The Light Is Winning We Think A True Detective Recap

• HBO
• We’ll miss you Rust Cohle, most lovable nihilist.

We battled Carcosa-themed nightmares, the flat circularity of time, and HBO Go’s epic server crash to bring you this Gchat about the flawed but still pretty great finale of the best television show ever.

GS: Well, I’m always a little bit drunk, so . . .

MS: Why do you think you (and I and everyone else) were sold so early on? I mean, they only had eight episodes to open and close the story line—so in a way they had to wow folks early on. But what really did it for you?

GS: I agree that it felt rushed—tidy, but not tidy at all. It went against our expectations for how the episode would be paced. So it seemed awkward.

MS: The set design was breathtaking. And then when Rust shoots off the “crown” of Errol’s head—that was pretty gorgeous too.

GS: Well, frankly, it would have been nice for someone to address the Tuttles’s very real involvement.