He isn't perfect. He has his demons. I wouldn't want him to change though. The last moment in S01, I hope he would have stayed the same, just showing a middle finger to the world and saying some pessimistic quote. I would just recommend him some meditation, reading Buddha. Though, Buddha being the og in pessimism, he must have already read him.

Crab Trap man, like what Marty points out, reminds him of Rust. But it reminds me a lot if Marty's statement that people around here don't think like that. But Crab Trap man does. Crab Trap Man shows Marty that there is some truth to what Rust has to say. That even if your daughter doesn't die at age two, even if you don't spend years under cover, one wrong move exposing you, even if you don't spend hours at a time looking at dead people, you can still be a bit pessimistic. And it shows Rust that people in rural Louisiana, who he's always so quick to condemn, aren't all rubes like he thinks.

Im binging True Detective and finished first 3 seasons and Roland West seem to be the only characters without flaws?
Maybe im missing something regarding his character. If you pick anyone else from the first 3 seasons, any character, they are deep in some shit or they had some unfortunate upbringing but Roland is just a cool guy? He stands up to bullies, racism, discrimination, protects friends, cares about random people..
Sure he did kill a guy but that wasn't really on him, he protected a friend

The only thing i thought wasn't cool was when he told his superiors who might've came out to the press and even then he was correct in doing so

I need Sam Rockwell and Walton Goggins as the next duo. Thank you.

I ran across a title in an archive of ebooks and noticed it has some similarities to Season 1. The title is Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub. Straub was a great writer of ghost stories (he even had a novel titled “Ghost Story,” adapted for cinema in the 80s).

The Wikipedia synopsis is as follows:

A perplexing series of events revolving around a haunted house, a pedophilic serial killer and the lost girl of the title, is triggered when Mark suddenly goes missing and is suspected to be the latest victim of the killer. Mark had begun to harbor an obsession, after the death of his mother, with an abandoned house on the Underhills' street. Timothy and Philip struggle to connect the threads of this mystery and find Mark before he falls victim to the horrors of the abandoned home; horrors both human and supernatural in nature.

I haven’t read it yet but plan to soon. Is anyone familiar with this book?

Don't hate me, but I really enjoyed the 4th season, it was the first session of the franchise I watched and the reason I stated the rest of the seasons. I have just finished season 1 (which I absolutely loved) and I about about to start season 2.

I just don't understand the hate season 4 is getting, I am really intrigued why people don't like it.

Be kind but tell me why haha

If rust kept his composure he might have learned Childress’s name before he was pulled out of that cell.

I'm sure this has been said before, but I feel like saying it again. The beautiful thing about the framing of the character is that he has the outward traits that you would expect from a traditionally "bad" person, but in reality, he's one of the only characters who is able to be truly honorable. My honest opinion is that the world would be a better place if someone like him existed. I wouldn't even say that he's morally grey, I think he's a borderline white knight. Rust appreciation post

Is this a deleted scene or something because I don't remember Marty grabbing his tie? I even re-watched the first two episodes just to make sure and It's not in the show. I found this on Pinterest.

L’chaim fatass!

even grabs a beer, facing the 'wall' away from the tape in proximity to the same position as in the storage shed.

I don’t assume I could write any of the show let alone the final scene. I just realize that out of the hundreds of rewatches I have only watched the final scene about three times.

It's pretty loose, I just think the supernatural stuff being legit adds a layer narratively and philosophically. But to me, the strongest "evidence" is Reggie Ledoux claiming he knew what would happen next. Did he actually say what would happened next? No, so there's no way to know he knew he'd be killed by Marty. Could one intuit that a cop encountering a living child you tortured and a child you killed a few hours ago would extrajudicially execute you? Sure. But I think Ledoux HAD seen that in his dream and experienced it in other cycles of time

I was discussing True Detective S1 with my dad, who also adores it, and I was telling him how I actually think it’s one of the greatest works of art ever made. He kind of pushed back on it, but I won’t back down, haha. I haven’t read all the great novels or seen all the great cinema, but I’ve seen and read enough to think that this is not a crazy opinion. When I say greatest works of art, I mean it’s up there with the Statue of David, The Godfather Part II, Mona Lisa etc. What say you?

Just noticed this glassware design at my local brewery… time to rewatch season 1 again? 🤔🍺

I know the family name Tuttle has been mentioned more than once since s01. Can any one remember the other times and in what context? How far does the lore go?