True Detective: The Greatest Season of TV Ever 

Perfect episode! Also, in the 3rd episode, when we see Errol mowing the lawn at Light of the Way, you can pause it at the right moment and the school’s sign says “Notice King”.

The last episode was the best . My skin was literally crawling you could almost imagine that there was someone out there who is really like this walking around like the killer . The ritual spot was just amazing

It’s my favorite single season show all time it’s perfect

Watching this series as it was released was so much fun. You kept expecting to be disappointed, but it just kept getting better. Plus, the online chat forums with people trying to “solve the case” were awesome. My favorite episode is the one where Rust goes undercover. That might be the best episode of TV I’ve ever seen.

Wow I just finished this season a month ago and only found this podcast just now! Thank you for dissecting and analyzing this season so thoroughly I loved every aspect of it and hearing all the details being discussed. This season really was incredible and even a month after finishing it I can’t stop thinking about it. The acting especially was so well done, after rewatching a few times and noticing the subtle movements and expressions and vocal inflections really make the story so much more vivid and real. Especially on Mcconaughey’s part. Thank you for taking the time to talk about this!

The "structure" in the final episode...it's an old army fort. It's called Fort Macomb currently. Built in 1822. It's just outside New Orleans. Fort Macomb is what is called a Third System fort, a seacoast defensive system of forts, funded by Congress following the War of 1812. There are quite a lot of forts of this type up and down the eastern seaboard of the US. There are some number of Third System forts on the Gulf of Mexico. Around the big old ports of the east coast, it's rather hard to avoid the things. The Statue of Liberty is plonked right atop one of 'em.

Just finished this show for the first time and boy have I been missing out. Just a phenomenal show from start to finish. I can’t wait to rewatch it to pick up on all the subtle details I missed. There’s so much nuance in the direction. If you rewatch the scene where we first see Errol mowing the lawn, the scene ends in a wide shot of Errol, Marty and Rust riding away in separate directions with a telephone pole splitting the shot down the middle signifying how far apart they still are from each other

You glossed over the pivotal scene of the entire season. The container unit scene was incredible. The danger and tension were electric there. Marty was in a high level of alert and did not trust Rust. He kept his hand hovering around his weapon, waiting for a sign to shoot Rust. Rust was resigned to his fate and purposefully moved carefully and deliberately to show his evidence. This is the event that cements their bond and drive them forward to the successful conclusion of the series. To me this scene is was what the rest of the episodes were leading up to. It was great to see them accept and trust each other.

I just watched this finally early last month and at the end I found myself having real vitriol for myself for having slept on it and wishing that I didn't miss it. So fkn good!

To me the most fascinating about Rust is how he couldn't care less what people think about him, but yet he can be so great at lying and manipulating people and they completely buy it every time. 1:45:50 and he's a really big guy, so they almost resemble each other by size. 2:43:12 uhhhh guys, I have bad news.

Woody has more hair in the 1995 timeline than he did on Cheers.

The answers were always right under their nose. Great breakdown, guys! It's my favorite show ever. Can't wait to see you break down the new Jody foster season. If you don't do recaps for each episode, I'll un- just kidding. Thanks, guys.

these are high quality podcasts, you guys should have more views

I thinks it’s interesting too, that in the interviews Cole is facing the door in a more dominant/ suspicious way and he immediately knows why he is being interviewed. While Marty has his back to the door and isn’t suspicious of their intentions at all until they start to accuse Rust and then Marty is shown sitting facing the door.

Fucking Amazing! True Detective isn’t a perfect show but I think the first season of it is the best season of tv ever made. Also really happy to hear that Anthony is enjoying Red Dead Redemption 2!

I'm so dumb, I finally watched this and was gonna request an episode on this cause I forgot I skipped over this so I didn't spoil it. Excellent work!

When the guy with the red shirt reminded the other to not forget Sopranos i knew this podcast was for me

I watch the complete first series of First Detective at least once every 6 months. Such a story, acting, goes dark for most of it, but has a lot of gallows humor, and some great camera-work, the scene where he's pulling his ex-biker buddy out of the projects during the drug deal gone bad and eventually gets away with Marty, ridiculous!

The guy that did the seven opening did many tv shows openings like the walking dead at least season 1. I agree now a lot of shows do it. Like dare devil or Dexter.

I have never made it through a series or many movies the wild bunch the man who would be king were great most movies I’m asleep in about 25 minutes this show I have watched 3 times without blinking amazing

Fantastic breakdown of Season 1! Nice job!

When this came out, I was intrigued because it was unusual for two huge stars to do television. Plus, those were HBO’s golden days. These days, I always expect to be disappointed, but HBO was as close to a sure bet as there was for several years.

Seems like Rust came to a full realization at the end.

Thanks for bringing this show back to our attention.

"using this British accent he's gotten from TV". Now now. That isn't "a British accent". He's imitating the incomparable James Mason. It's been too long since I've seen the series to be able to recollect which film it is from - though I dare say it would be in the credits for the episode. James Mason had an utterly unique way of speaking.

As a Christian I loved the show. It depicts (to me) everything that’s wrong with the human condition no matter how good you think you are, and I think that’s how cole sees the world. His hope is shattered and makes you understand why he is the way he is. And also why he believes what he believes. Great show tho!

You guys did an unbelievable job on this episode. Keep up the good work. Oddly enough, I also have a twin brother. Both big fans!

Been waiting on this one for a while and it lived up the hype!!! Easily one of the best you guys have done

Rust is the True Detective. His devotion to the truth is what makes him who he is, it’s not just crime but the nature of existence that consumes him and he perceives it all in an integrated dialectic. I think he’s also genuinely imbued with a shamanistic soul able to see beyond the veil which he mistakes for neural damage instead of heightened perceptions of a multidimensional reality. His worldview shifts throughout the show, Ledoux sends Rust over the edge with the “time is a flat circle” confrontation before Marty executes him. That revelation was the nightmarish conclusion that fit within Rust’s cosmological philosophy. His catharsis came with his near death experience and his daughter’s presence therein. He saw and traveled beyond the “ring and the loop”. He’s an Old Testament saint, not Jesus Christ.

NOT The Yellow King. The King in Yellow. Worlds of difference. And a long history As one passes from the text of the first Act into the Second, the Reader falls into insanity. All very fin de siecle Decadent. I've always thought it too drole that yellow should be such a feature of Decadence. Dracula's first print run, sported that demi monde, sinister hue. Intimations of all that imperil one's soul...like a banana.. ? People get some funny old notions about bananas, but Decadent? Ever seen a bat eating banana? Very possibly THE most darling sight in the world.

The most random funny thing about season 1 is the scene where the strippers are dancing to KRS1. I'm from Louisiana, there has never been KRS1 played in a strip club. 🤣

I watched this with a friend I went to film school with and it blew our minds! Especially the episode with the intense one shot where I had to watch it a few times to make sure that's what they did. Fantastic series overall. Definitely plays out more more like an 8hr movie as other series or episodic shows tend to concentrate on other character arcs separate from the leads which can be bad *cough Dexter*cough. 😅

I wanted to tell you guys that this is by far one of the best videos that breakdown TDS1. And there are many. I’m actually a little pissed off that it took the RU-vid algorithm so long for it to suggest it. The show is obviously very deep and not for the shallow minded. I don’t need a recap show or podcast trying to out clever the clever show and try so hard to tell me how deep and clever they can be. It’s led to some obviously intelligent people looking like fools try to explain their take on the symbolism or “what it all means”. 😂 seriously gentlemen, well done.

Absolutely LOVED this show. The first season is incomparable. Season 3 isn’t too shabby either.

this is really freaky I just watched this show for the first time yesterday binged the entire season and then you guys drop an episode on this 8 year old show

Agreed, guys. This is one of the best tv dramatic series of all time

This was excellent

I noticed this past rewatch no one ever calls Rust the Tax Man it’s mentioned that one time and never again

John Wick 4 boys let’s goooo

Loved this video, thanks guys!

What did you all think of the new season's episode? I loved it!

Big True Detective season one fan, this was great

Bet rust waited 3 days before leaving hospital with Marty. Cause he’s Jesus

La Haine. Yes. So good.

Breathe fellas. Breathe.

Can you please do this style video for Fargo Season 2? All good if not.

Never clicked on a video so quickly in my life.

I dont think lynch directed every episode. It was one of the reasons why he was not happy with season two and parts of one because he felt the show is not really his after others contribute.

Wow, vashti BOOYAN & Captain BEERheart!

I've never even heard of this show.

U2 even bettter than the real thing.

Andor!

True Detective did not "change the landscape of television forever". Woody an Matt were not ttrend setters by taking on these TV roles neither was True Detective in its format or presentation. True Detecctive did not kick start a mini series or anthology series renaissance it was part of a trend as were Woody and Matt showing up on the small screen. Some of the many movie stars taking televison roles who preceded True Detective: Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney starred in the 2008 Jon Adams mini series, Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock, a pre cancellation Kevin Spacey on House of Cards, Kevin Baccon on The Killing. Don Cheadle on House of Lies, there are many more, so many that it makes it seem like you did no research and are just making it up as you go. Had you bothered to do the ressearch you would know that Zoey Deschannel and New Girl are largely credited with opening the big screen to little screen talent migration.True Detective did not revive the miniseries or anthology format either. True Detective''s format follows American Horror Story a show that premiered 3 years before TD. Miniseries like the aforemetioned Jon Adams, the Hatfield and McCoys, and Mildred Pierce were already smash hits. Lasty, it is highly revisionist to suggest that ths season of this show is so spectacular. Any reading of the contemporary coverage would have shown you that in the end it was seen as a maasive disappointment by most who were drawn in by super natural macguffins that amounted to bubkiss, thus the show has more in common with the worst aspects of Lost than it does with the best seasons of television.

Barry Lyndon is great. I love the seen where the step son challenges Barry to a duel and accidentally fire his pistol and vomits because he thinks he's going to die.

In what part of season 1 does the show ever imply that Rust is a Christian? Christianity does not own our humanity, it does not own ethics and integrity. As a matter of fact, the entire point is that marty is a cultural Christian and he sees Christianity as a way to maintain order and integrity, when in fact he displays the opposite. Rust, who is accountable to himself and the laws of nature displays strong ethics, order and integrity. Christianity does nothing to restrain marty's behavior, he just hides his behavior from society and his family. When exactly is Rust's "come to Jesus" moment? I must have missed it.

Season two is Epstein like. Season one is Clinton like. Season three is in finger lakes. So Biden like. Funny how a lot of people seem incapable of stringing things together. That explains a lot about the world today.

I’m genuinely not sure why this show was a big gamer changer OTHER than having a character like Rust exist my and explaining why God and religion are bs and articulated it in a way that society finds acceptable.

Generation Kill yo