You got me..

Damn...

most ive ever been but on the last 2 episodes of season 1 and holy f***ing s*** brooooooooooooo

I wanted to be a contrarian too but the last 3 episodes have been after after

Season 1 is generational television

just found the whole s*** was plagiarized...

I've seen an article about it and I can't help but feel like part of it was written in bad faith or even skewed the research that went into it but idk

??

some of the things were a bit far fetched i agree but other stuff was quite egregious

lovecraftzine.com/2014/08/04/did-the-writer-of-true-detective-plagiarize-thomas-ligotti-and-others

still a fantastic season though just a bit sus of pizzo now. the upside is theres a bunch of material out there that is like true detective, arguably better, that you can consume.

personally I decided to read alan moores "the courtyard" which has similiar themes and whose protagonist has a lot of simliarites to rust.

in the courtyard "we meet Detective Aldo Sax. Sax is an FBI agent specializing in "anomaly theory", wherein he collates seemingly unrelated data into a specified whole. Sax's strange methods cast him as an outsider within the rest of the Bureau, but his methods prove effective. The main thrust of The Courtyard details Sax's attempts to investigate three seemingly unrelated murders across the US. This eventually leads him to a young man who deals a d*** called "Aklo", the after-effects of which are shockingly similar to the reported actions of the three different murderers. After Sax meets with this dealer, named Johnny Carcosa, he quickly learns that "Aklo" isn't a d*** at all, but a language. When the dealer speaks it to him, it drives him mad..." that last sentence is interesting because of how rust originally a sceptic, over the years starts repeating the things he heard from reggie ledoux, time is a flat circle etc

anyways i just wanted to say anyone who liked true detective s1 probably would like the courtyard also

anyone else think season 1 wasn't all that? fell off a cliff around episode 6?

No

wtf

This article was dumb when it was released and is still dumb now

Yeah and this plot sounds like it plagiarized Kurosawa’s Cure. Can make bad faith parallels on anything

Ligotti himself is just rephrasing ideas that have been around before him lol. "Everybody is nobody" and "the illusion of a self" are literally just Buddhist sentiments. "we must cease reproducing" is the VHEMT. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

idgaf who wrote it lol

im fine with people cribbing from stuff in the past, doing homagaes, taking elements of it but when u do that u clearly took somethin and if u pretend its urs thats messed up. the iconic ending speech is taken almost theme for theme and sometimes word from word from an obscure alan moore comic

its not bad faith its just reality im afraid especially considering the length to which pizzolatto has gone to not mention or obscure the influences hes been drawing from.

the courtyard is moore's take on lovecraft but unlike pizzo hes open about it

also the very obvious decline in quality in not just season 2 and 3 but everything pizzo has done since s1 should tell u something

That mf a fraud!

an idea having been around previously is not the issue. if u look at say tarantino he is a massive fan of film especially independent and foreign film and as a result a lot of his work is a pastiche of styles and scenes and themes and even the music of all these past films that hes trying to build together to make something cool and different out of and he's very good at it I don't consider him a ripoff merchant. nor gallager, one of my favorite songwriters he steals hook and melodies from the 70s and the rock era he was into and pop and he makes them his own and makes them better and writes better lyrics to them. his musicianship is better hes able to elevate it and do something more with it and transmute it. when u steal and ur a genius u make it better. s1 is generational i agree but pizzo clearly took A LOT from others and wasnt forthright about it and hasnt made anything of similiar quality since and upon visitation of the works he took from appears his versions were not actually better. i love season 1 but pizzolatto is on fraudwatch