![]() ![]() No requests for or links to torrents/streams/etc. if someone says "Season 1 question" in the title, then you can't post untagged season 2 spoilers there). Submission titles should not contain spoilers.Īssume all content in this subreddit has spoilers in the comments and the links up to the latest officially aired episode - unless the title indicates otherwise (e.g. Far more than just an eight episode procedural, “True Detective” is about what happens when horror comes to our doorstep, and the people we become after that encounter.Use the following spoiler code for comments: (#s "True Detective") Nic Pizzolatto created a rich, intelligent, dangerous but beautifully textured world. It’s a moving and soulful closer to “True Detective,” which has solidified itself as one of the best shows of the year. ![]() For Martin, that’s why the “dark has a lot more territory.” But for Rust, the mere fact that love can sustain as strongly as it does in his heart for his daughter, and having his own ideas turned around about the finality of death, gives him enough hope to start seeing the edges of light on the horizon. Whatever traditional notions about police work he might’ve had were eradicated by the details of this case. What Martin saw on a continual basis of the force, caused him to drop the job. But the pair’s trajectory found them trading places. Martin continually edged away from his family into bad habits, while Rust had an outlet for the sense of injustice he felt at God or the world or whoever was in charge of damning him to his fate of pain and loss. “True Detective” has never put the mystery first, and it’s something telling that the weakest episode of the season was also the most straightforward, “After You’ve Gone.” Instead the show is about two men, one presented in darkness, who after losing his family, plunged headfirst into the darkest corners of his job, and the other a seemingly happy family man.Īnd the darkness of the case consumed them in different ways. And it’s a beautiful moment in a show that ends on a note of hope, instead of a neatly tied resolution. “If you ask me, light’s winning,” he tells Martin before the credits roll. “Death is not the answer, rejoice” an elderly woman declared in last week’s episode, and now Rust knows it himself. In a coma following surgery after getting stabbed by Errol Childress, Rust reveals to Martin that during that time, he not only felt the presence of his daughter, but her love too. But In 1995, it would’ve likely been Rust to side with such a dark view of humanity, but something changed him. ![]() “Light versus dark.” And Martin replies, “…it appears to me, dark has a lot more territory.”Īnd it’s a bit of a role reversal, and a fitting view for Martin who this long on the job, has seen the worst the world has to offer. “It’s just one story, the oldest,” Rust says about everything that’s happened. So what was this all about then, if not the killers? Mortality and meaning, perhaps, among other things. And as the audience hears via news reports, it looks like the Tuttle family will remain unscathed too. When Detective Maynard Gilbough ( Michael Potts) and Papania come to visit Martin in the hospital to share details of what their investigation has discovered about Childress, the Lake Charles murder and the web of people involved, he waves them off. In the distance the police arrives, a flare is sent up as beacon of hope to Rust and Martin (a beautiful visual moment) and it looks like case closed.īut this is where “ True Detective” becomes so much more than just a procedural concerned with finding the killer (who was revealed anyway, in last week’s “After You’ve Gone”). And as Errol towers over Martin to finish him off, it’s Rust who springs into action with what he has left, to shoot Errol in the head. Rust is deeply wounded in the gut, before Martin arrives to help only to get critically wounded as well. I’m ready to tie it off”), and with Childress attacking him by surprise, that nearly happens. It’s almost as if Rust has made peace with ending his life (remember, he once said, “My life’s been a circle of violence and degradation, as long as I can remember. And after being taunted in the darkness, Rust comes face-to-face with Errol in a clearing, but he’s first distracted by a hole revealing the night sky above, one that in his eyes becomes a swirling void. He’s been busy trying to find a phone to call Detective Thomas Papania ( Tory Kittles) to send backup. Errol leads Rust into Carcosa, an underground warren of tunnels, twigs and branches, with Martin following his partner a bit of a distance behind. ![]()
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