I thought of the Twin Suns during the ending of 2nd episode I think it was. When they find the old, burnt abandoned church? The sun setting reflects of the lake looking like twin sun's behind it. Made it that much more creepy.
Yeah, and i like how subtle lot of the references are in the show other than when king in yellow is mentioned directly. Its like the characters have ended up without knowing it in to cosmic horror story like i think it should be. Its not only one of the best detective stories, but also maybe the best Lovecraftian horror story in film. Too bad the next season already isnt nearly as good
I have such a profound feeling of melancholy about this season. Not only because of the product itself, which is absolutely steeped in it, but because of the time in my life that i watched it. A good friend of mine had lent me the dvd of season 1, but i just never really had time to sit down and watch it. I had it in my to watch list for probably 2 years. Then i got a divorce. I left with nothing other than my dog and my bike and a few personal belongings. I moved 100 miles away and lived in a literal shack. I had no job, just enough cash to get me into the shack and pay rent for another month. I was deeply depressed and honestly thinking of ending my life. I stayed up all night one night watching the TD season 1 dvds on my laptop. I didn't even have Internet then. I was so enraptured and I could not stop watching even though i was so tired. The final episode was a fever dream at 5 am delirious from sleep deprivation. I've since rewatched a dozen times and even just thinking about the show takes me back not just to the fictional events but my real life situation at that time. It's extremely potent. Anyway, obviously I'm still here and I'm actually quite happy, things really did get better.
There's a lot of little things in it, the gaba drug addiction makes me double take, I have better ones at least 😂, then the lsd flashbacks presumably from a thumbprint, the eye contact but not eyecontact, and all the happy go lucky rednecks disliking you for reasons you can't explain. It's like damn bro stop making fun of me. And the obsession, obsessive behavior just has common themes ig
It's one of those rare cases where everyone nails it. The writing, acting and direction, hell, even the set design and casting, all absolutely nail it. It wouldn't surprise me if the craft service was exquisite.
I live in New Orleans and was here when they were filming the show. They cast a lot of locals. The accents are completely spot on and so is the vibe. They did their research and they got a lot of local help.
I have watched exactly 87 seconds of this, realized Flesh Simulator has never steered me wrong, closer this application, got HBO Max, and watched the first episode of the show. 9/10 so far, I’m so excited.
"I contemplate the moment in the garden. The idea of allowing your own crucifixion." Funny enough I've just recently rewatched the show and its only gotten better with time. True Detective is absolutely one of the best pieces of media around.
how you ever seen someone crucified ? ... have you ever talked with a cannibal ? serial killer?... these are experiences you don't want no matter how much you lust for them
@@bobSeigar i'm retired now after a 30+ year professional career (in my profession that's called "all eaten up")... where i grew up, it was a yearly event to witness someone crucified for rituals and a common saying is "you haven't cried enough tears for god to listen"... (and i know you'll never understand the meaning of that saying unless you've lived in that culture)... you can have the curiosity and lust but it will never be satisfied and only leave you dull and void...believe me
@@superman9772 The Void is already there, and has been for nearly two decades now. Though, for quite different reasons, exactly the opposite to be honest. I seek not the shadows, but the shadows do surround, and it is impossible to look away.
It is a nigh-on perfect piece of media, but the part that stands out above all is the final conversation between Rust and Marty outside the Hospital - Rust's cynicism and nihilism being shattered by his near-death experience - he let go, willing to embrace darkness, annihilation, and yet, he could still feel the love of his daughter. For me, it's why it hits a lot harder than other Lovecraftian and cosmic horror - TD still has that sense of something bigger and incomprehensible at play, but it doesn't conclude that it's all meaningless because of our insignificance. Rust's journey out of Nihilism (a coping strategy to get over the trauma of losing his daughter) is discovering that while things are dark, it is not completely so - there is at least a light, however dim, which makes all the difference.
And it's probably the biggest reason why Thomas Ligotti disliked the show. Some say its a money issue, but anyone who read at least couple of his stories would know that guy treats pessimism very seriously.
@@JesterMax24 What do you mean it contradicts everything that comes before it. Were you under the impression that you had to take Rust's philosophising as it is? He's clearly framed as flawed and tragic character from the first episode - a man broken by the death of his daughter. He claims to not believe in anything spiritual, yet he indulges in religious imagery, he claims not to care about anything, but risks everything to solve the case, his whole ark is getting out of the cycle.
@daniel5730 I thought I was agreeing with you based on the ligotti comment. Wasn't Cohle spiraling back into addiction before the ending? Pretty much looking to check out and only interested in the case otherwise? They take one bad guy out while there is still a network of murdering pdf files woven into the government. The whole yellow king thing is left unresolved, etc.
@@JesterMax24 That's kind of the point? This whole time Rust was chasing closure and that's what he get, even if the pedo ring is still possibly out there, he did all he could and instead of turning away he finally was able to admit that small change matters.
I think Marty allows his daughter to be abused because his guilt keeps him from being able to relize thats whats going on. He sees the pictures and might think that his daughter knows about his affairs and so he just doesnt think deeper about it. He made it about himself without even realizing, which the show makes clear is one of his MAJOR flaws
The first season of True Detective is the best thing ever committed to film....when Rust gave that speech in the car about being a peasimist, I knew then and there that this was something unprecedented
@@harlanbaker7476I don't understand what you mean tbh. The show is a detective show, so you are meant to try and piece the clues together as it goes. Do you mean, for there to have been more clues (elements?) or to have more storylines or....?
The whole of Marty's daughter was always something that really messed with me when i first watched this as the episodes came out; that it was "never explained" initially. Reddit was going insane episode after episode noticing the signs of abuse and thinking that it would be a climax of something happening to Marty's daughter and some heroic stopping of it, and thinking "oh i guess that didn't happen". As I'm older and have rewatched, the subtlety of the whole closed loop you mention is truly still that Cosmic horror you mention. being that Marty's not taking on the responsibility as a parent being the cause of this continuation something people as a whole may fail upon. They stop the monster, and they feel that they stopped the main issue and everything is all good, in both times.. cleaning every bad thing away.. is such a deeper message that while monsters will continue to exist and be struck down from time to time. The face value at hand. Being there for his daughter would be overall a stronger change to break the loop. They dealt with the trees but not the forest. Like much cosmic horror, in this sense, too little too late once the truth is understood.
I binge watched it after you uploaded this so that I could come back and watch this video without having to worry about spoilers lol. I had heard great things about this show for a long time and figured this was my sign from the universe to just watch it and all I can say is it’s easily in my top three, if not number one, of live action tv shows. Wish I could watch it for the first time again.
I HAVE A COMPLAINT. We don't get to see enough of the things You are really passionate about. This vid shows a very passionate side of you, that honestly has me hooked.
There's a song by the name of "Train to Miami " by Steel Pole Bathtub you might like. It encapsulates this show's vibe even though it was released in 1991. Same influences one would assume.
Oh that’s a DEEP cut. SPBT is fucking killer. Check out exhalants for a more modern counterpart. I’m a MASSIVE noise rock fan (was a noise rock musician for nearly a decade before starting the channel)
This is the kind of comments I would pay for. When I get obsessed about a piece of media such as this I LOVE to find other media with the same vibe. Thank you very very much!
Interesting story about Woody's dad, Charles. He was in the navy with my grandfather, they went on leave together and at one time had pictures. His dad once made veiled comments about having something to do with the JFK assassination and my grandpa believed him.
Dude the first season of true detective is one of the best pieces of television ever made. The one shot of Rust escaping the hood with Ginger held hostage is one probably my favorite shot in any film or tv show ever. That sequence alone makes this show a 10/10
The actual church that the show was based on was right by my house... new people tore it down a few years ago and built a new church there. It was right off the main drag between Hammond and Pontchatoula, LA too... just a plain red brick church we all drove by every day.
HOLY SHIT That fisherman's accent just THREW ME BACK 40 years into my childhood, holy shit! I grew up in Shreveport and Port Arther down there, and it's exactly like this! That Lousiana accent (Cajun / Acadian) "Gare-own-teee!" LOL How have i not seen this movie yet? Stopping the video now and watching it. Will come back to this, THANK YOU!!!
@@fleshsimulatorBorn and raised in Lafayette, been living in New Orleans for 15 years. I fucking knew you had some gulf coast connection! There's something special about all the people out here. In every sense of that word haha
The theory about Marty's daughter is a point of contention with fans of the show. I personally believed this after seeing the doll scene and also her future sexual behavior. I even wondered if she was being targeted by the cult, due to the details of the dolls. However some have explained it away as Marty's daughter having possibly heard about the details of Marty's work; being deeply affected by it in some way. If I'm not mistaken, I remember Nic Pizzolatto responding to this theory, in which he denied it. But you know how some artists don't want to give away their secrets.
The King in Yellow and An Inhabitant of Carcosa have been two of the biggest influences in any creative work I've made since I've read them. So many layers to deconstruct, keeps the Aspergic brain fed for years.
that was actually the most annoying part of the show, imo. they go the whole show being subtle, then they spell it out with this guy saying that out loud to a car that has long since left. I get that he's crazy or whatever, but it felt campy
easily top 5 pieces of entertainment. i had never heard of carcosa or the king in yellow until watching it years after it aired but afterward i started noticing references to carcosa everywhere in music movies manga anime and other books of fiction. then when i finally read the king in yellow i was profoundly unsettled when i remembered suddenly noticing many references to it.
Nic Pizzolatto credited my personal favorite piece of media, "The Invisibles", as one of his chief inspirations for TD S1. The Invisibles comic series is steeped in references to the King in Yellow and other occult literature, but also very focused on M-Theory (oddly, matthew mcconaughey also bumps up against 5th Dimensional entities in Interstellar, whom in "Invisibles", are described as future/post-humans, and implied to be the readers of the story observing the flatlander characters, who gradually realize they're "fictional", with the further implication for the reader being that they too are fictional and being observed by higher dimensional consciousness that created the impetus for creating/reading the comic in a sort of infinite recursion). If you like True Detective, I highly recommend The Invisibles (The Matrix ripped it off, but its 1000x trippier than The Matrix) and also Alan Moore's Providence (Another chief inspiration on Nic, and another series that explores the King in Yellow)
haven't finished the video yet but some of my favorite parts of ithe show are the allusions to the veiled prophet and how the dark satanic stuff interfaces with our world, only being able to be seen for a second before the curtain is drawn again. For anyone who likes this channel and true detective, you should go read programmed to kill by dave mcgowan.
I totally agree with the pacing being great. It feels like a great mastery of using its time effectively. There are some 2 hour movies that feel like they're begging to be 8 hour mini series. There are some 8 hour mini series that should've been 2 hour movies based on the amount of front/back loading done with the plot. But this show really feels like it's the perfect length. It didn't need to be longer or shorter. It took the time it needed too. It wasn't too brief, leaving you unfulfilled but it didn't over stay it's welcome either.
The spiral triangle symbol on the girls back tied to the tree is actually a real symbol used by p*do rings which makes it all that much more disturbing
Yes, very freaky stuff. Makes the show that much more creepy and realistic. The whole development with Rust breaking into that piece of shit's mansion and finding that fucked up satanic cult tape, then proving everything he'd been saying the whole time to be true and beyond by showing Marty and partially the audience the tape, was insane.
This show premiered during a very intense and formative time of my adult life. Life-changing events. I heavily identified with Russt, in particular, and the general setting of the story. Thanks for making this videssay.
Like so much of Frederick Nietzsche's philosophy, the whole flat circle thing is profoundly misunderstood and is nowhere near as bleak as people think... but I'm not going to give a lecture because I'm not getting paid right now... anyhow, the executive at HBO, who was responsible for pushing through the second season, eventually apologized for that absolute stinker of a second season... He admitted they pushed it through basically out of greed and a desire to ride the coattails of the genius that was this first season. But yeah... Buckaroo Banzai's Adventures across the 8th Dimension, Streets of Fire, Twin Peaks The Return, and the first season of True Detective... things I've basically begged my so-called friends to watch... and they never do. I am glad I discovered this UA-cam channel.
Season 2 feels terrible when you try to go right into it from season one but there’s a lot of rally good thematic elements to that one. It plays out to essentially Epstein meets Esalen, but it doesn’t give you a full picture until it’s almost over and until then the characters all suck so it’s a huge slog. Season three is really entertaining and could be an awesome sequel to the first one but feels like deliberate limited hangout. It feels like The West Memphis Three & Franklin Credit but wrapped up like a Scooby doo mystery. Like when Michael Rooker’s character takes Mahershala Ali’s character to the cliff he’s like “okayokayokay! yes! A wealthy billionaire freak stole a little girl but it’s just his one instance and it’s totally cool!”
@@EPATZ it totally was. Great writing. Some really cool scenes, good casting, written in the style of season 1. Just a complete copout in the final seconds
@@JohnDoe69986 no I think that was Epsilon. The Esalen Institute is a new age themed retreat in Big Sur, California. Kind of like a resort mixed with a new age college lots of modern new age philosophy came out of there and all kinds of influential people in the counterculture gave lectures there such as Aldous Huxley, The McKenna Brorhers, Linus Pauling, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Ken Kesey etc… the conspiratorial take is basically that it was an kind of a Psy-Op factory. Use all these bombed-out hippie philosophers to pied piper the organizing of the American left. But who knows
i remember when i messaged you on tiktok before you made this channel im so glad you followed through on it, congratulations on getting 200K+ subs its insane to see how popular you've become. here is to 1 billion
Coincidentally I just rewatched it yesterday. Must watch every couple years to get my head right. It's a great mix of life being an exercise in futility while at the same time offering hope and change.
The whole season reminds me of the beginning of Whisperer in the Dark, both possibly the greatest media experiences of my life. Your background music always reminds me of both.
You seem like a man who knows his cosmic horror, has looked it right in the eye and turned it into yt revenue. Also the Kafka, your channel's genre should be "post- industrial-kafka-esque-conspiracy-adjacent-smooth contemporary"
100% agree. There are many things I can articulate that make it great...but something else that I cannot put into words. While I may be a bit touched...I have re-watched that Season at least 10 times. Matt/Woody play off each other extremely well. Every character was cast extremely well as it is very easy to forget you are watching fiction. The philosophical moments in regards to the nature of the human condition and the Lovecraft vibes are immaculate
Born and raised in louisiana so I can confirm they got the aesthetics of the state down so well. True detective is genuinely the only piece of media that represented this place accurately and in a way that isn't in ridicule or pity. Numerous times I felt like I had been exactly where some of the scenes were shot first time I saw it.
At first glance the Crimson King from The Dark Tower universe reads like a fan letter from Stephen King to Lovecraft. BUT I once heard King say something that stuck with me. While being interviewed on some late night talk show after being complimented by the host on his ability to crank out works the host mentioned something with in the book IT off handedly and quickly he was personally fond of, then asked King "How do you get inspiration for all of this stuff." King stopped laughing and looked at him more intently and said "Well you know (I) don't write this stuff. Right?" I believe good writers are closer to Multi-Dimensional Short Wave Radio Operators & Transcriptionists than anything. Personally I believe the King in Yellow, the Crimson King & IT really are from the same plan.
And, if not obvious, the real reason is despite the absurd computing power of the human brain, it still runs in cycles, nothing ever truly learned, but *everything* remembered. The human brain in it's throes of self-aggrandizing has been taught by evolution that breaking the mould is rewarded. But as you might know, there is nothing new under the sun, and the self-destructive ape find itself unknowingly, idly making eons old mould out of the one it has just smashed.
Listen, I'm dead ass serious. There needs to be a full fledged Delta Green show. With flawed unstable Disco Elysium style character development Overlord action. And horrors inferred yet left unseen.
I'd found a fan edit way back when that split it into 2 movies and it worked unsurprisingly well. I've binged the season enough to know that all the fan did was remove every opening and ending credits except for the beginning and ending of both respective movies. Aside from that it was literally just movie 1 = episodes 1-4 and movie 2 = eps 5-8. It was perfect, I'm mad I lost it.
Third time being here without watching your video, sorry for that. But you made me download the series and I wanted to thank you for it! I will be back.
this really was a phenomenal show and the sense of dread it invokes is very unique. If there has been a single 10/10 television series in recent memory this would probably be it.
To answer your question about why someone who has never seen True Detective is doing watching this far, I've never been convinced to give it the time of day because I've only ever heard armchair philosophy talking points about McConaughey's character and world view and every one I tried watching was clearly performing their interest rather than talking with authentic appreciation. You, though. This is genuine praise and love of the media. This convinces me. I'll watch it.
I was recently on a motorcycle tour staying overnight in New Orleans, got a little tipsy and ended up binging the first season in a hotel room. This video was such a pleasant surprise
I'm not saying it's great or is even close to the first season, but season 2 tries to pivot in a new direction that I think is admirable. Caspere knew that
Years back, when I was reading a lot of Camus, Schopenhauer and John Gray (and was pretty depressed) I had this show enter my life. It was difficult to realise that my beliefs aligned so heavily with Rust's, that my worldview was so negative, and I wished I'd shared his personal emotional revelation at the end of the show. Instead, I used to rewatch that monologue of his from the end of episode 3, the one with that incredibly eerie shot of Reggie Ledoux, 'til I had it memorised. "It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person... And like a lot of dreams, there's a monster at the end of it." I'm doing better now, but I still think about that a lot.
Season 1 is absolutely the best 8 hours of television ever made. I really dont think it will ever be topped. That long shot when the drug dealers get robbed is a masterclass and deserves to be studied in film schools
The first time I watched this it left me semi lost. Not that the show lost me, more that it got so far under my skin, into my conscious and subconscious I could not stop thinking about it. I immediately bought the book of short stories and attempted to glean some kind of grounding from that but it still left me careening through the subsequent weeks feeling like life was not all that it seemed to be. Also, the Handsome Family that dies the opening track is amazing.
My wife and I finished season 1 last night. All your points stand; this is a self-contained time capsule of cinematic excellence. The fringes of psych horror had me making comparisons to H.P Lovecraft, and the Detective from Disco Elysium. Great show, and great upload!
I was already a fan of the 1st season, but before watching your video, I went back and watched it again. Still impressed. Then, I watched your video, which as usual I enjoyed, but the big thrill here was the introduction of new authors. I started The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, and am now deep into My Work Is Not Yet Done by the same person. What a pleasure to read, thank you. You kill me.
watching this show while already being a fan of Ligotti’s nonfiction was so funny, i kept enacting the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing gif. nowadays it’s my hope that people who recognize the merit of Cohle’s perspective in-context but balk at any notion of real-life antinatalism will like, connect the dots and try to offer the latter a little compassion
Watching it for a third time thanks to this video. Agree that it’s one of the best pieces of filmmaking… ever. No Country for Old Men is up there for me too.
finally watched season one for the first time and you would not believe the nightmares it gave me, the ambience of the whole show just infected by brain 10/10
Recently watched the 1st season again and discovered how much McConaughey carried that show and elevated it. The themes and performances were stellar but the writing was quite standard.
fun fact: the incatation family related to the entity of the frenzy flame in elden ring, which is obviously inspired by the king in yellow, use a fairly similar symbol which we see in true detective, the one used by the cult. maybe i'm seeing things but also this sort of reference is in line with fromsoft games
Thats an intriguing and brilliant use of camera lenses to define the time period the storyline follows. Some old camera lenses are slightly radioactive and give a "warmth" to captured images and they have a dedicated cult like following among diehard purist analog gearslut photoheads. I didnt know this tidbit and it just contributes to this being a landmark masterpiece of modern cinema. Its unfortunate none of the following seasons could match the benchmark of the first season, but then again the bar was set very high and its hard to even come close to the quality and artistry of this atory
Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake, the shadows lengthen in Carcosa.
Strange is the night when black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing, where flap the tatters of the King, must die unheard in dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
Have you seen the yellow sign?
I thought of the Twin Suns during the ending of 2nd episode I think it was. When they find the old, burnt abandoned church? The sun setting reflects of the lake looking like twin sun's behind it. Made it that much more creepy.
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The King in Yellow has to be one of the most intriguing story I’ve read. And now I see references to it everywhere. Which feels fitting somehow.
The signs were always there, waiting for you, just like lost Carcosa still is.
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Yeah, and i like how subtle lot of the references are in the show other than when king in yellow is mentioned directly. Its like the characters have ended up without knowing it in to cosmic horror story like i think it should be. Its not only one of the best detective stories, but also maybe the best Lovecraftian horror story in film. Too bad the next season already isnt nearly as good
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@lalli8152 How is True Detective cosmic horror?
I have such a profound feeling of melancholy about this season. Not only because of the product itself, which is absolutely steeped in it, but because of the time in my life that i watched it.
A good friend of mine had lent me the dvd of season 1, but i just never really had time to sit down and watch it. I had it in my to watch list for probably 2 years. Then i got a divorce. I left with nothing other than my dog and my bike and a few personal belongings. I moved 100 miles away and lived in a literal shack. I had no job, just enough cash to get me into the shack and pay rent for another month. I was deeply depressed and honestly thinking of ending my life. I stayed up all night one night watching the TD season 1 dvds on my laptop. I didn't even have Internet then. I was so enraptured and I could not stop watching even though i was so tired. The final episode was a fever dream at 5 am delirious from sleep deprivation.
I've since rewatched a dozen times and even just thinking about the show takes me back not just to the fictional events but my real life situation at that time. It's extremely potent.
Anyway, obviously I'm still here and I'm actually quite happy, things really did get better.
You made them better, because you are able to choose to do so❤
This might be the best comment on the internet
There's a lot of little things in it, the gaba drug addiction makes me double take, I have better ones at least 😂, then the lsd flashbacks presumably from a thumbprint, the eye contact but not eyecontact, and all the happy go lucky rednecks disliking you for reasons you can't explain. It's like damn bro stop making fun of me. And the obsession, obsessive behavior just has common themes ig
It's one of those rare cases where everyone nails it. The writing, acting and direction, hell, even the set design and casting, all absolutely nail it. It wouldn't surprise me if the craft service was exquisite.
Flavors beyond comprehension. Craft tables which would drive a man mad, were he to behold them.
I live in New Orleans and was here when they were filming the show. They cast a lot of locals. The accents are completely spot on and so is the vibe. They did their research and they got a lot of local help.
I read this in a Nawlins accent. Although I've heard that no one from there actually says it like that lol.
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I have watched exactly 87 seconds of this, realized Flesh Simulator has never steered me wrong, closer this application, got HBO Max, and watched the first episode of the show. 9/10 so far, I’m so excited.
Ohh you’re in for a treat buddy boy
Ohhh man. You're gonna love the biker bar infiltration episode. It's the best TV episode I've ever seen. Bar none.
@@jingalls9142 Everything about that episode is about creating tension and dread. So good!
I am jealous that you get/got to watch True Detective S1 for the first time.
At this point I’m sure you know you made a good decision.
"You're wrong about the sky thing, marty... once there was only darkness... you ask me? The light's winning..."
"I contemplate the moment in the garden. The idea of allowing your own crucifixion."
Funny enough I've just recently rewatched the show and its only gotten better with time.
True Detective is absolutely one of the best pieces of media around.
how you ever seen someone crucified ? ... have you ever talked with a cannibal ? serial killer?... these are experiences you don't want no matter how much you lust for them
@@superman9772 Curiosity killed the man.:(
Definitely gonna be my downfall
@@bobSeigar i'm retired now after a 30+ year professional career (in my profession that's called "all eaten up")... where i grew up, it was a yearly event to witness someone crucified for rituals and a common saying is "you haven't cried enough tears for god to listen"... (and i know you'll never understand the meaning of that saying unless you've lived in that culture)... you can have the curiosity and lust but it will never be satisfied and only leave you dull and void...believe me
@@superman9772 The Void is already there, and has been for nearly two decades now. Though, for quite different reasons, exactly the opposite to be honest.
I seek not the shadows, but the shadows do surround, and it is impossible to look away.
@@superman9772you're so deep
true detective? cosmic horrors beyond human imagination? yes please
I dare you to read the Chambers novel... it's not very cosmic horror.
If you haven't actually watched it....yes please that.
@@moejuggler6033 season 1 of true detective has been my favorite piece of media right next to AOT
@@Jeenjiwhat is AOT?
It is a nigh-on perfect piece of media, but the part that stands out above all is the final conversation between Rust and Marty outside the Hospital - Rust's cynicism and nihilism being shattered by his near-death experience - he let go, willing to embrace darkness, annihilation, and yet, he could still feel the love of his daughter.
For me, it's why it hits a lot harder than other Lovecraftian and cosmic horror - TD still has that sense of something bigger and incomprehensible at play, but it doesn't conclude that it's all meaningless because of our insignificance. Rust's journey out of Nihilism (a coping strategy to get over the trauma of losing his daughter) is discovering that while things are dark, it is not completely so - there is at least a light, however dim, which makes all the difference.
@@shurley96 I was bawling like a baby during that scene. It's a perfect ending.
And it's probably the biggest reason why Thomas Ligotti disliked the show. Some say its a money issue, but anyone who read at least couple of his stories would know that guy treats pessimism very seriously.
@@JesterMax24 What do you mean it contradicts everything that comes before it. Were you under the impression that you had to take Rust's philosophising as it is? He's clearly framed as flawed and tragic character from the first episode - a man broken by the death of his daughter. He claims to not believe in anything spiritual, yet he indulges in religious imagery, he claims not to care about anything, but risks everything to solve the case, his whole ark is getting out of the cycle.
@daniel5730 I thought I was agreeing with you based on the ligotti comment.
Wasn't Cohle spiraling back into addiction before the ending? Pretty much looking to check out and only interested in the case otherwise?
They take one bad guy out while there is still a network of murdering pdf files woven into the government. The whole yellow king thing is left unresolved, etc.
@@JesterMax24 That's kind of the point? This whole time Rust was chasing closure and that's what he get, even if the pedo ring is still possibly out there, he did all he could and instead of turning away he finally was able to admit that small change matters.
I think Marty allows his daughter to be abused because his guilt keeps him from being able to relize thats whats going on. He sees the pictures and might think that his daughter knows about his affairs and so he just doesnt think deeper about it. He made it about himself without even realizing, which the show makes clear is one of his MAJOR flaws
The first season of True Detective is the best thing ever committed to film....when Rust gave that speech in the car about being a peasimist, I knew then and there that this was something unprecedented
I'm more of a beansimist myself but I can respect a peasimist.
more like "un-pea-cedented" amiright fellas
Fantastic show (well, season) but I wish it actually included more elements and not just small references around the edges. Still good tho.
@@harlanbaker7476I don't understand what you mean tbh. The show is a detective show, so you are meant to try and piece the clues together as it goes. Do you mean, for there to have been more clues (elements?) or to have more storylines or....?
@TheOneAndOnlySame I'm usually a peessimist the same time i poosimist
0:48 brb watching true detective and coming back
Where to watch?
@@escape692 hbo max has it, im not sure where else its streamable. Its worth finding tho. Best show i've ever watched.
The whole of Marty's daughter was always something that really messed with me when i first watched this as the episodes came out; that it was "never explained" initially. Reddit was going insane episode after episode noticing the signs of abuse and thinking that it would be a climax of something happening to Marty's daughter and some heroic stopping of it, and thinking "oh i guess that didn't happen".
As I'm older and have rewatched, the subtlety of the whole closed loop you mention is truly still that Cosmic horror you mention. being that Marty's not taking on the responsibility as a parent being the cause of this continuation something people as a whole may fail upon. They stop the monster, and they feel that they stopped the main issue and everything is all good, in both times.. cleaning every bad thing away.. is such a deeper message that while monsters will continue to exist and be struck down from time to time. The face value at hand. Being there for his daughter would be overall a stronger change to break the loop. They dealt with the trees but not the forest.
Like much cosmic horror, in this sense, too little too late once the truth is understood.
I binge watched it after you uploaded this so that I could come back and watch this video without having to worry about spoilers lol. I had heard great things about this show for a long time and figured this was my sign from the universe to just watch it and all I can say is it’s easily in my top three, if not number one, of live action tv shows. Wish I could watch it for the first time again.
I HAVE A COMPLAINT. We don't get to see enough of the things You are really passionate about. This vid shows a very passionate side of you, that honestly has me hooked.
As someone who grew up in the area the locations chosen and even times of day used at certain locations was great cinematography.
There's a song by the name of "Train to Miami " by Steel Pole Bathtub you might like. It encapsulates this show's vibe even though it was released in 1991. Same influences one would assume.
Oh that’s a DEEP cut. SPBT is fucking killer. Check out exhalants for a more modern counterpart. I’m a MASSIVE noise rock fan (was a noise rock musician for nearly a decade before starting the channel)
@@fleshsimulator that actually make alot of sense.
This is the kind of comments I would pay for. When I get obsessed about a piece of media such as this I LOVE to find other media with the same vibe. Thank you very very much!
Interesting story about Woody's dad, Charles. He was in the navy with my grandfather, they went on leave together and at one time had pictures. His dad once made veiled comments about having something to do with the JFK assassination and my grandpa believed him.
This is a very weird part of the internet
@@BeanofritzThis is what the internet was like in the wild west days. This is nostalgia.
@@Beanofritz welcome to the party.
Dude the first season of true detective is one of the best pieces of television ever made. The one shot of Rust escaping the hood with Ginger held hostage is one probably my favorite shot in any film or tv show ever. That sequence alone makes this show a 10/10
"I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes. It's corrosive, like acid."
there's is so many amazing lines in this, truly a masterpiece of writing
First sentence I think of when I hear True detective.
The actual church that the show was based on was right by my house... new people tore it down a few years ago and built a new church there.
It was right off the main drag between Hammond and Pontchatoula, LA too... just a plain red brick church we all drove by every day.
HOLY SHIT That fisherman's accent just THREW ME BACK 40 years into my childhood, holy shit! I grew up in Shreveport and Port Arther down there, and it's exactly like this! That Lousiana accent (Cajun / Acadian) "Gare-own-teee!" LOL How have i not seen this movie yet? Stopping the video now and watching it. Will come back to this, THANK YOU!!!
Having spent a lot of time on the gulf coast, it’s pretty spot on IMO. Hopefully you dig it!
@@fleshsimulatorBorn and raised in Lafayette, been living in New Orleans for 15 years. I fucking knew you had some gulf coast connection! There's something special about all the people out here. In every sense of that word haha
The theory about Marty's daughter is a point of contention with fans of the show. I personally believed this after seeing the doll scene and also her future sexual behavior. I even wondered if she was being targeted by the cult, due to the details of the dolls. However some have explained it away as Marty's daughter having possibly heard about the details of Marty's work; being deeply affected by it in some way.
If I'm not mistaken, I remember Nic Pizzolatto responding to this theory, in which he denied it. But you know how some artists don't want to give away their secrets.
I think flesh simulator's theory is good, and on par with the idea that the psychosphere is real.
@@GavinFrei I like the theory and hope that it's canon.
Never go out with someone who carries a copy of The King in Yellow everywhere more so if they always tell you to "remember our promise"
Have you seen the yellow sign?
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus No but i have seen a German Lesbian Robot and her German wife
You mean someone who carries...
ACHTUNG ACHTUNG
@@arran4285good game. Germans are very proud
The King in Yellow and An Inhabitant of Carcosa have been two of the biggest influences in any creative work I've made since I've read them. So many layers to deconstruct, keeps the Aspergic brain fed for years.
I wish you many years of success and longevity my friend. Thank you for the content!!
easily one of the best newer content creators in my feed these days.
@@volkskrieg8735he’s from the psyop division , he is very well trained
“….My family’s been here a long long time.”
that was actually the most annoying part of the show, imo. they go the whole show being subtle, then they spell it out with this guy saying that out loud to a car that has long since left. I get that he's crazy or whatever, but it felt campy
@@austinbaker9575I think we were already supposed to have caught on by that point.
I'm upset that I got into your content so early into your career because I absolutely love it, and there isn't enough of it for me to binge lol.
easily top 5 pieces of entertainment. i had never heard of carcosa or the king in yellow until watching it years after it aired but afterward i started noticing references to carcosa everywhere in music movies manga anime and other books of fiction. then when i finally read the king in yellow i was profoundly unsettled when i remembered suddenly noticing many references to it.
Nic Pizzolatto credited my personal favorite piece of media, "The Invisibles", as one of his chief inspirations for TD S1. The Invisibles comic series is steeped in references to the King in Yellow and other occult literature, but also very focused on M-Theory (oddly, matthew mcconaughey also bumps up against 5th Dimensional entities in Interstellar, whom in "Invisibles", are described as future/post-humans, and implied to be the readers of the story observing the flatlander characters, who gradually realize they're "fictional", with the further implication for the reader being that they too are fictional and being observed by higher dimensional consciousness that created the impetus for creating/reading the comic in a sort of infinite recursion).
If you like True Detective, I highly recommend The Invisibles (The Matrix ripped it off, but its 1000x trippier than The Matrix) and also Alan Moore's Providence (Another chief inspiration on Nic, and another series that explores the King in Yellow)
Invisibles is absolutely great. Grade A material.
haven't finished the video yet but some of my favorite parts of ithe show are the allusions to the veiled prophet and how the dark satanic stuff interfaces with our world, only being able to be seen for a second before the curtain is drawn again. For anyone who likes this channel and true detective, you should go read programmed to kill by dave mcgowan.
I totally agree with the pacing being great. It feels like a great mastery of using its time effectively. There are some 2 hour movies that feel like they're begging to be 8 hour mini series. There are some 8 hour mini series that should've been 2 hour movies based on the amount of front/back loading done with the plot. But this show really feels like it's the perfect length. It didn't need to be longer or shorter. It took the time it needed too. It wasn't too brief, leaving you unfulfilled but it didn't over stay it's welcome either.
being from south louisiana i’ll tell you the cajun accents are close but still a caricature of real coonass accents
The video ending in tommy wright iii was something i did not expect
I CREEP AT NIGHT
@@fleshsimulator posse deep is how i creep 😤
The spiral triangle symbol on the girls back tied to the tree is actually a real symbol used by p*do rings which makes it all that much more disturbing
It’s all over comet pizza and podesta’s office
Yes, very freaky stuff. Makes the show that much more creepy and realistic.
The whole development with Rust breaking into that piece of shit's mansion and finding that fucked up satanic cult tape, then proving everything he'd been saying the whole time to be true and beyond by showing Marty and partially the audience the tape, was insane.
i can see your soul at the edges of your eyes.
Interesting seeing you here brother. Keep up the good work!
Lmao dude you always pop up in the most random places on my feed. You got great taste bro!
This show premiered during a very intense and formative time of my adult life. Life-changing events. I heavily identified with Russt, in particular, and the general setting of the story. Thanks for making this videssay.
Your refusal to blink is inspiring
I've seen season 1-3 over 8 times each. Season one being over 10 times now. It's a ritual. Need to rewatch season 4 again and make my peace.
I do that with mindhunter too
My friends and I dropped some light lsd the first time we watched true detective. It stayed with me for a long time.
Like so much of Frederick Nietzsche's philosophy, the whole flat circle thing is profoundly misunderstood and is nowhere near as bleak as people think... but I'm not going to give a lecture because I'm not getting paid right now... anyhow, the executive at HBO, who was responsible for pushing through the second season, eventually apologized for that absolute stinker of a second season... He admitted they pushed it through basically out of greed and a desire to ride the coattails of the genius that was this first season.
But yeah... Buckaroo Banzai's Adventures across the 8th Dimension, Streets of Fire, Twin Peaks The Return, and the first season of True Detective... things I've basically begged my so-called friends to watch... and they never do.
I am glad I discovered this UA-cam channel.
As soon as I heard “it’s been about 10 years since it aired” I knew what it was. Love your vids man
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Season 2 feels terrible when you try to go right into it from season one but there’s a lot of rally good thematic elements to that one. It plays out to essentially Epstein meets Esalen, but it doesn’t give you a full picture until it’s almost over and until then the characters all suck so it’s a huge slog.
Season three is really entertaining and could be an awesome sequel to the first one but feels like deliberate limited hangout. It feels like The West Memphis Three & Franklin Credit but wrapped up like a Scooby doo mystery. Like when Michael Rooker’s character takes Mahershala Ali’s character to the cliff he’s like “okayokayokay! yes! A wealthy billionaire freak stole a little girl but it’s just his one instance and it’s totally cool!”
I always felt like season 3 had the potential to be really great, but was just ruined by the ending.
@@EPATZ it totally was. Great writing. Some really cool scenes, good casting, written in the style of season 1. Just a complete copout in the final seconds
Total limited hangout
Is esalen that cult from GTA or Red Dead
@@JohnDoe69986 no I think that was Epsilon. The Esalen Institute is a new age themed retreat in Big Sur, California. Kind of like a resort mixed with a new age college lots of modern new age philosophy came out of there and all kinds of influential people in the counterculture gave lectures there such as Aldous Huxley, The McKenna Brorhers, Linus Pauling, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Ken Kesey etc… the conspiratorial take is basically that it was an kind of a Psy-Op factory. Use all these bombed-out hippie philosophers to pied piper the organizing of the American left. But who knows
i remember when i messaged you on tiktok before you made this channel im so glad you followed through on it, congratulations on getting 200K+ subs its insane to see how popular you've become. here is to 1 billion
He’s like a weird uncle I love this channel
Coincidentally I just rewatched it yesterday. Must watch every couple years to get my head right. It's a great mix of life being an exercise in futility while at the same time offering hope and change.
The king in yellow has been making subtle pop ups more and more lately, possible incursion?
Is The King in Yellow part of our reality, or are we part of His?
Always has been.
what a coincidence. I rewatched it this year too!
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The whole season reminds me of the beginning of Whisperer in the Dark, both possibly the greatest media experiences of my life. Your background music always reminds me of both.
This is crazy timing. I juat watched this for the first time last week!!!!
True detective season 1 is ABSOLUTELY my favorite live action season of television of all time. Hands down no contest
You seem like a man who knows his cosmic horror, has looked it right in the eye and turned it into yt revenue.
Also the Kafka, your channel's genre should be "post- industrial-kafka-esque-conspiracy-adjacent-smooth contemporary"
The Metamorphosis is an amazing story. Love Kafka
Every now and then I here that voice saying "carcosa" shit is so eerie cause shit goes down in the bayou Like FORRRR SUREEEE
C A R C O S A
100% agree. There are many things I can articulate that make it great...but something else that I cannot put into words.
While I may be a bit touched...I have re-watched that Season at least 10 times.
Matt/Woody play off each other extremely well. Every character was cast extremely well as it is very easy to forget you are watching fiction.
The philosophical moments in regards to the nature of the human condition and the Lovecraft vibes are immaculate
A King whom Emperors have served.
My only complaint about your videos is that there's not more. I absolutely appreciate your knowledge and how you present it to us. Thank you sir.
True detective season 1 babyyyyyy
Born and raised in louisiana so I can confirm they got the aesthetics of the state down so well. True detective is genuinely the only piece of media that represented this place accurately and in a way that isn't in ridicule or pity. Numerous times I felt like I had been exactly where some of the scenes were shot first time I saw it.
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At first glance the Crimson King from The Dark Tower universe reads like a fan letter from Stephen King to Lovecraft. BUT I once heard King say something that stuck with me. While being interviewed on some late night talk show after being complimented by the host on his ability to crank out works the host mentioned something with in the book IT off handedly and quickly he was personally fond of, then asked King "How do you get inspiration for all of this stuff."
King stopped laughing and looked at him more intently and said "Well you know (I) don't write this stuff. Right?"
I believe good writers are closer to Multi-Dimensional Short Wave Radio Operators & Transcriptionists than anything.
Personally I believe the King in Yellow, the Crimson King & IT really are from the same plan.
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And, if not obvious, the real reason is despite the absurd computing power of the human brain, it still runs in cycles, nothing ever truly learned, but *everything* remembered. The human brain in it's throes of self-aggrandizing has been taught by evolution that breaking the mould is rewarded. But as you might know, there is nothing new under the sun, and the self-destructive ape find itself unknowingly, idly making eons old mould out of the one it has just smashed.
The whole lense analysis and portion was super cool. Thanks for including that.
That’s a big part of what made me do the video haha
The Delta Green tv show is pretty good, I agree
Listen, I'm dead ass serious. There needs to be a full fledged Delta Green show. With flawed unstable Disco Elysium style character development Overlord action. And horrors inferred yet left unseen.
let's fucking go, Impossible Landscapes is great but honestly I'd love to see a more True Detective style module about the King yk?
Holy shit that track at the end sounds like a track I heard in a car in 1996, which might give away where I'm from.
Somehow mofos talk about true detective and not the collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers.
Came here to say that
I'd found a fan edit way back when that split it into 2 movies and it worked unsurprisingly well. I've binged the season enough to know that all the fan did was remove every opening and ending credits except for the beginning and ending of both respective movies.
Aside from that it was literally just movie 1 = episodes 1-4 and movie 2 = eps 5-8.
It was perfect, I'm mad I lost it.
My favorite part of True Detective Season 1, aside from the technical mastery, is that everything in the story is 100% real
Third time being here without watching your video, sorry for that. But you made me download the series and I wanted to thank you for it! I will be back.
this really was a phenomenal show and the sense of dread it invokes is very unique. If there has been a single 10/10 television series in recent memory this would probably be it.
To answer your question about why someone who has never seen True Detective is doing watching this far, I've never been convinced to give it the time of day because I've only ever heard armchair philosophy talking points about McConaughey's character and world view and every one I tried watching was clearly performing their interest rather than talking with authentic appreciation. You, though. This is genuine praise and love of the media. This convinces me. I'll watch it.
Objectively correct opinion, true detective (season 1) is probably the pinnacle of television
Next to The Wire, you’d be correct.
I was recently on a motorcycle tour staying overnight in New Orleans, got a little tipsy and ended up binging the first season in a hotel room. This video was such a pleasant surprise
Incredible show. Plus, it has the best T&A reveal of all time.
I'm not saying it's great or is even close to the first season, but season 2 tries to pivot in a new direction that I think is admirable. Caspere knew that
Took me 4 days to get through the series, was great, thanks for the recommendation.
Watched this again recently, after a 8 year break. Needless to say I didn't remember much but man I forgot just how good it was.
Your stare transmits info into my soul
Years back, when I was reading a lot of Camus, Schopenhauer and John Gray (and was pretty depressed) I had this show enter my life. It was difficult to realise that my beliefs aligned so heavily with Rust's, that my worldview was so negative, and I wished I'd shared his personal emotional revelation at the end of the show.
Instead, I used to rewatch that monologue of his from the end of episode 3, the one with that incredibly eerie shot of Reggie Ledoux, 'til I had it memorised.
"It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person... And like a lot of dreams, there's a monster at the end of it."
I'm doing better now, but I still think about that a lot.
Absolutely agree. It’s my favourite piece of media ever!
Season 1 is absolutely the best 8 hours of television ever made. I really dont think it will ever be topped. That long shot when the drug dealers get robbed is a masterclass and deserves to be studied in film schools
Relax, sperg. Seriously, calm
So weird that I just binged the entire first season the day before this video dropped. It’s such a good show.
The opening thesis statement speaks to why I love this channel so much.
TD season one was lightning in a bottle.
The first time I watched this it left me semi lost. Not that the show lost me, more that it got so far under my skin, into my conscious and subconscious I could not stop thinking about it. I immediately bought the book of short stories and attempted to glean some kind of grounding from that but it still left me careening through the subsequent weeks feeling like life was not all that it seemed to be. Also, the Handsome Family that dies the opening track is amazing.
My wife and I finished season 1 last night. All your points stand; this is a self-contained time capsule of cinematic excellence. The fringes of psych horror had me making comparisons to H.P Lovecraft, and the Detective from Disco Elysium. Great show, and great upload!
I was already a fan of the 1st season, but before watching your video, I went back and watched it again. Still impressed. Then, I watched your video, which as usual I enjoyed, but the big thrill here was the introduction of new authors. I started The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, and am now deep into My Work Is Not Yet Done by the same person. What a pleasure to read, thank you. You kill me.
As a follower from the south (biloxi), the cajun accent from the movie is on point.
I somehow already knew this would be your favorite.
I watched the whole season so I could come back to this video. 10/10 to True Detective and this video.
watching this show while already being a fan of Ligotti’s nonfiction was so funny, i kept enacting the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing gif. nowadays it’s my hope that people who recognize the merit of Cohle’s perspective in-context but balk at any notion of real-life antinatalism will like, connect the dots and try to offer the latter a little compassion
Watching it for a third time thanks to this video. Agree that it’s one of the best pieces of filmmaking… ever. No Country for Old Men is up there for me too.
finally watched season one for the first time and you would not believe the nightmares it gave me, the ambience of the whole show just infected by brain 10/10
One of the best television seasons ever made - legendary
Agreed, first season of True Detective is perfect
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The soundtrack is something I'll play every now and then. City of refuge is my favorite. Love the old time religion stuff.
That season was amazing, my interest in your videos is making a lot more sense now.
Recently watched the 1st season again and discovered how much McConaughey carried that show and elevated it. The themes and performances were stellar but the writing was quite standard.
fun fact: the incatation family related to the entity of the frenzy flame in elden ring, which is obviously inspired by the king in yellow, use a fairly similar symbol which we see in true detective, the one used by the cult. maybe i'm seeing things but also this sort of reference is in line with fromsoft games
Thats an intriguing and brilliant use of camera lenses to define the time period the storyline follows. Some old camera lenses are slightly radioactive and give a "warmth" to captured images and they have a dedicated cult like following among diehard purist analog gearslut photoheads. I didnt know this tidbit and it just contributes to this being a landmark masterpiece of modern cinema. Its unfortunate none of the following seasons could match the benchmark of the first season, but then again the bar was set very high and its hard to even come close to the quality and artistry of this atory