True Detective - 3x04 "The Hour and the Day" - Post-Episode Discussion

[u/NicholasCajun]

Season 3 Episode 4: The Hour and the Day

Aired: January 27, 2019

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Synopsis: Hays and West see a possible connection between the local church and the Purcell crimes. As the detectives search for one suspect and round up another one for interrogation, Woodard finds himself targeted by a vigilante group.

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Directed by: Nic Pizzolatto

Written by: David Milch & Nic Pizzolatto

[u/thanooooooooooos]

Looks like Trash Man...

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...took out the garbage.

[u/In_My_Own_Image]

"How you gonna wear that badge?"

"There's a little clip on it."

That got a good laugh from me.

This season has really sucked me in. I've got a bunch of theories rattling around for this story. And the performances are all top notch. Scoot McNairy is really killing it in his role.

[u/onken022]

Hays’ son is definitely banging the blonde director. He was a little off when his dad brought her up and it focused on two wine glasses next to her bed when he was in her room.

It’s probably not super consequential but I think it’s what’s happening.

[u/[deleted]]

Trash man guy gave me serious Troy Polamalu vibes when he was running from that mob

[u/BrahbertFrost]

Did it strike anyone else as weird how many times Elisa asked "Wayne, are you investigating?" felt very dream-like to me

[u/novanationer98]

Trashman's got one hell of a 40 time

[u/ChiefJustiseWinslow]

The one guy in the suit among the vietcong is going to a serious clue in a few weeks.

[u/[deleted]]

Roland ends up marrying that church girl because there's a picture of her on his desk in the 90s

[u/Jas_God]

“Or I’ma start crying.”

Damn that unexpectedly hit hard.

[u/TR0YbuttsoupBarnes]

"It's got a little clip on it." Certainly the most comical episode this season!

[u/ScarySpicer2020]

Happy 18th birthday! Some of the guys pitched in and got you life imprisonment

[u/hodorito]

When no one is answering your questions you gotta ask your hallucinations for help. That scene was real creepy.

[u/VegeLasagna123]

Brb gonna start an argument with Carmen Ejogo

[u/Dragonlvr420]

“So prison rape is your go to thing now?” This killed me because that’s exactly what I was thinking before that line

[u/[deleted]]

Said this before but I found it really suspicious that Amelia completely avoided the question when Hays asked about her family.

[u/IcyColdHands]

I like how well they work with the FBI guys. Non of that power struggle shit you always see on police shows and movies... because those two guys are FBI right? Not really sure tbh

[u/NaisaDuck]

I was one of the Vietcong extras, AMA

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/aAs6ZfP.jpg

[u/JG00G]

We're about to learn a lot about the 90s. If Hays is more horrified about what went down in '90 more so than '80.... oh boyyyyy

[u/RightHandArmMan]

Hays and Roland talking about "how quick this town died" is a major clue. The only thing that would really kill the town is if its #1 employer (Hoyt) goes out of business....

[u/[deleted]]

I love the way the first date foreshadows Wayne and Amelia's later relationship - the only thing they really have to talk about is the case. They're such a perfectly bad match for each other. You can tell Hays doesn't really know how to talk to women at all beyond charisma and flattery - he's unprepared for a real relationship from the beginning. He knows it, but he's infatuated.

Hays holding back tears in the car - what an amazing piece of acting. And the way he empathizes with the trailer park residents' hatred for the police was done perfectly - he has a job to do, but he's also black, and he gets it.

West was hilarious this episode - "God is love, brother. God is love" - but we're also starting to see his empathy, and why Purcell is so grateful for his help.

Much was made of "I have the soul of a whore" in the early reviews but in the context of the show it makes total sense for Lucy to say that - she's already been established as a very dramatic person, and she's clearly already been drinking when Amelia comes over. She repeats it twice in the conversation like she's beating herself in the head with it - she's clearly been obsessing over the idea of having the "soul of a whore" for a while. Her reaction to the plate was so real, too.

The "gray" sedan stunned me - that's a brown sedan and we all know it. The man who kidnapped the kids may be still alive.

And god that cliffhanger was agonizing. Fuck, I can't wait a whole week for this!

[u/VegeLasagna123]

Stephen Dorff going for the Dion Waiters Heat Check Award!

[u/spunkyweazle]

I have the biggest set of blue balls known to man. Literally yelled "oh what the fuck!" when the credits rolled

[u/jrat31]

So 90's Roland limping out of the office gets fucked up and aquires said limp in the last scene of tonites episode right?

[u/VictorBlimpmuscle]

“Nothing else about his face but his eye? Was he handsome? Ugly?”

“Well, like I said...he was black.”

If eye rolls had subtitles, Hays’ response to that would have said “bitch please”.

[u/SolumDon]

I love the dynamic between Wayne and Roland. As great as season 1 was, it's just as nice to have a couple of protagonists who are, aside from Wayne's military service, not particularly remarkable, and are good friends who work well together. Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff are just killing it.