re: True Detective Season One E3: "Locked Room"

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Anyone think "Tuttle's college in Baton Rouge" will have any significance later on?

CoCo is still holding on to the Gov.'s cousin. That's another little line that could point in that direction.

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The longer they keep the preacher/governor angle out of the episodes the more it leads me to believe they are the source of the murders.

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It would be easy to believe Cohle’s faith in a meaningless universe and the aberration of humanity represents his “true nature.” But in “The Locked Room,” when Cohle passes judgment on the faithful, labeling them idiotic and sinful people who tell themselves stories “to get…through the day,” he doesn’t sound like he’s conversing with Hart. He sounds like he’s reciting. Cohle reminds me of how a young reader will regurgitate Frederic Nietzsche or Howard Zinn upon first exposure. He speaks like a man who has carefully selected and crafted his philosophy, but spits it back out into the world as though that is the only way he can be sure of what he believes. Hart senses this.

“You seem panicked,” he says. And that for a man who believes life is meaningless Cohle “frets about it an awful lot.”

Cohle’s frets because, like the men and women under the spell of the Preacher, he searches for answers. In the previous episode, Cohle wrapped up the death of his child in a tidy philosophical bow, insisting that her “painless” death was elegant. By dying, she saved him from “the sin of fatherhood” and herself from toiling in “the thresher” of the world. I believe 2012 Rust Cohle actually believes this. Whatever happened at the end of the Dora Lange case pushed him forever down the rabbit hole. But in 1995, I’m not so sure he’s a complete convert. Not unlike the congregants Cohle decries, he is ”cultivating his own illusion” to get through the day. If the universe is meaningless then losing a child, losing a wife, losing the chance to mow his own yard for for his own family are not losses worth mourning. But Cohle can’t help himself. He shows up to Hart’s house, mows Hart’s lawn, and visits with Hart’s wife and Hart’s children. He does not wish to steal them from Marty, but he desperately wants Marty’s life. So Cohle tricks himself with faith in nothingness because it is safer than starting all over again.

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This may be small and moot, but why is the Parish mowing Tuttle property? I see it an another link from Gov Tuttle to his cousin Rev Tuttle. Typical Louisiana move.

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