dang
― puple prijan (lag∞n), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
he nailed cats to his own church thats weird
― puple prijan (lag∞n), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
the twine kinda looked like the kind used in those tree brush sculptures
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Pointy hat figures prominently in chambers' first King in Yellow story iirc
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
downloading the king in yellow.
― Sébastien, Friday, 24 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
I found them bringing in Clarke Peters for that "bit part" more than a little on the suspicious side.
― Simon H., Friday, 24 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
I'm still getting over how the detective is irl Brother Mouzone
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 January 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
still not really convinced this isnt gonna be another creepy serial killer thing... i dunno. not quite onboard yet.
the big reveal at the end of ep 2 of... another picture of the antler thingies!!! left me cold
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 24 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah I find serial killer stuff in general really boring too (I have a whole thread about it!) but hoping this continues to be more Twin Peaks than CSI
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 January 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
more like poo defective
-- ienjoyhotdogs
― just (Matt P), Friday, 24 January 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
HBO bringing in part of their acting company doesn't mean much to me - if you're on one (popular) HBO show they'll find a way to keep throwing you work forever.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 25 January 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link
also, that is how casting works.
there were maybe more unknowns than usual on the wire, because baltimore/simon, but a lot of the working actors they used have been working all over the place since, not just on hbo
― j., Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
Probably filming Treme at the same time too
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
True, but he's the only one of the supposed randoms so far that I've recognized, which caused him to stick out.
― Simon H., Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
Also Treme ruled and I hope you all watched it.
Still need to see the final season
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:31 (ten years ago) link
It's basically one long denouement episode. Not spectacular, but satisfying for sure.
― Simon H., Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
i recognized at least a handful, so i went trawling the imdb page, apparently at least five were on treme, another character was on veep (also hbo), michael harney (who has had a v. active character-part career—earliest run was as mike roberts early on nypd blue) spent a season on deadwood, one dude on boardwalk empire. so more in-house than i thought at first.
and not surprisingly, lots of southerners or people w/ southern parts on their resumes.
― j., Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:47 (ten years ago) link
Still, having a one-scene guy be one of the leads from both The Wire and Treme is a little glaring. (Though of course the next few weeks may prove I'm an idiot.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 25 January 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
he cld just end up being a significant character
― puple prijan (lag∞n), Saturday, 25 January 2014 05:08 (ten years ago) link
that would be the norm, casting-wise.
― j., Saturday, 25 January 2014 05:08 (ten years ago) link
feeling in rather ok form and inspired, and that show comes along and it looks like some of the stuff that i am into are also in that show, maybe a bit of projection but not entirely; fictions that make themselves real, ryan nerdage seems upthread seems to indicate there could be more of this.
― Sébastien, Saturday, 25 January 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
too drunk to read weird realism :lovecraft and philosophy. hope they talk about hyperstition
― Sébastien, Saturday, 25 January 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
and that was my day to do so; just watched Voyage To The Planets half asleep by over heating
― Sébastien, Saturday, 25 January 2014 07:18 (ten years ago) link
― Simon H., Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:03 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
glaring... what? casting?
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah, in a Chekhov's Guest Star kinda way. I'm probably just being thick though
― Simon H., Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
this show seems pretty knowing about it's tropes so i remain hopeful it's not standard serial killer fare. fwiw those who've seen the first four eps say it gets weirder.
― ryan, Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
i think already with the layered narrative it seems like it's going somewhere else than you'd expect if you take the 95 plot by itself.
― ryan, Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
"I'm not interested in creating disgusting monsters or the most bizarre serial killer ever," Pizzolatto tells TVGuide.com. "My primary concern is always the humanism of the characters. Where the show gains its power for an audience, I think, is in things that aren't investigative at all. It's in two men talking to one another in a car. It's in a man coming over to another man's house for dinner and eating with his family. Those are the things that always interest me.With the police procedural, I think there are a couple tropes there that audiences are incredibly familiar with. ... [I wanted] to use those things as sort of anchors of familiarity for the audience. Then you use that familiarity to gain their attention and trust and then subvert those conceits... through the characters themselves."
With the police procedural, I think there are a couple tropes there that audiences are incredibly familiar with. ... [I wanted] to use those things as sort of anchors of familiarity for the audience. Then you use that familiarity to gain their attention and trust and then subvert those conceits... through the characters themselves."
― Number None, Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
...dun DUN
― puple prijan (lag∞n), Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
fuck yeah bring it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
final episode is a tired, auster-esque reveal in which a slow pan upwards from an aged typewriter reveals Pizzolatto, his face in sharp relief under an angle-poise lamp, slowly typing out the above confession, antlers bloodily meshed to his head
― mustread guy (schlump), Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
final shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweoMJS1DQ8
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
"Where the show gains its power for an audience, I think, is in things that aren't investigative at all. It's in two men talking to one another in a car"
True. I don't really give a shit whodunnit, tbqh. It's all about the journey...
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
i just want to see woody j/o mcconaughey (in the car)
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
Predictions for closing credits tunes:
geto boys "mind playing tricks on me"butthole surfers "hurdy gurdy man"zz top "sharp dressed man"
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:24 (ten years ago) link
All three at once Zaireeka-style
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:28 (ten years ago) link
salt n pepa - shoop (for the first season finale when we get to see woody j/o mcconaughey (in the car)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 January 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
"I'm not interested in creating disgusting monsters or the most bizarre serial killer ever," Pizzolatto tells TVGuide.com"
Eh, it's a great show and all but you've created a really bizarre serial killer so far dude.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 26 January 2014 08:24 (ten years ago) link
McConaughey gets better with every episode.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:12 (ten years ago) link
i can't take this ratcheting tension, i'm like ragggh just show me the whole thing I wanna know what's gonna happen
but i love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
mcconaughey does some really excellent shit with tiny mannerisms-not closing his hand over the girl's when he danced-the way he walks, that tense posture but not beefed up in the shoulders, like he's sleepwalking almost-those weird expressive mouth sounds he makes in the interview room
he's so good i can't take it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:24 (ten years ago) link
and that beer can shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:25 (ten years ago) link
- you mowed my lawn?- it needed mowin'
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
it's all about the drawl, he's holding some of those vowels so long he's practically singing.
― Plasmon, Monday, 27 January 2014 06:40 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:47 (ten years ago) link
well that was a way to end it.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 27 January 2014 08:50 (ten years ago) link
really the weirdest thing about this show is all the cigarette smoking in cars with the windows down
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link
or rather, windows up.
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2014 09:33 (ten years ago) link
I'm guessing final shot = dude cooking meth.
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link