Regarding the first season of True Detective:

Am I the only who thought that the writers set up a really interesting scenario in the last couple of episodes, before they decided to ignore it completely for some reason?

I read a lot of critics complaining that the Big Bad, the cult leader, turned out to be an just an inbred backwoods loon out of Deliverance.  OK, fair enough, that’s a pretty hackneyed horror scenario by this juncture.  But it had already been established that the cult included a lot of rich and important people, a lot of power-players in Louisiana politics.  Which means that all of those guys were actively participating in a religious movement run by an inbred backwoods loon. 

I think that setup is really cool.  I want to know what those rich and important cultists were thinking as they went to their cult meetings and listened to the deranged ranting of their fearless leader.  I want to know something, anything, about the Bizarro World class-and-culture dynamics that must underlie such an organization.

It sure would have beaten the season ending we actually got.