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True Detective

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:58 pm
by crater
This show looks like it's going to be good


Re: True Detective

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:14 pm
by creep
that looks great.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:07 pm
by Jasper
Hmmm, that does look promising.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:55 pm
by blackcoffee
Dammit. Some of my favorite authors write one (or two) stellar novels and then start writing for television. Nic Pizzolatto wrote Galveston, an utterly heartbreaking noir. He also wrote all eight episodes of True Detective. Benioff is the other one. He wrote The 25th Hour and City of Thieves and now writes Game of Thrones.

This will be good. Hey kids, read these books.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:11 pm
by SR
I'll take a list. I'm convinced tv has dwarfed film on every level in the last decade. Those cited are noted

Re: True Detective

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:02 pm
by Hokahey
This has been on my radar since they announced. Haven't been this excited for a new show since Boardwalk was first announced.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:50 pm
by Jasper
SR wrote:I'll take a list. I'm convinced tv has dwarfed film on every level in the last decade. Those cited are noted
Wait...were you asking for a TV show list or what?

Re: True Detective

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 2:03 pm
by Matz
looks decent, I guess. But I think that Breaking Bad has ruined me for most if not all shows outthere...they all seem so tame, Homeland, this etc :nyrexall:

Re: True Detective

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:00 pm
by SR
J, I was thinking any additional authors who've turned to tv

Re: True Detective

Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:00 pm
by creep
the first episode was pretty great. mcconaughey can be so good when he wants to be.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:07 pm
by crater
I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I need to watch it again to get all the names down and to see the middle 10 or so minutes I missed because I needed to take the dog out.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:14 pm
by Hokahey
McConaughey was pretty mind blowing if you ask me. Quite a performance. Cannot wait to see where this goes.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:12 pm
by ellis
Yeah, he was really creepy.

I liked the show but it was difficult to keep up with the change in years. It's a bit all over the place and does not flow chronologically. (obviously that's the intent)

It has a bit of that Memento feeling... where you're traveling backwards through the story to understand the present...

Re: True Detective

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:10 pm
by Xizen47
ellis wrote:I liked the show but it was difficult to keep up with the change in years. It's a bit all over the place and does not flow chronologically. (obviously that's the intent)
Woody Harrelson with hair= Past

Woody Harrelson without hair=Present

Re: True Detective

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:36 pm
by blackcoffee
Xizen47 wrote:
ellis wrote:I liked the show but it was difficult to keep up with the change in years. It's a bit all over the place and does not flow chronologically. (obviously that's the intent)
Woody Harrelson with hair= Past

Woody Harrelson without hair=Present
True Detective for Dummies

Re: True Detective

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:19 pm
by Jasper
I didn't even realize the first episode had aired until I saw this thread had been bumped. I just watched it and it was great.

Just by coincidence I've seen Woody Harrelson in a lot of things recently. He's pretty much always a good addition to a cast. Now You See Me was a pretty decent movie, though he was the only actor who brought any actual charisma to it...at least aside from Morgan Freeman. Out of the Furnace was imperfect plotwise, but the acting was generally excellent, as was the atmosphere.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:12 pm
by SR
I thought now you see me was farcical, but just within limits to enjoy it. Too, I liked the actor who also played the lead in the social network.....likely because the roles were almost identical. Btw, I like yr avatar mainly because of its relationship to Shelley.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 2:12 pm
by Jasper
This?

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Apparently the book and the painting were created about a year apart, the painting coming second. Clearly both are romantic, and I suppose it's possible that the book could even have influenced the painting.

Apparently it's been quite popular with designers of book jackets since the Shelley cover. :lol:

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There are a lot of reinterpretations as well, and here's one which sought to update the Frankenstein cover...

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Anyway, to get back to the show, did anyone else have the distinct impression that Ellis was watching in an enhanced state (stoned out of his gourd)? :nod:

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:31 am
by SR
I knew it had been used, but it's been abused. I like it because you can envision an agile, athletic and angry beast navigating that terrain.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:31 pm
by SR
It's also the cover to the Honderich edited Oxford Guide to Philosophy

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:30 pm
by chaos
Great show. McConaughey is mesmerizing.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c ... sance.html
JANUARY 16, 2014
THE MCCONAISSANCE
POSTED BY RACHEL SYME

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The McConaughey that we are getting now is casually weird and much darker than expected. He seems unshackled after decades of trying to be a matinée idol, an affable, guileless human glass of sweet tea. McConaughey has always used his body as an instrument, exuding sexuality in his work—in 1996, a review of “A Time to Kill” practically panted from the pages of the Times, with phrases like “Adonis factor” and “a profile that belongs on a coin”—but now his take on his own eroticism has turned sour, and his sensuality has become a weapon rather than a crutch. Consider his role in “Dallas Buyers Club,” for which he lost forty-five pounds and took on the look of a gangly bobblehead (standard Hollywood penance for a career resurrection).
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...McConaughey’s recent trajectory—which just keeps going (the excellent, eerie “True Detective” is on HBO now, and soon he will anchor a Christopher Nolan blockbuster)—is a joy to watch. McConaughey seems to be tapping into something essential, remaining himself while stretching, getting older while staying the same age.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:54 pm
by nausearockpig
Great show. I hope they don't drag it out til it's shit though.

Re: True Detective

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:32 am
by kv
it's only 8 episodes and next season will be very different

Re: True Detective

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:18 am
by Jasper
I am psyched for the third episode.
kv wrote:it's only 8 episodes and next season will be very different
Yeah, it's an anthology series. It's going to be weird to have some totally different show next year. Apparently they had the same director for all eight episodes. Will they do the same thing next year, and if so, will it be the same director, or will each season have its own director? :hs: :noclue:

Anyway, if anyone wants to geek out on some interesting stuff related to the show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_in_yellow
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are 10 stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.
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The first four stories are loosely connected by three main devices:

•A play in book form entitled The King in Yellow
•A mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity known as The King in Yellow
•An eerie symbol called The Yellow Sign

These stories are macabre in tone, centering, in keeping with the other tales, on characters that are often artists or decadents. The first and fourth stories, "The Repairer of Reputations" and "The Yellow Sign", are set in an imagined future 1920s America, whereas the second and third stories "The Mask" and "In the Court of the Dragon" are set in Paris. These stories are haunted by the theme of "Have you seen The Yellow Sign?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Sign
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Interpretation of the Yellow Sign
created by Kevin Ross for Call of Cthulhu.


The Yellow Sign is a fictional symbol or glyph, first described in Robert W. Chambers' book of horror short stories The King in Yellow (1895).

The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow never fully describes the shape and purpose of the Yellow Sign. Nonetheless, "The Repairer of Reputations", one of the stories in the collection, suggests that anyone who possesses, even by accident, a copy of the sign is susceptible to some form of insidious mind control, or possession, by the King in Yellow or one of his heirs. The stories also suggest that the original creator of the sign was not human and possibly came from a strange alternate dimension that contains an ominous and ancient city known as Carcosa.

The Cthulhu Mythos
H. P. Lovecraft and many of his imitators were great admirers of Chambers' book and incorporated many of his characters and symbols into their own works. In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, developed by August Derleth and other Lovecraft imitators, the Yellow Sign is the sign of Hastur and is used by members of his cult to identify one another. In addition, according to many of these works one of Hastur's avatars is known as the King in Yellow.

Literature
In Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy, the Cult of the Yellow Sign is offered to one detective as a concocted explanation of human history. The cult supposedly worships cthulhoid entities known as lloigor, commits human sacrifice, and has striven throughout history to suppress rationalism. The cult is opposed by the rationalist Illuminati.
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Below is something somebody made. Also notice the writing that says Carcosa, which is mentioned in the text above:

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Re: True Detective

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:53 am
by creep
i was really impressed with woody harrelson's girlfriends boobs. :boobs:

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