re: True Detective S1E5 "The Secret Fate of All Life"

"One literary reference you must know to appreciate True Detective":

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For many fans of weird fiction, the surprising appearance of this madness-inducing play into what ostensibly appeared to be just another police procedural was a bolt of lighting. Suddenly, the tone of the show changed completely, signaling the descent into a particular brand of horror rarely (if ever) seen on television.

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i still want to know why he'd participate in a high risk and highly illegal operation that would lead the cops closer to the killer's identity...in TX, if he was the killer

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Cocaine's a helluva drug.

No, I really don't know, but that's a solid question. I like where this series is going though.

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This could just mean he's been out of the house more than in, or that he was being typically distant. I think you are really reaching on this.

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This. They were just establishing that the marriage isn't doing great.

There could be a number of explanations for it but I'm pretty sure it's the only alibi-type detail that has been given so far.

I really think that Maggie started to catch on to something. Pretty sure she knows Marty was involved with more than one woman. I think she knows that he continued to lie about all of his activities during that period.

I think we've caught glimpses of what Marty is capable of...blowing up on Rust, assaulting Lisa's date, slapping the shite out of his daughter...he is the man possessed by ungovernable rage.

“Sorry I got in your face, guy. I wouldn’t have really done something like that. I’m not a psycho.”

No, Marty, you're not a psycho.

Yellow King jail confession

Big moment

I hadn't. But I always did that back in the payphone days.

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Anybody notice how marty always checks the payphone for change after he hangs up? Just a neurotic quirk they threw in there for no reason? Is he just tight with money?

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What if his print comes back from the change dispenser on the payphone that Guy Francis' "attorney" used?

Finally getting around to a rewatch. A few notes on things that I've seen bounced and mostly answered, but just to verify (from episode 1):

- Marty is interviewed 6 days after Rust

- I now consider the hard-assed uniformed state police captain in episode 1 to be a "person of interest". Watch his demeanor in the scenes that he is in.

- Feel even more strongly about Rust tracking this case BEFORE Dora Lange. All of the books in his apartment regarding sex crimes and the like are already out in his apartment over two months prior to her murder. Yes, he's in homicide so it's plausible that he would be reading that material as part of the job, but the titles seemed pretty specific considering that he only had two "open and shut" cases in the three months prior to the Lange case.

- I think Marty learned a lot over the last 17 years, he's a better detective, sharper. He realizes that their interest is in Cohle pretty early into the interview and it seems that he is being aloof about Cohle's activities over the last 10 years, not to mention his own.

- I got the feeling that Rust is not going to survive the series and is going to sacrifice himself somehow in the end. The comment about lacking the constitution for suicide paired with his meditations on how Jesus could consciously allow himself to be crucified make me think that something happens where he goes willing to his death for the greater good.

I've read the whole thread. Curious SFP, why are you so obsessed with a show that you seem to not care much for? Serious question.
I don't spend a whole day in an American Idol thread because I don't care for the show.
What gives?