Am I nuts or was that final walker (the one during the "crossbow training" scene) the same one from the train tracks, indicating that we're near Maggie and the others?

The song annoyed the hell out of me…but it's probably just a cultural blind spot that I can eventually repair. As things stand, I detest that kind of "clever" anti-shitkicking music.

Yeah! If you're barely paying attention, you'll miss a lot.

I know. I was just messing around.

What do you mean, "Thanks for the review"? He got paid.

I was absolutely convinced that that house was going to be revealed as Darryl's and Merle's actual home. So many clues ("A place just like this"; "Who would take something like this?" "My Dad, that's who") and it turns out that it's just symbolic. Oh well. Maybe it's better this way.

"Reduced to a trope"? What the hell are you talking about? Where's the "trope"? True Detective is a drama; that's its subject matter.

I don't understand why he gets such a prominent "Music By" opening credit if all he did was select the tracks.

Okay, I'm gushing…but I feel like (after sitting through so much crap over the decades) I have some sense of just how difficult this kind of this is to do at all, let alone do so well.

I continue to be baffled by the reviewer's lackluster response. This show is absolutely stunning, unforgettable…and keeps ratcheting tighter and tighter and getting better and better. This penultimate episode, which brought layers of novelistic poetry and depth to the entire story, was like the joyous sound of every…

Unfortunately I can't give you a single citation because what I just wrote was cobbled together years ago from a bunch of websites, magazine pieces and second- and third-hand accounts. There was even a satirical off-Broadway play about 10 years ago with two actors playing Damon and Affleck and receiving the GWH…

Certainly nobody we've met on the show.

Also, come on…of course she likes Rust. Women love guys like that: charismatic and virile, but seemingly devoid of all tiresome male posturing and affect.

I watched the first five that way, and loved it. The fact that the whole thing is a single writer and a single director really shines out when you chug it.

Where has he "made it pretty clear he thinks monogamy is bullshit"?

I was about to post exactly the same thing. It was really exhilarating to see present-day interview-subject Marty and Rust interacting. It's the kind of headlong forward movement you associate with the best between-season cliffhanger breaks.

I was just disagreeing that it was a) out of character or b) the fact that you hated it makes it a "misstep." I thought it was perfect plotting.

It's been in the works for a long time. Her intently fixing up Rust on dates was her way of sublimating her own interest in him (just like Mia Farrow in Husbands and Wives).

Reading this review and a lot of the discussion around the web has me really sympathizing with Pizzolatto's remarks about how they're not trying to trick us (and about how we expect it because we've been "abused by television" for so long).

And one of my all-time favorites — Kris Kristofferson's "Casey's Last Ride" — when Rust (as "Crash") and Ginger are at that bar, episode 5.