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3	!Season 1
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6	* Episode 6 has a running theme of boxing. Hart dons a pair of gloves to beat two men who had sex with his daughter. The bar he visits mid-episode has boxing on a big-screen. Their superior officer also has photographs of boxing all over his office. The end of the episode has Hart and Cohle get into a fistfight. Cohle compliments Hart's hook.
7	* The setting reinforces the concept of time being a flat circle. The Louisiana Gulf Coast routinely gets hit with hurricanes, Andrew and Rita being mentioned in episodes and tangentially factoring into the investigations. Hurricanes are almost an apocalyptic force, wiping away the past only for it to be repeated in the next cycle. It certainly wouldn't be out of place in the Yellow King Cult's mythos.
8	* The idea of being a True Detective is actually embodied in both Rust and Marty. Even though they're not the most upright human beings, when the saw the extent of the depravity of the Yellow King Cult via the old video tape, they step up to the plate and at least try to take down the perpetrators. When Geraci was shown the same tape he tries to avoid blame and wants nothing to do with it, which is a sharp contrast to the responsibility our two protagonists take upon themselves.
9	* Cary Joji Fukunaga called the villain of the first season the Beast in the Tall Grass. Ladoux is conspicuously introduced striding through a field of tall grass, but Errol Childress, who is eventually revealed to be the real Beast, is introduced while mowing an overgrown lawn.
10	* After killing Childress, Cohle pulls the knife out of his abdomen, an action than any medic will tell you will make the injury even worse. However Cohle would know better and he confided in Hart that he felt he was ready to finally "tie things off" after finishing the case.
11	* While his alcoholism is most certainly not an act, Cohle's drinking does give him plausible deniability when discussing details of his former case with the detectives investigating the recurring murders. As he says to them at one point (while holding up a can of beer) "You'll have to excuse me if I've forgotten some things in the interim."
12	* When Cole visits the Light of the Way Academy in 1995, he encounters Errol Childress, later to be revealed as the final villain of the season. The sign at the entrance begins "School Closed Until Further Notice; God Is Working..."; as Cohle leaves, the camera pans around another post so that the edge of the sign reads "Notice King".
13	* Much like in [[Literature/TheKingInYellow the stories this season references]], the color yellow is used as [[LightIsNotGood indication of moral decay or of "something rotten" occurring]] in an intentional effort to nauseate the viewer. In some scenes, like the intentionally grotesque sex scene between Rust and Marty's wife, the entire scene has a vaguely yellow tint. Also used when Errol is [[FridgeHorror painting a building yellow]], around several playing children... Fitting, since the color yellow, amongst other things, can symbolize disease, rot, and decadence.
14	* When Rust talks Hart through the evidence in his storage locker in episode 7, he notes that there are twice as many missing persons along the Bayous as inland. He even suggests someone should do a study. When the Yellow King is revealed at the end of the episode he notes that he knows the whole coast very well, since "his family" has been there "a very long time".
15	* In Episode 3 Rust is shown and he states he is a very good interrogator. That he "Knew in ten minutes if they did it". When he meets Errol Childress in 1995 he notably doesn't get a long enough time alone for a conversation before being interrupted. Missing a moment for Errol to be pinned earlier.
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17	!Season 2
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19	* Velcoro is dismissively compared to 70s-80s TV detectives, such as Columbo and Rockford. Except those detectives are people constantly seen as harmless by the more powerful bad guys, showing that Velcoro will surprise his opponents.
20	* In the opening credit sequence, one of the dreamy images is the head of Taylor Kitsch superimposed over a brightly lit shop a night, creating the image of a visor over his eyes. An image thst becomes much nastier by episode two, once you know that the dumped body was missing his eyes.
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22	!Season 4
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26	* Why is Danvers so furious when Leah tries marking her face with the traditional Iñupiak marks? It doesn't really make sense at first glance. She could just be overprotective, which makes sense given the death of her son, but that would be a weird hill to die on for someone who had married a Native man. By the same token it wouldn't make sense for her to be a bigot. Much likelier is that it's about ''Danvers's guilty conscience'': Leah's Native identity and emerging activism is a reminder that she's chief of police in a town controlled by an EvilCorporation that's poisoning the water supply. And not only does that compromise her professionally, it compromises her ''personally'', since she married into an Iñupiak family.
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