I asked chatgpt for recommendations based off of me liking naruto, my favorite characters from naruto being itachi, obito, kisame, kabuto, madara, and me not liking morality. I got recommendes s1 of true detective and was told Rust was "live action Itachi".
But rust is a complete moralfag? He shits on christians yet preaches their morality. He tries really hard to convince himself that he is a nihilist when he's not. "Humans should just all die, except for these dead kids, they didn't deserve to die. I know you have been ostracized by your entire family Marty, but you must help me with this case from 17 years ago, YOU OWE IT TO THE DEAD KIDS." He has such a binary worldview, it's all black and white for him. Ig him permanently coping IS the point of his character, but why would chatgpt tell me he was up my alley.
The pacing is slow, fine. But the plot really isn't all that interesting, especially for a true crime show. I like the occult antagonists, but some parts of the story are very unrealistic. There's plenty of powerful men in this cult, but the biggest menace in the cult is a random hillbilly. And all the powerful men for some reason tolerate him leaving a dozen or so dead bodies around, posing them at crime scenes, yet they murdered Tuttle, a more powerful man who's a legitimate son of the main guy in the cult, for way less.
The ending is disney af plot wise, very cheap, the hillbilly stabs Rust and lifts him off his feet with the knife in his belly, he survives, he throws a hatchet at Marty's chest, he survives too.
Maybe I missed a lot of shit because tbh I was struggling to pay attention for 50+ mins at a time, it wasn't engaging enough for me. The clues were somewhat obvious and the characters unlikable. I can tolerate unlikable characters if they are meant to be flawed. And Rust and Marty I'm sure are meant to be flawed, but they love to preach justice and morality and get rewarded for it in the end, they are framed as "the light" and I don't like that.
No idea how a lot of people call it the best 1st season of any show ever. I'd give it like a 5/10.
Intro song is a banger though.
But rust is a complete moralfag? He shits on christians yet preaches their morality. He tries really hard to convince himself that he is a nihilist when he's not. "Humans should just all die, except for these dead kids, they didn't deserve to die. I know you have been ostracized by your entire family Marty, but you must help me with this case from 17 years ago, YOU OWE IT TO THE DEAD KIDS." He has such a binary worldview, it's all black and white for him. Ig him permanently coping IS the point of his character, but why would chatgpt tell me he was up my alley.
The pacing is slow, fine. But the plot really isn't all that interesting, especially for a true crime show. I like the occult antagonists, but some parts of the story are very unrealistic. There's plenty of powerful men in this cult, but the biggest menace in the cult is a random hillbilly. And all the powerful men for some reason tolerate him leaving a dozen or so dead bodies around, posing them at crime scenes, yet they murdered Tuttle, a more powerful man who's a legitimate son of the main guy in the cult, for way less.
The ending is disney af plot wise, very cheap, the hillbilly stabs Rust and lifts him off his feet with the knife in his belly, he survives, he throws a hatchet at Marty's chest, he survives too.
Maybe I missed a lot of shit because tbh I was struggling to pay attention for 50+ mins at a time, it wasn't engaging enough for me. The clues were somewhat obvious and the characters unlikable. I can tolerate unlikable characters if they are meant to be flawed. And Rust and Marty I'm sure are meant to be flawed, but they love to preach justice and morality and get rewarded for it in the end, they are framed as "the light" and I don't like that.
No idea how a lot of people call it the best 1st season of any show ever. I'd give it like a 5/10.
Intro song is a banger though.
