This first season was an absolute masterpiece. It knocked me out.

For me, in my opinion, the best McConaughey performance.

Deep inside every pessimist is a dissapointed optimist.

"You'll do this again. Time is a flat circle." He says, as I watch this season for the 4th time.

This is what you get when you set the honesty level to 100 percent.

I love the fact that he drinks during his interview and it makes everything he says inadmissible in court😂

The most disturbing part is he actually has a point.....

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know- Ernest Hemingway

"Surely this is all for me... me, me, me, I, I, I... I'm so fuckin' important... I'm so fuckin' important, right?... Fuck you!" Favorite part. :)

Generally, this much introspection can disable a person from his normal functions. Life requires being numb to the truth to operate. Being this sober about life is debilitating.

The darker your perspective is; the more likely it's tied to a deep yearning for happiness and prosperity that was shattered by a series of deep trauma.

I believe that this has been Matthew's best performance to date. I'm glad he decided to stop the romcoms temporarily, because he is a remarkable actor.

never watch this on a Monday morning right before going into your daily routine!

"I lack the constitution for suicide"

When Cohle says about how you think moving to a new city and thinking you'll meet all these incredible people and be fulfilled resonates so much. I find myself thinking that sometimes, sell myself a story that must be true. God damn, the writing in the first series is just breathtaking

You will come here to listen this again and again and again and forever.

Personal opinions aside, I think It's really great that a mainstream tv-show is presenting us with this kind of thought-process. Would never have happened just 10 years ago.

Season 1 was a work of art. Never to be repeated.

True Detective season one is the best single season of television ever created, in my opinion. The acting, cast, and scrpit all perfectly crafted. The cinematography, too. Pure genius through and through. Rust is one of my favorite characters ever written. No show ever made me think so deeply about the human condition and life.

God, these quotes hit harder and harder every year I get older. Wow phenomenal writing and phenomenal acting.

He swallowed the whole bottle of red pills

"The real answer is that it's obviously my programming...and I lack the constitution for suicide" hilarious, lmao

One of THE absolute greatest acting performances of all time. This character would have gotten boring if not for Matthew's spectacular performance, subtlety, complexity and depth as an actor. The way he talks, moves, everything is so well delivered without over doing it that I believe every single word he says. He captivates and captures the inner turmoil and nihilism so perfectly, he feels it, believes in it and then says shit. It's to the point that I can never ever imagine anyone else in this role EVER. The delivery with that pitch perfect incredible voice with such charisma, depth and inflictions is just honestly commendable. The fact that we still long for more seasons with these guys also proved how often less is more. Just 8 episodes of collective 8 hours approximately. I take it as a movie or mini series. Like one of the greatest movies of all time!!!

the way rust explains time outside of this dimension is exactly what happens in interstellar. crazy.

Life got pretty rough after TARS broke down

"I don't wanna know anything anymore" - Perfectly sums up my life

Honestly, I get a certain peace when I listen to Rust, because it resonates within me of lessons I've learned the hard way in life. Shit is not pretty; it's actually very fucked-up, but there is a certain lonesome "peace" to that, in the sense that you've finally figured out this world and your own solitude is what you truly can rely on. It's a hard peace, but strangely a comforting one: no need to believe in the world anymore, no need to hope, just go on with your hard wisdom enjoying a cup of tea, the stars at night and a bubbling stream nearby.

Death created time, to grow everything that it would kill. Love that line.

Some say if you scratch a cynic you will find a broken idealist. ~George Carlin.

I imagine him driving a Lincoln saying all of this

"All your life, all your memories all your love all your hate, it was all the same thing. it was all the same dream. a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream of being.. A person"

When I'm having a bad day, I listen to this and then I feel better.

"Well that sounds, god fucking awful Rust." i died! 0:25

True detective season 1 will change the way you look at life

McConaughey said himself in his book: I didnt watch it before anyone else. i watched this every sunday night on cable and for me it was the best thing ever created on television Dude really went deep for this role

"And that is the terrible and secret fate of all life. You're trapped, in a nightmare you keep waking up into" So many good quotes in this show but that is one of my favorites

Never mind Heisenberg, Rusty Cole is one of the best and most Interesting characters in modern TV history. Saying the things that we all think at some point in life, but never say.

The fact that Kevin Spacey won best TV series actor that year kills me

It’s like pessimism and nihilism had a three way with cynicism then had a baby together and this was the result.

"Time is a flat circle. We'll do this again." "In this universe we process time linearly - forward; but outside of our space time from what would be a fourth dimensional perspective time wouldn't exist. And from that vantage could we attain it? We see our space time would look flattened. Like a single sculpture of matter in super-position of every place it ever occupied. Our sentience is just cycling through our lives like carts on a track. See we all got what I call a life trap. This gene-deep certainty that everything will be different. You'll move to another city & meet the people who will be friends the rest of your lives. You'll fall in love & be fulfilled. Fuckin fulfillment & closure. 2 empty jars to hold this shitstorm. Nothing is ever fulfilled until the very end. Nothing is ever over. See everything outside our dimension: that's eternity. Eternity looking down on us. Now to us its a sphere but to them its a circle. In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill... and you are reborn but into the same life that you've always been born into. I tell myself I bear witness but the real answer is I lack the constitution for suicide. I mean, how many times have we had this conversation, detectives? Well, who knows? When you can't remember your lives, you can't change your lives, and that is the terrible and the secret fate of all life. You're trapped... like a nightmare you keep waking up into. This is what I'm talking about. This is what I mean when I'm talkin' about time, and death, and futility. All right, there are broader ideas at work, mainly what is owed between us as a society for our mutual illusions. Fourteen straight hours of staring at DB's, these are the things ya think of. You ever done that? You look in their eyes, even in a picture, doesn't matter if they're dead or alive, you can still read 'em. You know what you see? They welcomed it... Not at first, but... right there in the last instant. It's an unmistakable relief. See, cause they were afraid, and now they saw for the very first time how easy it was to just... let go. Yeah, they saw, in that last nanosecond, they saw... what they were. You, yourself, this whole big drama, it was never more than a jerry-rig of presumption and dumb will, and you could just let go. To finally know that you didn't have to hold on so tight. To realize that all your life - you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memories, all your pain - it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams, there's a monster at the end of it. The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that's what the preacher sells, same as a shrink. See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion. Then he tells you it's a fucking virtue. Always a buck to be had doing that, and it's such a desperate sense of entitlement, isn't it? I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. You know that their sensory experience constituted a unique individual with purpose and meaning. So certain that they were more than biological puppet. The truth wills out, and everybody sees. Once the strings are cut, all fall down. These still bodies, so certain they were more than the sum of their urges. All the useless spinning, tired minds, collision, ignorance...this is a universe where nothing is solved. Everything we do we're going to do again.I'd consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist... I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself - we are creatures that should not exist by natural law... We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction - one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. "

"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill" This made me laugh, what a way to see the world

6:21 "I don't want to know anything anymore" One of the all-time best lines in a tv series

"I'm bad at parties" followed by "I think human consciousness is a mistake" was way too comical

I’ve always thought this way even age a young age.. I’m 35 now an I rarely talk like this to people because it takes them out of their comfort zone.. the reality pill is just simply to big for one to swallow..

"The pessimist who's trying to save the world." Rust Cohle is one of the greatest characters ever written and depicted on television. I just love the fact that during the show it's the case that is giving him his lifeline to still want to live in the world that has endured him the worst pain imaginable to a person. Rust and Marty characterization juxtaposes the two main lines to ones self with Rust being the soul and Marty being the heart. Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Joji Fukunaga struck gold when they produced this amazing television series.

"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill." Damn.

"Don't ever mow my lawn, alright? I LIKE mowing MY lawn." Thinking back to that one, Rust introduced order while simultaneously denying Marty the catharsis of having control. He introduced chaos. On the surface level he disrespected Marty, but in reality he was just cutting overgrown grass that anyone could have cut, even a hired hand. The ridiculousness of such a chore, a routine a man retains as a part of maintaining the illusion of modern, suburban living. On the flip side of the flat-circle, Mowing a lawn is one of the few things a man has control over, after a long week. He can come home and fail all his other house chores, up to and including pleasing his own wife, both sexually and emotionally, but that lawn gets mowed. It satifies him, it sustains him, like being able to hold a job and pay the bills. Is that really living, however, truly living?

Rust Cohle is definitely the most intelligent, interesting, thoughtful character in a TV series I have ever seen. The dialogue just blew me away. Perfectly played by MM. 10 out of 10.

I listen to this to prep myself to play dark souls.

This is the most relatable character I’ve seen in a looooooooong time.

Thanks Matthew Mcconaughey for delivering the best acting I have ever seen.

I feel that, pain in my heart while watching this. The same one that drew me into this series in season 1. I’d never felt such a connection with a person as I had with Russ. His truths are raw, agonizing and beautiful.

"to finally know that you didn't have to hold on so tight" goddamn what a masterpiece this season was

THATS WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THEM HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS MAN... I KEEP GETTING OLDER, LIFE IS MEANINGLESS.

its 2020 and i still dreaming of rust cohle

"Listen, Nietzsche, shut the fuck up..." Just a perfect line, perfectly delivered lol

the michael jordan of being a son of a bitch

Matthew Mcconaughey is so good in this, delivers lines like its extemporaneous.

This video has become more and more relevant to me and the way I view things with every passing year...

Beautiful and amazing. I wrote a masters thesis on Nietzsche but everytime I watch this scene I learn something new. Just stunning.

People who have been through existential crisis would feel these speeches

"I got a bad taste in my mouth out here: aluminum, ash." --(Rust) (Coal). "Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves."

Everything has an end, only the sausage has two ends.

His words move me so deeply. This is some of the greatest acting ever seen on any screen

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists

I have no idea why I keep revisiting this again, and again, and again...

That moment when you go to like a video and realize you liked it years ago. Time really is a flat circle.

The monologue about the dead people's eyes and dreams about being a person still resonate with me. Fuck. It's my favorite

If you stare too long into the abyss the abyss stares into you

I promise I won’t get all philosophical 3 blunts later:

This is dripping with misery and depression and I love every second of it.

This is simply...heart warming. I now have so much to live for!

The terrible and secret fate of all life. You're trapped.

You’ll read these comments again....Over and over again

I've seen this video 14 times... I guess I'll do this over and over again....and again, and again forever😊😊.

The writing of these two characters was so brilliant and deep

As a Buddhist having watched True Detective, it really puts a perspective on the tendency towards optimism of humans for. Humans are neither good nor evil, we just are. The pessimist is really just a former optimist who realized at some point that optimism is ridiculous. But when you dig deeper, you see how ridiculous pessimism is as well.

“So Death created Time to Grow the things that it would Kill” Book of Cohle 8:40

Cohle is a very smart very tortured man. And it’s played to perfection

why is this feel so calm, peaceful, and to some extent good? this all feels like Big hug from a mug.

HBO needs to make a spinoff of True Detective called Rust, just about Rust.

He's right. More right than any character I've ever come across. That's the horrible truth.

True Detective S1 is one of the greatest pieces of television you will ever see.

Watch this everyday before work... Takes the sting out

Translation - life has no meaning except for the meaning we give it.

This show is responsible for the best single take ever.

One of the best performances I’ve ever seen. I keep watching the other seasons and they don’t even touch this.

6 years and every once and while i still come back here

And all your life, and All your hate All your memory All your pain It was all the same dream A dream that you had Inside a locked room That dream about being A person

"Well, that sounds... god fucking awful Rust."

Every night I listen to this to fall asleep, so quickly.

I understand where you’re coming from; I had a year in college when this stuff was debilitating but I learned to compartmentalize and adapt my mind to it. Sticking your head in the sand and lying to yourself won’t be tenable when it really counts. You can learn to face the harsh truths of reality and the peace acquired therein will always be with you

If this guy was my college philosophy professor I would have gone to every class.

One of my favourite characters of all time.

5 years later and this is still the most true thing ever said

Writing for this is just fantastic. I can see why Matthew wanted this role. He delivered expertly.

This is why intelligent people have higher rates of depression. It's so easy to become depressed and cynical if you just analyse life from a cold rational standpoint continuously. Because there's no true answer that you can come to that explains everything and it all begins to look cyclic and dark. I think to some extent you have to disable your rational brain and simply acknowledge you can't unravel it all when attempting to consider cosmic mysteries like spacetime and human nature from a philosophical standpoint. Like Rust himself says, the fact humans can contemplate their own existence is kind of their major design flaw as well as their major strength. I think when he says that he's acknowledging that he realises his own constant contemplation is what makes him so downhearted, but at the same time he's realising that his level of intellect means he can't merely ignore ruminating on life until he's depressed. It's a flat circle.

*Damn, this was a really long Lincoln commercial.* (one of the best damn crime dramas ever made imo)

Death created time to grow the things that it would kill. Absolutely brilliant 8:41 ❤

Still the best 8 hours of television I’ve ever watched the first season is a masterpiece