TOASTMAN!! Where have you been? You're greatly missed at ET, especially by me. Hope everything's OK. Please stop by at the new bar if you see this, OK? Love ya! :)

Oh my heavens yes, I did happen to stumble on that article a week or so ago. Now of course I MUST read that book, but it's not available from my library system. And then I found that it's online at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/eb…

I wholeheartedly agree with everything you say! Thank you for taking the time to compose such a comprehensive reply. The ambiguity and constant use of symbolism in this show make it absolutely addictive to me. It makes ME not only want to solve the case but also really get inside the characters' minds—especially…

I took that as gentle kidding. If Audrey's art could command that kind of money, Maggie wouldn't have thought that her having a show and selling a few paintings would qualify as news to share with Marty.

You betcha!

Cool! Thanks!

Well, my TV's small and my eyes aren't what they used to be…but mostly I see scruffy beard, and scars only along his jawline.

Ooh, gotta link?

Toastman! Oh, just watched it for like the FIFTH time…!

I'm glad I'm not the only one having trouble with this. I just watched it AGAIN, in HD, and I can see what look like maybe acne scars along his right jawline, and his lips look chapped—but that doesn't seem to fit with the "shiny" scars under his nose and cheeks, or around his mouth, as was described. I'm not at all…

Not really, but I see a duck-billed dinosaur!

Yeah, I think that's him laying in the grass pointing a rifle for a split second.

I keep wondering if Rust may have been on this case for years—maybe he knew the bar owner before?—saw a pattern, and deliberately got himself assigned to Louisiana because of it.

I think you're right. Rust REALLY wants it to end. What did he say last night—something about how he hoped the old housekeeper was wrong about death not being the end? But the one thing he's good at is hunting killers, so he has to hang on just long enough to catch those who are responsible for all this.

Cohle's been prepared to die from the beginning—remember his meditation on willingly going to his crucifixion? This murder case is the cross he'd been searching for to assuage his guilt (about his daughter's death?), the cross he's prepared to die on. And now Marty's basically in the same condition—nothing to live for…

Wow, why so hostile? If comments seem likely to bore you, you do have the option to just scroll past them.

Dang, you have good eyes. Audrey's work, maybe?

I particularly loved that "Eli" song. Haunting and disturbing.

Thanks! They've been doing such amazing music at the end of the episodes.

Not to mention they keep referencing Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina as responsible for having already decimated the whole region, so the oil spills are a death knell for those who remain there.