Also: Starts in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 22 February at 9pm
― Walter Galt, Friday, 17 January 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
Pizzoletti's novel Galveston is good, tough guy crime fiction if you're into that sort of thing
― calstars, Friday, 17 January 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― slam dunk, Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
anyway i fucking love this & I am on board and ready for the antler weirdness #bringontheantlers
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'm super excited for tonight
― Ronnie James 乒乓 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
i would say i'm definitely... interested... in seeing how the shirt thing plays out tonight
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Script leaked... Big surprise reveal at the end...Harrelson breaks into McCoughnahay's apartment and finds some pleated khakis
― Ronnie James 乒乓 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 January 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
*clutches pearls*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
biggest lol of first episode for me was "when you get to my house you're going to need to chill the fuck out"
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 19 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
"the car is now a place for silent reflection"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah they have awesome chemistry already
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
harrelson takes ep1 10-9 for his rendition in the dinner-table scene of a man struggling to keep his own face from exploding
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
i loved that so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
"you got some pussy on you"
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 20 January 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit R.W. Chambers refs!! I am all over this shit now.
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 January 2014 04:37 (ten years ago) link
oh man mcconaughey's drunk reflective face
― j., Monday, 20 January 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
also, HIDTA vision gif, plz
― j., Monday, 20 January 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link
ah! I fucking love this. goddamn it's so unsettling & weird, loving it so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 January 2014 06:22 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 20 January 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
I will be disappointed if in the end, McConaughey's character did it in a Keyser Soze-type situation. Ugh.
― Murgatroid, Monday, 20 January 2014 06:41 (ten years ago) link
yea i dont think theyll do that
― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 January 2014 06:49 (ten years ago) link
This is getting way more Twin Peaks than I thought it was going to be
― Ronnie James 乒乓 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 January 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Monday, 20 January 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
signs in teh sky
― j., Monday, 20 January 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Sent there to investigate Harrelson's character?
― Murgatroid, Monday, 20 January 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
I dunno maybe, stuff like the redacted files and the others calling him a "fed" and the like. I'm reaching obviously.
― ryan, Monday, 20 January 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
though I won't be disappointed if it turns out he's been sent to receive the secret truth of the universe.
― ryan, Monday, 20 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Def some Twin Peaks parallels, mac v anti-Cooper
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 January 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
really could do with more Marky Mark and The Funkybunch imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
yes what's keeping this show from greatness is lack of lollapalooza refs
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:27 (ten years ago) link
xpost otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
Ok people! But it does fail to create a sense of 20 years ago, it absolutely fails for me but w/e.
― xelab, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
I haven't been to those Louisiana areas but rural Texas, if you ignore the cars, still looks like 1974.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
what are they supposed to do play more candlebox
― j., Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link
Woody and Matthew dance to lovefool, make eyes through big aquarium
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:45 (ten years ago) link
look all I'm saying is that if they were jamming to walkmans and wearing reebok pumps, it would be much cooler
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
psst: it's all joeks xelab :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
So far they've used the black angels and 13th floor elevators, holding out hope for butthole surfers in the next episode
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
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' ;)
― balls, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
Or zz top's I got to get paidxp
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
is that winky because there are more boobs
or wait, 90s boobs somehow
― j., Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
90s boobs
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Gingrich-Dole.jpg
amirite
― balls, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
lol apparently iamnotrite
anyhow long story short i've seen the rest of the season and
SPOILER
oj is the killer
i am already craving a new episode gahhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link