I was completely mystified by this exchange between Ray and Ani:
"Do you miss it?"
"What?"
[grunts] "Anything."
Even for these two dark characters mumbling their way through poorly-written noir, this made no sense.

I've followed along ok, but the script has taken the conceit of completely unmemorable supporting characters being suddenly very important to the story to whole new levels.

I realize opinions will vary, but I thought she was unwatchable last night.

The scenes with Semyon and his wife, and Woodrugh and his mother were the worst scenes I've watched on TV in a very long time. And this is coming from a guy who sat through the first two episodes of Ballers, and who has kids that watch all of the tween shows on the regular.

YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, WILL POWER? YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO HIDE A JOINT IN YOUR FIST?

The other underlings standing there. They were a hair away from mutiny or at least ignoring him.

Didn't. She came up with that story after he arrested her. She's facing serious jail time as a previous offender currently on house arrest and is trying to make that go away. Because she's an actress the CHP puts him on leave because this will be in the press.

I've been thinking that it's possible that Vaughn was asked to play it bland/controlled/tightly wound for the earlier part of this season, so that his eventual explosiveness is that much more dynamic.

I watched both Inherent Vice and Ep 2 of TD this weekend, so I think I'm all noir'd up for now, thank you.

Or Vincent Chase

Man, that was really bad. D at best. When I saw Jay Roach in the credits I realized why it was so painful.

Ah, pesky math! I hope that the Observer post's writer is indeed not correct…I'd prefer to try to figure this one out as we go.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Yes, my bad. Thanks AndyTay.

In the 2002 timeframe, after his ill-fated interrogation, we saw Cohle looking through a bunch of closed cases on a computer. I'm theorizing that they were closed by newly-minted Sgt. Detective Hart to prevent anyone from looking too closely at the "closed" Ledoux case. Marty has a lot to protect by keeping himself…