He's mowing grass all day, he probably just had grass on his ears so they looked green. Case solved. I R True Dick!

Isnt he too young though?

They spoke to him in 95 outside the school, so he seems old enough.

Caught up. Nice 7th ep.

That ending ain't gonna sit right with more than a few folks

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I still enjoyed it, they stayed pretty self aware - that black hole thing in the roof was a great fake. No denying that it ran out of steam after Reggie got his head blown off though. Losing the interrogation made it all a bit mundane, although I thought the direction dropped off as well for the final three episodes.

I'd be happy to see another season, they might want to avoid a mystery though.

God the final scene was cornballtastic in a way I thought was completely alien to the rest of the show. If they were going for a believable 'reform' of the Cohle character it fell right on its batty.

It was only okay because Marty blubbered.

The x2 on the asshole boss makes most of it OK for me. I always assumed the title was a huge nod to us getting a slab of pulp, clichés included. Execution was everything and they needed to keep the pace and the tone up right to the end, that was where it fell down for me.

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And honestly it all just makes me meaner about facts like these, the kind of shit I could forgive but for the collapse of this thing's apparent ambition.

I'd like to think they did all the cliches just to show they could be done well.

Will rewatch imagining Rust is played by Mel Gibson and Woody is Danny Glover with a couple more defects.

I finished this last night.  Had a skim over the past few pages + wider internet and gather people are a bit miffed ('cornballtastic').  I thought it was excellent, my only gripe being that in the final two episodes it started to rattle along at a pace that suggested it had been trimmed down from say, a 10 episode season that was originally planned.  adored mentioned the soundtrack, which I'll certainly be buying - Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings - all right up my alley.  In the final scene I had an inkling Burnett would choose Dylan's One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) for the credits, but I was totally wrong in the end - I only spotted one Dylan track. 

Two things bugging me enough to post about:

Do we have theories on who called the police after the showdown?  Did I just miss something? 

Also, to save time so I don't have to check again, was there a particular reason why Marty remembered the paint job/photo all those years later - why it would have stuck in his mind?  I get that he became a better detective in the interim, but that's not quite enough for me.  Did we see the photo in the 1995 scenes?  Did Marty comment on it then or place it on a pinboard and stare at it or something?  My memory is hazy, I can't remember the scenes where they visited the property.

Yeah I'll echo that there were a lot of threads left open, I'm kinda hoping that for the second series, although different characters, still revolves around that same area / themes, and we actually get to see that peado ring cracked, or at least some further explanation.

The biggest unanswered question for me was why Woody's kid was playing with all murder / paedo scene toys... I kinda expected her (or sis) to get taken by the killer. But no. We never heard anything of that again. Edgy.

As for who called the police, didn't Woody shout something at the woman like, "now where's that phone?" or something after at first failing to find a working one? Kinda figured Woodsie called them, wouldn't have been anyone else, but yeah it's just another thing you have to work out by yourself, which, btw, I don't see as a cool, edgy, "nah mate it's meant to be very ambiguous like that, so you have to think". Nope. They just didn't finish it properly.

Having said that, I enjoyed the series a lot, but that last episode, with Jeepers Creepers style cop-psycho show down, took the shine off just a little.

I thought the whole daughter thing was just tied into woody being a terrible father who's work and philandering was effecting his family even though he thought he was perfect, although it did have a definite child abuse vibe about it.