a grounded story with a sprinkle of cosmic horror that'll stick to the back of your mind throughout.

The layers really got me. It would have still been a great southern gothic detective show but adding the yellow king and carcossa really put it next level for me. I've dabbled in Lovecraft but found myself googling down a rabbit hole about the yellow king after finishing the series.

Yes, it involves reality, Lovecraftian horror, old school detective work, and friendship. Incredible

It's a good explanation for life, too

This is, essentially, Freud's description of the uncanny.

The only other series that made it to my top 3 with td and twin peaks is p valley which only came out recently

@@twostepsbackwards4992 never heard of pValley what's it about?

@@twostepsbackwards4992 P valley isn’t close to the level of twin peaks & TD, not even comparable.

This is what happens when people are trying to write stories, instead of how woke they are

Westworld season 1-2. Sopranos. The Wire. Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul. Chernobyl.

I love that so much, perfect show in every way. It can never be replicated, seasons 2&3 were a bad joke.

@@UnityAgainstJewishEvil seasons 2 and 3 are very good. But they are being compared to a masterpiece. This is the issue

@@UnityAgainstJewishEvilthey weren’t a joke. They just can’t stand up next to the best season of television ever made. It’s hard to follow that

@@UnityAgainstJewishEvilseason 3 was killer, season 2 was meh, could’ve been better and tried to do too much

He is a man who lost his child. Anyone who’s experience that is damaged, and struggles to cope with the biggest loss humans experience, as well as his own self, what he does, and how that colors his world view and everyone in it.

I loved the Season Three line. "I am glad it was you that hit me and not the woolly mammoth you are fucking."

​@@nospoon4799it's a shame they didnt used more the character of Roland West, wich had a swagger for real, like Marty and Ray.

Yeah, I think Marty's wife said it so well. "Rust knew exactly who he was. Marty's problem was he didn't know himself so he never knew what to want."

I don't understand how nobody talks about this show like this s*** was insane

​@@paulcarpenter7844Right. Just the first episode got enough hook to...one come back for more...2 not kill us right away

I love how he pricks his arm to make it look like he has track marks in order to look like a junky, a great detail which adds so much to how good he is at undercover work.

​@@UnityAgainstJewishEvilinteresting because he wears his Iron Crusader jacket the whole time

@@jmz2144 I’m guessing you’re referring to the fact the jacket covers his arms anyway, so what would be the point? I suppose he’s just covering his bases, should the jacket come off at some point. Also though, being a good undercover is similar to being a great actor, you’ve gotta live and breathe the role, be deep into the mindset. That way everything becomes second nature and there’s no “acting” involved, you’re just going off of instinct., everything is second nature and you don’t raise any suspicion with the people you’re emulating.

Ugh

​@@Unlucky-Dube that's what the doctor said when you were born

@@_PieceOfSheet_ That was a super cringe line, it was literally night time

​@@Unlucky-Dube and there were literally stars. Grow up edgy kid

@@creativename1072 So the entire sky needs to be filled with stars for the light to win? Or even half full? any idea what that'd look like? 'grow up' you have no clue whatsoever about the depths of darkness, this show nor it's characters don't touch the surface either. Oh no, an arrogant alienated slightly above average thinker judges everything so harshly like a teenage emo and it's SO PROFOUND when he realizes he was an idiot.

I cry every time 😢

and then the intro music plays and they bike into the sunset so true

It's incredible they caught this on film

Truly a show of all time

Look mama he said the thing 😱

Its even better on repeat viewing because one of them (Rust i think) says very early on that its often a tiny detail that breaks a case. It also worth pointing out that the opening tune is one of the few TV show openings that i always watch in full every time, the tune is just so good. One of the other is true Blood, the show is nonsense...but those opening credits are great. There is probably a video for someone in discussing the greatest opening credits/tunes for tv shows. No1 is obviously True Detective. Edit, more thoughts rather than make extra comments. I have watched the series A LOT. At least once a year since it came out. I love it, and there is quite often another detail missed. At 10:30 (ish) the comment is made that Rust is more talkative "now". This is is true in part because he is now very much driven to rectify his mistakes because he knows whats going on more than "we" or the police do. But, more importantly, he is actually interogating them. He has them in the palm of his hand, Marty spells this out to them later.

@@jamesmaybrick2001 Nice, I hadn't put those two together. It's such tight writing, man. I agree Rust's expansive persona during the interrogation is his way of playing the interrogators, but I also remember Nic Pizzalotto saying some like, "In those scenes with Rust describing pessimism, who's he even talking to?" I always took that to mean that Rust is arguing with himself, because he's in no way a nihilist. He wants to believe, and he sees meaning everywhere, culminating by the end in what you'd have to call a religious experience (hallucination, death, rebirth, hard won optimism).

Another one that made me laugh was after Marty gives the underage girl some money to stop working as a prostitute, Rust says something like 'what was that, a down payment?'. Sure enough, Marty ends up with her like 2 eps later.

This links to Maggie's comment in an episode about how Marty used to be a great detective. He believes that to be a good detective he needed to separate from his family and decompress, but this was his downfall. Only once he was on his own and spent more time focusing on the case itself we saw Marty's 'True Detective' self come out: when he followed Tyrone Weems, when he linked the green to the paint, and when he followed the lead on the painting company's taxes. The same can be said for Rust when for the entire series he is nihilistic and sees darkness all the time, and only in the final words he says he sees lightness and we feel a sense of optimism, perhaps the man he once was.

They cracked the case after Marty connected green ears with a freshly painted house from their 1995 canvassing. That was the point we realized both Marty and Rust were true detectives.

Prisoners is one of my all time favourite movies it’s incredible and Loki is a great character.

As a True Detective S1 fan I watched Prisoners for the first time the other day because of your comment. It was really good.

​@@manwiththeredface7821A very well made movie. And Loki's haircut is also one of the highlights of the movie!

Just finished watching that. Wasn't half bad.

@@Tom_Samad I liked his Masonic ring :)

Cringe

He really is just sucking them down, I had forgotten About that detail. Squeaking with each drag

@@Kittyjingles28 the thing I noticed was how long before he exhaled. I used to smoke and that’s the sign someone is HOOOOKED

@@Dapryor he wants to destroy himself

@@diogeneslantern18 for sure.

Little stuff like that that often goes unnoticed really helps give a movie/show authenticity. I appreciated the fact in Moneyball that everyone was doing dip.

Creepy af

Yeah there's an aura of the south that Season 1 captured that non-southern natives might not understand.

Resident evil 7 vibes

@@poopyshmoopy4251 Yeah that game was unsettling for me because it is not out the question for a home like that to exist down here. Mold included lmao. Now a giant cargo ship being lost in the Bayou is a bit much.

@@codydagg2259 yeah when it got to that part I was wondering how the fuck it even made it that far into the bayou, but hey giant mold monsters go boom so I can suspend my disbelief

Mind blowing holy

Free thought doesn’t exist. You’re missing the point

“I’ve seen the finale of thousands of lives”

But then we have "if you ask me, light is winning" at the end

Same here. I never really rated him as a quality drama actor before this.

Thought he should’ve won too. Nothing overly special about Cranston’s performance

@charleyshack I'm a huge Breaking Bad fan. That year was a great season, and the show had a sweep at the Emmy's. They won everything. Bryan deserved to be there, but Matthew's character should have won.

Guys I stand on my grave and preach szn 1 TD is the greatest single tv season of all time… HOWEVER, Cranston was 100% and absolutely deserving of that award.

Yet another crime to add to Walter white’s ledger

@@tjohnson9687I love Breaking Bad, but Cranston won that award so many times. Matthew basically never does television roles, wasn’t coming back for another season and the one season of True Detective he did do was every bit as good as Cranston’s White and more unique because he didn’t do the same character for four other seasons. I mean no disrespect to Cranston, I think he’s great and has been for years, ever since I first saw him on X Files, but Matt deserves the Emmy for this one season of brilliant small screen character work.

It really is incredible. You legit feel like you're in Louisiana down on the bayou. Ever been? It's like it's own country. Louisiana is a spooky, scary place.

absolutely agree- it is haunting and buries its way under your skin. musical scores make or break shows and movies, and this one elevated it

Finished it this morning. All three though. I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched it. I hate this season one thing though. Yes it can stand alone. But it doesn't. It is all the same story. All three seasons. Look at Lucy in season three. She sells her kid and her kid loses her memory of it all and names her kid after she finds some of her memory from a kind boy who used to know her before she was sold. Season three is easily as good as one. And two as well while i'm sayin it.

Hell, even that chick they saved from Ledoux place, her acting when Rust gave her a visit s top notch!!!

I've watched it at least 50 times.

I’ve seen it probably 7 times. Earlier in 2023 I broke my foot and was out of work. Watched it 3 times in a row. Then watched Lost twice in a row

@@rosemanos5123 You’re halfway there. 100 should be enough. It’s that good.

This is the false face of the show. It is actually a study of denial. The denial of grief (Rust), the denial of guilt (Marty), the denial of evil in the good (the police), the denial of the environment (Maggie and the other civilians). You see at the end of the season how Marty faces his guilt by crying in gratitude with his family and Rust accepts his grief through that speech about his daughter and neardeath dream. Brilliant study at that.

@@AleksandarIvanov69 I say you are both right. This transcended television and became true thought provoking art on a whole other level. Two and three continue both those themes nicely I thought. It just piles on the existential questions just one after the other. I am quite exited for season four.

You're not wrong in that it's Nietzschien, but there is a whole lot of Ligotti in there as well. Plagiarism accusations aside, Ligotti's particular philosophies are woven through every scene and line of dialogue (with, of course, Rust as the main mouthpiece).

Rust's nihilism makes him come across as an edgelord, but I love it

Well spoken...this, being one of my favorite "TV" series created, never illuded to Neitzch in any comments-thank you for seeing and stating what I saw as well.

You nailed it 🤝🏻

No contrived conflict? Ok lol

@@More_Row In a general sense lol.... You know what I mean

@@niemanickurwa They really didn't like each other. It's what made it so compelling

I think it's more that they respect each other, and are professionals so they know they need to put things aside sometimes and work together. Most of the conflict between them comes when they're not being professional and/or doing a bad job.

And again.

Agreed, I feel exactly the same way. True Detective is my favorite single season of any show.

There is only one season. The other "seasons" were bad spin-offs.

Apples and oranges ma dude. Breaking bad is a fantastic story, but true detective is art. It's a world / reality in itself

@@rinzler666Well said, totally agree.

This, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, and …Lost. I honestly don’t think Lost gets enough credit in the all timer convo

There's also a nod to Ambrose Bierce, who wrote 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa' in 1886.

The king in yellow is more like a greek play or something

It is part of the mythos. In the „Whisperer in Darkness” Hastur is mentioned by name along Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth. It is, as far as I remember, the only mention in Lovecraft’s writings, but it’s there. There’s also multiple layers to the Mythos, as you have just the bare-bones of it, only things Lovecraft himself wrote, but then there are things written by some of his friends and fellow writers, as well as later on, people inspired by his work. Further down the line, the expanded mythos contains the works of many more artists who all were inspired by Lovecraft. In this sense, True Detective S1 is in itself part of the extended mythos, as well as being a superb TV adaptation of Lovecraftian spirit, as the show follows a formula that many, if not all of Lovecraft’s stories adhered to: heavy emphasis on research, investigation and mystery in the main body of the story, followed by an intense action sequence at the end of it. In TD those would be the attack on Ledoux compound and then the showdown in Carcosa.

It was part of a trilogy of plays wasn’t it? Beginning with a poem about Carcossa?

​@@tadeuszberg8379Hastur and Yellow king were made one charactee by later fanfic writers, not Lovecraft. Lovecraft didn't have any cohesive mythos, despite what people often hear or read on the internet. He only had few connected or continuous short stories, but the names of his gods are mostly used to namedrop them, but with no overarching intent.

i started looking into who does these opening credits/titles back when i got dawn of the dead 2004 dcdvd and discovered it was the same guy who did se7en. both intros are amazing. since then theres been true detective and the walking dead and many other great opening titles.

i tried watching season 2 immediately turned it off and rewatched season 1, s2 doesnt even hold a candle to season 1. They set the bar way too high in season 1

I’ve probably watched it 20 times at this point

@@garrettd.6215 it really is that good 👍

@@BubblegumCrash332 arguably greatest single season show, I put it up there against any show. I think its just an absolute masterpiece like dark knight. Flawless pacing great dialogue no non wasted scenes and filler moments. I could watch true detective season 1 anytime anyday, was about to say anywhere but some scenes are nsfw for work lols!

@@Godimus17 and the best part is it is completely self contained. A beginning middle and end. No later seasons can tarnish it like Game of Thrones

That’s ridiculous! We should send them just the first half and a way to contact us for the rest. It’s our only leverage!

Put in a time capsule for future generations

it predates the 2010's conspiracies but I feel it's drawing from the 80's satanic panic, with the conspiracie turning out to be real this time.

You're using the term 'conspiracy' wrong. What you mean is that it predated the weird "Conspiracy Theories" of the 2010's. A conspiracy is a very real thing that happens, where two or more people CONSPIRE to achieve a common goal. A conspiracy THEORY is simply that-- a theory that a conspiracy has taken place. For example, to say "911 was an inside job" is not a conspiracy. It is a conspiracy theory. An actual genuine conspiracy can occur in a group of five people. Persons 1 and 2 conspire to eliminate persons 3 and 4, and lie to person 5 about it. That is a real world conspiracy that could actually happen. If person 5 then said, "Hey, I think it was you who eliminated persons 3 and 4!" That would be a conspiracy theory. Waaay too many people label all crazy theories as "conspiracies" when that's not at all what that word means.

@@DETECTIVESPACEMAN09they arnt conspiracies if they turned out to be real are they? It’s just the truth.

⁠@@NASkeywestconspiracies don’t get the name based on truthfulness. a conspiracy is the secret act/plan of doing something, typically illegal or immoral.

It perfectly blended what we know.... with what we don't know. (fiction) Mystery.

damn dude that's nearly an entire year worth of time spent watching TD!!

Your second sentence answers your question!

​@nickblack3972 that and they are just two properly written pet projects of good writers/ linguists. I can't say I'm a huge JRR Tolkein fan I've never read the books but I've read about their inception. Him creating a language and only being able to go so far with it before he started having to create back stories and characters to give meaning to the languages. I would be willing to bet Nic Pizzolato had been working and retooling true detectives screen play for years before he even thought of taking it to a producer. Both stories being the pet projects of the writers. So much love and care and devotion and time put in to a story. Re working and rewriting ect ect. We obviously don't have an example for tolekin or at least not that I'm aware of. But when you look at season 2 of true detective you can see what putting time limitations on a writer can amount to. I had to give season 2 a couple more rewatches before I could really appreciate that it's a pretty good story but it pales in comparison to the first season. You can just tell that it was pumped out prematurely and most likely if given more time they more than likely would have put out a better show.

I think there’s a lot more gray areas with the protagonist’s and their morality compared to LOTR. But you did say good v evil in modern times so I can definitely see where you’re coming from as people are complicated and are rarely 100% good or 100% evil.

Precisely. Most people can’t fathom what Rust goes through. And that’s a good thing. But it also means as a writer that you need an Everyman for both the general audiences and for the show itself’s structure to have a foil to the loon.

Season 2 just felt like too many characters for too large a plot. If Season 2 was rewritten as a small team or task force from the beginning and the season was longer, I can see it being a "The Wire" lite and actually working. Season 3 has near same formula as 1 (2 detectives, smaller case involving a local/regional influence), but like you said, the characters were not as impactful as season 1's.

@@jac1207 I know what you mean. With season two, I was really hoping it would have "The Wire" type task force but go in a pulpy, True Detective direction. Unfortunately, the show went another way.

Nah, Ray Velcoro and Roland West sure were grounded characters, but yeah, Marty s plot really give room for development, wich Ray too have with his convoluted story, but a shame they didnt gave Roland that treatment. Shame the directors of season 2 and 3 couldnt bake the thing pretty, even season 1, for all the superb it is, has a few flaws, wich all the actors and actresses managed to overcome bigtime, but on season 2 and 3 the plot s flaws just watered down the actors great acting. One thing i know for sure is, that true detective s a gold mine if You wanna see top notch acting, no matter how flawed the directing and writing may be, especially after season 1.

I don't know. For me, Roy Velcoro, Wayne Hays, Paul Woodrugh and Roland West were pretty relatable, human characters.

The way ‘True Detective’ conveys a wide range of emotions in just a few episodes, resonating with audiences of any age, is impressive. At 21 I’m as enthralled by the series as someone older. It skillfully balances horrifying and unsettling themes with a nuanced exploration of human nature, oscillating between good and evil. It captures the full extent of darkness and horror, avoiding excess and the pursuit of shock value, while still delivering its profound narrative impact

Humm...which tuttle? The senator or pastor?

@@josephkelly6681 both. They are brothers. One is the governor, the other is a pastor.

@@diogeneslantern18The show states that they are first cousins

Also the flowers in the back

Could you elaborate on the last part? What do you mean about him doing the opposite of “cleaning up nicely”? Cheers

@@jayboy2kay7 He started drinking and doing drugs. The opposite of cleaning up :)

Yeah Woody is incredible and I think he’s overlooked just a little bit in this series cos of how larger than life Rust is, nice to see people appreciate Marty as a character.

I agree. Marty is more relatable , he's every cop in a small town , broken , slightly alcoholic and a bit judgemental. Rust is much more of a rarity just as an individual. How many atheists who believe humans are evolution's mistake do you know ?

@@somebody7070 Yes! Marty is a great example of the mid-life crisis of a square-minded man in a conservative society. Maggie once says that he doesn't know what he wants and Rust at least knows what he wants and who he is. Delightful lol.

Definitely, I think it gets better each time on rewatch as well.

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister And if you're lucky then the god's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me

I would love to make a video on Twin Peaks that show is incredible.

What the network execs did to Twin Peaks might be the most blatant example of commercial twats murdering art thinking that they can make more money off it’s corpse but ending up with ashes.

If you haven't watched it yet I highly recommend "The Bear". It stars the actor who played Lip in Shameless and he's incredible. There's a rawness and intensity about it that reminds me of TD.

Thank you means a lot.

Definitely

Season 3 is great too!

Yeah I would like to make a video on Fargo in the future.

Fargos first 3 seasons were all excellent, and the way they tie together. Too bad TD wasn’t able to do the same.l, as season 2 tried to be too big and season 3 seemed too small in comparison to season 1. The first 2 seasons of The Killing were good as well, although they had too many red herrings

Any season of Fargo would make a great video. I liked em all, but season 2 is probably my favorite. Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson, Jeffrey Donovan, Jesse Plemons. That cast was loaded

How could you