Hello Detective fans! I’m totally overwhelmed and excited by how many people read and commented on last week’s recap. Coupled with the number of people in my everyday life that I heard talking about it (along with the premiere’s stellar ratings) I’m even more excited to be recapping this show. Before we tackle this week, please allow me to correct the names I spelled wrong from last week’s episode. “Dora Lange” (also referred to as “Dory”) and “Marie Fontenot” are the murdered and missing girls respectively. My Yankee ass watched this twice and couldn’t piece that together until I read someone else’s review. The Louisiana accents in this show are likely to plague me all season, so I’m apologizing in advance. I also referred to the show as taking place in 1995 and the “present day.” In the reality of the show, “present day” is actually 2012. I may still use “present day” because it’s easier than constantly saying 2012. Don’t judge. And with that, let’s jump right in. Again, I’m mesmerized by the open to this show. I also noticed that it covers some ground similar to that of the True Blood open…preachers and butts, primarily. I googled them and they were not created by the same company (Digital Kitchen created the “True Blood” open, Elastic created the “True Detective” open). Either way, I love them both. Because I’m nothing if not a thorough nerd, here’s an interesting article about the making of the True Detective show open. We jump right into another 2012 interview with Rust. He talks about the thoughts that plagued him during the time of the murder investigation when he couldn’t sleep…women, his daughter, his wife. He snaps out of his wandering thoughts and explains to the investigators that this is why he likes to drink alone. They question him about the sculpture found at the Fontenot house. He says that no one knew why that was in the playhouse. Playhouse?!? That was a broke-down creepy shed. The girl’s aunt thought perhaps she’d made it in school, but to him it seemed like “someone having a conversation.” Rust casually mentions that the girl’s school shut down in 1992 after Andrew and asks the cops if that means anything to them. He’s met with blank stares. Then he mentions notifying Dora Lange’s mother. We flash back to 1995 and see the first of what will be a theme in this episode…hootched-out underaged girls. Marty and Rust are driving to Mrs. Kelly’s home as a random pack of underaged girls gather by the road to smoke and look slutty. Inside, we see that Mrs. Pinkman from Breaking Bad has fallen on hard times. She had seen the news and was praying for the family of that girl without realizing that she was the family. They ask her about Dora’s father and she asks what they’ve heard. They heard he passed and she responds “What kind of father won’t bathe his own child?” AwkwardShe explains that he died […]
Hello Detective fans! I’m totally overwhelmed and excited by how many people read and commented on last week’s recap. Coupled with the number of people in my everyday life that I heard talking about it (along with the premiere’s stellar ratings) I’m even more excited to be recapping this show. Before we tackle this week, please allow me to correct the names I spelled wrong from last week’s episode. “Dora Lange” (also referred to as “Dory”) and “Marie Fontenot” are the murdered and missing girls respectively. My Yankee ass watched this twice and couldn’t piece that together until I read someone else’s review. The Louisiana accents in this show are likely to plague me all season, so I’m apologizing in advance. I also referred to the show as taking place in 1995 and the “present day.” In the reality of the show, “present day” is actually 2012. I may still use “present day” because it’s easier than constantly saying 2012. Don’t judge. And with that, let’s jump right in. Again, I’m mesmerized by the open to this show. I also noticed that it covers some ground similar to that of the True Blood open…preachers and butts, primarily. I googled them and they were not created by the same company (Digital Kitchen created the “True Blood” open, Elastic created the “True Detective” open). Either way, I love them both. Because I’m nothing if not a thorough nerd, here’s an interesting article about the making of the True Detective show open. We jump right into another 2012 interview with Rust. He talks about the thoughts that plagued him during the time of the murder investigation when he couldn’t sleep…women, his daughter, his wife. He snaps out of his wandering thoughts and explains to the investigators that this is why he likes to drink alone. They question him about the sculpture found at the Fontenot house. He says that no one knew why that was in the playhouse. Playhouse?!? That was a broke-down creepy shed. The girl’s aunt thought perhaps she’d made it in school, but to him it seemed like “someone having a conversation.” Rust casually mentions that the girl’s school shut down in 1992 after Andrew and asks the cops if that means anything to them. He’s met with blank stares. Then he mentions notifying Dora Lange’s mother. We flash back to 1995 and see the first of what will be a theme in this episode…hootched-out underaged girls. Marty and Rust are driving to Mrs. Kelly’s home as a random pack of underaged girls gather by the road to smoke and look slutty. Inside, we see that Mrs. Pinkman from Breaking Bad has fallen on hard times. She had seen the news and was praying for the family of that girl without realizing that she was the family. They ask her about Dora’s father and she asks what they’ve heard. They heard he passed and she responds “What kind of father won’t bathe his own child?” AwkwardShe explains that he died […]