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True Detective

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HBO crime drama series whose first season is discussed for having an anticlimactic ending that revealed only an inbred antagonist rather than the powerful cult members built up throughout the season.

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"She was looking at her phone throughout afterwards I asked her why her eyes weren't glued to the screen and how she was completely unfazed. She started saying she saw the whole thing and how the guy undid the grenade trap and people got shot when they shouldn't have and they escaped and she was so b"
"She recently finished reading Matthew McConaughey's memoir and now every night we put something on from his filmography. Started with Dallas Buyers Club and now True Detective."
I love my wife · u/WtfThisIsntWii · ↑452 · 2023-08-27
"What else sucks? Don't even bother commenting anything bad about Sopranos, True Detective, or The Wire, let's not get carried away."
Worst critically-acclaimed tv shows of the 'Prestige' era? · u/ReeseBaptiste · ↑451 · 2023-09-21
"I'm on my bi-annual rewatch just for the mood and atmosphere alone, the show really feels like a modern classic great American novel in TV form, a true lightning in a bottle situation resulting in some truly transcendental television. Just how amazing rust cohles character turned out when on paper i"
Remembering how good True Detective season 1 was · KewlAdam · ↑423 · 2024-11-22
"Is the man supposed to last 45 minutes and do an hour of foreplay beforehand or is it meant to be short and intense and last approximately 1-5 minutes like that scene with Rust in True Detective season 1?"
What's the deal with sex · u/Synecdoche7335 · ↑373 · 2025-07-03
"Haven't had a series really stick with me like this since True Detective S1. I initially got a bad taste in my mouth with the monster and all the Inuit mysticism stuff. Once I learned just how little we know about what happened to the Franklin expedition I eased up "bought in" for lack of a better t"
"30 minutes in, and there has been at least 5 Yass Queen moments, where the men Sittin' Down! I got to the point when they introduce Jodie Foster's daughter, who is explicitly Mongolian and there's no conceivable partner that would produce this offspring."
The new True Detective really is bad, really · u/HooDatOwl · ↑244 · 2024-01-16
"so disappointed! billie eilish intro, bad cgi animals, horrible acting, everyone is a butch lesbian lol, very out-of-date "woke" narrative going on. boo!!"
can we talk about how awful the new true detective is · Spiritual_Two_986 · ↑234 · 2024-01-15
"For those not following they already arrested a guy for the murder of these young girls last year. There was a tonne of weird shit about a pedo ring before that. Now the defence has put out a lengthy document suggesting their bodies had been posed in a ritualistic manner with norse runes surrounding"
True Detective ass shit going on in the Delphi murders case · u/DBTraven · ↑218 · 2023-10-16
"Still trying to unpack the propaganda behind the making of this garbage. My summary of the show: It's supposed to be centered around this killing of a midwife named Anna that happened a few years prior to the case they are currently trying to resolve."
"haven't seen season 1 since it aired. watched the first two episodes last night. number 1. Michelle Monaghan. like wtf she's so hot, literally the only thing i remember from this show is time is a flat circle and how nice her ass is when rust grips that ting."
true detective · u/Ghostory_ · ↑79 · 2021-06-11
"…….the revenge of the housekeepers. Bit on the nose, Senorita Lopez."
True Detective S4 ends with……. · u/HansVonSprickensprat · ↑68 · 2024-02-19
"The younger dudes definitely view themselves as bad asses and the older guys I spoke to, almost felt like I was speaking to some nihilistic Rorschach type character, sipping on whiskey as he tells me how corrupt the world is. Truly was a surreal experience. It just reminded me of how lost people are"
"I was spurred into another re-watch a couple weekends ago when my buddy and I were talking TV and he mentioned he'd never seen it. I'm curious what people in this sub think about it. As far as I'm concerned that season was absolute top tier television, just about as good as you can get in that mediu"
"After all the buildup about the cult and powerful people, the finale only gave us an inbred fat guy in the woods, while the other dudes mainly went untouched. I know the minister dude committed sudoku but still kinda a let down"
Was the ending of True Detective S01 a letdown? · u/yuenglinggdrinker · ↑44 · 2025-09-28
"like ngl the fact that the new girlboss true detective was plain awful feels more nefarious than anything. same w so many projects that r rush released post-covid. and i truly love a mindless girlboss winning story!!"
"Adding Dadario's tits to True Detective didn't add to the show's quality. It's masturbatory material for people who cannot get hard from normal porn anymore."
"Rewatching it now for the millionth time, why is it still so good? Why is it never replicated ever again in the series?"
True detective s1 · u/AccomplishedBoat5075 · ↑34 · 2025-10-28
"Shockingly bad writing for a normally quality series. Talking dialogue and not plot. Like the writers have never written anything before and this is the first gig. Looking forward to them continuing to shoehorn in season one people and details to drag it through the mud."
Why'd they have to do this to True Detective · u/Gillette_TBAMCG · ↑32 · 2024-01-22
"…….the revenge of the housekeepers. Bit on the nose, Senorita Lopez."
True Detective S4 ends with……. · u/HansVonSprickensprat · ↑68 · 2024-02-19
"As far as I'm concerned that season was absolute top tier television, just about as good as you can get in that medium. A really remarkable achievement."
"Finishing off this summer by rewatching True Detective (season 1) and Sharp Objects"
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