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True Detective: You’re Creeping Us Out, HBO!

by Jacob Klein
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It’s a crisp winter morning as I’m startled by the ringing of my doorbell at such an early hour.  My loyal dog begins to bark as I move to assure him that everything’s okay… or at least I hope it is.  I make my way to the door as I hear the sound of a large truck driving away.  It’s just FedEx.  A sigh of relief.  

I creak open the door and look down at the largest box I’ve received in recent memory.  A late Christmas gift, perhaps?  Did my wife order something from Nordstom again?  I bring the box into the house and open it without second thought.  That’s odd…
Box-True-Detective

This box has seen some things.  And what’s with the masking tape with my name on it?  I’ve gone back to a state of mild-anxiety again.  What’s that on the side of the box?

Louisiana

Evidence?  I’ve never even BEEN to Louisiana!  Am I in trouble?   I couldn’t stop there…

bubble

Oh god.. I can almost make out something… organic?  My hand trembles as I unwrap the thing…

Effigy

Okay NOW I’m in full freak-out mode, HBO.   The dog starts barking again… What have you sent me?!  My mind races as I slowly connect the dots… Louisiana State Police… ritualistic effigy… TRUE DETECTIVE!  Though reaching the maximum amount of creepiness, HBO has sent me an actual effigy from the new upcoming series with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.  You can see the thing and learn a bit about it in these behind the scenes trailers:

Here’s a still from that trailer: trailer-effigy

You can also learn more about these at DarknessBecomesYou, a mini-site set up by HBO to promote the show.  Don’t dig too deep though as you’ll want to save some surprises for the actual series!

Thanks for the wake-up package this morning, HBO.  You truly creeped myself and my dog out and I hope you have thought of a decent way of explaining this to my wife :)  But in the end I’m even more pumped than I already was to see the first episode of TRUE DETECTIVE starting THIS SUNDAY, January 12th at 9PM.  You know you’ll be watching at 10PM anyway for the first TWO episodes of Girls.  Why not make it an HBO Sunday this weekend?  Critics who have seen the first few episodes have already declared True Detective to be THE must watch drama of 2014.  Don’t miss it.

Update:  BleedpingCool also received a package and took a video of their unboxing!  Check that out if you’re interested in the video.

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9 comments

rjohnson February 18, 2014 - 12:11 am

Watch the girls.

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Mahmoud January 10, 2014 - 9:02 am

Didn’t it remind you the movie “Se7en”?!!

Can’t wait for True Detective!

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Rhiannon Kavity January 6, 2014 - 5:52 pm

This is a whole new level of awesome.

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MJ Snow January 6, 2014 - 2:04 pm

Ooh Jacob, that’s awesome! It is one of my greatest wishes to receive a creepy voodoo effigy in the mail one day! :D

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thebearpaw January 6, 2014 - 1:22 pm

Take it easy and don’t piss your pants
yet… It’s all decorations and pretty wrappers and money spent on advertising.
Plus, critics are loathsome bum subhumans too. Only after watching some real
episodes could we make a genuine opinion about the series… No preconceived
opinions. Ever.

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Jacob Klein January 6, 2014 - 2:47 pm

I guess I sort of agree in principal. But I do think it’s okay to get excited about something that looks pretty damn good.

We’ll be reviewing the episodes as they air so come back for those to comment.

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VL Vanderveer January 6, 2014 - 12:34 pm

Jacob, you have now officially beat Steffen in the Coolest HBO Blogger Prizes. You’ve set the bar for a new year – and sufficiently creeped me out. I’ll be hiding in my apocalypse shelter for the next, oh, 11 months and 25 days. ;-) Seriously, though – what a way to kick off the new series!!

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Nahojism January 6, 2014 - 12:13 pm

I cannot wait for this any longer. Good thing it’s only less than a week left!

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