Dear True Detective: I know you will break my heart tonight (in a totally noir way, hopefully)

[verushka70]

It's just a few hours until True Detective wraps up with its last episode of this season. I am both incredibly excited and apprehensive. I want to know what's going to happen, but the suspense is kind of killing me... and I'm still kind of numb and freaked out about what happened last week.

SPOILERS for episode 7

1. I'm afraid that Paul Woodrugh -- unlike Velcoro in that second ep -- is really dead. NOOOOooooooo... what about Erica and the baby?

2. I'm rooting for Frank Semyon and Jordan to make it -- as a couple, and out of the fires and burning bridges he literally set aflame last week. Frank especially seems to have fought his way up. The idea that he'd get beaten back down is, well, sadly realistic (seen The Drop with James Gandolfini, Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace?) and very noir... but, please, no...

3. I'm afraid all the corrupt motherfuckers will win. (I mean, if history -- and our recent economic meltdown and the crisis in the financial sector -- is anything to go by, they will totally win, of course. They always do.)

4. I'm afraid Velcoro and Bezzerides are doomed and will end up dead.

5. I'm strangely also rooting for Velcoro and Bezzerides' nascent relationship...

...DESPITE feeling that my Velcoro/Bezzerides fanfic idea from the middle of last week's ep was totally hijacked (I'm into angst, what can I say? and they're two seriously angsty, vulnerable characters who I could see starting over with each other)...

...and DESPITE the fact that having Ani and Ray roll around together sexually felt both (1) predictable, like totally taking the road most traveled, and (2) like a big mistake in the place, time, context, and headspace they both had to be in while on the run from ALL the authorities (after the hooker party where Bezzerides found Vera and disemboweled a couple scumbags to get away, and Velcoro and Woodrugh found all the paperwork proving the corruption).

Oh, damn you, Nick Pizzolatto. Even when I'm mad at some of your writing, I'll still tune in at 8pm CDST to watch the first showing of this last ep.

And I hardly ever do that for ANY shows anymore.

(Except Hannibal, although I missed it last night due to another goddamned POS migraine.)

Comments

[glitteryv]

1. I truly believe he's dead--which really breaks my heart. FWIW, I think that Miguel's tremendous betrayal will/would've pushed Paul even further into the closet. :(

2. The amount of finger crossin' I'm doing so that Frank and Jordan make it out alive is pretty epic at this point. As you and I have discussed before, their pairing is refreshingly adult (they actually communicate!) and sensual in a way that one can't help but appreciate.

3. I have zero doubts that the main players (Osip, the Mayor, Rick Springfield, possibly Burris) won't get taken down. :(((

4. I'm aaaaaalmost sure Velcoro won't make it (the show made it super clear that he's a Fated-to-die character in the first couple of episodes). Ani's probabilities are 50-50 at this point. She's basically said her good-byes to her family and her career is done. She's also begun to confront the abuse she suffered as a kid. I dunno if it's that she's gotten all the closure she needs so... *hands*

5. Yeah...I dunno. I think you're on your own in this one. #sorry.

Anyhoo, you'll probably end up watching tonight's episode way earlier than me (I'm not watching it til tomorrow night) so I hope that it is worth it.