EPISODE · Jun 7, 2026 · 2H 42M
A Man Gets to a Certain Age: True Detective Season 1 in One Sitting (EDIT FIXED)
from Well-Adjusted Horror · host Johnathon Williams
Mentioned in this episode The show: True Detective Season 1 (HBO), written by Nic Pizzolatto, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga. Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson), Maggie Hart (Michelle Monaghan), Reggie Ledoux, Errol Childress, Billy Lee Tuttle, Sheriff Steve Geraci, Dora Lange, Marie Fontenot, Ginger & the Iron Crusaders. Filming locations: Fort Macomb, LA; "Cancer Alley." Books & authors: Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow / "The Repairer of Reputations" • Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race • H.P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" • Emil Cioran • Flannery O'Connor ("Christ-haunted") • Stephen Graham Jones. Films & TV in the conversation: Se7en, Zodiac, Heat, The Departed, Brooklyn's Finest, Lethal Weapon, Sideways, The Thing (and the "Who Goes There?" source story), The Wicker Man, Midsommar, Men, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Last Exorcism, Watchmen, My Cousin Vinny, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, The Boys — and our own Chernobyl episode.
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A man gets to a certain age. He thinks he knows how to cover a whole season of prestige TV in one sitting, but. Four Southern boys did the unthinkable: the entire first season of True Detective — all eight episodes — in a single, sprawling, totally sober episode. It opens with a quote from Robert W. Chambers and ends somewhere out past the edge of the M-brane, and in between we argue about whether this is even horror (it is), why Louisiana is the only state that can be that beautiful and that ugly at once, and whether Marty Hart's real problem is the job or the man.
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