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Woody closes his mouth and shakes his head. Lmao!

"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." Lucky 666,666 views.

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Couldn't get Marty's line before rust chokes him there.

I don't recall the context of the quote, but because a lot of people will simply read that quote whether they recall it or not, I'll address it within those terms. Straight and simple: there's things more important than having a good time, namely not giving anyone a really really hard time if they did nothing to hurt or degrade anyone else. Putting pleasure over suffering prevention is one of the prime source codes of the bad things in this world.

ButtermilkTuesdays McConaughey gave one of the best performances I've ever seen in my life in this series.

It is actually nietzsche lol. Not sure verbatim but it’s pretty much describing nietzche’s ideaologies.

@@rickcolesanchez2668 pretty sure he never believed that things are repeated, he just stated that one should live like things will be repeated.

@@thewanderingjew8233 thats an interpretation, he obviously said such things straightforward

@@thewanderingjew8233 You are correct. Nietzsche called this concept The Eternal Recurrence of Time was never supposed to be taken literally. He was just saying that you should live life as though it repeats itself over and over for eternity. He was simply saying take a shot at the things you're interested in instead of letting fear dissuade you or regrets haunting you for not taking those chances. It's basically a much better form of YOLO.

B tac Nic Pizzolatto wrote the entire season and is writing season 2 as well. So he takes all the credit for the writing.

***** nothing wrong with knowing you're the shit every once in a while :P

Dude! Episode 6 took the cake for me.

***** You'll resent him a lot more if you read "The Conspiracy against the Human Race" by Thomas Ligotti, a lot of Rust's philosophy was Inspired by that book, to say the least

B tac The writers this season HAD to be different.

Right on brother.

the writing was impeccable, the character was 4 dimensional... like you felt his soul.

Really loved the way the show FELT like it could be very supernatural even though it never goes there. I feel like thats something that the next 2 seasons really tried too match, and failed miserably at

That show was shot on film rather than the typical digital memory that's used, the director Cary Fukunaga purposefully chose film instead of digital. I believe this had a lot to do with creating the aesthetic the show runners were looking for, in creating a modern day "neo-noir" crime thriller. I certainly agree tho, the 1st season when watching it has this aura about it that it so unique to itself, it's seriously magical!

Great description

Jus Me Me too. Although I liked the second season I think they raised the bar so high that there is just no comparison.

Totally agree. I was so sad when I found out they wouldn't be in the second season. However, it may have been for the best. There's no way to to top the first season therefore a second season would have inevitably been disappointing. They are forever immortalized in this perfect season.

Me too, I get what they're trying to do with an anthology series but think of all the cool adventures these two have been on that we could've seen! Pure gold!

SAY IT LOUDER

Bryce Thibodeaux bruh what do u know

He went up against cranston

***** my bad i must have been thinking of the Emmys

+EivindEid and fargo was a true story. and true stories always seem to get extra marks for some reason. mcconaughey was only a true detective

+Dave Birney Fargo was not based on a true story, it just says it during the title screen to emulate the opening of the movie of the same name, which the series is inspired by

+dave birney none of the fargo crimes were true stories. Thornton was still good though imo.

i loved those few comedic moments sprinkled among all the nihilism and debauchery

Ha! LOL! I loved that one, too! Such a great show!

"You are like Michael Jordan of being a son of a bitch!"

No shit...that was GOLD

Me too

Best line in the show

Yeah I was talking to a friend about that scene and he felt that the last line wasn't consistent with Rusts pessimistic philosophy, but in my view, he doesn't mean that the light is going to "win" but that there's still some light, some reason for hope, to keep going, even if it's ultimately meaningless.

@@bcaprari no, the point was he was abandoning his pessimism

Thank you. I could not quite make out what he said. Yes, that is a perfect arch to his character’s understanding.

It also shows how a near death experience can pretty much change your entire perspective on life in the blink of an eye. If someone told the "pre-near death experience" Rust the exact same thing he just told Marty then he would probably describe it as a normal reaction that naturally comes when people have near death experiences. @@bcaprari

Lmfao! Beautiful

Yes but even Cole isn't meant to be infallible in the story. As the story goes on the writer displays how (individually and society) the absence of a moral compass causes an endless cycle of depravity and pleasure. So he is also seeming to say, like Nietzche, that although we may not be able to embrace religion as we once did, the absence of it is fatal.

The best burn of religious people I’ve ever heard

I’ve used that line a couple times.

That was funny..!

Lol it's a hilarious line but let's not pretend religious people can't be brilliant, Isaac Newton tried to decipher the Bible with mathematics

Gold!

It was more like a "why does everything he says sound ominous and spooky as sh*t?" face

chendaddy True. Harrelson would get perplexed, then annoyed, then indignant when he himself was criticized, but he also managed to challenge Rusty at times. When you get right down to it, both characters were jousting with one another, trying to knock each other down...but their rivalry made them stronger.

***** "Well, given how long it's taken me to reconcile my nature, I doubt I'd change on your behalf."

chendaddy "That last part? Pure gibberish."

Well said! they were magic together

They both completed each other if there were no woody rusts words would nor be that impressive

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Writer. Not writers. That guy is awesome. Big ups too to Cary Fukugana

Haunting words given the state of cops and some PDs today.

lol, if this were released today, a large group of people might boycotted it.

Thawed Antarctican Not really. It’s not true. Cops are practically crucified for every wrong thing they do.

@@MandenTV You seriously think there are no wrong doing by the cops these days?

David Huang I never said that nor did I imply it.

And no doubt the world's worse off for it.

Actually those incapable of feeling guilt are more numb because they are narcissistic and entitled and would rather always be right than happy.

sociopaths, mebbe?

Describes modern women to a tee

Serial killers?

Some bad men are still learning to be good. Some are wrong about themselves. The majority are just assholes. Trick is to keep your ruthless side in check until there is a clear and present reason to let the Devil out to play i.e. if you see a man harming a little child, feel free to loosen the restrained on the sadistic beast you keep chained and starved in your soul. Or if you fancy yourself capable of destroying another mentally ala Hannibal Lecter. We all have evil, use it only to harm worse evils but never the good, the innocent, or the undeserving.

Reminds me of “I am the tyranny of evil men” from Pulp Fiction

Agreed

Couldn't agree more

The quick newspaper cameo of the two of them in season 3 made me feel conflicted. I didn't know whether I was excited at the prospect they were actually going to show up at some point or annoyed at it. I think they made the right choice by not doing it. Who knows though maybe it will happen in the upcoming season 4 starring Jodie Foster.

An assumption that is the only thing that would be keeping a religious person decent is expectation of divine reward although a good line is a stupid thought. That is not what Christianity is about. We are not good people because we expect to go to heaven, we are not good people at all but through a relationship with God we can become better people, not perfect but better. The quote knocks down a straw man.

@@bjsauerbrei6632 That's exactly what Christianity about, it's the carrot and the stick. It's God threatening us into obedience and rewarding said obedience.

@@wugglebee9522 that is NOT Christianity. Our heart is changed through the Holy Spirit. We don’t do things for reward. God isn’t a genie granting us wishing when we are good. We are far from perfect and we try and do the right thing to make God happy, not because he will give us anything but because he deserves it. But where sin abounds grace abounds even more.

@@bjsauerbrei6632 If our heart is changed by the Holy Spirit, doesn't that violate free will? Further, how does God deserve our love if he threatens and hurts us.

​@@wugglebee9522 now wait a minute, so what if Christianity is a carrot and a stick? Some form of "a carrot and a stick" is a necessity in any normal functioning society and it's not exclusive to Christianity or religion nor is it a bad thing. The other person is sincere enough to bare it all, but you don't even say what you believe in? Every time the other person says something, you just keep pulling all this philosophical douchebaggery out of your ass for the sake of endless arguing. If you're so keen on shitting on another person's belief, at the very least state what you believe in, and let other people see if it's any better. What do you believe in, huh?

I know this is an old comment but that’s actually a line from William S Burroughs “Ah Puch Is Here”

Woody Harrelson is so funny in this role, AdoreYouInAshXl.

I dont think ive been clear with you rust, if you were drowning.... i'd throw you a fuckin barbell

Hahaha. Class. Me also

"somebody once told me time is a flat circle .."

😂😂😂😂

I watch atleast once every year

It's the greatest television script in history

oh yeah for sure he’s just such a realist he doesn’t care what people think and will say it how it is no matter what

Wow, considering all the dark shit he kept saying, that last line really made me emotional

@@cleopatrasrevenge I thought Marty said that

Well, you ain't so great outside of parties either.

Don't forget the music...it set the tone perfectly

@@jefflockaby702 true G code, it does!

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Which is instantly recognized and acknowledged by Marty's chuckle.

Fuck, me too. And one day I delivered it just like this in a conversation with my mother and she just stared at me and said " Stop saying that you ain't crazy that much" ... I guess some people don't even want to think about it

@@r-t-z3886haha I had the exact same conversation with my mother and repeated this line and her response was the same. You’re right, some people just don’t want to think about this stuff.

Which isn't really true, considering evolution on the whole involves a species evolving so that it survives and propagates. And humanity is now the dominant species because of consciousness.

​@@LordVader1094You're describing the properties of hardware, not consciousness And even if you were talking about the human mind, the pairing feature that seeks out homeopathy wouldn't be able to replicate itself readily because the female doesn't bear the same network as the male We call this chatter. Two similar reverberations echoing the same sentiment. Nature itself understands this because two objects cannot occupy the same space. It doesn't need the same conscience but many different ones. My point is that when you try to pair along those lines you CANNOT replicate it Animals can propagate all day long and have similar resembles without ever having conception of the self. But they are also prone to disease and conditions that end up mowing down large numbers in one swipe Consciousness wasn't derived from registering those features over time and permutation. They were _instilled_ in us. This is why Rusty's attempt to marginalize things is bogus When you observe our proportions, profile, and imposition, there is clear evidence of intelligent design. A whale has a neo cortex and a nervous system. But it cannot reason. This is because we were made to reflect the way of the universe, like a lighthouse beacon. All of that mystery and intrigue placed into the mind I've heard it said that "God took from the soil and never went back" meaning that every human being that is, was, and ever will be was composed of the same material in one vessel. Then, by way of reflection (that symbolism again) and exploration, we cultivated the land, sowing seed and consuming what is also here in order to reproduce We came from A conscience then spread out to be mindful in multiple locations. Our job was simple: subdue the earth. We are supposed to be lighthouses in various locations to be examples to the creatures (and ourselves) what God wants to see reflected here I guess the prospect is difficult for evolutionists to grasp because intellectuals have to spend time finding a publicist. Everything that is here to write about has already been here, nobody can replicate things precisely as they were

Read the Conspiracy Against the Human Race. That's him.

My favorite quote.

Not really. Lol Life, on the whole, isn't that black and white.

@@LordVader1094it’s about religion and the promise of a good afterlife if you behave

Thought provoking statement, for sure.

he's not a nihilist, he's a disappointed idealist

No he's a "realist"

Like all disappointed idealists.

yeah, you really come to appreciate his ability here in this show.

That was me before he did interstellar

Now watch Channing Tatum in Fox Catcher

If you liked this, check out the movie Killer Joe by William Friedkin. Absolutely amazing acting on Matthew's part there.

Frailty changed my mind about my romance-fodder Matthew. THAT is an awesome film. True Detective Season 1 confirmed how misconstrued my opinion truly was!

Top 1.. who else

Number one

this was a b proj. canceled. more doctor shows about drama and floating OBDs (afterlife conservative agendas) on tv, parmedics etc... not saying accidents are cool, but things are just too buissy around cities (rust is progressive skeptic obiously)

@@jordancrago5129 Just because Rust is an interesting character doesn't make your nihilism any less gay and pretentious. There are ways to fix every problem with the world. Opting out is just giving up. Grow the fuck up and do something instead of wallowing in self pity on your high horse. His newfound hope at the end of the series is what made the journey actually mean something.

@@AlphonseSwedgen So many presumptions in this comment. The first is that nihilism is pretentious. The second is that there's always cause for hope. The third is that the only response to nihilism is resignation. As to the first, nihilism seems to me a perfectly reasonable response to a world which ought to be so, so much better, but isn't and can't be. As to the second, your comment that everything can be fixed is laughable.. You really think there's a fix for suffering? For death? For betrayal? For evil? For our unfulfillable desires for divine meaning, constant happiness, justice, and immortality? Come on, it's you that should grow up. As to the third, you should read more. Albert Camus is a perfect example of someone who is a pessimist, but whose response to pessimism is not to resign from the world but to embrace it, despite how dark it is. He famously said, “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” In fact, yes, this has made me realise that Rust's "the light is winning" comment is not him abandoning his pessimistic worldview, but rather him adopting a more healthy response to his pessimism. That's why I deleted my original comment, I'm happy to admit I was wrong.

@@jordancrago5129 You deleted your original comment because it made you look like a wannabe edgelord teenager, don't bullshit me. You choose a pessimistic outlook, yet Christians - really, people of all religions - see life as a test. That's where faith gets people through it all. Maybe you see that as deluded wishful thinking. I don't care. The point is, apart from the reality of death, there are ways to minimize other forms of suffering. World hunger? Either find a way to feed them, or let more people die off until it's at a sustainable level that matches our output. Either way, it's a fix. Multicultural societal tension? Either forcibly remove foreign elements and let people follow their collective rights of self determination, or let tensions brew until civil war breaks out and forces a necessary change. No matter what struggles there are in life, time and nature will correct the imbalances. I agree that people need to be able to reconcile their place in the world. Being hopeful doesn't mean wearing horse blinders.

@@AlphonseSwedgen Hahaha, you know what, you're right -- I was in a bad mood that day, and the comment was a little cringy. Happy to admit I'm wrong a second time. But I don't see it so much as choosing a pessimistic worldview as realising how horrible the world and life in it really is. David Benatar, who's a South African philosopher, does a wonderful job of explaining how we have psychological mechanisms in place that blind us to how bad our overall quality of life really is. Now, I take your point that the perfect answer to pessimism is Christianity. If true, Christianity would provide solutions to everything that makes our world so awful. The only problem is, it's almost certainly untrue. And in any case, what kind of God would purposefully put people through the misery of existence merely to test them? That's sick, and the problem of evil is the biggest problem with Christianity -- If God is good, why is the world so awful? And I don't just mean the evil that humans choose to do to each other (which is unbelievably massive if you look up the stats). I'm also talking about natural evil: illness, natural disasters, plagues, accidents, etc. And also animal suffering: wild animals live absolutely appalling lives on a truly astonishing scale. How can a religion based on the premise of a good God be reconciled to the bleakness of the world in which we live? I say it can't be.

@@jordancrago5129 I have a theory about that Jordan. A God that can only create good, cannot create anything at all. That’s only expansion and no contraction. The very existence of Good directly implies the existence of its absence, so one cannot exist without the other. Look at all the good people do when disasters happen, to quote Mr Rogers, “look for the helpers” they’re doing Gods work. Evil exists so that we might do good in the face of it. If you don’t have a choice between good and evil, it is impossible to do good. The capacity to do evil, and then choose instead to do good is what makes good. In capability to do evil is no virtue, it’s the conscious decision not to that is.

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郷原惇耶 Way to prove a point! lol

@@user-rh2wy1dv2n Dammit! You beat me!

The writers are really good at plagiarizing Ligotti

***** Seven was a long time before Ledgers Joker though

Hua Mulan Sorry but as good as Heath Ledger portrayed the Joker for what he was, he wasn't anywhere near the complexity and human emotion, reaction, logic and reason mixed with human error and flaw that Rust Cohle was.

AdoreYouInAshXI I won't contest you on that.

AdoreYouInAshXI Yes he was, he exposes humanity for what it truly is. Heath Ledgers Joker is one of the best characters of all time, I love Matthew But he cant touch that performance

+Hua Mulan if you think Health Ledgers Joker spoke truth, you are disturbed. Maybe consider being more happy.

I stop after S1

@@thomaseriksson6256 if you liked S1 then s3 is well worth a watch.

@@oliverjames7315 I'm not Intrested in S3. I cannot connect to that serie

@@oliverjames7315 No it's not it's rubbish lol

***** It's not only how much you can relate to the characters. I think Rust is an absolutely fascinating and deep character because of the contrast he embodies. On the one hand, he is the "pessimist", the one who sees no point in life, but on the other hand he in fact works extremely hard and committed towards a meaningful existence. What is "important" to him often means something positive for a greater context. Also he has dignity. He embraces his humanness as much as he despises it. I think it is phenomenal how believable McConaughey portrays him.

they are two parts of the same coin. but yeah. woody, that is also awesome in this role and does an awesome job, gets somehow lost and doesn't get enough attention for his play and also his character.

I totally agree. They are both fantastic characters, and perfect companions to each other. But I do think Marty is objectively much more complicated as a character. Rust knows EXACTLY who he is; he is so sure of how the world works*, and how he views it...but Marty is just in constant denial about who he is and what he is doing and either can't or doesn't want to relate to Rust's version. What I find really interesting is that Marty's sense of social justice is really genuine; he obviously really cares about what happens to victims, and it makes him angry enough that he will just straight-up execute someone where they stand for what they've done BUT, at the same time, he is just so able to compartmentalise his infidelity and harm the ones he loves/that are closest to him. I find that quite realistic and really sad. * (at least, right up until his sort-of epiphany in the last episode)

I agree, Peter. It's Marty that actually makes the show work. Rust's character is this infinitely cynical and remorselessly materialist dark character. Without Marty, he'd get nothing done. Marty's machismo and good old boy back slapping while he covers up his moral struggles to be a good man in spite of his moral weakness -- is the best part of the show. If the show was just Rust's crazy dark ramblings, it would be unwatchably bad.

I agree. Woody's character is just a troubled as Matt's. The beauty of the show, in my opinion, is that in the end, they saw that in each other. For me, the most telling part of their friendship was how each stuck to the story of the shoot out. They could have opted to say the other was lying. They didn't. It was a great season. Happy Holidays!

That money went to charity.

No.

@@wryguy444 yes

Sorry, I thought you said the best. 'one of the best' yes.

@@randywhite3947 Sorry, I thought he said the best. 'one of the best' yes.

can u see how realist is beeing sold as pesimist now, can somebody else see the backwards logic, where the "opressor systems guidance" is the optimist ? , in a realistic ways, food clothes shelter etc...are still the standar and will allways be realistic measures.

I mean, when you're comparing something to some of the greatest content ever put on television, it's gonna be disappointing. I feel like season 2 was just a victim of Season 1's success, and people expected the exact same thing, but to me...the reason the show is so good is because of the beats of the story, the complexity of the characters, the mystery. Season 2 has all the same trappings as season 1, really. I liked season 2 and didn't understand all the hate towards it.

@@masterninja9716 fuck off, season 2 is a masterpiece and explores and describes perfectly politic corruption in all its levels

Woah 7 years ago lol. But anyway, Pizzolatto spent more than a decade writing the screenplay.

@@IloveGorgeousGeorgeVince Vaughn cant do a serious role. Hes a comedic actor only. That ruined season 2

I always had the theory the guy the kill in the end was not the Yellow King....he is above and beyond.....just a whisper in the wind....some urban legend shit.

yes it is somewhat relatable to the idea that the universe experiences itself as a human to simply exist as a human

I still think McCaughey was a bit better in his performance

Every cop show has them hate each other and then become reluctant friends. This is exactly that. This subverted a lot of tropes but not that one.

>if you meet a kind atheist you can be sure they’re a good person I hate to break this to you, but people have motives beyond religion that have nothing to do with your welfare.

Regular-type dude with a big-ass dick.

He's all swagger. Women like swagger.

Because it's a TV show.

@@steelhere5519 Don't try to be like, me nobody likes me in real life. Only in TV shows

The role of Woody was intented to MM in the first place he wanted to play Rust and sugested Woody beacause friends

I just rewatched it over 3 days the week before season 3 aired and I haven't seen season 1 since it originally aired. It really is as good as I remember...better honestly, because I'm older and can understand the themes a little more.

I'm doing that with Breaking Bad😂

I've watched season 1 like 15 times lol.

You could try and stick something long and sharp up your nose in the hope it will make you forget

@@austincurry9861 Same, and I've watched the clips on youtube thousands of times, now I'm watching reaction videos.......excellent

I've always like his character in Reign of Fire lol