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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was disappointed.  Too many loose ends and inconsistencies.  I don't need them all answered, and can accept some unanswered questions, but it's frustrating the show spent seven episodes setting up all the hard questions and intrigue, only to have Hart & Cohle say in episode eight, "Ahh, screw it, it was just some nutter in the woods and now we got him."

Whatever happened to Cohle's obsession with continuing the search even after Reggie LeDoux's death?  What was the connection between LeDoux and Childress?  Are neither of them at all curious about why the Tuttle's housekeeper freaked out about Carcosa?  And who was powerful enough to convince the robber in prison to commit suicide after he'd mentioned Carcosa to Cohle?  What are the bird-traps stick figures for?  Why do Hart & Cohle suddenly not care about who is on the videotape that's been making everyone who watches it cry out in terror?  Who on the police force was changing all the missing persons reports to "reported in error" for 20+ years?

It's almost as if HBO told them they need to wrap it up in one episode, when they originally though they'd have three more episodes to unwind the questions.  Feels very forced.[/quote]

I loved the show and the character studies, but ITA. I know it's not supposed to be the typical cop show, wrapping everything up with a bow, but still.

This cult did everything secretly but it (or some rogue member) publicly displayed two of its victims. Why? And why the two adult women when clearly most of the victims were kids? [/quote]

Agree, a bunch of these were answered.  The connection between LeDoux and Childress definitely was (Childress talked about Ledoux being a disciple or acolyte or something).  Re the connections to Tuttle and the maid, etc., I think they are leaving some of that unsolved on purpose to follow up on later.  And it was clearly one of Tuttle's people in the tape with the girl or it wouldn't have been in Tuttle's house.  But that stuff is all kind of unresolved (as Marty and Russ acknowledged at the end).[/quote]

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