Ehhhhh idk the ending felt criminally rushed, I feel like all they needed was 1 more, 1 more episode tie everything up. Other than that it’s a masterpiece, and seriously some of the greatest television in the last 20 years.
@@Lite727 my one critique is I thought Marty’s father in law was gonna be the reason his daughter was so messed up. I though the father in law was going to be a part of the carcosa cult.
Why? Their stories were told. It was a perfect show, any sequel involving Rust and Marty would have been a terrible idea. S2 & S3, whilst not perfect like S1, are really good shows. I've watched both several time.
Without question, season 1 of True Detective is THE best series ever shown on TV, everything is just perfect and I’m insanely jealous of anyone who hasn’t seen it and gets to watch it for the first time
I noticed that during their fight in 2002 Woody is thrown at Matthews car and destroys the brake light. When Matt pulls over Woody we see the brake light is still broken. This shows that Rust refuses to stop, and that he hasn’t moved on even 10 years later
Thank you I wanted to know why that was shown to us. I kept hoping it wasn't going to be a twist of Marty being the murderer and that it had something to do with that.
@@ErinJeanette 'Time is a flat circle.' “Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again.” It’s just a reminder of a broken man doing what he’s always done because he can’t stop. But in that moment I thought what you thought too
I think too, its just part of his anti consumerism non-materialistic outlook on life. He literally lives in a back room inside a tavern lol. Even when he had a career, he had a mattress on the floor. I can relate (though i do have furniture lol) because I just dont buy things unless I absolutely have too. I dont want to sleep on the floor but the things i own I have had for over 15 years. My laptop runs windows 7…… I went through a glutton phase about 20 years back, made money & spent money, that was my entire point in life. Thats just sad & ignorant. Now I buy less & experience more with a focus on education. Free lectures online & library books. No degree, just learning for the sake of learning. Once u break away from the materialistic reward system its like coming from another planet. Every aspect of life is dominated by marketing, every person u know is still living that lifestyle….. Yet, u see everything differently now.
@@danielonley7684 After re-watching this episode on Bluray, we can clearly see the brake light completely intact & unharmed in any way after having his body hit the truck & fall to the ground. I dont know if this is a production oversight or if we were never meant to connect the 2 scenes together?? I assumed watching the first time through that we certainly were suppose to remember the fight when seeing the broken tail light, but now, im not so sure.
I’m on my 3rd watch through right now and just finished episode 3 last night and could not agree more. The juxtaposition of their two characters, which is really driven home on screen by Marty, really helps Rust Cohle shine that much brighter. Marty follows a traditional universal morality but doesn’t understand his own hypocrisy regarding his poor choices resulting in infidelity and being a poor husband and father. Cohle is either amoral or subscribes to a moral relativism that one would think cause him to be a bad person; but, despite this, he actually acts more in line with a “normal” moral compass than the religious fundamentalists he’s surrounded by. Which also adds to his disdain for the day to day monotony he’s subjected to. Harrelson’s every-man detective performance that fits into a neat stereotype is played so well that it really gives McConaughey the perfect balance to let his character be as interesting as he is. And it’s exacerbated by how much Cohle sees through Marty and his honesty in showing it. When it shows Marty cheating the first time and showing up at work the next morning in the same clothes and they have the confrontation where Rust tells him to clean up and Marty gets in his face, Cohle knew he was projecting his own inadequacies and bad choices onto him, which is why he told him “if you’ve got some self-loathing to do, that’s fine.” While Marty was pissed at the time, that also was the reason Marty was comfortable enough to ask Rust if it’s possible to love two women at the same time or if he wonders if he’s a bad man…because he knew at that point Rust had probably a better insight into who Marty was than Marty did himself. And Rust wasn’t hamstrung by the inherent hypocrisy of the dogma surrounding them, which meant he would be honest. All of this is merely me organizing my own thoughts lol, and just to say, that the show really doesn’t work without both of them together. Rust is such a great character because of his juxtaposition with Marty.
I can only put it in one sentence. "This is the best thing that's a moving picture that I have ever seen". Movies, home made video, anime, black and white movies, etc. This is the BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN on a screen.
One more point to make isn't just that rust grows increasingly less nihilistic, but that Marty also starts to become more and more nihilistic as the show goes on. In a way, both characters balance themselves out by the end of the show.
The final shot is so beautiful when we see that Marty made peace with his entire family who were there to comfort him, and he embraces Rust and vice versa. The light is winning.
Rust was never nihilistic. Nor was he a moral relativist, at least at any point depicted in the series. Ffs, he killed a junkie for injecting meth into his daughter. He clearly always had a sense of justice and righteous anger, something that a true nihilist doesn't bother with. He was more of a philosophical pessimist with a very cynical view of human nature, which it's fully possible to be and still have absolute moral values.
@@50iraqidinarHe did have a bits of nihilism as overall he didn’t think life had greater meaning to it. That’s why the revelation that the love of his child still exists totally warps his ego. He didn’t think anything beyond the flesh, behind the immediate present could exist. That is nihilism
I've lived in Louisiana my whole life. I had no idea about an HBO show being filmed around the state. I was pleasantly surprised to see those long, flat and beautiful (IMO) landscapes. Don't know why the changed the hospital at the end to Lafayette General. I'm from Lafayette, live in Lafayette, you don't want to end up at General. 😐
I have to chuckle at reading this. I'm a Lafayette native (well Carencro if you want to be technical, I suppose) and was pleased at seeing a lot of the south Louisiana views. I got to have some great conversations with friends about those landscapes. I also can feel you on the remark about Lafayette General 😅
I may be predjudiced since I was at HBO and involved in both The Wire & True Detective Season 1 - but for a single season, TD1 is, I think the greatest TV show ever made - I always wished we (HBO) and given Nic and Cary another episode or two to develop Erroll Childress more - but that's nitpicking. For a multi-season series, The Wire is certainly among the greatest.
Interesting take, I think arguments could be made on both sides on developing Erroll Childress more, the mystery surrounding him and lack of identity was one of the most suspenseful and entertaining parts of the show, and perhaps developing his character may have detracted from that? Although on the other hand it would have been amazing to understand and see more of Erroll Childress character developed!
I think the lack of development for Erroll is suitable considering the "real" villain is given the entire season to develop - that being the group behind Carcosa, the Tuttles, as well as the general corruptive power of decay; the literal manifestation of The Yellow King
God I love this show so much. Everything is perfect, acting, writing, soundtrack, characters all perfect. It’s macabre, thought provoking, unsettling and is seeped in cosmic horror/ weird fiction yet also exists very much in a real grounded world. I’m of the opinion a lot of the occurrences in this show that were too coincidental were supernatural but that’s another discussion. Excellent video.
I'm with you. Season one had a similar sense of undefined supernatural elements lurking around every corner that the early bit of twin peaks had. Like, there's some deep, very old evil at play along with the evil men who are aligned with it trying to keep the truth from being uncovered.
Rust isn't transformed by authentic love. Listen to the words he says. The one consistent theme for his character is this realisation that in order to make correct decisions in the finite one must resign oneself to the infinite. In other words, a person must deny his own importance and begin to love other people, or remain caught staring into Narcissus' pool, wasting away. Nietzsche's flat circle is the version of the infinite he resigns to, having rejected any idea of god due it never making sense. In a world where a person is trapped, condemned to repeat their life over and over for eternity, the only correct action is to build your life into the most possible good it can do by discovering your true responsibility. If you are forced to repeat, at least make it a life with minimal suffering for other people. Like Camus talked about with Sisyphus, the resignation to the infinite allows him to see the inherent meaning in his actions on earth, so long as they don't focus on himself. Sisyphus was condemned to push the boulder, but he became a metaphor for teaching others about how to deal with suffering and repetition. He transcended himself by resigning to the infinite. When you fully comprehend the infinite, you realise that there is such a thing as too much freedom. You are not here to "be all you can be". You are here to do the one thing everyone else needs you to do. You have a responsibility, a debt to pay. The "mutual illusions" Rust talks about is our narcissism, that we think we are the main character in our movie and everyone else is supporting cast.
@Jethro Derp If your friend thinks having children causes a lot of suffering, he doesn't no shit about life. I'm not even married yet and I already know what it would feel like to have kids. You know for many their kids, is the 'purpose'.
Beyond any doubt, your analysis, altho well done, lacks the understanding of what it looks and feels like to have lost a child. Rust is exhibiting classic traits of a parent who's lost a child. I don't think he's narcissistic at all. Unless you've lost a child, there's no way to help you fully grasp, but Matthew McConn masterfully represented the detached, aloof, emotionless, slightly angry and edgy, despondent, no patience for niceties and small-talk, conventions of modern society. He's surviving. He wishes he'd have died instead of his daughter. I've only ever seen 1 other actor portray what it's like to lose a child and that was Sally Fields. How she did it, I'll never know. I never thought it could be possible. There's a look to the eyes, glazed over, like your soul has died but you're still alive. That's what I see in Matthew McConnaughey. Phenomenal portrayal that also lends suspicion to his intense obsession w/ the case. I've lost a child. Thats why I recognize it.
@Cynthia Behra It's quite disappointing listening to the speaker of this channel describing rust as arrogant. I think that comes from his own bias towards religion and this becomes clear when he describes Rust's transition away from unwavering arrogance and dogmatic certainty towards being open and willing to question the nature of our existence when in fact, Rust's argument of arrogance was that of the believer being arrogant in his belief that "all this is for me". Rust is pessimistic but also a realist. And it's the reality of the world as he believes it to be which disturbs him and so he he is far less "arrogant" and far more in a state of hopelessness. At the end of the season he finds peace and hope in the possibility of a realm outside time where you can experience the feeling of loved ones lost. This isn't about Rust suddenly discovering God as he never mentions that in his epiphany. McConaughey is a believer in real life but he was willing to explore his character's ideas with honesty and vulnerability and even admitting that Rust made a lot of sense in his monologues. If the speaker of this channel could have been that honest about this aspect of Rust's views, the review would have held more integrity and value but he was swayed in misrepresenting atheism than understanding Rust's mind on its own merit Im deeply sorry about the loss of your child. I know it's possibly too much to hope that you find peace from your despair but I truly hope you can find a way to learn to live with a life without your dear child. I wish I could send you love to you and your loved ones. Bless you ❤
Just finished watching the first season. So good! The last episode though had one point where I laughed out loud. Rust at 18:36 gives a little speech and uses the term "sentient meat" and afterwards at 18:56 Marty asks "What's scented meat?" LOL
I agree 100%, great video as always. But I have to say, what strikes me the most everytime I am watching the first season of TD and why I love it so much, it is an amazing example how true friendship works, despite all the burden, betrayal and suffering. A bond between Marty and Rust is probably my favorite of all the movies and tv shows.
I always felt *very* uncomfortable at the end when Rust tells Marty about his near-death-experience. It sounded not like something warm and secure, but like something sinister waiting in the darkness somewhere to swallow you, using your positive emotions as a ruse to make you comfortable with your own demise. It is similar to what Rust talks about in the interrogation about "looking in the eyes of the dead". He says (paraphrasing here a little bit) "in that last instant, they welcomed it". The whole series played with motives of Lovecraft, so I always interpreted it as bleak, although with a little bit of hope at the end.
You make a good point. Rust before the denouement would have never said looks like the light is winning. He would have called on the facts he no doubt knew, that someday the last photon from the last star will streak through space and fade away forever, leaving everything that ever was in infinite darkness. And that's IT. No sequel, no rewind. The Yellow King triumphant.
Watching this, it reminded me of how much of the weird almost Cthulu-esque nature of the story wasn't noticed by most people. Rust was my favorite because he wasn't a douchbag, but didn't seem to realize his senses were heightened to a different frequency from the drug abuse his undercover assignment required to sell his cover story, and struggled to get Woody's character to see things his way. The loss of his family seemed to be a catalyst to his mind expanding beyond the immediate concerns of standard law enforcement; he wanted to know the truth and do the right thing, regardless of what others thought. The Sea of Carcosa is a standard location in Great Old One (Call of Cthulu) mythology. It's a great thing that we all take different things from common media. Great video, dude.
Carcosa and the Yellow King were made by a separate writer , years later it was unofficially included into the Cthulhu/Lovecraftian mythos be modern writers that continued lovecraft stories. The genre specifically is called cosmic horror where the univers is big cold horrific place filled with untold horrors and humanity is meaningless and tiny compared to the big picture
Brilliant overview. I just re-watched the entire season one. It's so rare to have a television program hold up this well from the initial viewing. I think your points really detailed why. Thank you.
@@ChrisM-bn5vr yeah it was pretty obvious. Thats why I said 30 seconds they let that accusation marinate for barely any time before he walks through the abandon church CLEARLY not the killer
This is a good analysis. I thought there was one thread in Rust's revelation that went with Marty. Marty says goodbye to his ex-wife. Suspecting he would die. The "Debt" that had to be paid, was this justice. This unwavering line between absolute good and absolute evil. Yes there was adultery, drug use, and other "lesser evils" that all people get into even marty/rust. However there was one thing about them that constantly overtook them when it came to their decision making. They are, at heart "True detectives". Not just detectives as a job. It's in THEM. Marty lost his mind when he found the kids and blew LeDoux away. He couldnt take seeing dead or tortured kids, screaming like a maniac and ultimately driving him to fulfill that debt. Same with Rust. As nihilistic and self loathing as we was he was still driven to obsessively track and stop the "Yellow King" who was the lead in the ultimate evil of the Cult of the Carcossa in the Bayou. That line of love and hope you point out, is tempered IMHO by their sense of justice, one they cannot and will not ignore. Rust does not "let go" and just die to be with his daughter because of it. He and Marty are true detectives, true agents of justice.
To nudge them to watch, the quick 'n' dirty way I've used to describe it to friends who know and love cinema, is that True Detective Season One is like Russian cinema, like Tarkovsky, but it's American and it's a TV miniseries.
There’s a few shots in true detective that definitely are inspired by tarkovsky, such as the scene In the first church they find when the pieces of wood are sticking out around the two detectives
One of the problems with being too certain of a concept in meaning, is that one closes him/herself to the possibility of grace. I think Rust is humbled by his experiences - both before, and certainly after - his encounter with Errol Childress, and finally has his moment of grace. Marty, too, begins to come to some understanding of himself and the larger world, when he loses his family, but who come to him at the end - raising the hope that he and his children will re-establish a relationship. Both men change in both subtle and obvious ways as this show progresses, and it hits each note superbly.
Starting at 9:04, Rust not only looks like Christ but the light shining on his forehead and down the length of his nose clearly forms a cross. Thanks for the excellent analysis.
There is something also to be said about how in Rust's mission to catch the 'yellow king' he is introduced to all the concepts that help to trigger his spiritual awakening. While those concepts were introduced to him by evil people, they also applied to good people and Rust used them to go to the light versus the dark. This would counter his younger self's thoughts on fate and how we are helplessly locked in our paths by showing him we can choose our path in this universe. His later near death experience in the 'carcosa' crypts affirms this in him.
Everytime I re-watch this show, particularly season 1, i learnt something new, it's wonderful how a show could bring this to the audience. I could say this and Westworld are the two I feel like reading a book while watching. Just phenomenom !
I've never related to any media character the way I do with Rust. When he would talk about his views on life, it felt like someone pulled the thoughts out of my brain and put them on paper.
True Detective Season1 was the best. Season 2 was ambitious but got too jumbled in its ambition. Season 3 things returned to form & Ali & Dorff found almost as good a chemistry as Matthew & Woody. Great analysis man. Very articulate and well crafted.
I could not agree with more with your first words of your analysis of matthew. Perfectly said. He literally drank my mind up. I couldn't think of anything else but what the hell was he going to say next? What in the hell is he doing with those cans? Every movement he made on camera meant something. What a wonderful execution of a character period and I was tickled every time I saw Woody harrelson that he took the part. Subject matter was rather rough but it is real. There are sickos, whether there be secular, Protestant or Catholic or any other religion and they the real monsters and as they accuse others, they will continue doing it themselves.
Finished season one for the first time last night and it absolutely blew me away. Season one is one of the greatest cinematic achievements in history, what a phenomenal show. 10/10
Great content friend. TD s1 is one of my favorite pieces of modern entertainment. The phenomenal casting really allows the viewer to be entirely immersed in a top-tier story which, as you’ve discussed, touches on subjects and meanings that delve much deeper than the traditional crime drama. Nice work 👍🏻
Great review! You make me want to see this again. I've been avoiding it, only because it's so brutal, but the ending is so redemptive that it was worth getting through it.
PC 01 why does everyone take my comment so damn seriously??? I was being tongue and cheek!!! Hence the fricking smiley emoji!!! Does no one have a sense of humor anymore for crying out loud??
Agree with you completely !!!! Nic Pizzolato taught literature and writing at some top colleges. Cinematographer Cary Fukunaga is a master. His vision is reminiscent of the great Roger Deakins. Incredible casting for the types of people you would find living down in Louisiana and the bayou.
I disagree with your analysis. Rust was always a man of duty, and that apparent contradiction of being a nihilist but at the same time never giving up his duty was apparent throughout. Also, his speech (while older) about the hubris it takes to bring life into this meat makes it very clear to me that his nihilistic beliefs are still there and very strong. The only thing I am willing to accept is his change at the very end, when he says "the light is winning", but up until the end he remained a pure nihilist, but who at the same time acted as if human life does have value (except his own).
This is my absolute favourite tv show. I’ve watched it like 5 times already. And I will watch it again and again and again…because time is a flat circle
True Detective Season 1 is steeped in the occult, with a major Gnostic and Taoistic theme. The idea that the world we exist in is not quite Heaven, created by a Demiurge that wasn't meant to be created, who tried to recreate something that existed before Him. What plays out in this world is a Divine Play (Leela), in order to get to the conclusion and final destination, that which is of the Source, or the God above God. Each individual plays a part they've played many times, but certain individuals seem to be released, or freed, from this cyclic pattern of life. To many, this life is hell, and one way to get out is to simply disappear into nothingness, by doing something so atrocious, that they are taken out of the cycle. For some, those who confront their shadow, this repeated life is a series of lessons, in which when they get a glimpse into Heaven (the Source's true world), and when their shadow is removed, they can work in the light. So, there's the shortcut way out, represented by the antagonist, and there's the other way out, represented by the protagonist. When both are removed from this illusory world, one into a void of nothingness, and another into an unfathomable togetherness, then... well, you can figure it out. ;)
I agree with everything you said here. There aren’t adequate words to even describe how great this series is. I hope the forth season can come close to it’s depth
The whole season was drenched in Christian imagery and the characters both struggling with the flesh being too weak, or beaten in to submission by evil till they finally come to realize their own responsibility and or the fact they cannot wallow in despair any longer and must move on to something better, I half expected them to come to Christ by the end haha!!!! Such a great show!!!
@@anthonygibson5561 Mostly from reading the Bible and seeing the clear symbolism of the necessity to not let the world or the evil of men keep the main characters from pursuing goodness, realizing their own flaws and perspectives, and instead chasing the ideal of protecting and helping as best they can, but seeing the symbolism was mostly reading the Bible and seeing the clear moments of change with the characters and plot, and how they had had years of either self hatred or shame that had caused a spiral of bad decisions and then once they had decided to instead commit themselves to solving the case and helping the world or something greater they then have some true happiness and security in the future.
@@thewilhelmscream7912 it's hilarious how deep the confirmation bias is with you god botherers. Reading the Bible is actually the BEST way to get someone to realize that it's bronze age bullshit...if you go into it using your critical faculties. If you want some real insight into the nonsense you've used to try and overcome your fear of death, then I'm happy to help...thusly. Good luck clearing that bronze age language virus out of your brain. “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” ― Epicurus
Rust doesn't view himself as being weak and he definitely wasn't beaten into submission by anyone. He isn't ashamed of himself or his actions. He is a very responsible person. He never ran from his despair but learned to live with it.
That's odd that I didn't get a notification about your guys comments, I would have wanted to reply sooner, but I understand your perspective, I'm a massive skeptic of everything, especially anything related to spiritual hokum, I'm a Christian man because I can look at documented cases from neutral unbiased historical accounts with no possible gain to the people documenting these documentations that corroborate major events and miracles in the bible having occurred and to be part of the historical record, and the stuff I see from the scientific evidence like the fact that the planets structure, positioning and such all indicate a specific care to human beings, like us using the stars for positioning and how we have a unimaniganably good view of specific views of the galaxy and how our exact distance from the sun keeping us in the most ideal pocket to cater to having living organisms on our planet, having survivable oceans, atmosphere and plantlife, and our moon giving us tides but not so far it spins off in to another orbit or too close and smashing in to the planet which would cause the orbit to be thrown off in to nothingness of space, even looking at the simple yet extremely intricate design of the cell, the human body and everything in nature have a clear purpose, basically showing to me that there is a conscious creator of this, it all has design and it being in a world of that leans toward our dominion of it, such as we have no dominant predators of humans, and that we are the only creatures to gain sentience enough to create high functioning tools and society beyond our base instincts of survival, to the point we are caretakers of the planet to not just keep us alive but everything else, which is also touched on in the bible of us being the stewards of the earth and having a responsibility of keeping it in a good status, like a house sitter, but ultimately the only reason I really feel that Christianity is the best belief system, for me and I hope for others is I've looked at countless religions, pure scientific doctrine and ways of living that all ultimately end in selfishness and death with not caring for others or even just not even having happiness in as a consideration, I have a relationship with a being who I can't see in person, but I can see the love and care everywhere I go, the obvious planned beauty of the planet and the people on it that show His care and patience with me and everyone else, I don't have to give up free will, I don't have to trade anything, all I do is decide that a God created the universe with a plan to have us all share in love with him ultimately giving us a better life with each other and Him, I can see non biblical history showing humanity apart from God almost always hurting each other, and abusing society based on selfish means, but also documenting a man named Jesus who seemingly out of nowhere began teaching people, anyone, rich, poor, other nationalitys, anyone, that God loves us, cares for us, he is there to sacrifice himself for us to have a relationship with us and bring us to a place of forgiveness of our clear selfish bias, I love it, it's like finding out 2000 years ago a person knew who you were to your very core and they took a bullet for you just so you could know them and be a better person than you would be before learning about it, I have nothing to lose, but everything to gain, I realize this is hard to accept and it involves a massive amount of looking inward and taking a legitimate hard look at oneself, but I've had a clear benefit from it, both in my personality and in my relationships with everyone, both Christian and non Christians, I hope this insanely long response didn't ramble on too much, I wanted to touch on some the more clear things from the world around us that indicate God to me, let alone the benefits I get from my personal journey with using the Bible as guidance in my walk. I hope you guys respond, I love talking about this stuff with people, so many people avoid talking about important stuff on RUclips, oh also the comment asking about why I thought it indicated the character in true detective being beaten down was the fact he held so much shame and regret about the relationships he had with his past wife and loss of the child holding him in a shame and depression spiral, which I've seen and dealt with myself, thanks guys. :)
I've watched season 1 through easily 4 times and I never get tired of it. There's just so much to unpack but I've never noticed the Christ iconography in regards to Rust before.
I'm gonna say without a doubt, the best season of any TV show ever created. Perfect casting for this grim story. It doesn't need a sequel or prequel, it's just the perfect story. Adding a prequel or sequel would take away from the beauty of what was created here. Anyone can disagree, I won't even dignify it with a response. The season is absolute perfection
He responds directly without skipping a beat when asked late in the season ‘so all of those believers got it wrong?’ 🗣Absolutely (im paraphrasing from memory) Even in the last scene, when they talk about light & darkness, these r metaphors. Rust doesnt find God, he simply softens his glass half full outlook. He is admitting that perspective can vary & have an impact on one’s quality of life, even when they know that magic in general is not real.
I also think that True Detective was about questioning the state of things. The show portraits the former leader of the church as Louisiana’s biggest satanist, so I think it is also about the universal aspect of a religion. Rust is investigative aspect is also symbolic for that, never resting.
Also i think that no one understood him due to him not opening up or rarely doing it. For example in the scene where he meets maggie for the first time he tells her what happened with his doughter and she instantly knows hes broken inside so she calls his husband practically a mororn for judging him. He being this opened with maggie lead him to become comfortable around her and seen her as a comforting element of some kind. That's why he leaves the restaurant when she told him that he was a good husband sarcasticaly....and that's why he mowns her grass and comes to visir her. I think this is intentionall since he can not open up to a man like he did not open up never to his father due to the shitty relationship he had with him and only in the last part of the series he opens with marty, even crying in front of him
@@johnthreesixteen5643 well Maggie actually asked him about himself and Marty rarely did. Marty opened up to a lot of people in the show if they ask him direct questions. Think about the 2 black detectives that interview rust. He let them into his head. "Rust knew exactly who he was". He didn't need the validation of others. "I reckon that when people give me advice they're talking to themselves"
I think you miss one crucial detail about young Cole. The nihilistic side of him has been running rampant in his mind ever since he lost a daughter. He looked for ways to rationalize her leaving life as a positive, that's one of the reasons why his mind attached towards pessimism. Compare his actions to his words, it's the exact opposite, he follows his convictions to avenge and protect the innocent from the monsters despite him saying openly that life has no meaning. It's a coping mechanism. That said, Cole is still a hero in my eyes. He asks of nothing in return, but does things because in his heart, it's the right thing to do. He's almost shunned from the community because of his abrasive personality, despite that, he still does good for the community. He's what Niche would call an Ubermensch, a superman.
You said it all. I love the first season...but did you say Mickey McConaughey?? (edit: I'm sorry, you did indeed say Matthew. My ears and brain sucks, sorry)
To me, true detective is a perfect 8 hour movie. There is nothing about it that I think needs to be altered or tweaked.
since it came out, every 3 to 4 month i watch it again, and again and agian, its like a book for me
Yeah it is pretty awesome. I showed it to a friend and he told me the same thing
Ehhhhh idk the ending felt criminally rushed, I feel like all they needed was 1 more, 1 more episode tie everything up. Other than that it’s a masterpiece, and seriously some of the greatest television in the last 20 years.
@@Lite727 my one critique is I thought Marty’s father in law was gonna be the reason his daughter was so messed up. I though the father in law was going to be a part of the carcosa cult.
@Tony Maraj I’m not the only one who thinks that Marty’s daughter was molested by her grandfather. Look it up online for yourself
This is one of the best shows I've ever seen. I was so disappointed when I found out the following seasons were about different characters.
Why? Their stories were told. It was a perfect show, any sequel involving Rust and Marty would have been a terrible idea. S2 & S3, whilst not perfect like S1, are really good shows. I've watched both several time.
cant do that show is to profound, cant expose the entire rabitthole, it has a platto.
@@arthurballs2754 exactly limited series are way better than dragging something along for 8 years
I agree
@EddieVanTuber I went back to season 2 and loved it. Collin and Rachel are superb
Without question, season 1 of True Detective is THE best series ever shown on TV, everything is just perfect and I’m insanely jealous of anyone who hasn’t seen it and gets to watch it for the first time
I just finished the first season and am now heading to RUclips for more content and discussion. What a show!!
I just finished s1 like a few minutes ago and I'm taken aback! This is the best TV show ever.
Just finished season 1 ,best 8 hours of my life
I agree with you on being jealous with first timers but it ain't that bad either for a rewatch, for me TD s1 is as good as TV gets.
@@astrobiology6218 lmao L
I noticed that during their fight in 2002 Woody is thrown at Matthews car and destroys the brake light. When Matt pulls over Woody we see the brake light is still broken. This shows that Rust refuses to stop, and that he hasn’t moved on even 10 years later
Thank you I wanted to know why that was shown to us. I kept hoping it wasn't going to be a twist of Marty being the murderer and that it had something to do with that.
@@ErinJeanette 'Time is a flat circle.' “Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again.” It’s just a reminder of a broken man doing what he’s always done because he can’t stop. But in that moment I thought what you thought too
I think too, its just part of his anti consumerism non-materialistic outlook on life. He literally lives in a back room inside a tavern lol. Even when he had a career, he had a mattress on the floor. I can relate (though i do have furniture lol) because I just dont buy things unless I absolutely have too. I dont want to sleep on the floor but the things i own I have had for over 15 years. My laptop runs windows 7……
I went through a glutton phase about 20 years back, made money & spent money, that was my entire point in life. Thats just sad & ignorant. Now I buy less & experience more with a focus on education. Free lectures online & library books. No degree, just learning for the sake of learning. Once u break away from the materialistic reward system its like coming from another planet. Every aspect of life is dominated by marketing, every person u know is still living that lifestyle…..
Yet, u see everything differently now.
Not only is the brake light still broken; the original bulb is still in there. Great detail
@@danielonley7684 After re-watching this episode on Bluray, we can clearly see the brake light completely intact & unharmed in any way after having his body hit the truck & fall to the ground. I dont know if this is a production oversight or if we were never meant to connect the 2 scenes together??
I assumed watching the first time through that we certainly were suppose to remember the fight when seeing the broken tail light, but now, im not so sure.
Harrelson's role is underrated. Playing the part of the average detective well is what contrasts McConnohey's character so well.
I’m on my 3rd watch through right now and just finished episode 3 last night and could not agree more. The juxtaposition of their two characters, which is really driven home on screen by Marty, really helps Rust Cohle shine that much brighter. Marty follows a traditional universal morality but doesn’t understand his own hypocrisy regarding his poor choices resulting in infidelity and being a poor husband and father. Cohle is either amoral or subscribes to a moral relativism that one would think cause him to be a bad person; but, despite this, he actually acts more in line with a “normal” moral compass than the religious fundamentalists he’s surrounded by. Which also adds to his disdain for the day to day monotony he’s subjected to. Harrelson’s every-man detective performance that fits into a neat stereotype is played so well that it really gives McConaughey the perfect balance to let his character be as interesting as he is. And it’s exacerbated by how much Cohle sees through Marty and his honesty in showing it. When it shows Marty cheating the first time and showing up at work the next morning in the same clothes and they have the confrontation where Rust tells him to clean up and Marty gets in his face, Cohle knew he was projecting his own inadequacies and bad choices onto him, which is why he told him “if you’ve got some self-loathing to do, that’s fine.” While Marty was pissed at the time, that also was the reason Marty was comfortable enough to ask Rust if it’s possible to love two women at the same time or if he wonders if he’s a bad man…because he knew at that point Rust had probably a better insight into who Marty was than Marty did himself. And Rust wasn’t hamstrung by the inherent hypocrisy of the dogma surrounding them, which meant he would be honest. All of this is merely me organizing my own thoughts lol, and just to say, that the show really doesn’t work without both of them together. Rust is such a great character because of his juxtaposition with Marty.
@@chadd3299great analysis, I'm certain that that's all accurate
Hes really good playing hypocrite good husband. Ive seen that in real life. He potray that role perfectly.
I can only put it in one sentence. "This is the best thing that's a moving picture that I have ever seen". Movies, home made video, anime, black and white movies, etc. This is the BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN on a screen.
I couldn't agree with you more. I just finished watching it for the 4th time and I'm mesmerized.
ABSOLUTELY ❤️
Watch the Sopranos
Bruh this show is ain't nowhere near as good as Fargo
@@michaelgarcia1328 nah bro you are dreaming, fargo season 1 is great but nowhere near true detective.
One more point to make isn't just that rust grows increasingly less nihilistic, but that Marty also starts to become more and more nihilistic as the show goes on.
In a way, both characters balance themselves out by the end of the show.
It's like Rust and Marty are the two halves of yin-yang.
The final shot is so beautiful when we see that Marty made peace with his entire family who were there to comfort him, and he embraces Rust and vice versa. The light is winning.
Rust was never nihilistic. Nor was he a moral relativist, at least at any point depicted in the series. Ffs, he killed a junkie for injecting meth into his daughter. He clearly always had a sense of justice and righteous anger, something that a true nihilist doesn't bother with. He was more of a philosophical pessimist with a very cynical view of human nature, which it's fully possible to be and still have absolute moral values.
@@50iraqidinarHe did have a bits of nihilism as overall he didn’t think life had greater meaning to it. That’s why the revelation that the love of his child still exists totally warps his ego. He didn’t think anything beyond the flesh, behind the immediate present could exist. That is nihilism
I've lived in Louisiana my whole life. I had no idea about an HBO show being filmed around the state. I was pleasantly surprised to see those long, flat and beautiful (IMO) landscapes.
Don't know why the changed the hospital at the end to Lafayette General. I'm from Lafayette, live in Lafayette, you don't want to end up at General. 😐
I have to chuckle at reading this. I'm a Lafayette native (well Carencro if you want to be technical, I suppose) and was pleased at seeing a lot of the south Louisiana views. I got to have some great conversations with friends about those landscapes.
I also can feel you on the remark about Lafayette General 😅
Why do you think Rust was cool with Marty getting him outta there? 😜
I may be predjudiced since I was at HBO and involved in both The Wire & True Detective Season 1 - but for a single season, TD1 is, I think the greatest TV show ever made - I always wished we (HBO) and given Nic and Cary another episode or two to develop Erroll Childress more - but that's nitpicking. For a multi-season series, The Wire is certainly among the greatest.
Interesting take, I think arguments could be made on both sides on developing Erroll Childress more, the mystery surrounding him and lack of identity was one of the most suspenseful and entertaining parts of the show, and perhaps developing his character may have detracted from that? Although on the other hand it would have been amazing to understand and see more of Erroll Childress character developed!
Nah bro Fargo season two is way better
I think the lack of development for Erroll is suitable considering the "real" villain is given the entire season to develop - that being the group behind Carcosa, the Tuttles, as well as the general corruptive power of decay; the literal manifestation of The Yellow King
God I love this show so much. Everything is perfect, acting, writing, soundtrack, characters all perfect. It’s macabre, thought provoking, unsettling and is seeped in cosmic horror/ weird fiction yet also exists very much in a real grounded world. I’m of the opinion a lot of the occurrences in this show that were too coincidental were supernatural but that’s another discussion. Excellent video.
I work 2 FD-EMS Jobs. You have no idea. It is unsettling how much I identify with this show. Just finished watching it AGAIN....so good
bro for real, the show feels grounded but there is a sort of mystical aspect to it, I think the music helps.
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It's a MASTERPIECE
I'm with you. Season one had a similar sense of undefined supernatural elements lurking around every corner that the early bit of twin peaks had. Like, there's some deep, very old evil at play along with the evil men who are aligned with it trying to keep the truth from being uncovered.
Rust isn't transformed by authentic love. Listen to the words he says. The one consistent theme for his character is this realisation that in order to make correct decisions in the finite one must resign oneself to the infinite. In other words, a person must deny his own importance and begin to love other people, or remain caught staring into Narcissus' pool, wasting away. Nietzsche's flat circle is the version of the infinite he resigns to, having rejected any idea of god due it never making sense. In a world where a person is trapped, condemned to repeat their life over and over for eternity, the only correct action is to build your life into the most possible good it can do by discovering your true responsibility. If you are forced to repeat, at least make it a life with minimal suffering for other people. Like Camus talked about with Sisyphus, the resignation to the infinite allows him to see the inherent meaning in his actions on earth, so long as they don't focus on himself. Sisyphus was condemned to push the boulder, but he became a metaphor for teaching others about how to deal with suffering and repetition. He transcended himself by resigning to the infinite. When you fully comprehend the infinite, you realise that there is such a thing as too much freedom. You are not here to "be all you can be". You are here to do the one thing everyone else needs you to do. You have a responsibility, a debt to pay. The "mutual illusions" Rust talks about is our narcissism, that we think we are the main character in our movie and everyone else is supporting cast.
that's on point. Totally agree with you. I'm just wondering how to find your responsibility.
Vanity are the ways of men... all is predestined as it is written
@Jethro Derp haha makes sense in a way . The irony is that most people go after these things in search of happiness or in cruder terms, pleasure.
@Jethro Derp If your friend thinks having children causes a lot of suffering, he doesn't no shit about life. I'm not even married yet and I already know what it would feel like to have kids. You know for many their kids, is the 'purpose'.
@Jethro Derp Well you sure do give a fuck or you wouldn't have even replied. 😂
Beyond any doubt, your analysis, altho well done, lacks the understanding of what it looks and feels like to have lost a child. Rust is exhibiting classic traits of a parent who's lost a child. I don't think he's narcissistic at all. Unless you've lost a child, there's no way to help you fully grasp, but Matthew McConn masterfully represented the detached, aloof, emotionless, slightly angry and edgy, despondent, no patience for niceties and small-talk, conventions of modern society. He's surviving. He wishes he'd have died instead of his daughter. I've only ever seen 1 other actor portray what it's like to lose a child and that was Sally Fields. How she did it, I'll never know. I never thought it could be possible. There's a look to the eyes, glazed over, like your soul has died but you're still alive. That's what I see in Matthew McConnaughey. Phenomenal portrayal that also lends suspicion to his intense obsession w/ the case.
I've lost a child. Thats why I recognize it.
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He is far from a narcissist. Marty has a lot of narcissistic moments not rust. Rust needs no validation.
Well said and God bless you
@Cynthia Behra It's quite disappointing listening to the speaker of this channel describing rust as arrogant. I think that comes from his own bias towards religion and this becomes clear when he describes Rust's transition away from unwavering arrogance and dogmatic certainty towards being open and willing to question the nature of our existence when in fact, Rust's argument of arrogance was that of the believer being arrogant in his belief that "all this is for me". Rust is pessimistic but also a realist. And it's the reality of the world as he believes it to be which disturbs him and so he he is far less "arrogant" and far more in a state of hopelessness. At the end of the season he finds peace and hope in the possibility of a realm outside time where you can experience the feeling of loved ones lost. This isn't about Rust suddenly discovering God as he never mentions that in his epiphany. McConaughey is a believer in real life but he was willing to explore his character's ideas with honesty and vulnerability and even admitting that Rust made a lot of sense in his monologues. If the speaker of this channel could have been that honest about this aspect of Rust's views, the review would have held more integrity and value but he was swayed in misrepresenting atheism than understanding Rust's mind on its own merit
Im deeply sorry about the loss of your child. I know it's possibly too much to hope that you find peace from your despair but I truly hope you can find a way to learn to live with a life without your dear child. I wish I could send you love to you and your loved ones. Bless you ❤
Sally Field in what? Eye for an Eye?
Just finished watching the first season. So good! The last episode though had one point where I laughed out loud. Rust at 18:36 gives a little speech and uses the term "sentient meat" and afterwards at 18:56 Marty asks "What's scented meat?" LOL
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I agree 100%, great video as always. But I have to say, what strikes me the most everytime I am watching the first season of TD and why I love it so much, it is an amazing example how true friendship works, despite all the burden, betrayal and suffering. A bond between Marty and Rust is probably my favorite of all the movies and tv shows.
I always felt *very* uncomfortable at the end when Rust tells Marty about his near-death-experience. It sounded not like something warm and secure, but like something sinister waiting in the darkness somewhere to swallow you, using your positive emotions as a ruse to make you comfortable with your own demise.
It is similar to what Rust talks about in the interrogation about "looking in the eyes of the dead". He says (paraphrasing here a little bit) "in that last instant, they welcomed it".
The whole series played with motives of Lovecraft, so I always interpreted it as bleak, although with a little bit of hope at the end.
Cosmic horror is a theme of the series, goes hand in hand with Lovecraft.
@@NM-ev7pu yeah carcosa and yellow king gave it away
there a bbc waiting in the dark for you. you moms welcole it, im sure...
You make a good point. Rust before the denouement would have never said looks like the light is winning. He would have called on the facts he no doubt knew, that someday the last photon from the last star will streak through space and fade away forever, leaving everything that ever was in infinite darkness. And that's IT. No sequel, no rewind. The Yellow King triumphant.
@@JG-oi5gg yea. Last big black star to strike
Watching this, it reminded me of how much of the weird almost Cthulu-esque nature of the story wasn't noticed by most people. Rust was my favorite because he wasn't a douchbag, but didn't seem to realize his senses were heightened to a different frequency from the drug abuse his undercover assignment required to sell his cover story, and struggled to get Woody's character to see things his way.
The loss of his family seemed to be a catalyst to his mind expanding beyond the immediate concerns of standard law enforcement; he wanted to know the truth and do the right thing, regardless of what others thought. The Sea of Carcosa is a standard location in Great Old One (Call of Cthulu) mythology.
It's a great thing that we all take different things from common media. Great video, dude.
I thought carcosa and the yellow king was a separate story from the cthulu mythology? Not done by Lovecraft.
@@rickyray2794 Possibly, but it's all included in the Call of Cthulu RPG, so I may mush it together in my mind by accident.
@@ttobinupinit I never did get around to playing that, is it still worth it?
@@rickyray2794 The Call of Cthulhu ttrpg is well worth it if you have a good group to play with.
Carcosa and the Yellow King were made by a separate writer , years later it was unofficially included into the Cthulhu/Lovecraftian mythos be modern writers that continued lovecraft stories. The genre specifically is called cosmic horror where the univers is big cold horrific place filled with untold horrors and humanity is meaningless and tiny compared to the big picture
Brilliant overview. I just re-watched the entire season one. It's so rare to have a television program hold up this well from the initial viewing. I think your points really detailed why. Thank you.
I wish the other seasons were as good as the first : (
they set the bar way way too high, only thing that I think could top it would be a prequel when rust is "crash"
Rust was suspected of being the killer by the audience for like 30 seconds until they clear it up..
I never even considered that Rust could be the killer, the show didn’t even really hint at it, it’s just the detectives who suspected him.
@@ChrisM-bn5vr yeah it was pretty obvious. Thats why I said 30 seconds they let that accusation marinate for barely any time before he walks through the abandon church CLEARLY not the killer
This is a good analysis. I thought there was one thread in Rust's revelation that went with Marty. Marty says goodbye to his ex-wife. Suspecting he would die. The "Debt" that had to be paid, was this justice. This unwavering line between absolute good and absolute evil. Yes there was adultery, drug use, and other "lesser evils" that all people get into even marty/rust. However there was one thing about them that constantly overtook them when it came to their decision making. They are, at heart "True detectives". Not just detectives as a job. It's in THEM. Marty lost his mind when he found the kids and blew LeDoux away. He couldnt take seeing dead or tortured kids, screaming like a maniac and ultimately driving him to fulfill that debt. Same with Rust. As nihilistic and self loathing as we was he was still driven to obsessively track and stop the "Yellow King" who was the lead in the ultimate evil of the Cult of the Carcossa in the Bayou. That line of love and hope you point out, is tempered IMHO by their sense of justice, one they cannot and will not ignore. Rust does not "let go" and just die to be with his daughter because of it. He and Marty are true detectives, true agents of justice.
To nudge them to watch, the quick 'n' dirty way I've used to describe it to friends who know and love cinema, is that True Detective Season One is like Russian cinema, like Tarkovsky, but it's American and it's a TV miniseries.
There’s a few shots in true detective that definitely are inspired by tarkovsky, such as the scene In the first church they find when the pieces of wood are sticking out around the two detectives
One of the problems with being too certain of a concept in meaning, is that one closes him/herself to the possibility of grace. I think Rust is humbled by his experiences - both before, and certainly after - his encounter with Errol Childress, and finally has his moment of grace. Marty, too, begins to come to some understanding of himself and the larger world, when he loses his family, but who come to him at the end - raising the hope that he and his children will re-establish a relationship. Both men change in both subtle and obvious ways as this show progresses, and it hits each note superbly.
I wasn’t ready for how spot-on this commentary was going to be.
Starting at 9:04, Rust not only looks like Christ but the light shining on his forehead and down the length of his nose clearly forms a cross. Thanks for the excellent analysis.
This may be one if the best detective stories ever told. Some of it, and this is disturbing, was based on true events.
Is there any way to find the true stories behind it?
@@LaGeRcs I thought they were just a bunch of old dudes with a lot of money that went to the woods to larp as gay and do canaanite rituals?
There is something also to be said about how in Rust's mission to catch the 'yellow king' he is introduced to all the concepts that help to trigger his spiritual awakening. While those concepts were introduced to him by evil people, they also applied to good people and Rust used them to go to the light versus the dark. This would counter his younger self's thoughts on fate and how we are helplessly locked in our paths by showing him we can choose our path in this universe. His later near death experience in the 'carcosa' crypts affirms this in him.
Every point you made here was very well said, good vid.
I finished it over a 3-day casual binge. Great show. I'll need a week before the other seasons, though! New sub!
Everytime I re-watch this show, particularly season 1, i learnt something new, it's wonderful how a show could bring this to the audience. I could say this and Westworld are the two I feel like reading a book while watching. Just phenomenom !
I've never related to any media character the way I do with Rust. When he would talk about his views on life, it felt like someone pulled the thoughts out of my brain and put them on paper.
Greatest television season of all time.
True Detective Season1 was the best. Season 2 was ambitious but got too jumbled in its ambition. Season 3 things returned to form & Ali & Dorff found almost as good a chemistry as Matthew & Woody.
Great analysis man. Very articulate and well crafted.
S2 was shit .. end of- tragic. S3 ... okay , not great .
I had MAX for a while. i was bored and then remembered this show was on there. I gave it a shot. Didn't stop till it was over. its a masterpiece.
I could not agree with more with your first words of your analysis of matthew. Perfectly said. He literally drank my mind up. I couldn't think of anything else but what the hell was he going to say next? What in the hell is he doing with those cans? Every movement he made on camera meant something. What a wonderful execution of a character period and I was tickled every time I saw Woody harrelson that he took the part. Subject matter was rather rough but it is real. There are sickos, whether there be secular, Protestant or Catholic or any other religion and they the real monsters and as they accuse others, they will continue doing it themselves.
Literally one of if not the greatest season 1 of any series ever made..pure Greatness
Finished season one for the first time last night and it absolutely blew me away. Season one is one of the greatest cinematic achievements in history, what a phenomenal show. 10/10
Best tv show i Ever seen. I literally can't even imagine a better show ever being made
I love when this guy says Marty, reminds me of Flight of The Concords
Woody was indeed the perfect foil for Rust. Despite Marty’s flaws he’s the audience’s surrogate.
Watched S1 prolly seven times. Never gets old. Woody and McConaughey r perfect
The cinematographer is a Christian or was when I knew him at film school. Adam Arkapaw - worth a shout out!
What's great about the show is that they wrote the parts for the opposite actors, and Matthew read first and said I wanna be Rust
Nick is second to none , the first season was genius in my opinion .
Great content friend. TD s1 is one of my favorite pieces of modern entertainment. The phenomenal casting really allows the viewer to be entirely immersed in a top-tier story which, as you’ve discussed, touches on subjects and meanings that delve much deeper than the traditional crime drama. Nice work 👍🏻
Absolutely awesome review and analysis of True Detective Season 1. One of my all time favorite mini-series. Absolute genius writing and acting. Kudos!
Show was an amazing experience.
This is easily McConnohey's best performance, and Harrellson is no slouch either. They work so well together.
NEVER cut Marty’s grass. He likes mowing his own lawn 😂❤
Great review! You make me want to see this again. I've been avoiding it, only because it's so brutal, but the ending is so redemptive that it was worth getting through it.
Top three best pieces of modern entertainment ever made (in no particular order): True Detective S1, LoTR Trilogy, Band of Brothers. That is all :)
Well I'm sure there are more probably 🙆
I respect your opinion, and its legal.
Although I think you didnt watch really a lot of movies, esoecially outside USA.
@@tinotrivino you are wrong.
There's so many more.... Watch more stuff. Not only English works.
PC 01 why does everyone take my comment so damn seriously??? I was being tongue and cheek!!! Hence the fricking smiley emoji!!! Does no one have a sense of humor anymore for crying out loud??
Agree with you completely !!!! Nic Pizzolato taught literature and writing at some top colleges. Cinematographer Cary Fukunaga is a master. His vision is reminiscent of the great Roger Deakins. Incredible casting for the types of people you would find living down in Louisiana and the bayou.
Fukanaga was the Director.
I disagree with your analysis. Rust was always a man of duty, and that apparent contradiction of being a nihilist but at the same time never giving up his duty was apparent throughout. Also, his speech (while older) about the hubris it takes to bring life into this meat makes it very clear to me that his nihilistic beliefs are still there and very strong. The only thing I am willing to accept is his change at the very end, when he says "the light is winning", but up until the end he remained a pure nihilist, but who at the same time acted as if human life does have value (except his own).
Maggie said it best "Rust is a intense man but he has integrity"
I love this analysis so much, thanks for sharing it!
True detective season 1 might be the best miniseries that's ever been ever
This is my absolute favourite tv show. I’ve watched it like 5 times already. And I will watch it again and again and again…because time is a flat circle
This video was legitimately fantastic. Exceptionally insightful and well crafted.
100% agree with this analysis. Great work.
Nothing has or will ever be as good as this show. So perfect in every single way
The most insightful look at True Detective I've ever heard. Hats off to you.
Rust was such a good character. Loved watching every scene he was in.
can you imagine a 8 episode batman tv series made by the same team as this ... dream come true
but you use the cast of the walking dead.. rick as batman glen as night wing n carl as robin
i think there might be better casting options for all of those..
@@Andyguy212 probably so..
Not everything needs to be fugggginggggg superheroes
@@dysplasiagiraffe4845 batman more of vigilantly story
New subscriber. This is the show I always recommend!
8:35 damn I never clearly saw the horrible image of the Yellow King effigy and the stone alter like that till now
True Detective Season 1 is steeped in the occult, with a major Gnostic and Taoistic theme. The idea that the world we exist in is not quite Heaven, created by a Demiurge that wasn't meant to be created, who tried to recreate something that existed before Him. What plays out in this world is a Divine Play (Leela), in order to get to the conclusion and final destination, that which is of the Source, or the God above God. Each individual plays a part they've played many times, but certain individuals seem to be released, or freed, from this cyclic pattern of life. To many, this life is hell, and one way to get out is to simply disappear into nothingness, by doing something so atrocious, that they are taken out of the cycle. For some, those who confront their shadow, this repeated life is a series of lessons, in which when they get a glimpse into Heaven (the Source's true world), and when their shadow is removed, they can work in the light. So, there's the shortcut way out, represented by the antagonist, and there's the other way out, represented by the protagonist. When both are removed from this illusory world, one into a void of nothingness, and another into an unfathomable togetherness, then... well, you can figure it out. ;)
@Jethro Derp Lol, it's for you to find out. No one can find it for you.
@Jethro Derp Suicide never occurs, unless it's done willingly, and it's never done willingly to kill oneself.
Finally a good intepretation
@Jethro Derp heroic death is a ticket
I agree with everything you said here. There aren’t adequate words to even describe how great this series is. I hope the forth season can come close to it’s depth
The whole season was drenched in Christian imagery and the characters both struggling with the flesh being too weak, or beaten in to submission by evil till they finally come to realize their own responsibility and or the fact they cannot wallow in despair any longer and must move on to something better, I half expected them to come to Christ by the end haha!!!! Such a great show!!!
That's nice but may I know where you got this understanding from?
@@anthonygibson5561 Mostly from reading the Bible and seeing the clear symbolism of the necessity to not let the world or the evil of men keep the main characters from pursuing goodness, realizing their own flaws and perspectives, and instead chasing the ideal of protecting and helping as best they can, but seeing the symbolism was mostly reading the Bible and seeing the clear moments of change with the characters and plot, and how they had had years of either self hatred or shame that had caused a spiral of bad decisions and then once they had decided to instead commit themselves to solving the case and helping the world or something greater they then have some true happiness and security in the future.
@@thewilhelmscream7912 it's hilarious how deep the confirmation bias is with you god botherers. Reading the Bible is actually the BEST way to get someone to realize that it's bronze age bullshit...if you go into it using your critical faculties.
If you want some real insight into the nonsense you've used to try and overcome your fear of death, then I'm happy to help...thusly. Good luck clearing that bronze age language virus out of your brain.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus
Rust doesn't view himself as being weak and he definitely wasn't beaten into submission by anyone. He isn't ashamed of himself or his actions. He is a very responsible person. He never ran from his despair but learned to live with it.
That's odd that I didn't get a notification about your guys comments, I would have wanted to reply sooner, but I understand your perspective, I'm a massive skeptic of everything, especially anything related to spiritual hokum, I'm a Christian man because I can look at documented cases from neutral unbiased historical accounts with no possible gain to the people documenting these documentations that corroborate major events and miracles in the bible having occurred and to be part of the historical record, and the stuff I see from the scientific evidence like the fact that the planets structure, positioning and such all indicate a specific care to human beings, like us using the stars for positioning and how we have a unimaniganably good view of specific views of the galaxy and how our exact distance from the sun keeping us in the most ideal pocket to cater to having living organisms on our planet, having survivable oceans, atmosphere and plantlife, and our moon giving us tides but not so far it spins off in to another orbit or too close and smashing in to the planet which would cause the orbit to be thrown off in to nothingness of space, even looking at the simple yet extremely intricate design of the cell, the human body and everything in nature have a clear purpose, basically showing to me that there is a conscious creator of this, it all has design and it being in a world of that leans toward our dominion of it, such as we have no dominant predators of humans, and that we are the only creatures to gain sentience enough to create high functioning tools and society beyond our base instincts of survival, to the point we are caretakers of the planet to not just keep us alive but everything else, which is also touched on in the bible of us being the stewards of the earth and having a responsibility of keeping it in a good status, like a house sitter, but ultimately the only reason I really feel that Christianity is the best belief system, for me and I hope for others is I've looked at countless religions, pure scientific doctrine and ways of living that all ultimately end in selfishness and death with not caring for others or even just not even having happiness in as a consideration, I have a relationship with a being who I can't see in person, but I can see the love and care everywhere I go, the obvious planned beauty of the planet and the people on it that show His care and patience with me and everyone else, I don't have to give up free will, I don't have to trade anything, all I do is decide that a God created the universe with a plan to have us all share in love with him ultimately giving us a better life with each other and Him, I can see non biblical history showing humanity apart from God almost always hurting each other, and abusing society based on selfish means, but also documenting a man named Jesus who seemingly out of nowhere began teaching people, anyone, rich, poor, other nationalitys, anyone, that God loves us, cares for us, he is there to sacrifice himself for us to have a relationship with us and bring us to a place of forgiveness of our clear selfish bias, I love it, it's like finding out 2000 years ago a person knew who you were to your very core and they took a bullet for you just so you could know them and be a better person than you would be before learning about it, I have nothing to lose, but everything to gain, I realize this is hard to accept and it involves a massive amount of looking inward and taking a legitimate hard look at oneself, but I've had a clear benefit from it, both in my personality and in my relationships with everyone, both Christian and non Christians, I hope this insanely long response didn't ramble on too much, I wanted to touch on some the more clear things from the world around us that indicate God to me, let alone the benefits I get from my personal journey with using the Bible as guidance in my walk. I hope you guys respond, I love talking about this stuff with people, so many people avoid talking about important stuff on RUclips, oh also the comment asking about why I thought it indicated the character in true detective being beaten down was the fact he held so much shame and regret about the relationships he had with his past wife and loss of the child holding him in a shame and depression spiral, which I've seen and dealt with myself, thanks guys. :)
Just finished my third time viewing season 1and it gets better every time!! Never want it to end...BRILLIANT to say the least.
I've watched season 1 through easily 4 times and I never get tired of it. There's just so much to unpack but I've never noticed the Christ iconography in regards to Rust before.
This series is an embarrassment of riches that rivals any Hollywood big budget film.
For me there was only one season of True Detective, that's how good it was
I loved the story of Marty and Rust. I’m kinda sad that I finished it :(
One of the top 3 things ever made. Flawless. Incredible. I’ve watched it 5-6 times. Once a year. And in a way I think it’s a dark comedy.
What a great review! I loved it when I saw it but didn't exactly know why. Now I do. Well done!
The greatest season of TV I've ever seen.
Every couple years, I rewatch this and am unprepared for how good it is. I always think its gonna be great and everytime its even better than great :P
A cinematic masterpiece indeed
Amazing analysis of an amazing piece of art. Thank you.
This is a marvelous, magnificent video. Well done. I'm amazed.
this show was so good i couldn’t watch the second season
When he talks about debt I wondered if he meant that marty owes him a debt because he lied for him.
Well Done! Very Insightful!
i just realized when both rust and marty are carrying the children from the ledoux house, rust has the dead child
Brilliant analysis. Enjoyed this a lot.
I watched all parts together and i love it so much, i love Seven! Best thrillers of the whole world!
Best series ever.
I'm gonna say without a doubt, the best season of any TV show ever created. Perfect casting for this grim story. It doesn't need a sequel or prequel, it's just the perfect story. Adding a prequel or sequel would take away from the beauty of what was created here. Anyone can disagree, I won't even dignify it with a response. The season is absolute perfection
"What's scented meat?" Oh Marty you crack me up.
As a wire SNOB. This is the first thing ive seen that I don’t automatically argue against the comparison.
They should bring these characters back in a new season. And yes, it was better than The Wire (which was excellent by itself).
I just watched this with my GF best show ever.
He responds directly without skipping a beat when asked late in the season ‘so all of those believers got it wrong?’
🗣Absolutely (im paraphrasing from memory)
Even in the last scene, when they talk about light & darkness, these r metaphors. Rust doesnt find God, he simply softens his glass half full outlook. He is admitting that perspective can vary & have an impact on one’s quality of life, even when they know that magic in general is not real.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks for composing.
When talking tv series, I always say True detective season one is the best single season of any series.
Awesome and thoughtful video
I also think that True Detective was about questioning the state of things. The show portraits the former leader of the church as Louisiana’s biggest satanist, so I think it is also about the universal aspect of a religion. Rust is investigative aspect is also symbolic for that, never resting.
Season 1 is EPIC and perfect!!
Background music please?
I came to the same conclusion as you did in the video...the beliefs of Rust are just a consequence of the trauma and suffering he has been put into
Also i think that no one understood him due to him not opening up or rarely doing it. For example in the scene where he meets maggie for the first time he tells her what happened with his doughter and she instantly knows hes broken inside so she calls his husband practically a mororn for judging him.
He being this opened with maggie lead him to become comfortable around her and seen her as a comforting element of some kind. That's why he leaves the restaurant when she told him that he was a good husband sarcasticaly....and that's why he mowns her grass and comes to visir her.
I think this is intentionall since he can not open up to a man like he did not open up never to his father due to the shitty relationship he had with him and only in the last part of the series he opens with marty, even crying in front of him
@@johnthreesixteen5643 well Maggie actually asked him about himself and Marty rarely did. Marty opened up to a lot of people in the show if they ask him direct questions. Think about the 2 black detectives that interview rust. He let them into his head. "Rust knew exactly who he was". He didn't need the validation of others. "I reckon that when people give me advice they're talking to themselves"
Beautifull comentary, my friend.
I think you miss one crucial detail about young Cole. The nihilistic side of him has been running rampant in his mind ever since he lost a daughter. He looked for ways to rationalize her leaving life as a positive, that's one of the reasons why his mind attached towards pessimism. Compare his actions to his words, it's the exact opposite, he follows his convictions to avenge and protect the innocent from the monsters despite him saying openly that life has no meaning. It's a coping mechanism.
That said, Cole is still a hero in my eyes. He asks of nothing in return, but does things because in his heart, it's the right thing to do. He's almost shunned from the community because of his abrasive personality, despite that, he still does good for the community. He's what Niche would call an Ubermensch, a superman.
You said it all. I love the first season...but did you say Mickey McConaughey?? (edit: I'm sorry, you did indeed say Matthew. My ears and brain sucks, sorry)