g_bassi13 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DhillonCanuck Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 New episode tonight!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 According to Wikipedia, there are only 8 episodes and tonight's should be the last. However, IMDB's got one episode 9 shown. #confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Season Finale tonight as per HBO website: http://www.hbocanada.com/truedetective/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Season Finale tonight as per HBO website: http://www.hbocanada.../truedetective/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_bassi13 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 How awesome would it be if there was another episode after tonight. I kind of wish networks hiding episodes was a real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest r0cknr0lla Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I love this show........just cant go wrong with Matt and Woody. I love the banter between the 2 and accompanied with an impending sense of doom in each episode. The last episode gave me nightmares all night. I kept nightmaring Virgil from Hannibal was out to get me. Don't want to give anything away for those who might be waiting for entire season to end to watch or those who may not have seen it yet.......LOVE THIS SHOW though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryten Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 According to Wikipedia, there are only 8 episodes and tonight's should be the last. However, IMDB's got one episode 9 shown. #confused Pretty sure there was supposed to be eight. Maybe the ninth is for the "making of" special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DollarAndADream Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Wow. Fantastic show. I've never felt so much suspense in any show but this one. No show has ever made me stand up from my seat. This one did. There's some parts that I feel like they should have touched on. Like his daughter's drawings and the dolls' set-up, etc. I guess they leave that up to the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I'm left a tad bit unsatisfied with the finale. The climax was very intense yes, and the whole set was totally Taxes Chainsaw Massacre on steriods. For once you are truly concerned with the safety of the leads. But the whole thing was cliche. Cops locate bad guys, cops fight bad guys, cops kill bad guys, cops down and out when the whole police department shows up to rescue. They need to continue this story in the direction of tackling the child prostitution / torture ring some time in the future... but even that sounds cliche already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_bassi13 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Wow. Fantastic show. I've never felt so much suspense in any show but this one. No show has ever made me stand up from my seat. This one did. There's some parts that I feel like they should have touched on. Like his daughter's drawings and the dolls' set-up, etc. I guess they leave that up to the audience. Yeah, I did feel like they were going to tie that in somehow. I'm fine with the idea that they didn't though. There's a big story there, and it's easy enough to shape it in our heads. I appreciated that they had a tangible ending, rather than something vague with the 2 of them dying, and the cycle continuing indefinitely. They didn't route all evil, or even all of this specific ring, which would have been too much, but they did stop what they saw was happening at the beginning of the show, and that's I think the right level to which it's satisfying. Not the greatest finale, but I feel like that wraps up what needed to be said for the most part. I wouldn't mind if next season continued on a similar story (or the same carcosa/Lousiana kidnappings line), but it doesn't need to. I don't think it will either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_bassi13 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 That last fifteen minutes or so were some of the most amazing acting I've ever seen, particularly Rust recalling how he slipped into coma. I knew, despite all the true detecting us fans were doing, that it was not going to be a complicated story with all the hidden clues that were intentional and the ones we forced ourselves to see. The writer of the show admitted to that since the beginning. It was thematically fulfilling, tense when it needed to be and just a beautiful piece of work overall. What a ride it's been. I really liked the last bit with the darkness, and the stars then phasing in to brighten things up to whatever extent they could. Summed things up nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I liked Rust's last vision. And the whole sequence with the neighborhood gunfight. Too bad his character is likely toast for season 2 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I liked Rust's last vision. And the whole sequence with the neighborhood gunfight. Too bad his character is likely toast for season 2 etc. According to wiki, everyone season will have a new set of story and characters. I do look very much forward to season 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I don't know if using the word 'gripping' is too cliche, but that's the best way I could describe the first 30+ minutes of last night's episode. The show did an amazing job of making you feel entirely uncomfortable without also be extremely gory. They had an amazing set, so eerie. It is a shame that Harrelson and McCaunaghey won't be back, but with the success of the first season I wouldn't be surprised if the show could draw other marquee actors. Film stars tend to avoid TV shows so that they don't get locked into the same character for 5-6 seasons. Knowing that you shoot 8-9 episodes and then you're done may be a way to entice some bigger names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 According to wiki, everyone season will have a new set of story and characters. I do look very much forward to season 2. I got that impression as well. It's a good idea, because it will help the series from becoming stagnant. So you don't end up with Dexter becoming a lumberjack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB007 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I don't know if using the word 'gripping' is too cliche, but that's the best way I could describe the first 30+ minutes of last night's episode. The show did an amazing job of making you feel entirely uncomfortable without also be extremely gory. They had an amazing set, so eerie. It is a shame that Harrelson and McCaunaghey won't be back, but with the success of the first season I wouldn't be surprised if the show could draw other marquee actors. Film stars tend to avoid TV shows so that they don't get locked into the same character for 5-6 seasons. Knowing that you shoot 8-9 episodes and then you're done may be a way to entice some bigger names. Yeah man. Perhaps they will make cameo appearances here and there. One thing I love about this show has been Louisiana itself - the place is haunting, run down, a post industrial dying wasteland. Notice whenever Rust or Marty had to drive to a big city it's always at night so you don't really see much 'modern civilization'. While I look forward to fresh new stories from another part of the country next season I wouldn't mind going back there again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saskatchewan Canucks Fan Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Just an amazing tv series from start to finish. I am very glad that I took part in watching an excellent story with bone chilling acting. I cannot grasp some of the unexplained mystery's (mainly Marty's children's paintings in his house). But I've realized that leaving these loose ends... loose, makes me appreciate the series even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I thought the children's strange actions were to set the mood and to build distraction. There was significant character building with everyone, but not enough to kill the tone of the overall series. (Something the Walking Dead is going through now for some reason is an over-the-top amount of character building considering there are quite a few characters you don't care if they live or they die, and they're sacrificing the tone of the series. Basically, this doubled season should have been cut in half. But whatever, at this rate they're just milking it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 The one storyline that I felt was left unresolved was the "flower" angle. At the beginning of this episode, Errol's wife/cousin (or whatever she was) made reference to "planting flowers" which we later found out to be a sexual reference. I expected it to be tied into the wall mural at the hospital and by extension, the similar painting that Marty's daughter did. All I can guess is that flowers have some deeper meaning to Errol and as a painter for a local company with a lot of contracts, he was able to incorporate them into the artwork at the hospital (and likely other places as well) Most likely, Marty's daughter saw a similar mural somewhere and copied it. Perhaps there was something similar at her school. @CB007: True Detective, Treme, True Blood and even Duck Dynasty. It certainly seems like Louisiana in "in" right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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