At first glance, my wife and I thought that was the actual billboard outside of Vidor,TX. Now, I don’t think so.
The 2/16 episode started well. But by the end it was seriously starting to drag. Really long monologues during the interviews that went no where. Rust in particular just rambling. Maybe there’s something in there that’s a clue to something, but it would be impossible to spot.
There is no “economy” of anything in this show.
Elizabeth Reaser plays Rust’s girlfriend in this episode. Never a good sign when she shows up in something. OTOH, she basically didn’t do anything.
The interviewers seem to be doing a standard trick to get Hart to rat out Rust. Suggest Rust is up to something, maybe Hart’s covering it up, involved. Better tell us what we want to hear, etc. Hart would be smart enough to recognize that and not play along. They certainly wouldn’t be able to pull the same trick with Rust.
Too bad almost all TV detectives are not genre savvy. They’d have known from Episode 1 that there was a big group of powerful people steering them off the right track.
That preacher Theriot is played by the excellent “Boardwalk Empire” actor Shea Wigham, so I’m positive he’ll be a very important piece to this plot. Too good an actor to waste in a throwaway role.
I thought the same thing about Tess Harper, Dory Lange’s mother (episode two), but she hasn’t been back.
…Yet.
We’ve also seen Clarke Peters, who was in the Wire and Treme. It could be that they are on contract with HBO and only show up in a couple of episodes.
Not just actors, but snippets of dialogue. I think it was in episode three that Rust quoted Corinthians, the part about being part of the body, which was the same verse preached by Rev. Smith at Wild Bill’s funeral on Deadwood.
I keep waiting for a Wire reference from Brother Mouzone but if it’s happened, I haven’t noticed.
What did the last scene in Episode 3 (the “monster” wearing a gas mask) show? That wasn’t Ledoux, was it?
Yes, that was Ledoux.
Is that the only scene (so far) that wasn’t from the point of view of Rust or Marty? Or did Rust scope out the place before going there with Marty and that’s what Rust saw?
LeDoux wasn’t wearing a gas mask and underwear when they had the shootout.
ETA: If that was from Rust and Marty’s POV, then LeDoux put some clothes on before the shootout.
I always interpreted that scene as just showing us the monster. I never thought it was a flash forward, or something that any of the characters witnessed, just a glimpse of the killer. Given recent events, it’s entirely possible it’s someone we haven’t met yet.
Thanks, I got confused since we never saw him in that same mask in Ep 5. I suppose that last scene in Ep 3 was just showing him alone without anyone observing him.
Marty killing Ledoux was a bit too reactionary for someone who had time to run back out after seeing the abducted kids. He should have at least questioned Ledoux first. Wouldn’t it make more sense to find out if there were other kids? It’s not like these cops wouldn’t try to torture it out of Ledoux or his partner.
At first I thought he shot LeDoux to keep Rust from questioning him.
But there are several scenes where Marty shows a very protective side where children are concerned. Like when he saw Audrey’s drawings and seemed shocked that a girl her age would “know about stuff like that”. He was disturbed at the gang-rape Barbie. And then he questioned the trailer park madam about a girl’s age, and gave her money.
That could have been Audrey or Macie in that cabin.
Rust’s expositions are very entertaining. I can see where this series might not survive, as that sort of theoretical musing is not going to appeal to the uninformed. The whole notion of how those in a fourth dimension would see us as existing on a flat plane and that we continue to relive the same lives over and over again because time is a “flat circle” is not something the writers invented.
We’ll have a different cast if there’s a second season. Rust’s philosophizing could get old. Eight episodes is perfect. I’m not tired of listening to him yet.
Isn’t “wind between the stars” something from Lovecraft? Or Lovecraftian? It’s spooky and delicious at the same time.
But hey! The woman at the preacher’s tent said Dora was involved with a tall man who had a scarred face. LeDoux’s face wasn’t scarred and he wasn’t particularly tall.
I think that you may be onto something there. In fact, Marty also was the one who called Rust back to the car when he was going to approach the school. But in general, Marty doesn’t appear to be blocking the investigation and seems to have taken an increased interest in solving the mystery.
Marty is a very conflicted individual. He is a loving husband, gentle caring father, respected law enforcer and is respectful of the church. Yet he cheats on his wife, neglects his daughter in time of need (muting TV but still watching basketball when discussing the school problems), violently intrudes girlfriend’s privacy, and flips Rust the middle finger and swears during the church services.
Thinking back to the trailer park madam, it almost looks like Marty knew about the place and knew her. The way he talks about the underage girl to her, it didn’t appear like it was the first time they met. Also, as a cop with experience in that area, it’s hard to believe that he wouldn’t have known about the “house by Spanish Lake” since the sheriff appears to have had a financial interest in it.
That is my take on it, too. When Rust tells Marty to go call back up, he refuses and then executes LeDoux. I think he may be involved.
No way. He refuses to be the guy calling for backup out of masculine dignity. He’s done playing second fiddle to Rust’s unbelievably badass narco super-cop. Plus he legitimately cares enough about his partner to not send him in alone yet again.
He kills LeDoux in a state of seeing red. This completely jibes with his character. And it’s worth noting that Rust is the one who immediately sets out to make it look legit. For Hart, this was no hush-hush cover job; some folks Need To Die.
Also in Marty’s favor, he looks truly distressed after he shot LeDoux – and this was when Rust had gone back into the shed. So he didn’t have to fake it for anybody, because nobody was watching, except us.
I believe he didn’t know about the trailer park. He’s state CID, so he’s not the one who’d get the kind of low level calls that would take him to a whorehouse.
ETA: If he really was a bad guy, he had a good opportunity to get rid of Rust at LeDoux’s place.
Of course. :smack: McConaughy is a hot property in film right now, so wouldn’t want to be tied down with TV parts. It didn’t occur to me that they will have a different story to tell each season and a different cast. A one season wrap-up per case is fine with me.