True Detective's Hidden Philosophy Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
  • An analysis of True Detective's thematic and philosophical elements. Don't worry, it's not as dry as it sounds. Hope you enjoy it! Oh yeah and spoilers for the entirety of season 1.
    I have a twitter now - / zuttoshow
    0:00 - Opening Skit
    0:48 - Intro
    02:04 - Rural Decay and Powerless People
    03:31 - The Reality of Louisiana
    05:48 - Marty Analysis
    06:44 - Rust Analysis
    08:26 - Only Symmetries
    10:15 - Who Goes There? Analysis
    11:58 - The Yellow King & Cosmic Horror
    14:31 - True Detective's Hidden Philosophy
    15:35 - Making Of True Detective
    17:00 - True Detective's Impact on TV
    17:35 - Outro
    #truedetective #videoessay #hbo

Комментарии • 281

  • @derekbidelman2442
    @derekbidelman2442 Год назад +348

    Season 2 and 3 were not horrible, it's just that Season 1 set the bar so high it was inevitable that 2,3 had no chance.

    • @puekawNEpuyrruh
      @puekawNEpuyrruh 10 месяцев назад +11

      I agree.. season 3 was real good... I actually really like season 2...it's just like everything goes to hell. Good Stuff... but Season 1.. had the Biggest case and Finale...it was good stuff...the Best.

    • @derekbidelman2442
      @derekbidelman2442 10 месяцев назад +11

      @puekawNEpuyrruh the other thing also is that Nic Polatizzo had years to develop and wrote that script and he only had 6 months for each of the following seasons because they had to get it in production and shoot it.
      Nic himself said something to that affect in an interview.
      With it being an anthology it'd a new cast new story entirely each season so it's hard to develop and endear characters to the audience with such a small amount of screen time.

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@derekbidelman2442 Apparently, he wrote Season 1 in six months too. But Season 1 was pure inspiration, and that's not something that just comes because the channel has a schedule to keep. Seasons 2 and 3 show flashes of the man's genius, but neither was built on an inspired foundation. Instead, they seemed to be chasing inspiration, hoping it would emerge. It never did.
      Still, it sucks to have to follow up your own best work. Everything pales in comparison.

    • @derekbidelman2442
      @derekbidelman2442 10 месяцев назад +4

      @rottensquid if he did write it in 6 month, I still thought I saw an interview that he had kinda had this idea for a show for a long time.
      If you come out your first show and do so well,it's gotta be tough to follow it up.

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@derekbidelman2442 Yeah, I see your point. Something that's been in the hopper for years can come together in weeks. And also from the interviews, it's clear season 1 was very personal.

  • @brucewayne823
    @brucewayne823 Год назад +360

    I watched Season 1 NO LESS than 15 times. Possibly over 20. It was so freaking deep. Honestly, it is an accurate depiction of our world all the way down to the News denying that Errol Childress was of any relation to the Governor and covering up the massive conspiracy. Just an isolated incident with a crazy guy.

    • @jeffandersen7397
      @jeffandersen7397 Год назад +18

      It really is far superior to anything in it's genre.

    • @msaad8053
      @msaad8053 Год назад +6

      Same I watch it every year

    • @alexjones1027
      @alexjones1027 10 месяцев назад +9

      I just watched it again over the last two nights (hard to believe it's almost 10 years old!), probably still the best single season of television ever, that I've seen at least.

    • @nospoon4799
      @nospoon4799 9 месяцев назад

      Then you missed most of the show. One and two are just as good. Everybody ignores it in favour of brownnosing season one.. I don't get that tbh.

    • @pajeetsingh
      @pajeetsingh 7 месяцев назад

      How was Ted Bundy managed to get away so many times? Wasn’t told so wasn’t known.

  • @Tomj382
    @Tomj382 Год назад +122

    What was so amazing to me personally was how each character visibly grows and evolves over the course of the 17 years. Plus McConaugheys depiction of grief and how its effect bleeds into every aspect of life and perception of reality is spectacular and should honestly be studied.

  • @rottensquid
    @rottensquid 10 месяцев назад +75

    There's no denying that Nic Pizzolatto is brilliant. The notion that there is no such thing as opposites, there's only symmetry? That's brilliant. But I think the fate of the True Detective series shows the dangers of brilliance. Nic is a novelist who wrote a TV show, and he came to blows with Cary Fukunaga, the director of the series. Because as a director, Cary was thinking cinematically. Prose and film are two fundamentally different media. Prose dives into the interiority of characters and world, while cinema can only imply it.
    That's what's so magical about cinema, especially something like True Detective. We're profoundly intimate with Marty and Rust's inner lives, as well as the underpinning meaning of the Louisiana environment, the sense of apocalypse, of eternal decay. And yet, all of this is created through implication. It's done through the nuance of performance, cinematography, even makeup. But Nick is used to having total control over all that, every word being part of his craft. So it's my understanding that, when Cary started cutting unnecessary dialog, or changing scenes because they didn't work in the film medium, Nic freaked out. He thought the point of the show was to realize his vision, not collaborate. Except film is a fundamentally collaborative medium.
    Season 2 shows us Nic's unfiltered vision. And it's wordy and rambling, with very little of its shaggy-dog narrative leading anywhere meaningful. What it needed was an editor, someone to challenge Nic and say "What's the point of this line, or this scene? Where is it all going?" It's almost as though Nic was so determined to prove that the brilliance of season 1 all came from him, he ended up turning off his own inner critic. The doubt that his collaboration with Cary awakened led him to overcorrect, treating every half-baked notion as gold. And the result is a rough draft that should never have gone before the camera. Even the opening credits are a disaster. Everyone loves Leonard Cohen, but that particular song is so utterly lacking in atmosphere, it fails to serve its primary purpose.
    It's heartbreaking, because the Nic Pizzolatto who wrote True Detective Season 1 is still in there somewhere. Both seasons 2 and 3 show flashes of brilliance. What they needed was more time in the oven, more refinement, more cinema, everything Cary brought to season 1. Nic seems like he's become a victim of his own ego, no longer able to refine his own work, and yet unable to collaborate with anyone who dares point out where it needs improvement.

    • @derekbidelman2442
      @derekbidelman2442 7 месяцев назад +1

      So true, with written narrative, everything has to be said to paint the picture. With cinema, emotions can be implied with a look or with body language. Nic relied on having to get his thoughts and move the story with spoken word, and he struggled letting the director do his job and drive the story. The casting director and executive producers did an absolutely amazing job with every choice they made. The actor who played Erol is a tremendous actor and has done other work with HBO before he is a very versatile actor.Going back to written word vs body language to convey thoughts,motives and intentions, the cadence and accents that Erol uses show the depth of his madness and evil in a way that could never be achieved by simply speaking.

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@derekbidelman2442 Absolutely. This reminds me of the Good Omens adaptation. The best thing about it wasn't from the book, it was the charming screen chemistry between the two main actors. That's something the written word can't capture. Everyone loves to sing the praises of the written word, especially writers. But actors and performance bring something writers can't. Great actors bring a whole universe of subtext in those things you talk about, cadence, accent, body language, micro-expressions. And two actors working off one another can increase this exponentially. That's what I think chemistry is, actors communicating with one another through that subtext. If they aren't reading and understanding one another on that level, there's no chemistry. This is why Robert De Niro says the most important skill of an actor is listening to other actors. It's reading their subtext and reacting to it.
      We love the idea of great auteur directors with singular visions, but what makes film so unique is the collaborative aspect of it, they so many people come together to (ideally) serve a single vision. It's the community of a film that I think gives it its power.

    • @derekbidelman2442
      @derekbidelman2442 7 месяцев назад +2

      @rottensquid I think we are seeing it more also with actors getting behind the camera. They understand what it's like to be on the other side. Like Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson with Passion of the Christ OMG talk about transcending the written word Jim Chevsel made me feel like I was actually watching Christ be crucified. I'm not a religious person, but I was sobbing at that scene along with pretty much everyone in the theater.
      Michael Mann also with Heat. The way he let Deniro and Pachino dialog the diner scene and the way they look at each other, you can sense that these guys are exactly the same if there path had been altered slightly, they could have changed positions and either one could have been a cop or a criminal. They liked each other, but they also knew that they could and would kill each other, even though they didn't want to. It is one of the most underrated scenes of all time.
      Even though it is not a drama, Grumpy Old Men with Walther Matthau and Jack Lemmon is a perfect example of chemistry between two actors.They have been in films together for years, and you can sense that
      Just their expressions and looks like they give one another.

    • @bovinejoannie9429
      @bovinejoannie9429 6 месяцев назад

      I prefer season 2

    • @derekbidelman2442
      @derekbidelman2442 6 месяцев назад

      @bovinejoannie9429 that's interesting, did you watch them in order or did you watch the 2nd season first? Like we had kinda talked about the reviews for the 2nd season were not as good because the 1st season set the bar so high. It was also the season of McConaughey, that was around the time he was winning every acting award possible with True Detective and Dallas Buys club so that enhanced the first season popularity. Have you watched the 3rd season?

  • @simonhadley8829
    @simonhadley8829 Год назад +31

    Rust never mourned the loss of his daughter. He never let the hurt in so he could come to terms with it and that ate him up. Throughout the show we see a guy on the edge of mourning but never letting hit happen, not until the end.

    • @derekbidelman2442
      @derekbidelman2442 11 месяцев назад +4

      I think he was not able to. It was so painful that he just died right then and there.
      He knew there was no way he could ever come to terms with his daughters death.
      He knew that for the rest of his life, he would never be OK. Like he said ( I lack the constitution for suicide but , I tell myself I'll bare witness)( but obviously, it's just my programming).

    • @BAGG8BAGG
      @BAGG8BAGG Месяц назад +2

      In a way you are right and wrong, He built a whole philosophy around protecting his daughter, He destroyed any chance of happiness by building a world view where dying in the circumstance his young daughter did would exclude her from pain. He took all his pain and painted a world view that would torture himself so as to keep her safe.
      He mourns her everyday by living in the nihilistic world he has created, is he wrong? maybe? but his character mirrors the sacrifice he makes in life for what he did for his daughter.
      it's beautiful nearly.

    • @simonhadley8829
      @simonhadley8829 Месяц назад +1

      @@BAGG8BAGG Well said.

  • @kaj7135
    @kaj7135 Год назад +198

    That intro was golden. There’s nothing more insufferable than a Netflix adaptation.

    • @colasrtney
      @colasrtney Год назад +8

      What was that he was watching?

    • @theeloquentweiner7054
      @theeloquentweiner7054 Год назад +22

      @@colasrtney the live action cowboy bebop show

    • @sillygrill
      @sillygrill Год назад +1

      @@theeloquentweiner7054hahaha

    • @delilah5366
      @delilah5366 Год назад +9

      Once I watched this show, I became hooked on Matthew McConaughey as an actor. Good stuff.

    • @kateapple1
      @kateapple1 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@theeloquentweiner7054man I liked it!

  • @rosstrue3010
    @rosstrue3010 5 месяцев назад +5

    I watched season 1 in a shitty hotel room while working in rural Louisiana (Coushatta) for two weeks, and it looked/felt EXACTLY like it does in the show. Easily the creepiest part of the US

  • @vincentshadetree
    @vincentshadetree 10 месяцев назад +10

    CHEF'S KISS on that intro with Marty being disgusted by the Netflix Cowboy Bebop 😅

  • @vincentshadetree
    @vincentshadetree 10 месяцев назад +22

    11:45 Agreed with this part, they had the camera following the whole time, but there was so much going on all at once, you really get the impression that some of these violent crimes, there's an element of luck to you surviving it, cause you just can't account for everything when planning and when the plan switches like this one did....damn lol

  • @ricksgrandauditorium8790
    @ricksgrandauditorium8790 Год назад +1

    It was your video analysis thats pushed me to watch this mini-series, and I've watched a few. Very well done. Sub earned.

  • @koan__23
    @koan__23 Год назад +26

    The ending really got more to it.
    The last episode is titled "Emptiness and form" and it's a direct reference to a Buddhist idea of emptiness - "form is emptiness, emptiness is form" (Heart sutra). Emplying the Absolute is reflected in each particular, and visa versa.
    Rust desrcibes his NED as feeling true and eternal love (the most genuine of which, to him, is of his deceased daughter). Much like the Gospel says "God is love."
    During the interview, Rust speaks of being doomed to a cyclical repetition of time. But after, in the hospital, he realizes there is something beyond the time-cycle. Much like Hindu and Buddhist religions teach liberation (moksha/nirvana) from samsara (the sorrow of repeated birth and death).
    Rust, the pessimistic skeptic, basically met God by sacrificing his life in defending the innocent from pure evil. The writers made a point to potray it plainly, with no grey areas. It's evil p3dos preying on innocent children. Unlike the characters who have a grey area of moral struggle, the case they deal with is a matter of light vs dark.
    In response to Rusts' NED experience, Marty, who was a religious hypocrite (hiding his despicableness behind religion) now takes a knee to hear Rusts' "Gospel."
    This a personal take, but in the end Rusts' resembles renditions of Jesus marchinh at his crucifixion - worn down, having a hard time carrying the weight placed on him.
    Rusts' conclusion leans towards a Gnostic take, focusing on the battle between light and darkness (also present in John's Gospel).

    • @samichjpg
      @samichjpg Год назад +1

      form and void are directly out of Genesis 1 as well

    • @gxkdykxiyx1985
      @gxkdykxiyx1985 11 месяцев назад +3

      As a final addition to Rust's "redemption", go back to the last episode at 43 minutes 29 seconds and look at the shape of the light shining on Rust's head

    • @drendansmada
      @drendansmada 6 месяцев назад

      Fantastic analysis

  • @calex5591
    @calex5591 10 месяцев назад +4

    Hey man great video. Just popped up on my broken feed. Resonated a lot with things I’m facing today then this video came along to remind me of the circle vs the sphere, the continuum of it all, and where it needs to go, we all must do everything everyday and every moment for that future to come to pass or for better or for worse, NOT to come to pass. Thank you.

  • @martian_turtle4070
    @martian_turtle4070 Год назад +15

    Holy shit I can't believe you have less than 100 subs! This video was excellent. Just subbed myself, will watch your other videos, and look forward to whatever is on the horizon.
    Just watched True Detective for the first time about a week ago. Immediately started rewatching it. That palpable constant sense of dread is a large part of why I love the show so much. It always feels like there's some greater evil at play Just out of view

  • @leonefurlan137
    @leonefurlan137 Год назад +3

    I like your vid a lot! Good work!
    Subbed + liked.
    P.S.and yeah, s01 is the best season of any series ever,a masterclass,i watched it 10 times,and more... The characters ,the story,the filming,dialigue ,all is perfect,well crafted & executed!
    Carcosa...

  • @dunglifemovement
    @dunglifemovement Год назад

    good video man and analysis. i watched this show back in 2014 and just recently bought the season 1 dvd a month ago, and am rewatching it with my girlfriend. shes never seen it before and its so great to sit alongside someone who is viewing it for the first time. also, there are so many things that i didnt notice the first time i watched that i was able to notice the second time around. such a great show.

  • @jonnowocky8179
    @jonnowocky8179 9 месяцев назад +17

    Would love to see further discussion of Maggie; like everyone else she’s deeply flawed, and in a way catalyses the entire third (fourth?) act. She has moments of strength and weakness, and I love how in the final scene, huge engagement ring from her forthcoming second marriage on her finger, her and Marty find some sort of transparent appreciation for each other, maybe for the first time

    • @Duzykutas
      @Duzykutas 5 месяцев назад +2

      She's not that flawed. Probably my fav female 'wife' character.

    • @mustardbiscuits9750
      @mustardbiscuits9750 3 месяца назад

      @@DuzykutasHer flaws are implied and hinted at rather than explicitly shown and explored, like with Marty.

    • @Duzykutas
      @Duzykutas 3 месяца назад

      @@mustardbiscuits9750 Curious to hear what her flaws were in your opinion.

    • @mustardbiscuits9750
      @mustardbiscuits9750 3 месяца назад

      @@Duzykutas Her parents consider her a “ball buster”, as does her husband. She is entirely insensitive to the plight of her husband working an extremely traumatic job, and expects him to have the time and attention that an office worker could provide. She considers him a “chickenshit” for changing after his father died only a year ago, a man who Marty claims to have been close with. None of this excuses Marty, however. She is portrayed as a normal person with normal flaws, which is what I love about the overall dynamic with them all.

    • @Duzykutas
      @Duzykutas 3 месяца назад +1

      @@mustardbiscuits9750 I've watched the season like 7 times already and got a totally different pespective to you. One could make the argument that she has just an much of a traumatic job as Marty, but you don't see her cheating on him or acting out in other ways. Is it being a ballbuster holding people to a certain standard? I've seen plenty of ballbusting women on tv but she certainly isn't one of those, despite her clueless mother's opinion (if that is even legit and not just Marty's projecting of straight out lying).
      I think she considers him a chickenshit for other reasons, not sure where you got it from that it refers specifically to Marty's dad dying. I liked Marty in the show, but I gravitated much more to Cohle, who I consider one of my fav tv characters of all time. Now there was a man with principles, who was willing to make a sacrifice.

  • @zeitgeist5134
    @zeitgeist5134 3 месяца назад

    I am grateful for the clips from Pizzolatto's interviews. Enlightening, especially accompanied by your own analysis. I will tell friends new to True Detective that they must watch this video.
    I'll be taking a look at the videos listed in your channel.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  3 месяца назад

      Much appreciated! Thank you for your comment, the recommendations and for checking out the rest of the channel 👍

  • @ckel1579
    @ckel1579 Год назад +4

    Great video on a great series.
    Never seen such an incredible analysis.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад

      Thank you for the kind words!!

  • @LondraCalibro9
    @LondraCalibro9 Год назад +2

    great channel, thank you for the hard work. your pearl video was superb too.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад

      Thank you so much for watching them both!

  • @srendanbchaub8601
    @srendanbchaub8601 Год назад +37

    It needs to be said that Cary Joji Fukunaga deserves more credit than pizzolatto for making s1 so refined and compelling, we got to see what pizzolatto without Fukunaga was like in s2

    • @ShaneMichealCupp
      @ShaneMichealCupp Год назад +5

      season 2 is underrated.
      people don’t understand that season and how every character is actually dead.

    • @srendanbchaub8601
      @srendanbchaub8601 Год назад +2

      @@ShaneMichealCupp please elaborate, I may have read about this theory forever ago and forgot but even if that were true I doubt that explanation would make the show a better watch, I remember them saying they were going for a Lynchian vibe for s2 and I love Lynch style and all they managed was some Lynchian camera angles the rest was drivel but I'd still hear you out or watch a vid if you have a link

    • @Verboten-xn4rx
      @Verboten-xn4rx 10 месяцев назад

      Fukanaga is a nobody - reason he was selected for no time to die turkey. The show is Nick.

    • @Verboten-xn4rx
      @Verboten-xn4rx 10 месяцев назад

      @@Shakenmike117 no script no film. Exactly what is Fukanaga famous for? Nothing. Pizalatto made it clear he called the shots F didn't like that. Also no other writers was the stipulation very unusual for a US show . It's a total fake theory that because F... wasn't doing Season 2 it was a dud it's totally different from TD 1 with or without F. Like Peckinpah said there are only 2 directors in Hollywood the rest are just atmosphere.

    • @Verboten-xn4rx
      @Verboten-xn4rx 10 месяцев назад

      @@Shakenmike117 you sound like an AI bot troll. Others on YT have answered that question about Fukanaga - in hours and hours of posts and comments. 9 years since TD1 Fukanaga isn't an autuer he's just a director - and their 2 a penny. As for me I am a nobody takes 1 to know one. Fukanaga was just lucky to get the contract. His views are very woke nothing remotely Cohle or Bond about him.

  • @shawnintheclouds
    @shawnintheclouds 4 месяца назад

    Great video. I love your outlook on this story. Liked and subscribed.

  • @kameronbasseri1953
    @kameronbasseri1953 Год назад +1

    Very very Well done video! You just got a new subscriber!!

  • @sarthakkhanna9903
    @sarthakkhanna9903 4 месяца назад +1

    I can’t believe you used the Silent Hill Tears Of… so perfectly in the beginning. Man of culture - love it!

  • @victoriadiesattheend.8478
    @victoriadiesattheend.8478 Год назад +6

    Few people can appreciate the genius that was the first season of True Detective. I realize now, even more than the first time I saw it, just how extraordinary it is, for unlike many other things it does not lose its bloom, nor it's meaning, over time. Thank you for this. Will be subbing.

    • @kaybh9743
      @kaybh9743 Год назад

      Ah yes, only “few people”. That’s why most people jack themselves off over how “brilliant” this show is.

  • @grandmasterautistwizard4291
    @grandmasterautistwizard4291 Год назад +7

    Only 77 subscribers? This was really well put together.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад +3

      Looks like 78 now thanks to you! Much appreciated

  • @WaltWht
    @WaltWht 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for creating this video. TD 1 is incredibly deep. 👍🏻

  • @TheCmascagni
    @TheCmascagni Год назад +2

    This is tremendous. Great video.

  • @dylanbenjaminwalter2896
    @dylanbenjaminwalter2896 8 месяцев назад

    Great vid man. Thank you

  • @Michele-cl3dz
    @Michele-cl3dz Год назад +1

    NO WAY i was looking everywhere for that first clip edit of the cowboy bebop live action. amazing. thanks

  • @OntarioAtOrion
    @OntarioAtOrion 4 месяца назад +2

    The way the FBI declassified that exact spiral as a symbol for that same kind of ring featured in season one, and the ties to politicians, police, schools and churches all rings true to life now

  • @bowieupland6112
    @bowieupland6112 Год назад +5

    I just saw this a few days ago, my mind was blown. I also love that it was shot on Film, for that gritty feel.

  • @StruggleoftheOutsider
    @StruggleoftheOutsider 11 месяцев назад +8

    Season 2 is way under rated... you gotta be in the right state of mind.. but s'really solid. ✊

  • @raulalejandrolucerogarciar4326
    @raulalejandrolucerogarciar4326 Год назад +5

    Nice touch, putting a silent hill melody on the background. Cheers!

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад +2

      Hey thanks for noticing that! They really went hand in hand tbh

  • @Auroraswolfpack
    @Auroraswolfpack Год назад

    Great explanation!!!

  • @shyboy2112
    @shyboy2112 Год назад +12

    Season 1 is a wonder of television, a true masterpiece and the gold standard of its genre.

  • @JasentheHun
    @JasentheHun 4 месяца назад

    Enjoyed this. Thanks.

  • @melindamartin9765
    @melindamartin9765 10 месяцев назад +3

    This is my favourite series ever....True Detective Season 1 is amazing from start to finish 👍🙏

  • @melissae1116
    @melissae1116 Год назад

    I need to watch this. Good video.

  • @Skipjack7814
    @Skipjack7814 4 месяца назад +1

    One reason 1 is so great is the cast, and by that I mean all the supporting actors, even the peripheral, only seen once characters are completely believable. Just brilliant.

  • @davew.7115
    @davew.7115 4 месяца назад +1

    For people that liked this show , I strongly suggest watching a trilogy called Red Riding 1974 , 1980 and 1983 it is very well done , not low budget a British crime drama although under rated it doesn't disappoint . The films were put out by IFC that does some outstanding work .

  • @IDontBuyIt50
    @IDontBuyIt50 Год назад +3

    I didn't come to this quite so late, but certainly well after it was big. I have always been sort of similar in philosophy to Rust. I relate strongly to his overall idea about the future of humanity, which is why I think your breakdown of all the rest of his traits that go with that one are really solid. I agree across the board, though I would argue even though I think he does seem more like he's trying to convince himself, its possible to be where he is and not be doing that. I don't have the excuse of a major personal loss for feeling the way that I do, but consequently that also means there is nothing I am psychologically masking or trying to fool myself out of facing. Aside from Rust, my other favorite guy along these lines is The Comedian by Dean Morgan. Great quote...what happened to the American dream? "Are you kidding? It came true!! your looking at it."

    • @VG-fk6nk
      @VG-fk6nk Год назад

      They were both proven wrong, if you actually watched and understood the stories being told. Should make you reconsider a thing or two about yourself. Not that it will. It's far more comfortable to just go on as you are, and live in denial.

    • @IDontBuyIt50
      @IDontBuyIt50 Год назад

      @@VG-fk6nk thanks for stopping by to add absolutely zero substance, but like every douche in the post 2020's you managed to bring all the negativity and accusations used on a stranger u know nothing about. Then you have the sheer balls to pretend you are superior.

    • @IDontBuyIt50
      @IDontBuyIt50 5 месяцев назад

      @@VG-fk6nk not sure if I ever noticed this before, maybe I had an appropriate response and it was deleted. Just in case that wasn't what happened.....wow, you are a first class jackhole.

  • @arcanosam
    @arcanosam 4 месяца назад

    Indeed, a great video. thanks

  • @mydaddyatemyeyes
    @mydaddyatemyeyes Год назад +7

    I loved this breakdown. TD season 1 is one of my fav miniseries/show of all time. Other seasons don't even come close. Hope you do more shit like this bc I'm subscribing.
    Saw another vid of yours, and I'm not big on anime, but one of my favorites is the Hellsing Ultimate OVA. Just me flinging an idea like a monkey flings a piece of shit.
    Wish you luck on your endeavors bro. Keep producing content and I'll keep tuning in.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад +1

      Thanks for the praise and the sub man, really glad you liked the video! The next one will be non anime for sure since I'm aiming to give the channel some variety.

    • @nornor-hg9rm
      @nornor-hg9rm 5 месяцев назад +1

      14:09 what song is this? It's beautiful@@zuttoshow

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  5 месяцев назад +1

      @@nornor-hg9rm It's the end of Silent Hill Theme - Akira Yamaoka and leads into Ustulate Pathos - Shinji Hosoe 👍

  • @FALANDOFINANCEIRAMENTE
    @FALANDOFINANCEIRAMENTE 2 года назад +6

    loved the Cowboy Bebop reference

  • @mattheweast4392
    @mattheweast4392 Год назад +17

    Sometimes I think I'm the only person who liked season 2.

    • @MadScientist81
      @MadScientist81 Год назад +7

      It’s not that bad but Season 1 set the bar too high.

    • @PhilP8980
      @PhilP8980 Год назад +9

      It's not bad but season one is one of the best seasons of a television show ever. It's hard to live up to.

    • @restoreupscale1521
      @restoreupscale1521 Год назад +2

      Hey! It's not bad at all!

    • @Dapryor
      @Dapryor Год назад +2

      I rewatched it recently and it comes across as satire on the noir genre. It’s just too over-the-top.

    • @MarkDaleADV
      @MarkDaleADV Год назад

      I loved it! Even more damaged characters than the first season, played just as brilliantly. Not watched the third season, can't imagine it can top the first two?

  • @danielberg5049
    @danielberg5049 10 месяцев назад +2

    Of all the Alan Moore inspired works, this would be one of my favorites.

  • @thommybepunkt7111
    @thommybepunkt7111 Год назад +3

    The Silent Hill Soundtrack fits perfectly!

  • @AlbertoBalsalme
    @AlbertoBalsalme 9 месяцев назад

    Great analysis, this season will forever be one of my most beloved work of television. What is the beautiful instrumental playing before the part about the behind the scenes? 14:36

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  9 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you! The background music is Ustulate Pathos - Zero Time Dilemma OST.

  • @MrAjmay1
    @MrAjmay1 Год назад +28

    Saw TD, S1 for the first time a month ago. Cannot recommend enough...maybe the best series I've ever seen. At any level (visceral/literal, allegorical, metaphysical...), and it's all enjoyable. The mere tease of the Yellow King worked great. Harrelson is great, but McConaughey ascends to the levels of Oldman, Bale, Washington, Theron, etc.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад +5

      Once in a lifetime performance for sure, gets better with each rewatch

    • @darlapeelman1610
      @darlapeelman1610 Год назад

      I know, absolutely amazing.❤️🔥😎

  • @williamswilliams5617
    @williamswilliams5617 4 месяца назад +2

    Im here to say season 2 has the best characters and character development in the series. Season 3 is all around incredible. All have great visuals. And thanks for not using an ai voice 😂

  • @markburckhard553
    @markburckhard553 Год назад +3

    Best series I ever saw...

  • @torimorgenstein5498
    @torimorgenstein5498 Год назад +7

    I enjoyed this. I love hearing about how people process and interpret S1. Albeit S2 would have great had it not followed S1. Given another name that True Detective, S2 would be considered a great show. Because how could Anthing follow S1 and Not fail to meet expectations. Thank you for the video. I enjoyed it

  • @derekbidelman2442
    @derekbidelman2442 Год назад +4

    The scene with Nic Polattzo when he is the bartender in the strip club is great when, Marty breaks the 4th wall kinda and says ( why do you make me have to say this shit).

  • @retro-ronin
    @retro-ronin 9 месяцев назад +1

    True Detective with Silent Hill's soundtrack is just 💋🤏🏻 *chef's kiss*

  • @Franpowah
    @Franpowah Год назад +14

    It's sad that the one person Rust really connected with ended up using him for her own revenge.

  • @milespeterson665
    @milespeterson665 13 часов назад

    Rust knows he’s on a DVD. That’s the secret of his ramblings. Life is a flat circle, destined to repeat the same actions again and again.

  • @zuttoshow
    @zuttoshow  2 года назад +2

    New video dropping within the next day or two, hope you all enjoy it!

  • @moniqueengleman873
    @moniqueengleman873 5 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed your commentary

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙌

  • @chadrogers507
    @chadrogers507 9 месяцев назад +1

    I liked season 3 too. Season 2 was just ok, but seasons 1 & 3 were great. Now I’m excited for season 4

  • @LakrimaProject
    @LakrimaProject 3 месяца назад

    And now we got season 4 that makes seasons 2 and 3 retroactivly great somewhat. Also I love that "Tears of ..." Silent Hill game soundtrack.

  • @uvindukulathunga3860
    @uvindukulathunga3860 Год назад +6

    Marty cant resist the pain of his childhood getting ruined
    Dont care about the time line

  • @starwaving8857
    @starwaving8857 10 месяцев назад

    Good vid

  • @gobblegobble831
    @gobblegobble831 10 месяцев назад +1

    Opening got me good lol

  • @Rawdiswar
    @Rawdiswar Год назад +3

    Louisiana looks humid as hell.

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад

      I don't envy Nic Pizzolatto growing up there in the slightest 🥶

  • @GnarStark
    @GnarStark Год назад +1

    That opening is meme perfection.

  • @lifeisberserk9566
    @lifeisberserk9566 10 месяцев назад +4

    I really was to harsh on S1 when I first watched I said it was 7/10, then a year later I decided to rewatch and holy shit was I blind it definitely deserves all it's love and is easily one of the best seasons of TV ever and some of the best acting and horror mysteries ever. That's why I absolutely LOVE rewatching shows I usually get so much more out of them

  • @michaelh1832
    @michaelh1832 10 месяцев назад

    True Detective Season 1 can be understood by two concepts:
    1) the sum is greater than the parts
    2) one hit wonder
    I mildly enjoyed the show almost solely because the later version of the McConaughey character uncannily nailed my dad to a t: a long haired, cigarette obsessed scientist who knew his stuff, a societal outsider due to his nonconformity, and consumed by grief over the death of his son (my brother) in a car accident.
    This enjoyment has been somewhat overshadowed by the inanity and inflated egos of the two writer/producers who carefully followed, paint by numbers style, some How To book on scriptwriting, but then embarrassingly bought into the mistaken notion that they reinvented the wheel.

  • @borabuke1967
    @borabuke1967 Год назад +2

    whats that song starting at 1:35? also great video mate!

    • @zuttoshow
      @zuttoshow  Год назад +2

      Thanks for watching! It's a karaoke cover of the show's main theme - Far From Any Road by The Handsome Family.
      I used it to skate copyright a bit but I think it sounds nice in its own way!

  • @shiargch
    @shiargch 9 месяцев назад

    You should watch the essay by Shiva's Left Foot he did a great Essay about the philosophy of the flat circle vs spiral

  • @DocsChannel
    @DocsChannel 10 месяцев назад +2

    10:45 who is it?

  • @pajeetsingh
    @pajeetsingh 7 месяцев назад

    The next phase of Rust Cohle is to realise he is just chasing after small fishes in a pond and Tuttle is just another big fish of that pond. Would you have any motivation left after that? You vanish and cease to exists knowing nothing was worth the effort.

  • @ianleonard3264
    @ianleonard3264 Год назад +3

    The stash house scene was all one take

  • @dommyboysmith
    @dommyboysmith 9 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting you didn't like the casting of Glenn Fleshler as Erol because of Barry.
    I think of him almost exclusively as the proud Chef that cooked for Mason Verger in Hannibal and had no qualms about preparing human meat for consumption.
    He's arguably more terryfying in Hannibal with how nonchalant he is about describing the way he's going to prepare different human dishes.
    I loved the casting choice of him for this exact reason.

  • @thebaneking4787
    @thebaneking4787 4 месяца назад

    I loved season two. 3 wasn’t bad. I was hoping for a more direct connection to season one but they’re still good.

  • @nettewilson5926
    @nettewilson5926 Год назад +3

    I think this series was partially based on a the real case of a detective who investigated the torture-murders of several young girls by two psychopaths who had recorded the murders. The tapes haunted the detective and he eventually killed himself because he just couldn’t live with it. Sad stuff. Humans are horrific. But maybe not. Maybe this similarity is coincidental. Also the Greenman mythology is reflected in this series I think.

    • @RustCole01
      @RustCole01 9 месяцев назад +1

      I don't think Nic P ever cited a specific case, but I remember finding one that was pretty similar.
      Some former Reverend or Preacher in a small town down south, basically started a cult. They started off by dabling in some satanic nonsense in the attic of an old church. I forget all the details, but someone from the group brought back a runaway/drifter, and that was the 1st ritual murder that they carried out.
      They began luring in drifters and prostitutes, offering to let them join their church and giving them food and shelter. They murdered and mutilated something like 13 people. And they weren't in any real danger of getting caught. Apparently, the group killed a small child that belonged to one of the members and this led to the leader of the cult showing up at a state police station and confessing everything.
      The crime scene photos of the church had a lot of the same symbols that were in TD and are associated with the Satanic. Triangles, the all-seeing 3rd eye 👁, the spirals etc.
      I'm sure the info is still online, but I looked all of it up like 6 or 7 years ago

    • @nettewilson5926
      @nettewilson5926 9 месяцев назад

      @@RustCole01 that’s damn disturbing. Wtf is wrong with humanity

    • @RustCole01
      @RustCole01 9 месяцев назад

      @@nettewilson5926 If it's worth anything to you.... the world is probably safer and more civilized than it has ever been. We may flinch at the thought of some of these crimes that are exposed. But imagine the type of vile sh1t that people were getting up to decades and centuries ago.
      Even up until about 1950, there were full fledged p3do$, who would be charged with "Buggery". Buggery is just an old-timey word sodomizer. And it wasn't all that rare of a crime either.
      It's a strange paradox tho. Life is safer for the average citizen of a 1st world country, but we have way too much access to news that comes in the form of tragedy porn.
      Just gotta find that balance of knowing the ugliness that exists out there in the world, but appreciating the fact that we are far more insulated from that ugliness than ever before.

  • @yehboi6646
    @yehboi6646 Год назад

    The opening true detective theme, did you mix that?

  • @XeroFailGames
    @XeroFailGames Год назад +1

    Bro that intro

  • @recession81
    @recession81 4 месяца назад

    It's not even a TV show to me it's edited so well it's like you're watching an 8 hour movie

  • @Antnee659
    @Antnee659 Год назад

    Love the silent hill ref

  • @treyhayden
    @treyhayden 4 месяца назад

    Imagine watching Barry when your introduction to Glenn Fleshler was in Carcosa with the Little Preacher.

  • @sabojezles
    @sabojezles Год назад +1

    GOD DAAAAAMN! That Intro!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @MagashiSaizen
    @MagashiSaizen 5 месяцев назад

    The choice to play silent hill tracks for this was the perfect choice 👌

  • @monchiscastorena8768
    @monchiscastorena8768 Год назад +1

    I like season 2 like them both

  • @RizztrainingOrder
    @RizztrainingOrder 6 месяцев назад

    Don't feel bad, my tastes are usually dictated by others too.

  • @alexanderliaptchev8485
    @alexanderliaptchev8485 7 месяцев назад

    The yellow king is the skeleton at the end where the final fight happens.

  • @kraseidon
    @kraseidon Год назад

    What was the intro about? Why did it get cancelled?

  • @richardlopez2932
    @richardlopez2932 Год назад +1

    Nice video. Don't sweat being late to the party. I always am. And thanks to the internet and those instances when social media rises above such sad affairs as amateur stalking and dull memes, time is pretty mutable as far as intelligent opinions are concerned, and yours is pretty intelligent. It's easy to get lost in how dark True Detective is -- it's almost like if Se7en stayed with John Doe for the whole year he made his sloth victim, or if you had to stay with Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs while he wenting clubbing and talked about the finer points of life. I mean, there's blood & guts dark and gallows humor dark and then there's breaking down a serial killer to see if you can divide them into something remotely human. The last one is True Detective. I kind of like to think there's some Orwellian light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel optimism in all of this, that the fact that it even gets talked about is the best progress we can hope for. At least for the time being.

  • @bigjavi2681
    @bigjavi2681 9 месяцев назад

    I just finished watching this show and really enjoyed this video you really explain the show pretty good although the second season wasn't that bad obviously the first season is the best The third season was crap though in my opinion and the fourth season coming out it looks crappy too maybe because the two main characters are not familiar actors for me

  • @thaisplouvier5403
    @thaisplouvier5403 6 месяцев назад

    "There's no such things as opposites. There's only symetry."

  • @donaldreid4193
    @donaldreid4193 5 месяцев назад

    It’s too good

  • @LakrimaProject
    @LakrimaProject 3 месяца назад

    That makes me think, imagine Fukunaga and Pizzolatto making Silent Hill movie heh

  • @Cbart23
    @Cbart23 5 месяцев назад +2

    Aluminum. Ash.

  • @Vmt0408
    @Vmt0408 5 месяцев назад

    Whats the name of the music that starts at 7:02

  • @callmeviper7723
    @callmeviper7723 6 месяцев назад

    The cosmic horror catapulted this show into the greatest of all time.

  • @OwenL2020
    @OwenL2020 5 месяцев назад

    That prelude to season 2 😂😂😂

  • @frodomindset
    @frodomindset 8 месяцев назад

    Whats the music at 1:45?

  • @McShag420
    @McShag420 Год назад

    I am going to be critical and if you see this comment, know it is just me trying to help.
    The subject matter and your breakdown is all quite good.
    ENUNCIATE YOUR WORDS. I can barely understand what you are saying most of the time.

  • @noobovsky420
    @noobovsky420 Год назад +1

    I got the tattoo. That’s how much I love season 1 TD.

    • @Rawdiswar
      @Rawdiswar Год назад

      The fore arm tattoo?

    • @noobovsky420
      @noobovsky420 Год назад

      @@Rawdiswar yes sir. Done by the legend Josh Lord at Graceland tattoo in NYC. Designer of the tattoos in season 1 and credited

    • @Rawdiswar
      @Rawdiswar Год назад

      @@noobovsky420 Cool, it's a dragon?

    • @noobovsky420
      @noobovsky420 Год назад

      @@Rawdiswar it’s a raven.

    • @Rawdiswar
      @Rawdiswar Год назад

      @@noobovsky420 Raven, even better

  • @syndicateproductionstarana4925
    @syndicateproductionstarana4925 5 месяцев назад

    Season one is the best t.v show ever,season 2 and 3 are terrible.The ending of season one i noticed that in hospital Ruste looks like Jesus with bleeding eyes,long hair.I mean the Jesus people paint.This is one deep series.I wish i could watch it again for the first time.Ive watched it more times than i can count.Being filmed on old school film added to the amazing camera shots and scenery.If you havnt seen this ,i suggest you watch it a.s.a.p.Great breakdown of a brilliant series

  • @redseaford9426
    @redseaford9426 5 месяцев назад

    You didnt see that guy in barry before this. This premiered years before barry lol