True Detective (TV Series) After You've Gone (2014) User Reviews

Penultimatum Has To Reveal The Tip.

[nairtejas · 9/10 · 5 March 2014]

Of the iceberg, that is. And the iceberg will follow in the season finale and boy, will that blow my mind! I'm sure it will.

Because, what True Detective has given us is a potpourri of dark images all with different views to life, death & everything between them. After last week's happy ending when Rust & Marty get together for a beer, the story maneuvers to reveal something Rust was always onto. He shares his story & we are brought into the present time: what the characters ARE at the present. Few questions are answered in this episode and we finally get to see what Rust has been up to. The climax was gob-smacking.

I cannot wait for the finale because so many questions are going to be answered. As the familial/personal ties have all been answered, the main genre i.e. crime, of 2014's best show (yet) is about to break loose.

BOTTOM LINE: You have 3 more days to binge-watch if you have not been following the series, because this is 8 episodes of total thrill we are talking about.

Very intriguing and scary

[jasperan · 8/10 · 5 July 2018]

I found particularly interesting the conversation with one of the maids of the Ledoux family back in '95. The reaction after seeing the drawings of Carcosa made clear that she knew what was happening. That's why she got so scared and nervous.

Another Excellent Episode

[ahmxii · 10/10 · 29 November 2021]

Rust & Marty get together for a beer, the story maneuvers to reveal something Rust was always onto. He shares his story & we are brought into the present time: what the characters ARE at the present. Few questions are answered in this episode and we finally get to see what Rust has been up to. The climax was gob-smacking.

True Detectives is not predictable...that's what makes it a great show!

1x07

[formotog · 8/10 · 2 September 2020]

Another excellent episode which has very nicely opened the way for the finale. That chilling ending was no less goosebump inducing than the first time I watched it. In fact, probably more so now that I'm not as dumb as I was when I first watched. That man that nobody paid any mind. The detective's curse, which was talked about earlier on in the season but certainly not about this. The camera pan to reveal his scarred lower face was majestic. It was nice seeing a somewhat new dynamic between Rust and Marty. It seems like between 2002-2010, Rust just gave in entirely to his programming. In a way he's more mature in 2012 than he was at any point before, like he's accepted that this is the hand he's been dealt and he'll have to make do. Marty, in a rather sad scene is shown to be a loner with basically no life, but it's hard to feel sorry for the guy. Rust doesn't have much of a life either, outside of his rather obsessive private investigative work. Speaking of which, THAT scene was haunting. I like the fact that it didn't show much of what was happening on that tape because that accentuates the horror of it. However bad it is is however dark our imagination can go. Scary thought. The whole conspiracy has been expertly written throughout, and the kind of supernatural element to it is definitely present. Like the old woman who seemed to go mad at the mere mention of Carcosa. She mentions "him who eats time", and Rust at one point notes while driving that "nothing grows in the right direction". A previous mention of growth is his time and death analogy, meaning that it's like this place is immune to time. These monsters have terrorised a great number of people over a great number of years, and the show captures that perfectly

High 8

Quiet Before the Storm

[crittiebee · 8/10 · 3 March 2014]

Last night's episode,"After You've Gone" in my opinion, was more a laid back attitude. I wanted to see more aggressiveness. The best fire for me was when Cole told Maggie to leave the bar. Proud of you Cole.

I was surprised the viewers could not see the picture Cole showed Marty of the ritual. We can take it. I really thought it was a picture of Marty's daughter, especially because of the tiara she threw in the tree.

I hope this last episode is a continuation to a next season thriller. To tie this "Yellow King" finale is one more episode..no way. You gotta leave room for a sequel.

We know the interrogating officers (Potts and Kittles) were not apart of a conspiracy because they did not recognize the scarred face man on the riding lawn mower.

I predict the Pastor (Joel)Theriot maybe the Yellow King. The again Marty will not surprise me if he is a part of the conspiracy, especially when he went bide farewell to Maggie. Did he know Cole was getting close? Then again Cole may know it is Marty and playing him.

True Detectives is not predictable...that's what make it a great show!

Beware Carcossa!

[lavatch · 7/10 · 9 January 2018]

In this lead-up to the final episode, Hart and Chole now collaborate as civilians in investigating the satanic murders. Both have resigned form the force. When Chole reveals the evidence he has collected, Hart now knows that the (a) Tuttle was a psychotic criminal while running his Wellspring institute and (b) the scarred man is still on the loose. The evidence now points to the Shepherds' Flock school that eventually became the "Light of the Way" academy on Pelican Island. The students include such victims as Marie Fontenot and Rhiane.

After discovering eyewitness testimony from former student Toby Boelert, Chole makes the connection with Tuttle and the satanic murders. While Tuttle is now deceased under suspicious circumstances, Chole burglarized his homes to discover incriminating evidence. Chole and Hart link the strange imagery of the antlers from the photos to masks related to the Courin de Mardi Gras and acts of saturnalia.

From a longstanding Tuttle housekeeper, Miss Delores, the detectives learn that Tuttle has sired children from multiple women and that one of his grandsons had scars on his face. Miss Delores becomes agitated when recalling the strange patterns of images shown to her by Chole. She cries out, "Carcosa--Him Who Eats Time." We are now coming full circle with Nietzsche's view of time and "m-brane" theory, wherein time is an eternal entity of circular time existing outside of the fourth dimension.

The detectives are getting closer to truth as they investigate one of their own--a corrupt cop, Steve Geraci, who is now a sheriff. Geracy took the original deposition in the Marie Fontenot case, and Ted Childress was the sheriff who knew the Fontenot family. Maggie pays a surprise visit to Chole, and he rudely sends her away, admonishing her for having "asked me to lie to you about him," namely, his partner Hart.

The noose is beginning to tighten around those public officials who have concealed and covered up the truth. The investigators who have been grilling Hart and Chole unwittingly ask directions from the kind man who mows lawns around the old Tuttle empire. And the lawnmower has scars on his face.

only the future now !

[AvionPrince16 · 7/10 · 16 January 2024]

So the episode is more focused on the future .

Marty and Rusty get to work together after all this time . We get to know what happen to them : Rusty still lonely and working to the case . We see that Marty get separated of Maggie and we know that they still talk together despite the problems.

We had also an interesting confrontation between Rusty and Maggie after all these years . So yeah the investigations still continue and we followed it with interest until the end .

The tape with the people disguised in animals was scary and give a particuliar ambience . I enjoyed it anyway and ready for the final episode.

Get on out of here, you're classin' the place up.

[bombersflyup · 7/10 · 25 August 2019]

After You've Gone is merely a set up episode and the weakest in comparison. Rust and Marty catch up with one another and look to finish the case that has been dead and buried, which Rust has been personally looking into to. It's fine and all, but nothing too memorable. I do like the song playing into the credits.