Today I am spending the day curled up and wallowing in the pain my body has chosen to inflict with this period from hell. 44 day long cycles are not a blessing. They come back with a vengeance that wakes you up at night begging for Motrin and your heating pad. I’m currently numbing my brain with the 2nd episode of True Detective, Seeing Things.

Summary

In this episode, the boss tells Hart and Cohle that they better get results on the Lange case or it will be reassigned to a task force. They follow leads to a sex worker village and an old church. We also find out about Hart’s mistress.

My Observations

In a flashback to 1995, Cohle and Hart visit Dora Lang’s mother to tell her about her daughter and interview her as well. She’s a bit of an odd duck with pieces of religious icons and pictures of hangings mixed into her hoarder house. I didn’t notice any photos of her daughter though. During the interview, Mrs Lange gets defensive when asked about her husband. “What have you heard. Why shouldn’t a father bathe is child?” Makes me wonder how old the child being bathed was and if she mentioned anything to friends in order to start the “rumors.” Of course Hart and Cohle don’t explore those questions because this isn’t SVU.

Later in the episode, Hart and Cohle visit a bunny ranch trailer park where Dora had stayed at one point. I’m not sure if stayed or worked is the correct word for a mobile home brothel. They interview a young teen who was friends with her. Hart is greatly offended by her age. Both the madam and Cohle call him on his hypocritical bullshit. The madam points out that the only reason Hart is offended is because the girl has taken control of her body from the men in her life. And Hart is a massive control freak. He wants his wife to create a place of peace for him to come home to, and he wants his mistress to only be with him, even though he’s married. The Cohle asks if the money Hart gave the young prostitute, Beth, was a down payment, seeing as Hart’s sense of family includes “getting his head right” before going home. Pretty sure it just means getting head, but maybe I misunderstand PIG language.

In the final scenes, Hart and Cohle discover an old burnt out church. If the fire happened a while ago, how had Dora been attending church there. Like how messed up is your life that you think a religious cult in a burnt out shell of a church is “getting your life together.” Cohle’s drug flashbacks seem to cause him to see birds flying in the exact formation of Dora’s tattoo. Then inside the sketch of her wearing antlers on the wall behind ivy confirms they’re in the right place.

I swear each episode ends on a cliffhanger. It definitely makes me analyze what I saw and question what’s next.