This one scene the did the job of making motorcycle gang seem scary in a way that Sons of Anarchy never managed to achieve in their whole run.

Matthew McConaughey's best performance ever given. I love how long he takes to regain consciousness after doing that line.

Sons of Anarchy: "Wow, I'd love to be a badass biker! True Detective: "I'm scared"

The bearded guy is fucking smart. He's offering Rust that bump and then giving him a straight up question to see how he responds while his mind is completely gone.

Cate Blanchett played the Ginger character to perfection.,

1:03 the single best drag of a smoke in television history

One of the best shows ever made. This bearded dude is an excellent actor. He's a totally different entity in Power.

There's something so otherworldly about the latter half of this episode. It's almost trancelike and nightmarish in how it's shot and plays out. Everything from the performances to the context of everyone being blazed to hell in all these scenes to the long singular take of the raid going wrong, the shootout, and Rust capturing Ginger. It's horrifying, entrancing, and heart pumping all at once. Definitely one of the best episodes of any show I've ever seen.

I'd love to see an entire season of rust in the biker gang

"I embrace the outlaw life"... Brilliant writing, acting, everything.

The biker gang from this episode is the most intimidated I've ever been by a "TV/Movie gang". It felt way too real and like an accurate depiction of a gang. Instead of the usual caricatures you are accustomed to seeing. Where gangsters have these over the top (and sometimes even charming) personality traits. These guys were just fucking cold, scary and all business.

They captured the ruthlessness and chaotic lifestyle of outlaw biker gangs soo fucking well in this scene.. the acting, the writing, the environment, everything about this scene was perfectly executed in a way i have never seen done with biker gangs.. but it makes sense since this show was just amazing in its own right..

I want a whole season about Rust’s past being an undercover.

I’m 29 and I’ve lived here in Florida, Northeast Florida, since birth. Born in 1989. Been to a few Beer Burns just like this scene. Way out in the woods, beer n’ burn barrels, Bikers, Alice In Chains blastin on the radio, palmettos and mossy oak n’ pine trees, creeks full of gators and water moccasin nests. Writer & Director of “True Detective” is brilliant at creating realistic atmospheres.

I love that Rust spends the rest of this episode high on crank. 🤣

Charisma +7, Cocaine + 2 Persuasion

1:03 This scene was responsible of making hundreds of memes

One reason this show was so great was even side characters just seemed so fleshed out. Ginger the crazed biker seems to have a deep history despite only having maybe 10 to 15 minutes total of screen time.

In my opinion, this season was the very best of television, all time.

“I need a gunslinger.” He says to the man in black.

As great of a job as Mathew does in this series, Joseph Sikora is right there blow for blow with him in this scene. The transformation he made into this biker outlaw Ginger is simply awesome.

Had never seen the dude who played Ginger before but he killed it in this scene.

Just the way Ginger responds with ''Uh huh'' instantly gives me flashbacks of dudes who were just as crazy if not crazier.

“That ain’t no fuck around shit. That’s pure Heisenberg level of purity”

I love how Rust tried so hard to avoid getting involved, but Ginger just wont let him.

Love how Ginger stares into his face after the bump...to see the reaction

..."muh-fucker, I need a gun slinger."

The actor who plays Ginger is fucking good.

This show is so good. Just stumbling on this clip makes me wanna rewatch the entire season

Joseph Sikora looking like a cross between Sons of Anarchy and Vikings.

The biker scene alone is better than all of SOA

I would imagine it would be challenging for an undercover cop to keep his cool when doing stimulants

As someone who's been around the local 81 South Bend chapter. This is the realest depiction of an MC I've ever seen in film or television.

In just a single episode the Iron Crusaders proved to be more terrifying and more interesting than seven seasons of "Sons of Anarchy".

Me at first day of being a detective after watching Rust Cohle: “So when do I get to start snorting drugs?”

joseph sikora is such a sick actor

This entire season is perfection

I EMBRACE THE OUTLAW LIFE!!

Wow, never knew this was Joseph Sikora. Excellent actor. Love him in Power.

Hell I even love the way Joseph Sikora (Ginger) Says "God Damm!!!" lol :)

“Muthafukaa I need a gunslinger. Now u ain’t too timid? Get on this shit with me.”

You guys need to give Joseph Sikora his props. He killed this role too.

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its time to rewatchhhhhh

The dude playing Ginger is a good actor

"I embrace the outlaw life" lmao

This is what you call deep cover…. This fkn scene and the following scenes are fkn nuts. Matt KILLED it

2:42 me and the homies at 3 am during a sleepover

You can tell Matthew has done bumps before. Great actor.

Girls sleepover: “let’s do our makeup!” Boys sleepover: 2:43

The draw of the cigarette after the drip drops 👀😂, in the words of Kool-Aid guy, Oh Yeah

Is nobody going to talk about Crash's badass leather jacket?

I need a version of this on youtube where you can hear Melvins at the start of the scene and Sleep at the end. 2 bands you don't expect to hear in a tv show.

Aaaaah, the BRILLIANTLY TALENTED Joesph Sikora. 😉😃😄😆

Throughout the series, these men are still more mentally stable and calmer than most of the guy I have got in touch with

This all looks exhausting as hell.

He said u keep it. Gave him a pound of coke like he was lending him 20 bucks.

1:03 - Why i was here and some of you. Good meme.

Like a GTA mission where it turns into a series of smaller missions

I love how this is the video that Know Your Meme uses for their “Matthew McConaughey Smoking” article.

"When in Rome brother but i do clean up real fucking pretty" fucking poetry!

Nobody does high like Matty boy.

The best detective series of them all. Season 1 of True Detective.

True detective season one is the finest Television ever written, acted, and directed.✌️🇺🇸

Joseph Sikora, man. He can do drugged out biker, inner city drug dealer (Power), skinhead (Banshee), and degenerate gambler (Boardwalk Empire).

I wish true detective would do a biker spin off😢.... Can you imagine the potential?

Good acting with the line of coke. I think he really does that from time to time to feel his character. But overall great acting ,looks as if he really took it straight to the head

Outstanding. The best of the best is this man in this series. Period. ✌️🇺🇸

These actors are great at eye contact when I do theatre it’s hard to say crazy things to someone dead in the eyes you almost believe someone is actual mad at you for a second

this is such an intimidating scene from the start: the distant, glazed look on ginger as he asks a question then proceeds to stare off into empty space, the sudden ball grip followed by a declaration of love for the outlaw life! Jeez, I felt like MY life was in danger.

Turning "I embrace the outlaw life" to a wailin "what the fuck are u doin man" in a few minutes flat. That is Cohle for u

All these rust undercover scenes are the hardest shit I’ve ever seen on tv.

joseph sikora is the man.

The other actor is just as good, his eyes are so menacing

Great acting, the way Ginger's eye's pop after that bump are so fuckin spot on

Great scene, season... Tommy from Power, so versatile

I've watched this season idk how many times and I just now realized that Primus is in the background.

1:23 BEST kick on TV history.

True Detective Season 4 should be Rust's past life as Crash

Ginger = Kratos

The Meme is in this scene!

Holy shit only just realised reading the comments that the actor playing Ginger is the same guy who plays Tommy in Power 😮 watched True Detective 1 about four times and seen every episode of Power and never knew!! That’s a fuckin damn talented actor!!!

I can’t get over the casting in this show. I recognize a fair amount of the actors but then they got guys like Reggie Ledoux and Ginger where I’ve never seen them before OR since and it adds to making them scarier.

Who the Sons of Anarchy wish they were.

The guy that plays ginger plays James Barr in “Jack Reacher” He looks so different with his hair reversed...... Also in “Charlie Wilson’s war” and “shutter island” where he played the guard that left his post. And he was margaret’s husband in the pilot of “boardwalk empire” Directed by Martin Scorsese himself. He can play ginger and he can play James Barr. Two very different characters, and I watched both and didn’t even notice until I saw his IMDb. Everyone says everything is “underrated” these days. He’s really actually underrated

Shit. This episode gave me an anxiety attack.

This show is so good, they gave so much attention in every detail like when Rust gave the bag of cocaine to Ginger, he didn't just put the bag in his pocket, he let the air out of the bag first and then closed the zip. That was brilliant cause your eye is not supposed looking there.

I love the american life playing on the background

Seems to me that 'Crash' is more an alternate personality than an alter-ego, probably tying into his hallucinations and stuff. To me, when he's in Carcosa, the final hallucination of the spiraly-swirl represents a synthesis of the two personalities in a Solve-et-Coagula kinda way. Made whole again, he digs deep and delivers those killer headbutts. Just my take.

Nobody noticed..."Mitch" in Rust and Ginger's gang is played by Joshua Leonard from The Original Blair Witch Project.

Am I the only one who's hearing Primus in the background?

Ginger's depiction was authentic as shit.

What an awesome scene!!!

Honestly the first time i saw this part I thought ginger gave rust some truth drug to catch him out . Imagine if he did lol

Imagine snorting some of the wildest shit known to man and still having to maintain some insane cover, and failure means you will absolutely die.

Tilda Swinton really disappeared into her role here.

that was the greatest part of the season......when rust had to go triple undercover off the books to advance the case................insane brilliant writing.......

I was wondering what mix he gave rust and im pretty sure it was a speedball (meth/heroin)... It's a really heavy rush with complete opposites all at once and makes you cloudy and the burning of the meth in the nasal cavity along with the rush makes it VERY hard to remember fake details or just lie badly... AT LEAST THATS WHAT IVER HEARD FROM A FRIEND. I can see it as an improvised truth serum of sorts bc he waits almost the perfect amount of time for the drip about to hit the back of his throat and until he see's Rust get wobbly.. then asks him the same question again but with added details about Russ's contact with the coke. If Rust was lying or not a good UC, then any slight change in the base story or delay when recalling details, then he knows whether or not to be sus. It def wasnt coke bc the reason he is there is to get to the cook.. and is offering the stolen evidence coke for trade since the cook only cooks for them exclusively after getting out of prison. Also, the nose check that Ginger does was about as accurate as it gets when checking to see if someone fakes it. Those two flow so good on screen. They should def do a prequel of when they were in the gang together during Rusts time as a UC

I’ve watched this so many times I just like watching rust hold it together

Omg I love Mathew’s acting so much, the way he kind of shakes and behaves after taking random drugs