Sorry for the daft question, but who is Lawnmower Guy?
Only dude I remember mowing someone’s lawn would be Rust, but I suspect that’s not who you mean…?
A couple of episodes back, Rust shows up to a run down old church to see what happened to the reverend and the congregation. The church is shuttered and in disrepair. A guy is mowing the lawn in a mowing tractor. Rust asks him who he’s working for and why he’s mowing the lawn of a run down, dis-used building. Guy says he’s just been doing it recently as a way of keeping the neighbourhood from looking run down. I think he claimed he works for the municipality, or something.
Really don’t know if there is any significance in that scene beyond being another dead end in an investigation full of them.
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That’s the same disused building where Cohle finds all the paraphernalia later.
Yup, it’s one of the schools Tuttle ran for the kids who lived out in the boonies.
I do like the idea that there’s a secret society that’s been chugging along under the radar, and the murders are the work of a rogue element springing from it.
As mentioned, the building is an old school that was damaged by a hurricane. Lawnmower Guy says that the school was added to his duties by the parish, but that doesn’t mean a church parish. In Louisiana, what most of the country calls a county is called a parish. Wasn’t sure if you knew that so thought I’d mention it.
I was sure it was some run down church. At least that’s what I remembered. Clearly I’m not a True Detective.
Is it too late to take back my guess that the green eared spaghetti faced man wasn’t significant? I still think anybody saying it would by Cthulhu was nuts.
No, but in due time, you’ll probably go back to thinking that, no, he really wasn’t significant after all. And then you’ll think, oh, yes, he really was. And then that he wasn’t. And then that he was. And so on.
Wanna know why?
… Because “time is a flat circle. And everything we’ve every done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.” 
Do what I do! Watch each episode five times with closed caption on.
Why?
So… this whole thing has to be wrapped-up in two episodes?
I’m afraid it won’t be wrapped up - the ending will be “Forget it Rust, it’s bayou town.”
Ha… that reminds me a lot of George Constanza’s photobomb:
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BTW, concerning the newest episode, is that the same guy mowing from before?
Past the edit window: It IS the same guy! :eek: Reviewing the end of episode 3 where he makes his appearance, you can even see the scars on his face. The camera is on his “good” side.
Here’s the best write-up:
Speaking of good reads writer Nic Pizzolatto tweeted a link to this a few weeks ago.
Wow what a shitty episode. Almost all of it was expository dialogue. I think I saw kind of a friendship montage – Rust and Marty finally become friends.
Yeah, that was hands-down the weakest episode of the series. By a long shot. I will forgive it as necessary chessboard set-up if episode 8 brings the quality. But I admit I’m a little fearful that this show *could *only be amazing during the slow rising action, and that any payoff must be a letdown. There were moments this week that were interesting and effective, it just didn’t hang together as a whole.
I can’t decide if the videotape scene was really effective, or just icky and gratuitous. Woody did an amazing job (I think we can cross him off the suspect list definitively!), but I would have appreciated less video, more reaction. Especially with the microwave baby juxtaposition, his face was enough to convey the atrocity.
It was nice to see that the daughters are alive and well, though they certainly seem to be setting up for Audrey to have been a victim. Which resonates with his reaction to the video - how extreme will his reaction be if he finds out his own daughter endured that? Or, it’s a red herring and hey, sometimes a family produces a screwed up kid by virtue of genetics, luck, and everyday traumas like divorce.
I do like that they managed to put us in Marty’s shoes - “My failure was inattention.” They sure pulled one over on me with Lawnmower Man! In his appearance at the end of episode 3, you certainly can see that he has some scarring on his face. But with a scraggly beard and that side turned mostly away from the camera, it’s easy to overlook or dismiss. They even have a very sly little moment where Marty beeps the horn, and LM turns toward the car, displaying the scarred side, but it’s a tiny split second.
Seems like every other person they talk to drops Childress as a likely person to talk to. The golfing/fishing sheriff mentions Childress. So why do they plan to use the jumper cables on the sheriff instead of going after now deputy sheriff Childress? Torturing a standing LEO at gunpoint as opposed to just going after the guy that everybody else mentions seems a bit off kilter, even for these guys.
After reading this thread, I’m going to watch the previous episodes again.
Yeah, they got the name of the then-sheriff, Ted Childress, but I believe they decided to jump-start Geraci because he flat lied to Marty about being the person who took the report. If he’s lying, it’s because he knows stuff and is covering up. A sheriff in the jumper cables is worth two in - where the hell is Ted Childress? Maybe he’s dead?