S2E1

The Western Book of the Dead

True Detective · 2015-06-21 · 58 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 16 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

The disappearance of a city manager disrupts a lucrative land scheme and ignites an investigation involving three police officers and a career criminal who is moving into legitimate business.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 16 comments — 11 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.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

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.

Reddit17 read

“Now you have my attention”
lilparra77▲ 1,777about 33–66% inread it ↗
“Set such a good atmosphere for the scene.”
thegreekie▲ 1,127about 0–15% inread it ↗
“The opening credit music made me sort of uncomfortable, but I liked it.”
tmatte▲ 636about 0–15% inread it ↗
“Episode felt a little scatterbrained”
tmatte▲ 636about 0–100% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Justin Lin
written: Nic Pizzolatto

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Chris Kerson as Nails
Ritchie Coster as Mayor Austin Chessani
Christopher James Baker as Blake Churchman
Afemo Omilami as Police Chief Holloway
James Frain as Lieutenant Kevin Burris
Andy Mackenzie as Ivar
Abigail Spencer as Gena Brune

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