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S2E1

The Western Book of the Dead

True Detective · 2015-06-21 · 58 min

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from 16 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

The disappearance of a city manager disrupts a lucrative land scheme and ignites an investigation involving three police officers and a career criminal who is moving into legitimate business.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

25

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

44

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 16 comments — 11 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

setupcomplicationdevelopmentclimax1007550250INTENSITY0%25%50%75%100%

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Drag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height
how intense it got, 0–100
gold above
how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze
how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit17 read

  • “Now you have my attention”

    lilparra77▲ 1,777about 33–66% inread it ↗

  • “Set such a good atmosphere for the scene.”

    thegreekie▲ 1,127about 0–15% inread it ↗

  • “The opening credit music made me sort of uncomfortable, but I liked it.”

    tmatte▲ 636about 0–15% inread it ↗

  • “Episode felt a little scatterbrained”

    tmatte▲ 636about 0–100% inread it ↗

who made it

directed
Justin Lin
written
Nic Pizzolatto

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

  • Chris Kerson as Nails
  • Ritchie Coster as Mayor Austin Chessani
  • Christopher James Baker as Blake Churchman
  • Afemo Omilami as Police Chief Holloway
  • James Frain as Lieutenant Kevin Burris
  • Andy Mackenzie as Ivar
  • Abigail Spencer as Gena Brune
  • Michael Irby as Detective Elvis Ilinca
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