Ending a season is highly challenging for any series let alone an anthology series. All questions must be answered, characters must be given a proper send-off, and all story-lines have to be wrapped up. Leaving any loose ends will anger and confuse viewers. Just look at any message board for Lost and Dexter. Fans of HBOs True Detective can safely say its finale was perfect, if not, then damn near it. The Carcosa showdown is one of the most heart-racing and tense moments in any television show ever. The final conversation between lead characters, Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart was the best ending to the standalone season Nic Pizzolatto - the series creator - could have written. But perfection is a hard rank to achieve: anyone left disappointed should have listened to Pizzolatto before jumping to conclusions. True Detective was always the story of two very different men joining forces to solve a simple manhunt - nothing more and nothing less. Anyone expecting a shocking twist or a deeply complex climax were setting themselves up for disappointment. Now dont get me wrong, the finale was great, but a few changes or additions could have improved it further. Warning: Major Spoilers
5. Answers
As stated previously, not all questions were answered: in fact many were left as open as an unsolved case. The biggest questions surrounding the cult were either unanswered or left with vague answers. Why did Sam Tuttle worship the Yellow King and begin his cult? How did he come to learn of it in the deep backwoods of Louisiana? Was Sam Tuttle himself the Yellow King or was it someone or something else? Why did the cult display their victims to the world? What was their reasoning behind killing women and children? Was Errol Childress the only killer or were there more? Was the cult using the Yellow King story to hide their fascination with raping and killing children? Or was their an actual ulterior motive behind their rituals? Like cleansing the town of sin? The portal Rust saw, was it real or just another hallucination? Why were we led to believe Martys daughter was a part of the cult? What really happened with Rusts daughters death? Why was Maggie so suspicious around Cohle and the investigation? What did Reggie Ledoux mean by seeing Rust in his dreams? Why was Rust called a priest by Errol? Pizzolatto built up too many unresolved plot-points, red herrings, and useless hints that it left us feeling confused.
