True Detective Season 2: 10 Rumours You Need To Know
9. Expect More Spooky Stuff
Speaking of spooky stuff, the grapevine reports that we can reliably expect more of that in True Detective's second season. A lot more, in fact. Many fans latched onto the occult references in the first batch of episodes, with winks and nods to the cosmic Cthulhuian horror of literary racist HP Lovecraft and one of his own influences, Ambrose Bierce, and his short story An Inhabitant of Carcosa. The murdery-mystery Rust and Marty were digging into the first time around specifically drew on Robert W Chamber's The King in Yellow, a classic piece of supernatural meta-fiction. And all of that was drawn together by Thomas Ligotti's Conspiracy Against The Human Race, a piece of pessimistic philosophy which compares real-life existence to the futility of those in horror fiction. Phew. Right now we're not sure what the reading list for Nic Pizzolatto's second batch of scripts will be, but we do know the spooky stuff will be making some sort of a return. Early reports have the writer talking up the secret occult history of the United States transportation system as a principal element, adding I need to keep being strange. Here's hoping the supernatural elements continue to exist more as atmospheric window dressing than overwhelming the proceedings, with an underlying spookiness bolstering the actual human drama. Although the transportation system does sound pretty scary...
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