True Detective
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khorum
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The show is even better when you realize it's founded upon one of the original inspirations for h.p. Lovecraft himself: Robert chambers' The king in yellow. Everything in the show from kohle's nihilistic pessimism to all the yellow imagery with the lighting even to the colors of the fonts are informed by chambers' weird fiction anthology.
Lovecraft was so influenced by the king in yellow he referred to the fictional play in his own work:
Lovecraft was so influenced by the king in yellow he referred to the fictional play in his own work:
There are direct references to the madness from carcosa in Dora Langes scrapbook in the show:h.p. Lovecraft_sl said:
Intrinsic
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yeah, I think you're basically looking for the Recalcitrant post from earlier... htf do you link certain posts?
I'm not sure which aspect you're directly referencing, but I have a link above which was seminal to Lovecraft's work.
This short storyby Bierce was the basis and introduced the city of Carcosa.
Chambers took some of the names/themes from the above story and createdthis anthologycalledThe King in Yellow. The title is a reference to a fictional play, which drove the reader mad upon reading. This play/anthology is referenced directly in the show, in the victim's notebook most explicitly.
Lovecraft similarly referenced Chambers'The King in Yellowforthe Cthulhu Mythos.
A lot of the images in the cinematography correlate with either the Bierce introduction or the Chambers anthology. In the short story, the narrator notices an owl:
One of the chapters ofThe King in Yellowis called The Yellow Sign, this might be a hint:
The first verse from a song inKing in Yellowis:
This is a shot from the show:
Merrith
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I don't know how they're going to tie this up in a satisfying way with just 3 more episodes. Rust is the shit. I'm expecting some deep twists for this shit and 3 episodes doesn't seem like enough to pull it off.
Captivating show. Really dreading my decision to watch the show weekly instead of downloading them all at once and being able to watch them in a short sequence. Can't remember the last show where I was left wanting to see the next one so much. And only 3 more episodes... wtf.
Byr
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i really hope it isnt because you could see it coming a mile away. It would be a very disappointing ending for me.
faille
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This is actually one show that I think I like to watch week by week. There's so much in each one that I need time to digest it and think over it. Marathoning it would skip or gloss over so much.
And I feel sorry for whatever schmucks they get for season 2, since the bar has been set pretty damn high.
Chukzombi
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i saw no swirl on Ledoux's back. the two black detectives possibly are setting Rust up to take the fall for that murder so it gets covered up for the "big people" being sloppy and Rust's picture could have been shooped to convince woody to turn on him. on the other hand Rust wasnt helping his cause by talking about flat circles. we pretty much know that Rust was not the killer because we see him investigating stuff on his own. Lawnmower man may still be involved. the slut daughter being fucked up looks like it may tie in somehow.
this turned out to be a great show after the first two episodes being slow.
this turned out to be a great show after the first two episodes being slow.
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khalid
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Royal
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Remember the one interviewer asking Rust if he ever blacked out and couldn't remember what had happened? Maybe Rust has a split personality or has convinced himself that he does as a means of escaping that fucked up form of reincarnation he laid out in the interview.