syncing the dopamine…
S2E5
Other Lives
True Detective · 2015-07-19 · 57 min
FLICKFEEL
—
from 18 comments
COMMUNITY
—
nobody yet
YOURS
—
…
what happens
Ray and Frank contemplate new life choices. Ani and Paul follow a lead up the coast.
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
32
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
37
how much it moved you
Read from 18 comments — 8 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
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.
Reddit19 read
“all Frank's scenes with his wife are slowing down the show”
▲ 401about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Last episode when he broke down in the taxi cab was a really good scene.”
▲ 366about 90–100% inread it ↗
“revealing itself to be the main plot point in our third act here. * This plot is coming together now, this was the best episode of the season for me.”
▲ 327about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The first half of the episode moved like molasses”
▲ 283about 0–50% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- John Crowley
- 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
James Frain as Lieutenant Kevin Burris
Abigail Spencer as Gena Brune
Michael Irby as Detective Elvis Ilinca
Timothy V. Murphy as Osip Agronov