Dark as fuck!
Feels like I'm in The Heart of Darkness with Rust Cohle.
Thanks to all for recommending this. Utterly compelling, yet not a great deal has happened in the two episodes I've seen so far. Think it's all to do with the southern gothic atmosphere of the piece & is a brilliant character study, thus far, rather than a relentless thriller.
The performance by McConaughey is quite brilliant. His character then & now, although altered in many ways, still feels like that same character, but significantly more... and drinking with gay abandon, too. He is
mesmerizing. I could listen to that voice just telling the story while staring into the video camera. In his earlier carnation, however, he is like some dark, sleepless soul striding the immense Louisiana landscape.
Woody Harrelson is great too. On the surface, genial and easy going, yet a hypocrite spouting spurious family values...The domestic scenes with Michelle Monaghan are really well observed. The scene at the dinner
table when Rust comes to dinner is just superb.
Really looking forward to watching the next one later this week.
Btw, I shuddered when Rustin said: “I’m police. I can do terrible things to people with impunity.” Too many people know that truth. Dialogue is fucking immense throughout.