While the original True Detective is certainly no slouch when it comes to embedding potent symbolism meant for scrutinizing, then ultimately forgetting about, it’s nothing compared to the below DVD bootleg cover—a cover that is exploding, metaphorically and literally, with deeper meaning, making flowers all over your mind. Also, bursting with “Amazing Perform, Full Frontal Action,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times, whose decades of reporting have more than earned the public’s trust that it knows full-frontal action when it sees it.
Some salient clues, as uncovered by the Reddit community that posted it, and what they might mean:
– Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are seen against the backdrop of Las Vegas, with its telltale replica Eiffel Tower and Sphinx in the background. Las Vegas is known as Sin City, as in the sins of the past that constantly revisit them—and us all. It’s a city of artifice and illusion, like the familiar constructs that only hide man’s true evil.
– It’s also definitely not in Louisiana, where the show supposedly takes place. But then again, what if it is? What if the entire first season of True Detective took place not in Louisiana, but a Las Vegas-created illusion of Louisiana? Maybe it was just a dream you had inside a locked Vegas hotel room. And like a lot of dreams, there’s a buffet at the end of it.