If I had spent as much time just rewatching season 1 of True Detective as I have watching random, out of order clips of it on youtube, I could have watched the entire season again by now.

The way shit went down in ninety-fiiiiiiiaave

“Most of the last decade I’ve spent stone drunk. Functional, but hammered.”

Idk exactly why, but I love that line.

"If you were drowning, I'd throw you a fucking barbell."

Jesus...

Marty’s jaw is its own character.

2:14 Marty accuses Rust of alienating everyone in his life. Pot, meet kettle.

"Father time has his way with us all.  Looks like you must've pissed him off."  That line kills me!

I watch the sopranos when I want to eat I watch true detective when I want to drink.

When Rust says that Marty has debt, you can tell Marty knows exactly what Rust is talking about. He just doesn't want to jump back into that dark hole again, but he knows he needs to.

02:53 I do appreciate that despite how much Marty is pissed at Rust, he 100% believes Rust is innocent, shares all the reasons the PD is suspicious of Rust, and gives him genuine advice.

This scene embodies the spirit of the show, to me. When the opportunity to just walk away comes up, something calls you to stay. Call it honor, duty, loyalty, or something else entirely - it drives you. A True Detective.

"A man remembers his debts"
                           -The Taxman

1:35 "Oh I thought you didn't like the cold" what a humorously benign and friendly line amongst all this

"you're eyes seem kinda brittle" mirrors what dewall said to rust in that bar years back

Those 2-3 years were unbelievable. Suddenly TV just exploded . Breaking Bad,True detective,Sherlock,House of Cards,Game of Thrones,Peaky Blinders ,Fargo. All of the leads were movie stars and all of them gave distinctive powerful performances. Not only that all of those had an actual plot which seems to be missing in current time.

The intelligence that is shown in the writing and story telling of this show is outstanding.
95 - Rust and Marty go to a bar after Marty’s infidelity is discovered. Marty wants to talk to Rust about it but Rust doesn’t want to hear at. Rust convinces Marty to go and see what he has to show him ‘you’re going to love this jacket I’ve got’
Marty blames Rust for the breakdown of his marriage ‘this is part on you, creating tensions’ Rust stays obsessed with the job.
2012 - Rust and Marty meet and go to a bar.
The location may be different but the environment is the same, the conversation is the same. The only real difference this time is that in 95 Marty desperately wanted to talk to Rust. In 2012 he’s the last person he wants to see. The conversation is still the same, Rust obsessed about the job, Marty blaming Rust for his marriage breaking down, leading to Marty going with Rust to ‘see what he’s got.’
The time is a flat circle concept runs so deep in this story sometimes it’s right in front of us but it’s not seen.
I could talk for hours about this show. Marty thinks he’s a people person, this unavoidable Adonis who people want to be around, yet who’s the person at the bar with him in 95, who’s house does he stay at in 95? Marty loses people as the show goes on ending up alone. Rust saves him from the inevitable outcome of the detectives common fate, too much time, idle hands, drinking, loneliness, suicide.

"Cause you have a debt."

"Shit, what did you do? Alienate every other person in your life and finally you came back to me in the rotation?" I love that Marty involuntarily and sarcastically harkens back to the idea of the flat circle. Even though he isn't aware of it, the irony of this scene is so palpable.
Elsewhere in these comments, sij6169 talks about the echoes this scene has with a previous bar scene in '95, when Marty blames Rust for his marriage on the rocks, and Rust still obsesses about the case, as we see here, under different circumstances.

“I thought you didn’t like the cold?”
“I hate it”

Best mini series of all time