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Time takes everything but the truth.


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  • Episode previews count as spoilers.

  • Assume 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. if someone says "Season 1 question" in the title, then you can't post untagged season 2 spoilers there).

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  • While the show is on air, some submissions, especially upvoted ones, will be removed if they aren't sufficiently related to True Detective or their quality is low. This is to give room for discussion to take place. There is plenty of time in the off-season for memes, but only a short window for discussion when the episodes are new.


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Urine Car(cosa now)

3 Comments
2024/10/31
03:01 UTC

13

Time is a flat circle...

Just noticed it watching through Season 1 on my 3rd rewatch. Towards the end of episode 7, Papania and Gilbough approach Errol while he's mowing a cemetary. This is almost the exact same circumstances when Rust approaches Errol at the school while he's mowing in episode 3.

Is this alluding to Rust being correct about Eternal Recurrence? Are Papania and Gilbough just repeating in time like Rust and Marty?

7 Comments
2024/10/30
22:36 UTC

718

I just realized why Rust carved out figures from the beer cans

I never initially realized why over the course of his interview he kept carving out the figures until I zeroed in one it-

It represents the Tuttle videotape, one smaller figure in the middle (Marie Fontenot) surrounded by other figures, and Rust did this because he knew cult members would be watching the questioning film and he wanted to threaten that he knows about it

Another detail about the Tuttle tape that I saw on a YouTube comment, is that the Police Chief with white hair that shows up with Tuttle in the Police Station has the same exact posture and hand positioning as the leftmost figure in the last shot of the tape

It makes me wonder what other ridiculously niche foreshadowing was missed

66 Comments
2024/10/30
02:36 UTC

97

Time is a flat circle…

5 Comments
2024/10/29
23:28 UTC

8

Mixed up another movie or series with TD season 1 in my head, what could it be?

So I just rewatched S1 after a decade or so...I kinda only remembered it vaguely, damn, what a show.

One thing I had in the back of my mind all along though, is how at some point Marty would find out that his own children were also abused, potentially by his father-in-law or some other family member being part of the cult. That obviously didn't happen though, so what other series or movie am I mixing it up with? Some cop (or just a guy) trying to solve a case of child abduction/sexual abuse and then based on some drawings, or whatever else he finds in the kids room, or something the kids might say to them would make them realize that they were also at least targeted, if not necessarily acted upon. I kinda remember this being like a plot twist near the end, just to turn things up to 11.

I tried ChatGPT and it gave suggestions like the movie Prisoners with Jackman and Gyllenhaal which yeah it sure does have a similar vibe and matches some parts of the idea but that's not it.

11 Comments
2024/10/29
23:12 UTC

73

What did Jimmy Ledoux mean when he quotes his father “Said they weren’t white enough to be white trash.” When referring to Reggie and Dewall?

What did he mean by this? Reggie is obviously a white supremacist and I guess we can assume Dewall is probably one too, so I’m confused when they are referred to as “not being white enough to be white trash”? Was there any reference in the show to them being mixed? This line has me stumped because I’m working on a Tuttle family tree and I’m trying to figure out what this means.

49 Comments
2024/10/28
20:41 UTC

29

Question about Errol

A question about something I've never been able to understand.

The Tuttell cult has been killing for many years, but was it Errol Childress who started leaving bodies with symbols because he was basically crazy? Is it logical that the Tuttells didn't want that because they could be discovered? Was Errol acting alone?

The Ledoux were in charge of recruiting victims for the rituals, but what would be the point of leaving bodies in plain sight for everyone to see?

15 Comments
2024/10/28
12:55 UTC

2 Comments
2024/10/28
11:00 UTC

76

Revisiting Season One

S1, E3: Marty saying to his partner Rust, “You see that? Your fucking attitute. Not everyone wants to sit alone in an empty room beating off to murder manuals.” Priceless.

8 Comments
2024/10/27
08:04 UTC

45

S5... Hear me out:

7 Comments
2024/10/27
07:27 UTC

393

He really hit him in the head with a toolbox lol

26 Comments
2024/10/27
05:57 UTC

0

Sherlock Holmes hound of the baskervilles as a true detective season

0 Comments
2024/10/26
19:37 UTC

204

Pale blue eye as a true detective season

12 Comments
2024/10/26
19:37 UTC

104

Prisoners as a true detective season

2 Comments
2024/10/26
19:30 UTC

157

True Detective (2014-) S01E03 "Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey, "he said for you to give me your --- share"

8 Comments
2024/10/26
18:15 UTC

304

Since all seasons are stand alone stories without much story connection, what’s your opinion about having a TD season in Noir style placed in 40’s-50’s?

My cast choice would be Josh Brolin and Josh Hartnett as both been great in Sin City

82 Comments
2024/10/26
14:00 UTC

284

Cate Blanchett was spectacular as Ginger in season one

32 Comments
2024/10/26
04:00 UTC

27

S1 Rewatch #20 somethin

Its been about a year since my obsession with S1 ended but im back!! Will watch all 8 episodes tn with some beer. Feel free to reply ill be updating thoughts on season as night goes on. Starting it now!

33 Comments
2024/10/25
22:34 UTC

252

Has anyone read The king in yellow?

I've been meaning to order a copy. By Robert Chambers. Published 1895.

25 Comments
2024/10/25
01:38 UTC

0

Season 4 Connections to Season 1

I just finished season 1 and thought it was fantastic and I've seen kind of conflicting reports on how much season 4 connects to season 1. My question is, does season 4 provide any more story to season 1? I assume this has been covered on this sub a lot, but I don't want to accidentally read spoilers, so I didn't search. Thanks.

15 Comments
2024/10/25
00:33 UTC

158

Rust Digital Portrait

2 Comments
2024/10/24
18:00 UTC

0

Suggestion for any series similar to Season 1 of True Detective

I'm so late to this but finally watched it and it is one of the best TV show I've ever seen. So now to erase this memories ( so I can watch it again and again) can anyone suggest any similar series like true detective.

10 Comments
2024/10/24
16:32 UTC

95

Rust is always in shape

Have you noticed that rust is always in training but he's always drinking. This is especially in the part when he comes back to Louisiana. He says that he was drinking all the time and funkcional but drunk. He doesn't have any belly fat with his age and he's always in top shape. I call total BS on that. So what do you think?

37 Comments
2024/10/24
06:20 UTC

76

Who else quotes this line when overtaking in traffic?

3 Comments
2024/10/24
02:18 UTC

6 Comments
2024/10/23
15:36 UTC

98

Created for today’s Inktober word “rust”

7 Comments
2024/10/23
15:17 UTC

260

Cohle Christ?

Watching for the 10th time and just noticed this shot. They fade/blur the shot for Cohle's reflection to resemble Jesus, with Angelic music at the background. Found the whole saviour link with this shot very interesting.

Every time I watch this series I like it even more.

24 Comments
2024/10/23
11:44 UTC

8

Anyone know any novels with a similar feel or themes to S1? And, asking as a writer, would you read one?

13 Comments
2024/10/22
07:39 UTC

2

Help finding a book

In season one episode one, Rust explains to Marty the motivation behind the crime. "An attachment of physical lust to practices forbidden by society". He confirms that he got that idea from a book. Do you by any chance know what book this might be? Sounds intriguing.

4 Comments
2024/10/21
20:59 UTC

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