I guess that's reasonable to anyone who just happens by, but to someone like Cohle, investigating the crimes in the area, looking for a tall man with facial scars, he honestly should have had the dude in a holding cell by sundown. And he probably would have, if that APB hadn't come in. That's what we're left to…

I dunno, that spiral he was cutting into the grass.. still giving me the heebie jeebs to think about it. But to each his own. I did love the two of them arguing in the car, the two of them play off together magnificently. Gillbough and Papiana are ciphers we unfortunately will never get to truly know beyond their…

But isn't big pastor guy dead? Tuttle, is who I presume you are talking about, but this seems to be far-reaching and to extend to the most powerful families of Louisiana. I don't quite understand how it could possibly be, but it's like a cult masquerading fraternity of families all centered on this one monolithic idea…

Good news, Rust finally believes in God, bad news, that god is the Yellow King.

The beard definitely obfuscated the scarring, that's why I'm inclined to think Cohle didn't pick up on it. But he did know about a tall man with facial scarring at that point, the problem was the guy was sitting on a lawnmower, so he didn't realize he was tall. Earlier that episode they investigated the revival church…

"There's not gonna be a bunch of people comin' in and out of this place, is there?"
"What do you think, Rust?"

He was mowing the lawn at the Tuttle school Cohle and Hart were investigating right before they got the APB for Reggie LeDoux. Cohle questioned him, but he had no reasonable explanation for why he was cutting the grass, or why the property was being maintained. Cohle was not on his game I guess, because he never…

My absolute favorite scene between them was in the bar. Paraphrased,
HART: "Why would I ever help you?"
COHLE: "Because you have a debt."
The intensity of McCounaghey's delivery floored me.

I completely agree. If anything, the subdued nature of everything being put into place was a reminder of the horror to come. Cohle and Hart coming together and finding a personal connection in the mystery they let slip away 17 years ago.. Maggie's increasing presence and the way she deals with the two men she knew and…

Jesus. I'm glad I missed that, that's one of the things you don't want to catch on a rewatch.

"You shouldn't have that."
"No one should have this."
Encapsulates it all, really.

For some reason it reminded me of the original version of 'The Wicker Man,' the British one, not the Nicolas Cage one, that is until the horrible stuff began to transpire. Just the whole costume design and pagan nature of it all.

Todd, will you come fishing with me and The Flyin Hawaiian? Oh, don't mind Multialias, his car just died, and his friend's coming to help him out. Here, let's go get in that nice AVClub yacht and head on out to the Bayou.
ETA: Tried to use @, but NuDisqus.. yeah.

Is Todd behind it all? That's what everyone is asking. Only one of us can be the True Detective and find out for sure.

Every exchange was perfect. My favorite was the one between Hart and Maggie. His flagrant attempt at bullshit, "I can't talk about it, it's PI stuff, the firm's hiring him, he's hiring the firm," and she immediately snuffs it out. I also love how Marty's PI company is called Hart Investigative Services, or HIS. As in…

Maybe TVClub is experimenting with really grading shows relative to how they perform on an episode to episode basis, like they've always said they've been doing. It's not like they're going to go back and retroactively fix all the episodes of 'Breaking Bad' so that the most average episode ever gets a C, but I guess…

I loved the scene where the daughter held her hand out. She knew they were never coming back with a check and she was the only one taking care of that poor woman, and she was going to take them for all they were worth. Which was exactly the contents of Hart's wallet. It was so sad and so true.

I don't like this grade.
"Don't look at me, I've never been able to control him."
Perfect. I figured the man with the scars on his face would end up being the lawnmower guy Cohle and Hart talked to back in episode.. 3? But Gillbough and Papiana coming upon him randomly, and his remark to himself after the two ignored…

This is so incredibly amazing. They even did the beads of sweat coming out of Will's temples! I love it.

Todd 's clock looks different from the rest of ours.