The man’s a bundle of nerves and the situation hasn’t improved with time. The haunted house of the title would seem to be Hart’s house, or rather, Hart himself. That seduction and her firmly calculated revelation of it to Hart at last illuminates the implied rift between the former partners, retroactively planting an “ah-ha!” into every tense scene in which 2012 Hart is asked to revisit anything relating to Cohle. None of this is lost on Maggie and her attraction to Cohle’s contrasting integrity leads to her decision to seduce him in his apartment (amidst -ack! -those grisly crime scene photos). ![]() Through her lens -underscored by Hart’s own actions in this episode -we realize that Hart’s fundamental fault is that of being a man with no moral compass: he grabs a drink because he feels emasculated by carrying a bag of tampons, he enters a new affair with a woman whose age split is substantially wider than the one between his daughter and the two young men with whom she was caught in “various states of undress” (and whose vulnerabilities he’s fully aware of), and he fails to advocate on behalf of the partner whose demonstrably precise, if unorthodox investigations have begun to rub their higher-ups the wrong way. Maggie’s interrogation by the two cops in 2012, interlaced with her coming to grips with Hart’s (ongoing) infidelity, is a fool’s errand for the interrogators but a trove of revealing details for the viewer. The trigger that fires this episode’s pistol is Hart entering an affair with a shockingly young woman named Beth, whom he met when she was shockingly younger (and possibly working as a prostitute) while investigating the Lang murder in 1995. The interior life of Hart is the real grist for True Detective‘s mill, while the fascinating façade of Cohle peels away to reveal an observer, a man too focused on what he seeks to be in conflict. ![]() And so, per creator and showrunner Nic Pizzolatto, last night’s “Haunted Houses” brings us to the end of True Detective‘s second act with the fruitless interrogation of Maggie Hart, the only-slightly-less fruitless ongoing investigation of 2002 Rust Cohle, two terribly inappropriate and terribly hot sex scenes, and (drum roll) the meeting of 2012 Cohle and Hart, with a force that feels tidal after nearly six hours of wind-up.Īs I predicted in last week’s recap, matters turned inward, or interpersonal at least, and Hart (along with his wife) became our focus.
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