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Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. It is only in God’s redemptive work that there is hope of the healing of this beautiful yet tragic world in which you and I live: It is not ‘cheap hope’ – but a deep hope that rests entirely on God’s victory over sin, evil and death at the cross and resurrection of his Son. But Christian hope is based on what God has done in history. Such hope is transitory, individualistic and ephemeral. Put it this way: Christian hope does not rest with you or me – or with ‘Rust’ Cohle or with any individual seeing life in a new way. It lurches, unconvincingly towards an illogical optimism. But True Detective’s gospel struggles to get out of the darkness that is has so brilliantly described. Like him, it is unflinchingly realistic about human nature and the injustice and sin that is woven into all areas of life. Like him, it is not remotely sentimental or optimistic. The gospel of Jesus Christ shares the truth that ‘Rust’ Cohle sees. But, for me anyway, it was unconvincing: the darkness had been so well drawn that the light felt contrived and out-of-place. I don’t think I’m giving too much away by saying that there is a little shaft of light at the end of True Detective.
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I’m thinking of other superbly made series like The Sopranos and the (Scandinavian) film / book series like Girl with a Dragon Tatoo, both of which I hugely ‘enjoyed’.
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It is compelling to watch someone like Rust Cohle face the darkness head on, with no illusions or sentimentality.Īnd it’s here that my ambiguity about watching True Detective comes from: there is such little light in TV series like these that they leave you in the dark. News about the darkness assaults our senses every day. At best, they will put boundaries on the depravity of the human heart and we fool ourselves if we believe otherwise.ĭwelling in such unremitting darkness feels true to life: it captures the reality of a globally twisted world that perhaps we now know far too much about.
Law and politics, when working well, will never deliver utopia. The sin and hypocrisy in my heart – and dare I say in yours. ISIS? Indiscriminate killing by Drones? Child abuse covered up in Rotherham? In Ireland? A world in which the weak and vulnerable are ruthlessly exploited by the powerful with impunity. What’s so compelling about such a bleak tale? Well, its truth for one. And therefore is there any hope for any of us? That question is sort of answered in the last episode – of which a little more in a moment. No-one can live with such searing ‘prophetic’ honesty – he can hardly live with himself.Īnd so the story under the story is whether there is any hope for McConaghey.
But it is McConaghey’s Cohle who, alone, sees the world as it truly is. That darkness embraces individuals, the law, the church, the powerful, drug-dealers as well as obvious victims – murdered prostitutes and children.Įvery major character is deeply flawed. That is, just below the surface of our apparently advanced ‘civilisation’ is a dark dark world: a world of violence, abuse, fear and horror in which the powerful take advantage of the weak with impunity. Cohle’s relentless nihilism against family-man Marty’s flagrant hypocrisy sets up a narrative that shapes the whole series. But what the writer, Nic Pizzolattto, managed to achieve brilliantly, is telling of the story of the compelling and complex relationship between Harrelson’s ‘Marty’ Hart and McConaghey’s ‘Rust’ Cohle.īoth actors give, I think, perhaps the best performances of their careers. The plot isn’t unfamiliar: ritualistic murder, corruption, bad religion and politics. The foreboding soundtrack sets the scene for what follows – check out Far from any Road by the Handsome Family so see what I mean.
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The desolate cinematography perfectly captures the sense of menace within lost backwaters of southern Louisiana in which cops Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaghey hunt a serial killer over 17 years. There is a fairly vague spoiler ahead btw.
I watched True Detective with the rest of the family a while back – well we all watched it at different stages, sometimes together, and talked about it later: such is modern consumption of media! I’ve been meaning to blog about it since then but something has stopped me – something Jaybercrow put his finger on. This post is inspired by Jaybercrow’s recent rare 6-monthly post about the bleak inheriting the earth.
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