Come for the sixers of Lone Stars, stay for Rust's thoughts on Scandal. Marty stays with Rust as he heals at the hospital and tells Rust that his living situation has been "taken care of." We hope that means these two are now roommates, because that'd be one interesting household. If you ever find yourself in need of some intimidation, it helps to have a boss who happens to be a former sniper.Īre Rust and Marty going to live together now? We still have no idea how the bar where Rust works kept its doors open with absolutely zero customers, but we do know that its owner - Bob - was a badass. We cranked out so many ideas on the show that the finale was suffocated before it even had a chance to breathe.īob the bar owner sure came in handy, didn't he? Some of that is Pizzolatto's fault (if you don't want people thinking of the supernatural, perhaps don't include supernatural imagery), but most of it is ours. As Pizzolatto once explained, "The show's not trying to outsmart you." True Detective generated a ton of speculation without trying to. That's okay, because it was never supposed to. It didn't explain the significance of the missing person billboards or have some sort of tie-in to the Vietnam War. The final episode didn't explain why Audrey was so sexualized. Everywhere you looked, there were theories about True Detective that ranged from "Huh, that is interesting" to "Let me take some psychedelics and re-read that." That was a good thing for conspiracy theorists, but it was a bad thing for the finale. Never has a show been analyzed so much, so quickly. It was a little shortsighted of Nic Pizzolatto to have the Yellow King mentioned so many times throughout the show and then not provide at least a little explanation of who/what it was during the finale.ĭid the Internet set the finale up for failure? It could simply be a legend forwarded by the followers or participants in the Tuttle-led cult.
It could be the killer - Errol Childress - but it could also be Tuttle. In fact, we never actually learned exactly who or what the Yellow King was during the finale. We speculated that the Yellow King was Maggie's father, but we were wrong. As with every episode prior, "Form and Void" gave fans plenty to ponder, so let's get right to it. Now that the first season of True Detective is officially over, it's time to over-analyze the finale.