Welcome to the world we deserve, the officially unofficial podcast for True Detective on

HBO, I'm Jim.

I'm Iran.

And today we're talking season 4 episode 3, Night Country Part 3, we just finished watching it. A. Ron, how you feeling halfway through the season?

You look very much like 40-year-old dad, Harry Potter, with those glasses on.

There's some Tim glasses while I get my lenses replaced on my actual glasses.

You look like the prologue Harry Potter from the 8th movie man.

Oh God, oh God. He looks looks he looks like epilogue Potter man he just needs a lightning bolt scar on his head.

I don't get the references. I know that's what's so funny about it uh I feel like team rationale is taking it on the

chin this week man yeah yeah yeah is a big old spook show it's turning into I'm not mad about it but yeah like the the

thing that you got to cling to I guess is Evangeline just been just been drinking gallons of that black water.

Yeah, and she's just full through the gills crazy juice.

Yep, got water on the brain.

Yeah, I can only hope.

Otherwise...

Yeah.

I don't know.

I mean, they're using...

So here's the thing that I've noticed about the season is they're using traditional horror storytelling methods to find their way through this case and

whether it turns out to be like actual horror or whether it turns out to be just kind of you know

grim stuff like true detective typically is we'll see I guess in the fullness of the season but yeah I definitely like when a dead guy sits up and says your mother has talked to me and she really wants you to come be dead with her that's a good indicator that something spooky is going on.

And granted he's not dead. I think the thing that really got me is him using her taxpayer

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