S01.E01: The Long Bright Dark

[nymusix]

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Former Louisiana State CID partners, Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart, give statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute that took place 17 years earlier.

[David T. Cole]

I'm digging the "pilot polls" NYM.

[Lisin]

I LOVED this pilot! I mean I'm a sucker for a serial killer story, and Matthew McConaughey so I knew going in I was likely to enjoy it but man did it blow past any expectations I had. I loved the tone, I loved the relationship already established between Rustin and Martin, I loved all of it! 

[David T. Cole]

[ApathyMonger]

I liked the pilot a lot, but I kind of want to wait until the rest has aired and just binge on them. Stupid Netflix has me spoiled.

[mad_typist]

So, it's good to know that the murder scene designer from Hannibal is staying active while that show is on hiatus. The staging of the murder scene felt very familiar.

[Fable]

Being bored with summer TV, I just started watching this, and it is fantastic!  When I decided to watch, I told myself I would not watch more than 1 episode per day, so I could stretch it out through the TV off season, but I have no self discipline, and I am sure I will have watched the rest of the episodes by the end of the week. 

 

I read somewhere that this show will be an anthology and feature a different story each season.  I love this idea.  Too many times, great shows and stories lose their credibility by trying to stretch out their material far past the expiration date.  As much as I think Harrelson and McConaughey make it work on this show, I think every good story needs a beginning, a middle and an end, which is why I don't think serialized TV usually works beyond a third or fourth season.  Of course there are exceptions, but trying to milk a once great idea usually runs out of steam. 

 

In any case, I loved this first episode and can't wait to see the rest!  

[kieyra]

Rewatching this for the first time since it aired. (I never made it through S2 but I remember being impressed by S1, or parts of it.)

It doesn’t really age well. It hasn’t been that many years, but they were some significant years. I find stuff like the porny male-gaze sex scenes hard to watch now. 

Also far less impressed by the writing than I once was. Of course, peak TV happened since then. And I had just finished rewatching Breaking Bad. 

[Orbert]

I did finished a rewatch as well.  It's still impressive the second time around, but now it's just the acting performances and the writing.  Those were always good, but before there was all the mystery and mysticism (or whatever it's called) and wondering what the hell is going on.  You lose that on rewatch, but it's still fun watching it unfold and all the clues along the way.  Still a well-written piece of television.  They packed a lot of story into those eight hours.

[Simba122504]

I just started the series for the first time. 

[Red Fields]

Me too.

[roamyn]

On 1/13/2024 at 10:25 PM, Red Fields said:

Me too.

We just did as well.

Great pilot.  Lots of intrigue, mystery and good characters.