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On last night’s True Detective, Rust Cohle began to tie up some of the show’s many loose ends. He implicated some people in the Dora Kelly Lange case and, more important, decoded the purported serial killers' fondness for off-beat headwear. As it turns out, the show’s recurring motifs — blindfolds, macabre animal masks, and those dreaded antlers — are actually peripherally related to bona fide traditions in rural Cajun culture. Are you ready for a sociology lesson? Let’s begin!As Cohle explains, the Tuttles come from a small township near Erath (a real town in southern Louisiana with a recorded population of 2,187) which "had a very rural sense of Mardi Gras, you know, the men on horses, animal masks and such." Marty knows what he's talking about; the tradition of which he speaks is called Courir de Mardi Gras. We then see two photos from the area's winter...

A sect of prehistoric Plains tribes traveling through North America sometimes wore wood-fashioned, antlered masks that lacked eye and mouth holes. Experts believe the disguise may have accessorized some kind of cultish deer worship. Not to say those natives were offering up innocents to voodoo deities, but the men who mutilated Dora Kelly Lange and Rianne Olivier — and most likely took Marie Fontenot, Stacy Gerhart, catatonic Kelly, Terry Guidry’s son, and maybe even Robert Doumain’s boy in 1985 (among others) — definitely relish what Rust deems a “rural sense of Mardi Gras.”As Marty observed on that videotape in Rust’s storage space, the annual winter festival held by the Tuttles/Childresses/et al. happens far afield from Bourbon Street, replete with animal costumes, hooded men on horseback, the requisite antlers and, most reprehensibly, rape and pedophilia. It’s a rite they’ve practiced for a long time, as the...

Check back every week following Sunday night's airing of True Detective for an episode rundown/ review. Here's this week's- but beware- Spoilers ahead. Episode Synopsis: After discovering a mysterious painting that resembles the state of Dora Kelly Lange's body in a burnt-out church, Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Hart (Woody Harrelson) try to use this new lead before a government task force takes over the investigation. Review: After the relatively quick-paced second...

Check back every week following Sunday night's airing of True Detective for an episode rundown/ review. Here's this week's- but beware- Spoilers ahead. Episode summary: More of Cohle's (Matthew McConaughey) tragic past is revealed as his investigation with Hart (Woody Harrelson) heats up. The two pursue leads which take them from a backwoods bordello to a burned out church that may hold an important clue to the ritual killing of Dora Kelly Lange. Review: Following its...

In the series premiere of HBO's latest crime drama, True Detective, Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) are brought in to "go over" their investigation of the 1995 murder of Dora Kelly Lange. However, the pair become leery when the questions start to focus more on their former partners rather than the case itself.

True Detective is told through Hart and Cohle's versions of the investigation, and the story goes back and forth between the 1995 investigation and the 2012 re-investigation. The two are part of the Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigation Division.

Take no prisoners mother-and-daughter duo Joan and Melissa Rivers dish with Brit Rob Shuter on HDNet's "Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter." Nice list includes Nicole Kidman, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, and the Naughty list includes Tommy Lee Jones, who gave local Los Angeles reporter Kelly Lange a ration of awkward frosty clipped and contentious answers to her questions years ago on a televised red carpet event. Tune in to HDNet this weekend to watch Joan and Melissa Rivers. dish about Sarah Palin on Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter. .What I find the most terrifying,. Melissa commented when discussing how her mother.s recent Sarah Palin comments got a Fox interview cancelled, .is the fact that Sarah Palin is...