappointed if it turns out he's been sent to receive the secret truth of the universe.

Def some Twin Peaks parallels, mac v anti-Cooper

The 90's period design on this show is very lax in comparison to the studied era evocation of Mad Men/Boardwalk Empire, but I still like it very much so far.

really could do with more Marky Mark and The Funkybunch imo

I think that if it took place in a more urban area, then you'd get more period design but since a lot of it takes place in rural Louisiana, it feels more out of time and whatnot.

yes what's keeping this show from greatness is lack of lollapalooza refs

xpost otm

Ok people! But it does fail to create a sense of 20 years ago, it absolutely fails for me but w/e.

I haven't been to those Louisiana areas but rural Texas, if you ignore the cars, still looks like 1974.

what are they supposed to do play more candlebox

Woody and Matthew dance to lovefool, make eyes through big aquarium

look all I'm saying is that if they were jamming to walkmans and wearing reebok pumps, it would be much cooler

psst: it's all joeks xelab :)

So far they've used the black angels and 13th floor elevators, holding out hope for butthole surfers in the next episode

next week's episode has already leaked, i think xelab will find his concerns have been addressed, let's just say this show really 'sells the drama' ;)

Or zz top's I got to get paid
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is that winky because there are more boobs

or wait, 90s boobs somehow

90s boobs

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Gingrich-Dole.jpg

amirite

lol apparently iamnotrite