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Well I usually watch True Detective on T.V, but once I saw someone wanted a gif made, I went and loaded up the episode on HBO GO, ran a screen recording software called OBS, recorded the part I wanted, then I converted it to an mp4 using a program called format factory (which also allowed me to cut the video) and then I uploaded it straight to gfycat! Whole process probably took 5 minutes.

couldn't be casper's blood. the guy died several days before. the blood would have dried by then.

edit: how the eff did this get downvoted?

http://www.ask.com/science/long-blood-dry-77b16b8edc3d35f1

In terms of experience, he has quite a bit.

He's written many esteemed novels, taught at universities than moved onto screenwriting. It's no surprise that he scored a pilot show with his history.

I highly agree though with your second point in that the first season set the bar high and now critics are upholding each episode to that standard. I personally thought the first few eps of S1 were rather poor but I thought ep 1 of this season was fantastic so I don't really see where they're coming from.

I thought there was a compilation at /r/wallpapers, but I can't find it. Luckily I downloaded it a while back so here's a Google Drive Link to it. I think I deleted the 'nudey' ones though, as they were a bit risqué for the office.

In his memoir/advice book On Writing, Stephen King has a funny section about why he tends to dislike writing workshops: pretentious people reading too deeply into non-existent symbolism of other people's stories.

King writes about how a twit wanting to be profound will spout off with free-association crap. To paraphrase, it's something like: "That scene where the middle-aged wife has a fight with her husband after he flirted with the young waitress was so great! Especially the symbolism of the wife's red dress as she's approching menopause and worried about her fading sex appeal."

and in the meantime, the writer is wondering what the hell the critic is talking about, because he wrote a red dress into the scene because his own wife happened to buy a red dress recently and it was simply on his mind.

Not a playlist but I referred to this site when looking for a song. Each episode is broken down individually so a particular song is easier to find. I hope this helps. http://www.tunefind.com/show/true-detective/season-2

For anyone that didn't see the first one from Episode One, check it out here. https://vimeo.com/85835190

All footage is sourced from YouTube, majority is from ads from the last year. The M Theory video includes footage from the ISS.

Tracks:

Quiet - This Will Destroy You

American Beauty Theme - Thomas Newman

It appears that Ani has an iPhone (I'm guessing model 5 or newer), but I'm not aware of this particular ringtone. I'm not sure if it's a custom made tone or if it was taken from a different brand of phone, but either way here's a snippet of it just in case it sounds familiar to anyone.

"I thought that sermon was weird as hell, in a good creepy way. "He is the stars and the wind between the stars"? "This world is a veil"? That doesn't sound like your average christian revival preacher. The last part sounds downright gnostic to me.

I'm loving the show so far. It's a big dialogue heavy, but it's interesting how they work against Cohle's genius misanthrope philosopher schtick by actively undercutting him and showing how he's mostly full of shit. I think it's part of the point that he sound sophomoric, he thinks very highly of himself (and he's smart, he's just not very sophisticated), and the only reason Hart is flustered by him is that he's kind of a bumpkin.

I mostly like that bleak mood, it's like Lovecraft by way of Cormac McCarthy or something. There's a subtle but pervasive wrongness not about the case they're investigating or the characters themselves, but the whole fucking landscape. It gives me the creeps, and I love it."

http://www.metafilter.com/136264/This-world-is-a-veil-and-the-face-you-wear-is-not-your-own

I was looking for other info on the show and I just happened to stumble upon the entire season 2, episode 2 script. This is an unofficial script so it might not be 100 percent accurate.

Music from True Detective but nothing for when Ray trailed Blake. Someone mentioned that ambient track reminded them of nine inch nails, and now that we know Trent Reznor made a cameo I wonder if he collaborated.

Just for comparison for anyone who is confused by OP's joke. (Or OP got it wrong)

Dos Equis Guy (Jonathan Goldsmith)

Our Guy (Timothy V. Murphy)

Fun Fact: Timothy Murphy does a super convincing Russian/Eastern European and gets cast in parts like that a lot but is actually Irish.

Yah he looks similar to the Dos Equis guy but is not.

Dos Equis Guy

Our Guy

Obviously not that poster, but this is one of the better designed posters I've seen that you can actually purchase: https://www.etsy.com/listing/181965642/true-detective-digital-art-print?ref=sr_gallery_4&ga_search_query=true+detective&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery

http://genius.com/True-detective-maybe-tomorrow-script-annotated

> WOODRUGH: Bungalow was a business lease through the Catalast Group. Same place leased his car. Utilities paid by Porpoise LLC, which was Caspere's company. And he had a landline here, too. Printed out the phone record. (hands her the paper)

Here is the quote you are referring to. The house was a business lease to Casper's LLC. Corporate veil could explain how we know Capser leased the apartment from Catalyst without Catalyst knowing his identity as the owner. Since he paid utilities through the LLC I think it's fair to say he was intentionally keeping his identity secret.

It would also be a massive plot hole if Catalyst knew about the hollywood house from the beginning. We know that Chief Holloway is actively present at the sex parties and has a strong connection to McCandless. We also know that McCandless is having the police look for the hard drive. If they knew of the hollywood house before the BIRDMAN shot Velcoro then why was Burres so agitated when he showed up at the Hollywood house with the ambulance to bag up all the evidence?

tldr; Woodrugh finds a one way link from Casper to Catalyst, if you know about Casper's LLC then you would expose Catalyst but Catalyst would not have known the hollywood house was linked to Casper.

>La madre de la muerte me encuentra

or "The mother of death finds me."

Found via this script

And this article, that contains SPOILERS for Season 1

Maybe I'm diving too deep, but now that we know Errol is truly involved,

> The meaning of the name Errol is 'nobleman', 'warrior,' or 'prince.' The name is a variant of the names Earl (Old English) and Erroll.

Source: source

"Prince" most likely makes sense. He must be Tuttel's son / grandson. That would make Tuttel the king (regardless of son / grandson status). Just speculation.

EDIT: Or possibly he is now the "king" since Tuttle is gone. Like I said, just speculation at this point.

She works at the hospital as a nurse. They average 55k. Add to that the child support for two kids and there is no reason why she could not afford a house on her own. There is no mention of a new husband that I saw.

I will also add: Warren Ellis' "Gun Machine" - a recent release by a guy who normally writes for comics/graphic novels.

Does a good job of swapping between the detective and the killer's mindsets, and definitely goes into creepy psychological territory at times. The underlying mystery, about an assassin who thinks he is trapped in an ancient version of Manhattan, is very compelling.

Nowhere near as dark as TD though, and even laugh-out-loud funny at times. But you may need the break. ;-)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14739231-gun-machine

Edit: then again, not much IS as dark as TD. Most people consider Ellis pretty damn violent.

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You ever notice how white people with blond hair (and often blue eyes) are frequently seen as the bad or evil characters in movies and shows?

• The Karate Kid, as mentioned
• The Iceland hockey team in Mighty Ducks D2
• Stifler in American Pie
• Viserys Targaryen in GOT
• Cersei Lannister in GOT
• Todd in Breaking Bad
• Ivan Drago in Rocky IV
• The Malfoys in Harry Potter
• Multiple James Bond villains

And the list goes on...

Here are a couple links that provide even more detail:

http://www.listal.com/list/blondes-are-evil

http://allthetropes.wikia.com/wiki/Blond_Guys_Are_Evil

This is my preferred version, intro by Joe Pulver, art by Luke Spooner, and not unreasonable in price or availability https://www.amazon.com/dp/0983001979/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_RDW036ECS4R0GJNGFW8M

Link to the book on Amazon

Funny enough, I got fixated on his watch during my last rewatch. I'm not sure how cheap/easy it would be to get his actual brand, but I found a fairly cheap watch that looks kind of close on amazon.

The guy that wrote True Detective is an author. I read Galveston (also a movie now) by him.

I don't think this book will be as deep or rich as you're looking for but I enjoyed it.

https://www.amazon.com/Galveston-Novel-Nic-Pizzolatto/dp/1439166668

You should try out The Last Door on kongregate. It's free to play with a really awesome, eerie, mysterious feel to the game, really well written so far and plays like old school point and clicks. Only thing is it's episodic so I think only 4 chapters are finished.

Well this is important because they need to make it vastly different from the first season to prevent the comparisons. Any long monologues will only ever be shadowed by what MM pulled off. OH YEAH.

Oh, crap. Sorry. NP WILL write season 2. I think he's writing it now. But, Fukanaga will not direct.

My bad

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/26/cary-fukunaga-will-not-be-back-to-direct-true-detective-season-2

Link for the decal: https://www.etsy.com/listing/179309419/entwife-vinyl-decal-831-in-x-10-in?ref=shop_home_active_1

Specially, the branch antlers and the spiral belly-button caught my attention when I was sitting at a light this morning.

The biker bar was located in Texas, so it is likely that it was at least partially a set. Not sure, but I dont remember ever seeing it on any of the "tour" lists.

I'm sure you already have this, but I'll post it anyways

Ah, yeah it looks like The Killing isn't on Netflix anymore, my bad. It's on Hulu and Amazon Prime.

PSA -- here's a great site to find which streaming platforms a TV show or movie is currently on: https://www.justwatch.com/us

The 11 satanic rules of the earth, #9 - Do not harm young children.

Ummm no... she also had similar ideas bout similar actor AND:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/true-detective-universe_n_5c65dd3ce4b05c889d1d529f

You too can reach out to these people if you don't work in the "industry", sign up for IMDBPRO... or get a WGA card like me... either way...

There is a great place for all of this.. and many other shows. Just go here: http://www.tunefind.com/show/true-detective/season-2 And thanx me later. I am also making one on 8 tracks so when i'm finished I will posted here as well.

I've listened to five minutes so far and have found it very evocative of the series, even though it was put together in 2011. I'm going to read/listen to the whole thing at some point (It's 12:20am now; I have to sleep some time), but wanted to post here before I forgot. Check it out.

By the way, if you want to read along or need "subtitles" - there are free versions of the books you can read online. I like this one, which is available free as an online read, .pdf, ePub, Kindle, Daisy or plain text. It's interesting so far.

They're not changing the opening now, but I could imagine SIA in the soundtrack somewhere. It depends on the locations as much as anything. This season looks to be a bit more musically diverse.

Not that I didn't love the dark country stuff from season one. I found this to be a great resource for tracking the artists down.

> Dude your posts are like the most incoherent nonsensical babbling ever.

Not enough herp derp and MEMEs for ya? Does this MEME work for you - because it's what Season 2 is about

> nonsensical babelling

Is somehow saying "Proverbs 24:11", referencing a page of a fiction book - nonsene? And you can't seem to be bothered to turn the book to that page - and see that it describes Frank's death scene? What's nonsense is this, your replies to insult human beings who don't want drugs like you do:

> Like I said those drugs you are on I want some

It's you who actually believes drugs are more creative than books, paintings and films.

I'd say he got that mindset from just looking around at the world and not bullshitting himself. Damn near everything he says is spot-on truth.

As for where Pizzolatto got the ideas, check out the stuff referenced in this article: https://www.academia.edu/11710927/The_Atmospherics_of_Consciousness

He also did a WSJ interview and directly mentioned many of his influences.

Pizzolato definitely has talent but you also have to remember that this and the previous season are also references/homages/based on a LOT of other things as people have pointed out. Not to bring out the plagiarism claims of season 1 or anything but everybody knows that Nic got a lot of the solid material from other sources of inspiration.
This season pays a lot of tribute to the whole noir crime genre of books by James Ellroy for example (one of his novels was turned into the movie LA Confidential) and as a lot of posts on here point out, there's lots of similarities between this season and stuff by David Lynch like Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks. Hell, there is even a shot in the first episode that shows the exit on the freeway for Mulholland Drive.
My point is, yes, Pizzolato is a talented dude but you should try and remember that a lot of art becomes it's own form drawn from inspiration of other things. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself.
Like Stephen King says in his book 'On Writing' (which applies to novels of course but nonetheless), "To be a good writer you have to be a good reader" or something along those lines. Pizzolato definitely reads/watches previous material for what he's going for as inspiration and then makes it his own: that's just what artists do.
The amount of detail in the show is definitely inspiring and hard to comprehend being written all in but as /u/Mauly603 also mentioned in this thread, while Pizzolato IS the sole-writer (minus two episodes where he has a co-writer this season) and showrunner, other people be it at HBO or the production crew and especially the director(s) may have ideas of their own that are thrown in as everything is coming together.

Someone get Fukunaga a copy of La Grande Armee. I'm sure Kubrick read it. If you have any interest, even slightly, in Napoleon, then you must read it. It will start off fairly dry, but it's an absolute amazing piece of literature. You don't get any grandiose biographical stuff. It's pretty simple nuts and bolts the operation of his army. But after a fair amount into it, you really start to understand the man's genius.

> The line 'don't do anything out of hunger, not even eating' really irks me.

It's very very intentional. It's intended to piss off the audience, "get you out of your comfort zone".

> But returning to that, it just strikes me as pseudo-intellectual bullshit

That's what it is going for. Frank is not a nice person. And it even makes you question the very meaning of "pseudo-intellectual". At what age do people stop learning? Frank is stuck in his basement, never learning Love - from his great teacher (his wife). This goes beyond Intellectualism.

This line got a lot of discussion - and I really don't see it as an error on the writer's part. It isn't some bad dialog. It's specifically intended to punch you in a specific spot of the brain ;)

Now, would people pay good money to be punched in that spot of the brain. That's the issue with Season 2 - it isn't made for entertainment. Season 2 is very much a serving of Dave's Insanity Sauce. It's bitter, terrible, insulting and hurts going into your mouth -and the next day on the toilet. Much like Dante's Infero story.

There's so much awesome detective fiction and true crime out there. Raymond Chandler novels are indeed fantastic. PHillip Marlow is a classic hard boiled detective. Here's some NP reading material, but it may not quite the same genre, but I"m sure you'll get the some enlightening storytelling. http://www.amazon.com/Between-Here-Yellow-Sea-Pizzolatto-ebook/dp/B0022NH8IK or http://www.amazon.com/Galveston-A-Novel-Nic-Pizzolatto/dp/1439166668

If this hasn't been mentioned already then anyone interested in this stuff should check out this book. It's the true story of satanism and child abuse covered up in Nebraska in the late 80s-early 90s. Some horrific stuff in there about kids and satanism and ritualistic murders and high powered people. Almost seems like Nic read it.

The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska https://www.amazon.com/dp/0963215809/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_IXNVvbVN394PH

Rust's character had a single, pessimistic philosophy that directed most of his train of thought. Check out this book by Thomas Ligotti, which contains some text used as Chole's dialogue word-for-word, if you're interested in getting further into it.

I don't think Frank's character had that same level of cohesion or complexity in his dialogue. He seemed to be obsessed with overcoming adversity, loved his wife, and was really just a nice guy under his gangster exterior. Maybe his dialogue was choppy because he had a fractured identity? Probably too much credit to writing to say that though -- I think there was just too much crammed in too little time for it to look polished.

> Osip

There really isn't a "Russian" mob - there is a Russian Jewish mob, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_crime

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mafiya-Russian-Invaded-America/dp/0316294748

"Although, there are some claims that this book is "anti-Semitic," the author is himself Jewish. Friedman was a brave author to write and publish this because of the nature of the criminals he is trying to expose."

<u>Glitz</u> by Elmore Leonard (along with much of his other work), and virtually anything by Jim Thompson. <u>The Killer Inside Me</u> is a particularly good Thompson novel which was turned into a mediocre movie a few years back.

NP. BTW, I made one mistake. I meant to say Red Riding series by David Peace which is a quartet of books (the BBC TV movies series was a trilogy, which condensed the books).

The first book in the quartet is Nineteen Seventy Four

The TV movies are worth watching as well.

Red Rising is an entirely different series. I'll correct my initial post.

I'm not an expert, but the new mob has more roots in the KGB than in the old mob. Or maybe they're intertwined. A good book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia/dp/1476795193

But I'm not sure the old mob would have any "old rules" pertaining to international business.

more on the supernatural side. I enjoyed House BUT it was not unique at all (very derivative). So it's not going to suprise you much or interest your with its originality like True Detective did...

Well, the writer of TD has a book - Galveston. No supernatural elements to it, but it has the same great gritty underworld stuff like in the show. It was good.