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Annual True Detective Watch
Posted on 10/18/24 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 10/18/24 at 3:49 pm
Every year around Halloween my wife and I wrap true detective season 1 into our Halloween movie watching. It’s sufficiently creepy and eerie so it seems like a good time for it. Also gives us an excuse to watch it once a year.
It’s still so perfect. I understand people didn’t think the final villain quite lived up to some of the hype, and I remember feeling that way initially, but the show overall holds up so well. To me it gets better every time because I’m still catching new things and following the crimes/clues/family tree a little better each time.
Mcconaghy is at his absolute peak. It’s amazing how great the Rust Cohl character is. I think it’s MMs best acting by far.
We just finished episodes 5 and 6 last night and I do have one nitpick. After the ghetto season where Cohl kidnaps ginger, he’s seen escorting him to a bar to meet Dewall Ledoux so they can track him to Reggie Ledoux. Ginger willingly puts on the face that Cohl is still a dealer and the setup is legitimate.
My question is why is ginger so willingly assisting him? They’re in a remote bar and MM is in there alone with ginger and ledoux. Seems like it’d be easy to turn on him and break loose but he goes along with it.
In the next scene ginger is wrapped up again in the back of Rusts truck and then we never hear from him again. Just that he got dumped in a ditch somewhere.
It’s not hugely important but I feel like there’s no doubt ginger (who was shown as a biker gang badass) would seek revenge on Cohl or would have not really gone along with him as willingly as was shown in the show.
It’s still so perfect. I understand people didn’t think the final villain quite lived up to some of the hype, and I remember feeling that way initially, but the show overall holds up so well. To me it gets better every time because I’m still catching new things and following the crimes/clues/family tree a little better each time.
Mcconaghy is at his absolute peak. It’s amazing how great the Rust Cohl character is. I think it’s MMs best acting by far.
We just finished episodes 5 and 6 last night and I do have one nitpick. After the ghetto season where Cohl kidnaps ginger, he’s seen escorting him to a bar to meet Dewall Ledoux so they can track him to Reggie Ledoux. Ginger willingly puts on the face that Cohl is still a dealer and the setup is legitimate.
My question is why is ginger so willingly assisting him? They’re in a remote bar and MM is in there alone with ginger and ledoux. Seems like it’d be easy to turn on him and break loose but he goes along with it.
In the next scene ginger is wrapped up again in the back of Rusts truck and then we never hear from him again. Just that he got dumped in a ditch somewhere.
It’s not hugely important but I feel like there’s no doubt ginger (who was shown as a biker gang badass) would seek revenge on Cohl or would have not really gone along with him as willingly as was shown in the show.
This post was edited on 10/18/24 at 3:49 pm
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Posted on 10/18/24 at 3:52 pm to jlovel7
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It’s still so perfect. I understand people didn’t think the final villain quite lived up to some of the hype, and I remember feeling that way initially, but the show overall holds up so well
Agreed, it holds up well. While I never hated the last couple of episodes like many on this board, the show does feel like it loses a little bit of steam once they get past the 1995 timeline.
Posted on 10/18/24 at 5:04 pm to jlovel7
True Detective season one deserves to be mentioned in the all time great tv show seasons.
Posted on 10/18/24 at 5:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Agreed, it holds up well. While I never hated the last couple of episodes like many on this board, the show does feel like it loses a little bit of steam once they get past the 1995 timeline.
I think the unraveling of the higher up conspiracy is thrilling. I love a good storage unit crime lab setup. I think watching rust go to town on all of the seemingly unrelated parts and putting it together is great.
Posted on 10/18/24 at 6:13 pm to jlovel7
and we are forgetting the best part. It was based around the acadia area and filmed around erath and other places . 
Posted on 10/18/24 at 6:47 pm to CP3LSU25
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and we are forgetting the best part. It was based around the acadia area and filmed around erath and other places .
The setting is perfect. The show creator and writer is from NOLA and went to LSU. So he knows the state well. They use the setting masterfully.
Posted on 10/18/24 at 8:31 pm to jlovel7
quote:my assumption was always that Ginger was expendable to the cult as a buyer and he knew it. If he outed Rust to them, he would be done away with in similar fashion for getting pinched by cops and putting the operation and thus the cult at risk. What comes of him after? Idk, kinda figured Rust sought his own justice and tossed him in a swamp somewhere on the way to Marty
My question is why is ginger so willingly assisting him? They’re in a remote bar and MM is in there alone with ginger and ledoux. Seems like it’d be easy to turn on him and break loose but he goes along with i
Posted on 10/19/24 at 8:08 am to jlovel7
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My question is why is ginger so willingly assisting him? They’re in a remote bar and MM is in there alone with ginger and ledoux. Seems like it’d be easy to turn on him and break loose but he goes along with it.
1. Ginger was a pussy disguised as a tough guy
2. He saw what Rust was capable of the night before
3. Ledoux was a fatass who despite being a fairly scary character would have been in for a real challenge against Rust
4. Element of surprise was completely against Ledoux, even if Ginger suddenly yelled or something it would take Ledoux a couple seconds to grasp what was going on, and Rust was likely completely keyed up and prepared for something like that.
5. Odds were AT BEST 50/50 for Ginger to survive an attempt to alrert Ledoux and escape or take out Rust, so he took the sure thing is stay alive (see #1)
Did they disarm Rust before sitting down? That's the only thing I can't remember
Posted on 10/19/24 at 8:13 am to jlovel7
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The show creator and writer is from NOLA
*Lake Charles
Posted on 10/19/24 at 8:15 am to jlovel7
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It’s still so perfect.
Perfection would be landing the ending, which this did not.
Posted on 10/19/24 at 11:21 am to SlowFlowPro
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Perfection would be landing the ending, which this did not.
no ending is ever perfect. It was great
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