"True Detective" Finale was perfect

Finally finished True Detective last night and I have to say - despite spending half the episode clutching Maverick out of fear - the ending was really.... beautiful.

Not how you expect to describe a serial killer drama, huh?

Sure, it was suspenseful. And a little violent. But it wasn't extreme. It didn't have to kill the main character (or characters, cough cough Game of Thrones). It didn't have to fill every minute with #OMGMoments (here's looking at you, Scandal).

It was a perfect cap to eight riveting hours of television.

Murder by Antler. 'True Detective' and 'Hannibal'

Watching the premiere of True Detective, I immediately thought it was sort of a rip-off of Hannibal's killer last season with the use of antlers. I was actually surprised more of the internets didn't mention anything…

Then I saw this from Bryan Fuller (Hannibal):

"Anybody who saw [the Stephen King TV miniseries] Salem’s Lot in 1979 where James Mason impaled that guy on the antlers, it’s probably all coming from that traumatic experience in our childhoods. So I imagine they probably saw the same thing that inspired the imagery in this show.” 

  Full quote and story at EW.

So, there you have it.