A scene in which Detective Hart made the mistake of trying to get to know his partner, only to learn that Detective Cohle believes the entire world to be one ghetto, a “giant gutter in outer space,” and how mankind’s best bet is to collectively stop reproducing and volunteer for extinction. There is scene from last week that adhered to us, sinking its teeth in deep like a vulpine tick. Their stories are compelling, the demons that drive them even more so. But it is hard to not find oneself more captivated with the ongoing character study of the two men charged with finding this monster. And during this investigation we are slowly learning more about Dora Hart, the part-time prostitute found “drugged, bound, tortured with a knife, strangled, posed out there” in a field wearing a crown of thorns and antlers – a sight burned into our collective frontal lobe. True Detective is assuredly about the hunt for a murderer.
These ideas, and those of their umbral ilk, were explored with finesse in True Detective’s second chapter, “Seeing Things.” In that same vein, it is also stunning the places we will allow our mind to wander to make peace with that which has broken us. What we will do to allow ourselves the many things we shouldn’t posses is remarkable. It will always be remarkable the lengths to which a human being will go to justify their actions.
True Detective’s forbidding second episode “Seeing Things” demonstrates how truly “strange is the night where black stars rise”….