Shout Out / True Detective

Season 1

• In the same scene, he begins mumbling something incoherent about the Eternal Recurrence and Rust identifies it as Nietzsche, and tells him to shut up.
• Errol Childress watches North By Northwest.
• Several concepts (The Yellow King, Carcosa etc.) are named in homage to The King in Yellow.
• Cohle's line "L'Chaim, Fatass." is reference to a line uttered to The Kingpin by his former consigliere as last words in an issue of Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis.
• The Tuttle family name is a hint that they're all in this together. "All in this together" is a line from Brazil, as is the surname Tuttle.
• This◊ shot of Maggie sleeping in her bed is suspiciously similar to the memorable opening shot◊ of Lost in Translation.
• A Serial Killer keeps his mummified dad around, who used to be an Abusive Parent, just like Norman Bates does in Psycho''.
• Rust's final speech in the season, looking at the night sky, is taken almost word-for-word from Alan Moore's Top 10.

Season 2

• For his visit to Chad in the mall, Ray picks up a MSN-03 Jagd Doga mobile suit model kit from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack,
• Velcoro admits he isn't exactly Columbo. Frank later asks if he's supposed to wait for Velcoro to pull a "Rockford," referring to The Rockford Files.
• There's a scene that takes place under a big ol' billboard for American Sniper.
• Frank Semyon's plot to surreptitiously buy up land in order to profit when it is later bought by the government is a common one in Los Angeles noir stories, appearing in both Chinatown and L.A. Noire.
• Velcoro's near-death experience has overtones of David Lynch, particularly Twin Peaks.
• Woodrugh's fiancee and mother watch Splendor in the Grass in their motel room.
• The subplot of a robbery having an effect on the main plot is similar to that of Blood's a Rover.

Season 4

• In one of Annie Kowtok's pictures, she is wearing an Ariana Grande shirt. Apparently Leah used to be obsessed with her, and this gives Danvers an idea of how old the picture is.
• One of the researchers at Tsalal is reading Blood Meridian.
• In episode 3, Hank Prior threatens to accuse Danvers of pulling a "Mrs. Robinson" on his son Peter.
• The polar research station is called Tsalal, the Eldritch Location from Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
• Per Issa Lopez, the subplot with the severed tongue is a reference to the movie Audition.

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