True Detective season 1
8 episodes · 2014
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from 22 comments
COMMUNITY
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what happens
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.
how it went
Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.
FUN
30
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
7
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 22 comments — 14 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“Really great way to end a really great show”
IamMNightShyamalan▲ 1,897about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I loved the part where Rust sees that... cosmic vortex. Somehow, in that moment, I'd forgotten that Rust hallucinates, even though I noticed they brought it up earlier in the episode and so I'd been expecting it to come into play. I wasn't just thinking, detachedly, "Oh, are they actually going full Lovecraft on us?" I *felt* that sense of wonder in my chest, for a second. You're being strung along, following Rust and Marty through the ruins, waiting for Errorl to pop out, or to see a gross corpse, and after five minutes of that anticipation, you find the sublime. That was the climax.”
Terminimal▲ 1,051about 80–90% inread it ↗
“I absoultey loved the finale.”
▲ 537about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I loved that even after the Error conflict was resolved there was still so much tension. Something about Marty in the hospital with Maggie and the kids felt so uneasy.”
▲ 537about 75–100% inread it ↗
episodes
1 of 8 with a scoreEvery episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.
