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What Is True Detective Trying to Tell Us This Week?
Do the spiral symbols, missing eyes, and Rust Cohle’s dad add up to something meaningful or just spooky vibes?
Like, I’m out here investigating vague allusions and spooky imagery by rewatching old episodes of True Detective, reading James Joyce, and trying to figure out if that one-eyed polar bear spotted by trooper Evangeline Navarro could somehow be connected to the Dharma Initiative. For those whose memories of the spiral are a little fuzzy: This iconography played a major role in season one, appearing first on Dora Lange, a 1995 victim of the so-called Yellow King killer, and functioning as a marker of those connected to the Tuttles’ twisted religious, pedophile cult. This is a John Hughes movie about a kid who takes a sick day — in his upper-class, suburban-Chicago, 1980s way, he goes “missing” — and whose absence is so immediately felt that some of his classmates start a fundraiser and Wrigley Field posts a “Save Ferris” PSA in his honor.
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