re: True Detective S4 Season Long Thread

The Marty/Rust dialogue in S1 is great, and it's made even better by the actors and their timing.


[RUST] It's all one ghetto man.
A giant gutter in outer space.

[MARTY] Today. That scene?
That is the most fricked up thing
I ever caught.
Can I ask you something?
You a Christian, yeah?

[RUST] No.

[MARTY] Then what do you
Got the cross for in your apartment?


[RUST] Eh, it's form of meditation.

[MARTY] How's that?

[RUST] I contemplate the
Moment in the garden.
The idea of allowing
your own crucifixion.

[MARTY] But you're not a Christian
So what do you believe

[RUST] I believe that
People shouldn't talk
about this type of shite at work.


[MARTY] Hold on. Hold on.
Three months we been together,
I get nothing from you.
Today? What we're into? Now.
Do me a courtesy, ok?
I'm not trying to convert you.

[RUST] Look, I consider myself
a realist, alright?
But in philisophical terms
I'm what's called a pessimist.


[MARTY] Um, ok what's that mean?

[RUST] It means I'm bad at parties.

[MARTY] [Chuckles] Let me tell you,
You ain't great outside
of parties either.

[RUST] I think human consciousness
Was a tragic misstep in evolution.
We became too self aware
Nature created an aspect of nature
Seperate from itself.
We are creatures that should not exist
By natural law.

[MARTY] Hmm, that sounds
God-frickin' awful Rust.


[RUST] We are things
Laboring with the illusion of
Having a self.
This secretion of sensory experience,
And feeling.
Programmed with total assurance,
That we are each somebody.
When, in fact, everybody's nobody.

[MARTY] I wouldn't go around
Spounting that shite, I was you.
People around here don't think that way.
I don't think that way.


[RUST] Well I think the honorable thing
For our species to do
Is deny our programming.
Stop reproducing
Walk hand and hand into extinction.
One last midnight. Brothers and sisters
Opting out of a raw deal.

[MARTY] So, [chuckle]
What's the point of getting out
Of bed in the morning?


[RUST] I tell myself I bear witness.
But the real answer is
That it's obviously my programming.
And I lack the constitution for suicide.

[MARTY] My luck, I pick today
To get to know you.
Three months, I don't hear
A word from you-

[RUST] You asked.

[MARTY] Yeah. And now I'm begging

You to shut the frick up.

[RUST] Feel a bad taste
In my mouth out here. Aluminum. Ash.
Like I can smell the psychosphere.

[MARTY] I got an idea.
Let's make the car a place
Of silent reflection from now on, okay?

[RUST] What should I bring for dinner?

[MARTY] A bottle of wine would be nice.

[RUST] I don't drink.

[MARTY] Well no, of course not, Rust.
Listen, when you're at my house,
I want you to chill the frick out.
Don't even mention any of that bullshite
You just said to me.

[RUST] Of course not, Marty,
I'm not some kind of maniac, a'ight?
I mean, frick's sake.

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I got an idea. Let's make the car a place Of silent reflection from now on, okay?

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this is one of the best timed, best scripted, and best delivered lines in the entire season. i will die on this hill. it's perfect.

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Their interactions with the "new" detectives were also pretty funny

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Rust pulls out a cigarette
Detective: “You can’t smoke in here”
Rust: “Don’t be assholes, you wanna hear this or not.”
Detective begrudgingly slides Rust his coffee mug to ash in.

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Said his issue with Season 2 was that in Season 1 you had Marty bringing us back to earth from all of Rust's crazy talk, like being the audience in a way saying "WTF is Rust talking about?", but in Season 2 you just don't have that at all.

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It's called buddy cop genre for a reason. Audiences love having two very different cops play off each other. S 1 and S 3 both understood that.

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Jodie Foster is 61. Making her the town harlot is really strange.

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That's what I was thinking. I know it's probably hard to bang up there with the amount of people but we know drinking is prevalent. I'm sure there are a couple of wasted younger options at all times.

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Do I think it's a great quality series? Certainly not so far. But I do have a glimmer of hope after that episode.

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I continue to enjoy the heck out of it.

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Don’t really have any clue what’s going on, but I guarantee that the killer/bad guy definitely banged Jodie Foster’s character.

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that's really the only thing that we know for sure.

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I enjoyed Season 2 even though it didn’t offer much humor. Ray’s interactions with his kid were gold though. Reminded me of something out of In Bruges. Was infinitely better than this mess of a season

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Yeah, Farrell did the best to carry that season. On the other hand, I think Vince Vaughn was at least half of what was wrong with it.

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Season 1 also had a lot of humor in the dialogue between Marty and Rust, there’s none of that here.

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Something I’ve noticed is that there are a lot of attempts at humor in this season, yet none of them land.

Danvers whoring around town, being short, etc. Is that funny in Mexico?