They seem to want us to be suspicious of the wife. She mentioned she has a checkered past but I wonder if it goes farther than that. She wrote it off as some fringe panther stuff but there was also satanic stuff going on in San Francisco at that time that was taking advantage of girls exactly like her. I’m not thinking she actually did it in wondering if she knows a lot more about what did or could have happened and used that knowledge to write her book. Hays said he never read it but maybe he will in order to help his brain function and something will click that he never saw before.
This is super nitpicky, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I love True Detective, one of my favorite shows. The only thing I don't like it is that I find some isolated parts of the dialogue to be ridiculous. The trash man scene where he talks about the place where you can't leave etc... nobody says things like that IRL. After watching that, I thought "that line is something you will only hear in True Detective". In Season 1 it led to some interesting lines from Cohle but I find it cheesy. Though I guess it is something that is very unique to the show and kind of a hallmark of the show, I just think it is kinda lame. /ducks Season is starting off very strong though. Acting is excellent pretty much all around.
SIAP.. I noticed in ep 1 when Hays and teacher (future wife Amelia) are talking in the classroom. They show the clock at the beginning of the conversation and it is 3:24. They talk for around 5 minutes and when he leaves the room, the clock still says 3:24. Maybe it’s just broken, but I thought it was interesting. Again, SIAP.
Hot take: Herman's is overrated af. Apparently was legit back in the day but now people just say it's good for nostalgia or some shit. Love me some Hugo's though, Derek's special & fries with some bloody marys/beers before an early game is my kind of party
I like Herman’s but I love Hugo’s. I thought it was funny how empty Hugo’s was during that scene. I get it that that had it closed for shooting but that place is always packed.
I don't hate Herman's, it's decent. I pretty much only go to Fayetteville on game weekends. Not a fan of waiting an hour or more to eat store brand crackers in watery salsa and average steak/ribs. Do love the random blow pops on the way out. Just think it gets over hyped for what it used to be. My dad's favorite joint when he went to college, he thinks it's just okay now I love Hugo's but holy shit get there past 11am and you are waiting forever, especially if you have more than a party of 2. Have left there more than stayed bc of the wait
not only that, but the previous scene had a clock showing around 10am. I think they were questioning a student. What did they do for the next 5 hours?
Great first two episodes. Wonder why Hays and his daughter had a falling out. I know the son said that West Finger was not her scene and that is why she moved, but gotta be more than that. They never mentioned how Amelia Hays died, correct? At the end of Ep 2, was Hays really standing out in front of the Purcell house that has been demolished, or was that just his imagination? Great acting so far. Love everything about it.
Re-watched the last night. Found it weird that Hays Daughter and Hays Grand Daughter don't speak at all.
Good points. The son said the last time Hays saw his daughter was the day of Amelia's funeral. We need more backstory on the daughter fallout and Amelia's death. He was outside the old Purcell house, I think he drove there but due to his dementia he kind of "woke up".
Good stuff. I agree it is likely just mood and texture like TD 1. That said, I disagree with the very last question. Wasn’t her book just back from the publisher when he found out that the girl may still be alive? If so, what was on the back cover of the book is irrelevant to that conclusion unless they republished it after something more came out.
I hope we find out who was the guy who interviewed the farm house owner. Seems like a huge mistake not to follow up on the car. Especially when you are told by the parents they never purchased those toys
There was a heart drawn on the family’s front door window. Probably means nothing but I thought it was interesting.
Kitchen in the crayon drawing matched the kitchen in the big white house where they conducted the interview with the random guy who claimed to be interviewed previously
I can definitely see how they changed a few things bc it's supposed to be a kid drawing based on their memory also makes sense as to why the camera stayed on the drawing for an extended period of time
And he said he was interviewed previously by someone he can't describe but West says there is no record. Maybe he's got people in law enforcement covering for him. Or if things are really weird and Hayes is imagining things happening that really didn't, maybe he didn't actually find the house or conduct the interview. And the scene they cut to directly after, with the TV lady questioning 2015 Hayes about not following up on people that reported seeing the kids, is calling into question Hayes' recollection of the investigation
One of the reports she reads may be the man in the house. But her reading that report back was in more detail than what he told the detectives at the house. All he said was a black and white women. But the girl said he knew the man had a scar on his face
Yeah her description of the report roughly matches what he told Hayes & West. That's why I could see the Hayes/West interview potentially not happening, if his faulty memory distorts what we're told happened. Seems more straightforward that the kid was in the house at some point to draw the kitchen, and I guess if he's in the house at some point and died around the corner, the guy was involved somehow. I guess those two hypotheticals are not mutually exclusive.
I like the theory that Hayes already solved the case and probably killed the murderer Him and his wife covered it up with the book Old Hayes forgot it and the lady interviewing him knows he did it
She may not know but something fishy happened and Hayes knows about it. When his wife came back she said he must pay like she did and everyone else did. That he would be scared if they found what’s in the woods.