It's about bloody time someone took on the critics who dump on the show simply because they *can't follow the dialogue*. As one of the detectives questioning Rust Cohle, totally incomprehending after hearing another of his philosophical monologues replies to it, "That's above my pay grade." The series these critics are dumping on is above their pay grade. The philosophy expressed in "True Dectective" is, from my point of view, largely lucid, *possibly* a little overwritten (except that's *exactly* how stuck-in-their-heads philosophers think and talk) and sounds at times not unlike a kinda depressed Advaita.
I'm just passing along the article for those who are watching the series, and will ignore any commentary from those who *aren't*, and who think that they're able to comment *anyway*, just because they've read a review or two, or just this article. Such people aren't worth paying any attention to...they're a lot, in fact, like the critics being criticized, who once read a passage or two from Neitzsche and think that enabled them to pigeonhole his philosophy. What these people who get their buttons pushed by Rust's atheism and obviously cynical view of life fail to realize is that he is the only character in the series who actually *acts ethically*, and who carries on trying to do the right thing. He knows (or believes he knows) that nothing he can or will do will make a grain of difference in the larger cosmic scheme of things, but he does the right thing *anyway*, because it matters. This is a kind of philosophy that the talk-the-talk-but-never-walk-the-walk-ers can't conceive of, and that both challenges them and pisses them off. http://www.thepointmag.com/2014/culture/doubters http://www.thepointmag.com/2014/culture/doubters
