#TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 1 SYNOPSIS SERIES#

I'm sure that the web will spend most of this week obsessing over the more supernatural elements of Sunday's finale. That's all that 'happened,' plot-wise, in 'Form and Void.' But a lot more was going on-especially in the last 15 minutes of the episode. Childress was shot in the head.ДЄnd that's it. But after leading Rust into some sort of a brick building clearly designed by the same twig-loving decorator who had created all those devilcatchers, the spaghetti monster finally met his match. Childress even kept his dead father Billy bound up and rotting in a nearby shack, Psycho-style. That led them to the Childress homestead, a decaying white clapboard building in the middle of the Louisiana swamp, which in turn led them to Errol Childress: the lawnmower man, the illicit grandson of Sam Tuttle, the man with the scars, the spaghetti monster, the killer.Д¬hildress sure was creepy: married to his half-sister, who was apparently raped by his grandfather surrounded by decrepit dolls in the habit of referring to sex as 'making flowers' prone to adopting a James Mason accent for no discernible reason. Before long, Rust and Marty had dug up the contractor's name- Childress and Son. 'Maybe painted that house,' Marty suggested. 'Why green ears?' he asked his partner, referring to the police sketch of the so-called 'spaghetti monster' who had chased a young girl through the woods decades back. He stumbled on a shot of a freshly painted green house.

'The showвЂ™s not trying to outsmart you.вЂќДЄnd so Marty, on a hunch, searched through the canvassing photos that he and Rust had snapped in 1995 while investigating the Lange murder near Erath. 'I cannot think of anything more insulting as an audience than to go through eight weeks, eight hours with these people, and then to be told it was a lie-that what you were seeing wasnвЂ™t really what was happening,' he told me earlier this year. Instead, we got exactly the finale that Pizzolatto had promised us all along: no alarms, no surprises-for the first three-quarters of the episode, at least. We didn't fulfill the Internet's wildest expectations. We didn't unravel a 'five horsemen' conspiracy that went all the way to the top-to Sen. We didn't find out that Marty was really the killer, or that Rust was really the killer, or that the guy at the banh mi place was really the killer.

We didn't reenact the Vietnam War or discover that Marty's father-in-law had raped Marty's daughter. We didn't step through some sort of mystical portal and enter the Lovecraftian land of Carcosa. The rest of this review will consist of nothing but spoilers.) We didn't meet a tentacled Yellow King from another dimension. (Warning: stop reading now if you haven't seen the finale yet. Or rather, let's review what didn't happen. And to tie things up in any other way would have betrayed what the first season of True Detective was all about.Д«efore I explain why, let's review what happened in 'Form and Void.' To stick around any longer-as much as I adore Rust and Marty and the whole Carcosa mystery-would have broken the spell.

#TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 1 SYNOPSIS SERIES#

I thought Sunday's finale ('Form and Void') was the perfect conclusion to a series that has come as close to perfection over the course of its eight all-too-brief episodes as any I can remember. The second season of True Detective will tell a different story-with different characters, different actors, and a different setting. And Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson won't be coming back. This means that, as of Sunday night, the tale of Rust Cohle, Marty Hart, and the 17-year search for the man who murdered Dora Lange is officially over. From the start, creator Nic Pizzolatto designed it as an anthology series. Usually with a show you love- Mad Men, Game of Thrones, whatever-you know your favorite characters will be returning in a year or two. On Sunday night, the first season of HBO's deep, dark crime drama True Detective came to a close.

True detective season 1 synopsis