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re: Re watching True Detective S1 for the first time (Spoilers)

Posted on 2/19/21 at 4:03 pm to
Posted by glassman
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 4:03 pm to
The ending was terrible. It turned out to be a typical cop buddy production.
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 4:06 pm to
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The ending was terrible. It turned out to be a typical cop buddy production.


At the end of the day, isn’t life just a typical buddy cop production?
This post was edited on 2/19/21 at 4:10 pm
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 4:12 pm to
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At the end of the day, isn’t life just a typical buddy cop production?

no, b/c real life is much more boring. that's why we consume more exciting versions of real life in books, movies, and tv

and, like i said earlier, the reason why the series got so much momentum as it was unfolding was the mystery, not the buddy cop production. if people knew early on that the mystery was legitimately irrelevant and purposefully unanswered, the momentum would never have begun
Posted by glassman
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 4:15 pm to
It would have been better if one of the "buddies" shot the other buddy.
Posted by CaptainBrannigan
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 4:38 pm to
So does anyone know where Childress was living on the show? The murders were all over South Louisiana. But I never heard exactly where he lived.
Posted by UnSmitty_Bop
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 5:43 pm to
Smells psychosphere
Posted by Wild Thang
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 7:13 pm to
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We, me included, were obsessed with the first 7 episodes, and all the cult and how everything was going to come together with all the referencing to background stuff etc. We were posting pictures of background charecters, still pictures of the wind, you name it. Slowflo kept telling us its all going to fizzle and we said he was a limp dicked phag



I didn’t really care about the background stuff. True, it was an interesting angle, and I read what was posted for sure.

But I just liked the whole atmosphere the show created.

SFP’s takes on this have been posted here a thousand times.

Nothing he posts deep dicks me
Posted by AbuTheMonkey
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 9:38 pm to
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Name a better single season of TV. I love the Sopranos , but don’t think any single season beats season 1 of TD. Overall, the Sopranos is better.


Season 4 of The Wire, seasons 4 and 5 of Friday Night Lights, season 2 of GoT, and a few others are all up there, but yea, Season 1 of TD is absolutely in the conversstion.
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 9:48 pm to
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Name a better single season of TV.


I’ll throw out some contenders. Agree or disagree:

The Simpsons - Season 4
South Park - Season 19
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 8
The Larry Sanders Show - Season 1
Seinfeld - Season 4
Arrested Development - Season 1
Star Trek: TNG - Season 3
The Wire - Season 4
Mad Men - Season 1
Breaking Bad - Season 4
Frasier - Season 2
The X-Files: Season 5
Deadwood - Season 1
Twin Peaks - Season 1
Battle star Galactica (2003) - Season 1
The Prisoner - Season 1


This post was edited on 2/19/21 at 9:55 pm
Posted by DreadDub
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Posted on 2/20/21 at 2:26 pm to
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So does anyone know where Childress was living on the show?


Always assumed it was south of Sulphur/Carlyss. Couple of clues in the show -

1. When Childress is making flowers with his blood relative the camera shows a shot of the house and then a road with a sign post - Creole Nature Trail.
2. The detectives when visiting Marty in the hospital say that the woman with Childress gave them some information about a group of pedophiles in Sulphur.

My guess is the home was somewhere near Hackberry off Hwy 27.
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 2/20/21 at 2:53 pm to
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the answers to who he really was as a person were right under his nose, he just never bothered to look inward and notice.


Interesting observation. It brings to mind Sheriff Bell in No Country and really goes to the core of what No Country is about.

“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.”
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