True Detective explores Haunted Houses in the daylight when the shadows look like home.
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The 1895 collection of supernatural stories revolved around a play that drove anyone who watched it insane.
Its too bad personal justice can only be meted out by those already afforded it, though.
By cops who can abuse their power with impunity.
A comic calm before the storm.
I like how the music sounds like the echo of Marty Hartes anger.
The blood in his ear.
Its not on any map of Louisiana, but there are markers everywhere.
Or is it the lives that are touched by the Tuttle schools?
The insanity that comes from watching the play.
That would suit the new detectives fine.
These company men want Rust.
They think he fits the profile and they are ready to exit the case.
It still looks to me like hes on the job, looking for the Dora Lange killers.
The guys at the precinct are looking at Cohle like hes lost in some paranoid conspiracy hell.
But youre only paranoid if theres no one on your ass.
Cohle has some serious people on his ass.
The more he finds big fish to fry the bigger the fire under his frying pan diving board.
Little hands grab at characters while they are trying to swim, dragging them down under murky waters.
Down to the realm of the Yellow King.
The deeper they sink, the higher up the ladder the clues go.
The more depraved the crime, the bigger the suspect.
Only a well-connected person could get away with such horrible things.
Everone in their wake is collateral damage.
No one will listen to the message.
Bury the message and it wont float to the surface.
Michael Potts as Det.
Maynard Gilbough and Tory Kittles as Det.
Thomas Papania play their roles straight.
These are cops who hate wading through mud to get a clear shot.
Jobs that are made impossible when you bring in a Satanic cabal that includes your superiors.
Thats how they think in the big easy.
Anything else would be too hard.
The idea of a larger conspiracy involving cops and politicians is too convoluted to bring to a courtroom.
This is the sort of thing that starts at home.
Maggie Harte (Michelle Monaghan) is a tough nut with a cracked shell.
Theres something unsettling about this scene and its not just because of the betrayal.
I could see Cohle resisting Maggies mesmerizing mojo on membrane theory rules alone.
Or just because getting laid is good for him.
Theres something else going on here besides sex and betrayal.
It brings up so much of the inner workings and the darker works at play.
It feels like Marty is being drawn into the wake of Cohles investigation.
The tendrils of evil pulling at every strand not yet tangled.
Even the major knows Harte is becoming a human tampon.
Didnt Martys father-in-law predict that when she was about eight?
Rust and Marty carry their kids in the wallet of their minds.
Marty realizes his kids are his salvation too late.
He tells her SIDS is an old word in her vocabulary and teaches her the new phrase Munchausen-by-Proxy.
Its an unforgivable sin to Rust.
Those kids are off limits, even if an early death might save them from the ravages of life.
When Rust tells Charmaine If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself, I gasped.
Did he really tell her that?
Isnt he letting her off too easily?
Hed probably do it himself if he could.
Looks like Rust has a new weapon in his interrogation arsenal.
Unless, he had something to do with the cellblock suicide.
Thats what they want us to think.
These company men know how to cover their tracks.
Everything is under the surface.
Tuttle is somewhere under the surface.
An alligator in muddy waters.
The new detectives are still watching out for that gator.
The company men are fitting Cohle and Harte with interchangeable masks.
Cohle tells Harte Without me there is no you.
I think they mean that theyre about to put on each others masks.
Masks made me wonder about the man with the scars.
A few episodes ago, some girls told Cohle about a giant with scars on his face.
That giant could be anyone if hes wearing the right mask.
The big men who are involved with this Yellow King are small men with long clutching fingers.
The face can be a mask.
After Kelly Rita shatters, McConaughey shows empathy, he is sorry he dropped her.
But there is also disappointment dripping from his corrosive soul.
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I cant always tell if these true detectives are sabotaging themselves or being brought down by outside forces.
True Detectiveshows that Louisiana is filled with conspiracies, large and small.
For Marty, Rusty and Maggie lies come easy and everybody sticks to their stories.
We can only conjecture as to the lies the new detectives are telling.
Neither Cohle nor Harte could get through an episode ofDumb Blonds in Cracker Country.
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Rating:
4.5 out of 5
