I don't think he's clueless about that at all, and is there in that scene because he want's to be.

Those lines are great, and yeah, kind of have a Coen Bros. style to them, but I think critics of Cohle's thought get really put off by the more nihilistic ideas that we as human being's are without an authentic individuality and are essentially nothing. Ironically, it's the academic/media world that promotes…

Yeah, they don't even bother to engage with it on an intellectual level and give it it's due as a legitimate strain of philosophical thought. Instead they let their ego get in the way, and dismiss it out of hand.

Yeah, undoubtedly the quality of the writing at the end of the show was far more powerful, and actually made me shudder a bit.

Good point. I then have to wonder if the opposition to his line of thinking isn't merely philosophical, and more political, in that it dismisses the idea of human progress and rather say's we're helpless puppets programmed by our biology and who will be mired in strife, murder, and warfare for all our days because…

Very true. I think in part a lot of these people obviously disagree with his perspective on humanity, but instead of offering a thoughtful critique of his points of view, it's far easier to dismiss them out of hand, and based mostly on their tone which for some sounds "too smart" and automatically makes a person…

I've read a number of critics call Cohle's musings "freshman dorm room talk", or "psychobabble", etc. and my question is, what's with that? It seems like people get defensive when someone get's philosophical, especially when it's revealing possibly very deep and painful human truths, so instead of listening they…

Yeah, I agree. It couldn't possibly have been a coincidence. It's just funny that a comedy like Kingpin could be used as an intertextual reference inside such a dark drama like TD, and on top of that the Kingpin quote reveals the subtext(that it's really a reference to his wife's poon) of the TD line.

Awesome!

About the only criticism's Im reading here is that it's not PC enough. Pretty lame.

yeah, I guess that's why in the end Nietzsche had no friends. I'm not sure I ever heard that story about Kafka, but in the film loosely based on his life, and the novel, "The Castle", starring Jeremy Irons, there's a scene where a friend asks him about what's he writing, and in response gives him a brief outline of…

The fact that Fukunaga comes more from the world of film with Eyre, and Sin Nombre, makes all the difference. Television directors do not go in for the kind of wide vista's and landscape shots that he does. His direction has been impeccable thus far. Hopefully this will translate into him making more films.

I didn't mean that's what happened. More of a painful shudder. A longing, maybe?

I can't believe HBO is actually going to do another season of "Girls". What is their investment in Lena Dunham as a person? The show's ratings suck, it's tedious, and annoying, and all the critical analysis of it as some kind of "Zeitgeist" is over, and now seems like nothing more than PR courtesy of some overly…

That sums it up perfectly.

Funny too that he has a similar line in the movie Kingpin before punching Randy Quaid in the mouth.

They are? Im beginning to think you're watching a completely different show from everyone else.

I was surprised to see her naked. Was that her first nude scene?

Alexandra Daddario is so hot that it was literally painful to see her naked.

Earlier, someone brought up the fact that Woody Harrelson says "You never mow another man's lawn!" in the movie Kingpin, and there it was used as a euphemism for sex. Was that intentional, and a little post modern flourish on the part of the writers, or just pure coincidence?