True Detective's series finale seems to have given avid fans more questions rather than the answers we were waiting for the entire seven hours of the HBO drama.
Despite the unfortunate crashing of HBO's Go for fans who wanted to catch the show online, True Detective's series finale offered viewers a hastily drawn sketch to put a period on what had been a heart-pounding mystery.
As a recap, True Detective's series finale began with newly unveiled villain, Errol Childress, acting shiftily in his lair of hoarded VHS tapes, a spouse destined for mental institution, a poorly trained pet dog and unsurprisingly, a corpse in his rundown shack.
Childress' appearance made for one unsettling introduction to True Detective's series finale, which was then followed by Rust Cohle and Marty Hart's failed interrogation of Steve Geraci. Geraci turned out to be another dead trail, after the duo discoverd he had no connection to the murders.
This was followed by a scene where Childress lurks about a school.
The good part however, comes next, when Marty and Rust go back to investigating cold cases. Marty finds an interesting clue in the first box he opens: from a picture of the original crime scene of Marie Fontenot's house, Marty deduces that the bright green ears of the orginal suspect's description could have been green paint, judging by the bright green paint that covered the house on the image.
The drama heightens after a trip to the nursing home and the perusal of a few tax records bring Marty and Rust to the house of Childress' father, a.k.a. Errol Childress' personal house of horrors.
Along the way to the scene of the murder, the duo have a bit of a heart to heart where they seem to reconcile and forgive each other for their shared history. It's a short, heartwarming hint of character development, especially for the men who only started tolerating each other enough to share a few beers just a few weeks before.
Arriving at Childress' house of horrors had, of course, cranked up the thriller feel and the heart-pounding suspense. They try but fail to get in by bargaining with the mistress of the house so they are reduced to breaking in.
Marty checks out the house, finding piles of dolls, rags and other Silence of the Lambs-style horrors, including a raving lady and doorway beads – always a sign of the deranged. Rust, meanwhile, scouts the surroundings, eventually wandering into a bizarre, overgrown castle, filled with twig sculptures, skeleton scarecrows, and evidence of countless victims.
At this point, the adrenaline is pumping and Childress' voice starts messing with Rust's head. The detective comes upon the central chamber, has a vision of the stars and Childress' comes out of nowhere to stab him. After a struggle that last ten minutes too long, Rust joins the scene, only to get a hatchet to the chest when Childress turns on him. When the duo are seemingly down and out, Childress moves in to finish them off but Rust manages to get one shot aimed perfectly to psychopath's head. Police officers appear just after Childress is finished off, though it remains unclear who summons them.
The next scene cuts to the hospital where Marty is apparently recovered enough to greet his estranged family. Rust also survives and he and his partner share one last philosophical ramble but this time, Rust is taking the positive high road.
All in all, True Detective's series finale ends on a happy note. However, fans are left with a lot more questions than answers and a few disappointments along the way.
The root of Errol Childress' insanity wasn't made clear in True Detective's finale, neither was the mystery behind Marty's daughter and how she knew so much about the crimes. Fans are also left wondering how in the world Rust and Marty managed to survive near-fatal wounds and why Rust continued telling different versions of the same stories. There's also the nagging question of whether the corpse in Childress' shed was that of his father's or not.
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