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"  Now that the first season of True Detective is officially over, it&amp;#039;s time to over-analyze the finale. As with every episode prior, &amp;quot;Form and Void&amp;quot; gave fans plenty to ponder, so let&amp;#039;s get right to it. Plenty of spoilers ahead. Who was the Yellow King? We speculated that the Yellow King was Maggie&amp;#039;s father, but we were wrong. At least it seems we were. In fact, we never actually learned exactly who or what the Yellow King was during the finale. It could be the killer \u2014 Errol Childress \u2014 but it could also be Tuttle. It could even be no one. It could simply be a legend forwarded by the followers or participants in the Tuttle-led cult. It was a little shortsighted of Nic Pizzolatto to have the Yellow King mentioned so many times throughout the show and then not provide at least a little explanation of who/what it was during the finale. Did the Internet set the finale up for failure? Never has a show been analyzed so much, so quickly. Everywhere you looked, there were theories about True Detective that ranged from &amp;quot;Huh, that is interesting&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Let me take some psychedelics and re-read that.&amp;quot; That was a good thing for conspiracy theorists, but it was a bad thing for the finale. The final episode didn&amp;#039;t explain why Audrey was so sexualized. It didn&amp;#039;t explain the significance of the missing person billboards or have some sort of tie-in to the Vietnam War. That&amp;#039;s okay, because it was never supposed to. As Pizzolatto once explained, &amp;quot;The show&amp;#039;s not trying to outsmart you.&amp;quot; True Detective generated a ton of speculation without trying to. Some of that is Pizzolatto&amp;#039;s fault (if you don&amp;#039;t want people thinking of the supernatural, perhaps don&amp;#039;t include supernatural imagery), but most of it is ours. We cranked out so many ideas on the show that the finale was suffocated before it even had a chance to breathe.  Bob the bar owner sure came in handy, didn&amp;#039;t he? We still have no idea how the bar where Rust works kept its doors open with absolutely zero customers, but we do know that its owner \u2014 Bob \u2014 was a badass. If you ever find yourself in need of some intimidation, it helps to have a boss who happens to be a former sniper. Are Rust and Marty going to live together now?  Marty stays with Rust as he heals at the hospital and tells Rust that his living situation has been &amp;quot;taken care of.&amp;quot; We hope that means these two are now roommates, because that&amp;#039;d be one interesting household. Come for the sixers of Lone Stars, stay for Rust&amp;#039;s thoughts on Scandal. Was the finale satisfying? In the end, Rust and Marty got their man \u2014 the suitably creepy Errol &amp;quot;The Spaghetti Monster&amp;quot; Childress. They each also found some sort of peace with themselves. For such a grim show, it was surprising to see it end with the nihilist Rust telling Marty that he was wrong about the darkness of the world, that in fact, &amp;quot;The light&amp;#039;s winning.&amp;quot; Yet it felt right. True Detective was a show about how two men dealt with evil that will always be. Rust and Marty ended things by taking down Childress, but as we learned from the TV reporter, the Tuttle clan and others connected to the cult won&amp;#039;t be facing any consequences. That ties in nicely to the most famous line from the series \u2014 Rust explaining that &amp;quot;Time is a flat circle.&amp;quot; For every Childress that gets dealt with, there will always be Tuttles. The light is definitely winning, but it&amp;#039;s still got a long way to go before claiming victory. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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