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re: Reliving season 1 of True Detective.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 11:23 am to Honest Tune
Posted on 8/19/17 at 11:23 am to Honest Tune
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My dad was a gunslinger for LSP in the 70s and 80s, doing narc drug gang work and some other cool shite and , essentially, he was part Cohle and Hart, and Very similar to both characters. Yes he was a poon hound as well.
I'm sure my dad worked with your dad on a few occasions. He was LSP detective for North La until he retired in late 70s. He worked some pretty interesting stuff and with some interesting characters. (Johnny Payne, Bob Buckley, John Ballance, Aubrey Futrell to name a few).
Oh, and TD was a great series. IMO.
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Posted on 8/19/17 at 12:29 pm to sparkinator
Yep my dad was up in North La mostly. Guarantee he knows your pop. My dad retired in the late 80s. During his 20s he was undercover, the whole 70s decade practically. He had long hair, the Harley, gunslinger mentality. He was in 3 gunfights in one week in Lafayette when he was 25. His partner was shot and killed in a raid. He pretty much took a bullet that was meant for my dad. Funniest thing my dad told me was Lafayette PD arrested him once when he was undercover in 75. He never told them he was LSP because he didn't trust anybody. He just made a call and got out. After my sister was born in 80, he knew he couldn't keep living that life so he asked to get put on the road until he retired in 88. Different times then for sure but one thing was certain...cops got shot at then too.
Another funny story...he got a call to show up to a hotel in Monroe once in the 70s...he was told that he was going to provide cover for a high profile big shot for a few hours...said a car pulled up to the hotel and out stepped Edwin Edwards. The governor went in the room for a few hours for a rendezvous with a call girl, did his deed a few times, thanked my dad for standing guard, and rolled out. Haha.
Some of those names you mentioned are familiar to my ear fyi.
Another funny story...he got a call to show up to a hotel in Monroe once in the 70s...he was told that he was going to provide cover for a high profile big shot for a few hours...said a car pulled up to the hotel and out stepped Edwin Edwards. The governor went in the room for a few hours for a rendezvous with a call girl, did his deed a few times, thanked my dad for standing guard, and rolled out. Haha.
Some of those names you mentioned are familiar to my ear fyi.
This post was edited on 8/19/17 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 8/19/17 at 12:38 pm to Honest Tune
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. Guarantee he knows your pop.
+1
They had a some damn good stories to tell too. We used to go to all the LSP softball games in the summer and hear stories we stories we probably shouldn't have. Lol.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 12:44 pm to sparkinator
I had my first sip of beer, by accident, at one of those softball days when I was all of 5 or 6. Oops.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 2:30 pm to Honest Tune
As someone who was raised in south Mississippi, and later moving to Louisiana for college at LSU, I was able to have a somewhat unbiased view of TD season 1. But everything that show was able to accomplish really impressed me. With my college girlfriend at LSUHSC for nursing during our time at LSU, along with my semester living in Lake Charles for an engineering internship, all of these things really allowed me to soak up the culture of all of south Louisiana. For one, I loved just cruising on weekends on those backroads and really soaking in the culture.
When I finally saw TD season 1, it blew me away. The mood and atmosphere that they were able to convey to viewers was surreal. Even the intro was full of little things like refineries in the background and other subtle nuances that set it apart.
The coolest thing was recognizing so many of the locations they used for shooting, such as the Fox & Hound, for instance, over in Elmwood in Nola. I always think of the sexy Beth, the prostitute-turned-bartender, every time I went to that damn bar
EDIT: How awesome would it be if they somehow was able to connect TD season 1's Marty and Rust with the new cast being put together for season 3. The way that season ended, we all know that it was somewhat ambiguous. There could definitely be a crossover between the new detectives coming in and ending up involving Rust and Cohle. I think the whole Lovecraftian vibe that they were going for in season 1 could easily be transitioned to the next season.
When I finally saw TD season 1, it blew me away. The mood and atmosphere that they were able to convey to viewers was surreal. Even the intro was full of little things like refineries in the background and other subtle nuances that set it apart.
The coolest thing was recognizing so many of the locations they used for shooting, such as the Fox & Hound, for instance, over in Elmwood in Nola. I always think of the sexy Beth, the prostitute-turned-bartender, every time I went to that damn bar
EDIT: How awesome would it be if they somehow was able to connect TD season 1's Marty and Rust with the new cast being put together for season 3. The way that season ended, we all know that it was somewhat ambiguous. There could definitely be a crossover between the new detectives coming in and ending up involving Rust and Cohle. I think the whole Lovecraftian vibe that they were going for in season 1 could easily be transitioned to the next season.
This post was edited on 8/19/17 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 8/19/17 at 5:49 pm to GetEmTigers08
Watching it as each episode was released week by week by week, allowed some epic discussion threads that just heightened the entire viewing experience. Everyone's theories of what could happen next really was the shite. S1 holds up pretty good for a rewatch too. S2 needs to be burned.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 7:13 pm to Slippy
Great series. I really enjoyed season 2 as well. It had a completely different "flavor".
Posted on 8/19/17 at 7:49 pm to Lawyered
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Whatever episode at the end, Rust is talking about " the monster " and the guy comes out with a machete and gas mask .... that was some intense shite ... I'll never forget that wtf moment right then as it cuts to black .
The hair on the back of my neck stood up.
I didn't watch real time and was watching via HBOGO. It was already like 3 am when that episode ended. I wanted to watch the next episode but I had to force myself to sleep so I wouldn't be a zombie the next day at work.
I was like a kid the night before Christmas all day waiting to get home to watch.
I really need to do a rewatch of this series.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 8:04 pm to Capital Cajun
One of the top 2 or 3 opening title sequences in television history.
Honestly, I don't understand how anyone says the South Louisiana settings makes the show overrated.
To me, the location IS the main character of the show.
Honestly, I don't understand how anyone says the South Louisiana settings makes the show overrated.
To me, the location IS the main character of the show.
This post was edited on 8/19/17 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 8/19/17 at 8:40 pm to RollTide1987
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You're damn right. Seeing Alexandra Daddario's nude body for the first time was like watching God create Adam.
Need to do a rewatch of the series soon. So i can see this
Posted on 8/19/17 at 9:36 pm to dallastiger55
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That continuous scene with McConaughey when they raided that drug house in Beaumont was one of the GOAT TV scenes ever filmed
I'm a fan of long tracking shots, amd the TD drug house raid was one of the best.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 9:40 pm to rebeloke
I can't believe I'm saying this but this is one of the best posts I've read in a long time.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 9:52 pm to Slippy
I knew the woman that turned state's vs. Her husband, that POS. I didn't know S1 was loosely based on that shite in Hammond.
I worked with her, and found it awful fishy that she was constantly taking off for "church".
I'd never heard of anyone missing work for church before or since.
I worked with her, and found it awful fishy that she was constantly taking off for "church".
I'd never heard of anyone missing work for church before or since.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 10:26 pm to RollTide1987
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Seeing Alexandra Daddario's nude body for the first time was like watching God create Adam.
Honestly, I can usually play it cool when watching a nude scene with my wife.
That scene had me slack-jawed for five minutes after she'd put her clothes back on.
Posted on 8/19/17 at 10:44 pm to GetEmTigers08
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The coolest thing was recognizing so many of the locations they used for shooting, such as the Fox & Hound, for instance, over in Elmwood in Nola. I always think of the sexy Beth, the prostitute-turned-bartender, every time I went to that damn bar
this is exactly why the poster on page 1 of this thread said True Detective is overrated on this board. Many of you guys love all the familiar locations, and the general feel of the Southern Louisiana scenery. I remember in the season long thread a few years back, there were like 10 pages dedicated to chatter about Southwestern Louisiana (or something to that effect) baseball, when it was mentioned that one of the characters was a pitcher in college.
It's a good show; the acting and production value were A++, but the writing fell off a cliff around the 6th episode and the last few episodes were underwhelming.
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