Totally random comment— on the rewatch of Episode 6 I noticed just how much bird imagery there is around the Hart house. Multiple chicken and rooster pictures and a lamp, a picture of an egret, black bird on Audrey's door, a painting of a bird house. The Yellow King's stick sculpture calling cards are called "bird…

Why did I think she was no older than 15? Marty and Maggie were together 17 years (counting their dating, or just their marriage? not sure), and unless they banged a kid out immediately, Audrey would probably be 15. I am open to evidence to the contrary.

Well aren't you just too cool for school?

We might have to agree to disagree. I saw nothing faux about it. I think he told her what he really thinks of marriage in general and theirs in particular. He wasn't trying to job her. He gave his reason why he wanted her to make nice with Marty, but it was rather cold. However, ultimately, she DID do exactly what…

But it wasn't sneaky at all. It was, "I need Marty to focus. Marriage is a BS delusion. You know you're only staying with him for the kids anyway, right Maggie? So why stand on pretension here. You two are going to get me killed." And she WAS buying it! She TOTALLY bought it, and it got her seven years more married to…

Sure it would have. When you are having a romantic tryst with someone you care about, you a) do not tell them immediately afterwards that you are going to report said sex to their only friend, such as he is, and b) then you do not go do just that, thus destroying your paramour's entire professional life, such as IT…

Well, Rust definitely just wanted to smooth things over enough so that Marty didn't cause him to have his face cut off while he was still alive. He was telling her that marriage really was all about the kids and that beyond that, there was nothing really to keep men and women together, because his marriage fell apart…

Love the idea of Marty as Rust's angry secretary, but Marty has one thing that Rust doesn't have— credibility. If the truth of this case is ever going to see the light of day, someone besides Rust is going to have to help him get it out there. Rust is now so deep undercover that he isn't undercover anymore. Marty is…

That is not what Rust said to her. He tried to comfort her by explaining that Marty;s infidelity was NOT due to any failing of hers, but strictly due to his own weakness and the inherent instability of monogamy. He was actually urging her to let Marty see his kids so that he would be less of a freak when Rust needed…

No way is she off the hook. She knows how Marty is. She set Rust up for a huge blow out with her violent asshole husband. Rust is a grown man and could have said no, but it seemed very clear to me that he thought she was coming to him out of some feeling for him when really, she was coldly, clinically using him to…

Plus, you say "second time." Beth was not the second time. Even if his story in the bar early in the show was bullshit, he was bragging to his buddies about screwing a college girl in her dorm room after giving her a ticket ("and it ruined me—now I can't do without it!") He and Maggie got together when they were in…

The opening scene was not proof that Marty is unhinged. Quite the contrary. The assault on the two boys was very well-planned: he brought gloves so he wouldn't wreck his hands, for chrissake. That's not someone who is out of control. He gave that kid an ass whipping that was much milder than I thought it would be. I…

"Take away the plot, characterization, excellent dialogue, chemistry between the two leads, deep philosophical explorations, amazing cinematography, and what do you have left? A shallow nothing of a show!"

The Pledge tops my list of movies whose endings were so dark that I *still* cringe when I think about them. It might be #1. And funny you should mention it, I have thought about that movie several times when watching True Detective. However, the one thing that could save Rust from that fate is the renewed friendship…

The "made in error" cases went back to 1978… which means the Yellow King has likely been in operation 34 years by 2012. Truly a chilling thought, but the Green River Killer was active for ~20 years, and that was one not terrifically bright guy acting alone, so not hard to believe either.

His father taught him bowhunting.

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and My Work is Not Yet Done are his best known works. Cohle's anti-natalist views are straight out of Conspiracy.