As with many mysteries, the evidence was right under our noses: Matthew McConaughey is funny. There’s another reason that the show has invited parody. “It’s dark, it’s sexy, it has a yellow king.” Yet you can tell that it comes from a place of fondness: “Now look, I love this show,” the narrator tells us.
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Is it a metaphor, a reference to a mythical pagan spirit, or a clue about the identity of the real killer, who may even be hiding in plain sight? The video posits another theory: “I think the Yellow King might be this big yellow man dressed as a king who we’ve seen several times throughout the series.” This inspired goof was created by Big Meeting, a group that identifies itself as “David Sidorov, Rachel Wenitsky, and over 100,000 other people.” It nails all the nuances of TV nerddom-the attention to detail, the smugness of a fan who’s convinced that he’s found a new clue, and the nervous, almost apologetic way in which people evangelize about the shows they love: “Now, bear with me, I know this is not a popular theory…” And, by disrupting the high-quality visuals with the presence of this lo-fi, schlumpy king, the video manages to deflate the show’s pretensions, too. Much better is another video, called “True Detective Yellow King Theory,” which skewers the exacting and eager viewers who have taken to online forums like Reddit to parse the show’s intricacies and to formulate theories about what they mean.Īmong the show’s mysteries is the identity of the so-called Yellow King.
(A good, succinct review of the video, from a commenter of YouTube: “This would be funny if the characters on ‘True Detective’ were hard to understand.”) Joel McHale, the star of the comedy show “The Soup,” released a short this week that mocks the show’s portentous dialogue by fixating, rather oddly and not especially sharply, on its characters’ accents. With its singular style and cultural resonance, “True Detective” has inspired visual parody, as well. Life is grim and odd and confusing-perhaps Rust and Marty can help make sense of it. On Twitter this week, ahead of the finale, the show has started to cast its eerie shadow on knowing discussions of daily mysteries, from a gruesome decapitated goat head found in Prospect Park to the disputed identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Or it may just be further evidence that people can use the Internet to make anything into a joke. Perhaps it is a nervous response to the show’s swampy, shifting moral landscape, which lacks clear lines between good and evil. Maybe we feel compelled to giggle at what we don’t understand, or what we don’t want to think about too closely-a reflexive response to being drawn in by a story that turns on murder, conspiracy, and sexual exploitation, notably of children. (The best, paraphrasing one of Rust’s more outrageous crime-scene pronouncements, reads “Your body is a paraphilic lovemap.”) Last month, people started making “True Detective” Valentine’s Day cards.
(Could the show tell us something about the Comcast merger?) Someone pointed out that McConaughey and Harrelson’s previous appearances together onscreen were evidence that, just as Rust claims, “time is a flat circle,” dooming us to repeat ourselves. A tattoo on a murder victim looked a lot like the Time Warner Cable symbol. Something about it just makes us want to laugh. For such a thoroughgoing downer, “True Detective” has nonetheless moved both fans and detractors online to respond with humor.
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