There are so many layers to this show. The all time quote machine that is Rust Cohle is one of them. “So death created time to grow the things that it would kill”
I think the reason Rust didn't want to share what he was finding out with the two detectives questioning him because he didn't trust anyone connected with the people in power, therefore maybe with the Tuttles; on his way out of the police station he called them, "Company men."
Three things: 1. When we are shown something in flashback, we are seeing the objective truth. That doesn't of course mean we are seeing *all* of the truth, but they are events that happened. When Marty and Rust are talking, as you have noticed with the events at the Ledoux compound, their story and the facts don't necessarily match up. 2. This was something of a controversy at the time, but much of Rust Cohle's dialogue is heavily influenced (and in some of its phrasing, directly lifted) from the author Thomas Ligotti, who is considered by many to be the greatest living master of Cosmic/Existential horror fiction. He also wrote a book called The Conspiracy Against the Human Race which is probably the single biggest source of ideas for Rust's worldview. 3. The Yellow King/Carcosa references are to the Robert W. Chambers cycle of short stories, The King in Yellow, written around the end of the 19th century. After this series came out, it was briefly a best-seller, after nearly a century of obscurity.
Couple of the females in this episode were featured in other shows: Marty's oldest daughter plays Starlight on "The Boys", Rust's new GF played oldest sister Shirley on "The Haunting of Hill House", and Marty's middle daughter played Lizzie on "The Walking Dead". Lizzie was the girl who believed that walkers had feelings, which culminated in Carol telling Lizzie to "look at the flowers".
Russ is a genius. By drinking during the statement, it becomes inadmissible as he is under the influence while making statements. So he could feel them out while keeping the door open to him to not be implicated.
6:46 Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the Yellow King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.
This season of True Detective was just Absolutely Outstanding. Showed what Hollywood was really capable of. Great Storytelling and Fine Performance by the Actors and Director. Keep watching, It just gets more incredible!
"Time is a flat circle." "What is that, Nietzsche? Shut the fuck up." more all-timer quotes from Rust lol Special shout-out to "Fuck 'im. Good to see you finally commit to something."
I appreciate how Rust later says "someone once told me time is a flat circle", not mentioning it was Ledoux. Of course that is to avoid revealing he talked to Ledoux, which would crush the shootout story, but I like to think Rust also doesn't want to admit Ledoux actually got to him with his ramblings about Carcosa
People were really hard on the following seasons of this show because the first season landed so well and became so influential on pop culture. While I don't think S2 or S3 necessarily usurp Season 1, they are absolutely nowhere near "bad". They're a different story, with different beats, different actors, in different environments, on different wavelengths, *yet each great TV...* Unfortunately a lot of people just really wanted more Season 1 antlers with an _[admittedly highly quotable]_ existential Cohle ranting about dimensions in a bleak and haunted Louisiana. Because so much of the vocal online community would seemingly rather be a part of the bandwagon, most reaction channels don't publish (or even personally watch) the subsequent seasons. I'd personally really enjoy watching through them again with a channel like yours. They're all compelling stories with excellent performances of challenging, and damaged characters with murky views about life, and Season 2 has my vote for one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a show in awhile, introducing me to an artist (that makes appearances in the show) that has become a mainstay of my personal playlists ever since the season aired. Although I will also concede that no intro song quite hits like Season 1's 😉 Besides, we have to get hyped for Season 4, which sees a return to the screen for our beloved Jodie Foster in the starring role, and a whole slew of other veteran talent.
Fun Fact: the actor who plays Guy Francis who Rust interrogates in this episode also played Danny Fontenot in episode one. (The disabled guy on the sofa)
Speaking of Stallone, you should consider Cop Land. I know this sounds rubbish (like Robocop to people that do not know movies). Copland is James (logan) Mangold with Stallone in a non-action acting role (his best) with Harvey Kietel, Robert de Nero, Ray Liotta, Robert Patrick (T2) and John Spencer (West Wing). It's really good and not a lot of reactions to it yet.
Rust making that guys murder statement innadmissable is some of the best writing I've ever seen. They don't sugar coat it, they don't spell it out. I even missed it the firsttime I watched it.
I think it's so cool that Matthew McConaughey has a whole monologue about space time and inter-dimentional beings seeing time in a different way... And Matthew McConaughey literally has that exact interaction in the end of Interstellar 😮
There was a deleted scene in this episode with Rust and his girlfriend. They split up because she was talking about settling down and having kids but Rust said he wasn't ready for that again.
I too was convinced Rust couldn't have done it...then I started thinking he has split personality or something and actually doesn't know his other identity is committing the crimes... No confirming or denying here, just saying how I felt when I saw this episode. That's what makes this show sooooo good; you really don't know what to believe or what is the real truth.
Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa. -"Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2
There are so many layers to this show. The all time quote machine that is Rust Cohle is one of them. “So death created time to grow the things that it would kill”
I think the reason Rust didn't want to share what he was finding out with the two detectives questioning him because he didn't trust anyone connected with the people in power, therefore maybe with the Tuttles; on his way out of the police station he called them, "Company men."
Three things:
1. When we are shown something in flashback, we are seeing the objective truth. That doesn't of course mean we are seeing *all* of the truth, but they are events that happened. When Marty and Rust are talking, as you have noticed with the events at the Ledoux compound, their story and the facts don't necessarily match up.
2. This was something of a controversy at the time, but much of Rust Cohle's dialogue is heavily influenced (and in some of its phrasing, directly lifted) from the author Thomas Ligotti, who is considered by many to be the greatest living master of Cosmic/Existential horror fiction. He also wrote a book called The Conspiracy Against the Human Race which is probably the single biggest source of ideas for Rust's worldview.
3. The Yellow King/Carcosa references are to the Robert W. Chambers cycle of short stories, The King in Yellow, written around the end of the 19th century. After this series came out, it was briefly a best-seller, after nearly a century of obscurity.
The fact that people can’t understand that the flashbacks are the objective truth it’s crazy to me
This episode was mind-blowing courtesy of Reginald Ledoux!
I love that name, and especially how Matthew McConaughey says it
Reggie Ledoux did this? Reggie Ledoux?! Reggie MOTHER F'N Ledoux did this!!!!! &%^^$%!!! *&%@@#$!!!
Are you psyched for season 4? I know I know, you're still on season 1. But Jodie Foster is gonna kick butt in it!
Mfing Reggie Ledoux did this?
it's so nice to watch people sharp enough to actually enjoy this show.
Couple of the females in this episode were featured in other shows: Marty's oldest daughter plays Starlight on "The Boys", Rust's new GF played oldest sister Shirley on "The Haunting of Hill House", and Marty's middle daughter played Lizzie on "The Walking Dead". Lizzie was the girl who believed that walkers had feelings, which culminated in Carol telling Lizzie to "look at the flowers".
Russ is a genius. By drinking during the statement, it becomes inadmissible as he is under the influence while making statements. So he could feel them out while keeping the door open to him to not be implicated.
6:46 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the Yellow King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
Oh, good! About to make lunch. Glad ya'll are here with more True Detective. Thanks! See ya in a bit! :)
Have a good lunch!
This season of True Detective was just Absolutely Outstanding. Showed what Hollywood was really capable of. Great Storytelling and Fine Performance by the Actors and Director. Keep watching, It just gets more incredible!
"Time is a flat circle." "What is that, Nietzsche? Shut the fuck up." more all-timer quotes from Rust lol
Special shout-out to "Fuck 'im. Good to see you finally commit to something."
I appreciate how Rust later says "someone once told me time is a flat circle", not mentioning it was Ledoux. Of course that is to avoid revealing he talked to Ledoux, which would crush the shootout story, but I like to think Rust also doesn't want to admit Ledoux actually got to him with his ramblings about Carcosa
He slapped Starlight!
rust drinking beer during the interview makes it inadmissible too
People were really hard on the following seasons of this show because the first season landed so well and became so influential on pop culture. While I don't think S2 or S3 necessarily usurp Season 1, they are absolutely nowhere near "bad". They're a different story, with different beats, different actors, in different environments, on different wavelengths, *yet each great TV...* Unfortunately a lot of people just really wanted more Season 1 antlers with an _[admittedly highly quotable]_ existential Cohle ranting about dimensions in a bleak and haunted Louisiana. Because so much of the vocal online community would seemingly rather be a part of the bandwagon, most reaction channels don't publish (or even personally watch) the subsequent seasons. I'd personally really enjoy watching through them again with a channel like yours. They're all compelling stories with excellent performances of challenging, and damaged characters with murky views about life, and Season 2 has my vote for one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a show in awhile, introducing me to an artist (that makes appearances in the show) that has become a mainstay of my personal playlists ever since the season aired. Although I will also concede that no intro song quite hits like Season 1's 😉
Besides, we have to get hyped for Season 4, which sees a return to the screen for our beloved Jodie Foster in the starring role, and a whole slew of other veteran talent.
Season 2 was great and I'm in the same boat with said musician. I actually like season 1 less and less as time goes on.
Fun Fact: the actor who plays Guy Francis who Rust interrogates in this episode also played Danny Fontenot in episode one. (The disabled guy on the sofa)
Speaking of Stallone, you should consider Cop Land. I know this sounds rubbish (like Robocop to people that do not know movies). Copland is James (logan) Mangold with Stallone in a non-action acting role (his best) with Harvey Kietel, Robert de Nero, Ray Liotta, Robert Patrick (T2) and John Spencer (West Wing).
It's really good and not a lot of reactions to it yet.
Rust making that guys murder statement innadmissable is some of the best writing I've ever seen. They don't sugar coat it, they don't spell it out. I even missed it the firsttime I watched it.
You've got to be pretty stupid to miss that.
I think it's so cool that Matthew McConaughey has a whole monologue about space time and inter-dimentional beings seeing time in a different way... And Matthew McConaughey literally has that exact interaction in the end of Interstellar 😮
There was a deleted scene in this episode with Rust and his girlfriend.
They split up because she was talking about settling down and having kids but Rust said he wasn't ready for that again.
He even went as far as to say it was wrong.
@@Shawn-st2lx Because of course he would lol
As soon as Marty dropped Ledoux, Rust didn't hesitate to try and drop the other guy. That's a real partner.
I mean, he had to. He was a witness to Ledoux getting executed.
one of the guards’ names was Childress, that name will come up again
I can never unsee starlight in this 😂
Over-all the story is about Rust & Marty. No spoilers, think you'll like how the season ends.
I too was convinced Rust couldn't have done it...then I started thinking he has split personality or something and actually doesn't know his other identity is committing the crimes...
No confirming or denying here, just saying how I felt when I saw this episode. That's what makes this show sooooo good; you really don't know what to believe or what is the real truth.
Loving the reactions! Such a great show. I'm curious why the timestamps don't actually line up with the video though?
Marty messed up and Rust covered him immediately. Marty owes Rust big time for that, even after their falling out.
I’ve seen you in my dreams…
_Carcosa_ _The King in Yellow_
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
-"Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2
11:42 😆
I just realised his daughter is Starlight lol
So far what we see has always been the truth its what they say that's unreliable.
Awesome reaction.
Love the Balboa Tshirt.
Definitely watch the other seasons. They do keep that theme you are talking about.
I would love to rewatch them alongside an enjoyable channel like this one 💙
S. 3 is good, s. 2 the ending was a toss-off script.
I get high during every episode, it helps to get into the character. I'm what's known as a "method viewer" 🐱
Ayy Starlight
i love u sly stallone
8:33 nothing good. 🙁
True Romance. Please.