Hear, hear.

I was so on board with this show 10 minutes into episode one. I had high expectations, which so far have been met.

By now it's an old refrain, but McConaughey really is awesome. Harrelson too.

I think a lot of mystery-genre television actually doesn't execute mystery storytelling very well. TRUE DETECTIVE is doing something cool in that the characters, their relationships and backstories, are sort of a mystery too, in addition to the central whodunnit. The going back-and-forth in time doesn't at all feel forced. Really impressed with this show so far.

The cinematography on this show is fucking amazing. Looks as good as or better than anything I've seen theatrically released in the last year. So many amazing shots.

The fucking Super Bowl is gonna make us wait an extra week for Episode 4. God dammit.

It is unreal. Easily the best non-cg tracking shot since Children of Men. One of the best things I've ever seen pulled off on TV

It wasnt done in one shot simply for the sake of doing it in one shot, either. That's what I got off on. It wasn't a gimmick. At that point in the episode, it was simply the most effective way to tell the story and bring us into the moment-to-moment experience of Russ. The focus is on the action. IOW, it's not one of those one-shot takes that implicitly asks us "How cool is it that we're doing this in one shot, y'all?" It's entirely serving the action, what's going on.

It was Steadicam. The operator should get some kind of special medal.

I'm catching up now. I like it. Beautiful cinematography, best I've seen on TV in a while. McConaughey is real good, but I actually like Harrelson's reactions to his pseudo-philosophical bullshit a lot more.

I'm not at all sold on the structure, though. At this point, I'm not sure how much the 2012 stuff adds to the story. I guess we'll see how they tie it together, though.

I guess you're right, but at this point (to me) it kind of feels like the 2012 stuff is just there to get character insight into dialogue. Is there much of a story going on that's been revealed? Other than the stuff with the killer, which at this point seems to just be the pretense to get Hart and Cohle into an interrogation about the 1995 case. But like you said, if they do move more exclusively to the 2012 story at some point, it's good to get all this stuff out there.

The helicopter shots of cars driving along desolate roads in this show are jaw-dropping

Just watched the first 3 episodes on our "On Demand" and I absolutely love it so far.  The last shot of episode three of the "monster" gave me chills.  Very well told.  Hopefully episode 4 will be up when I get home from work tonight.