It’s easy to make fun of something you don’t understand, which is exactly what Joel McHale did on “The Soup” this week with a parody asking, “Can anyone understand ‘True Detective’?”
The sketch (above) takes Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson‘s characters to task for speaking gibberish, but there’s only one problem: They don’t.
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And fans of the critically-acclaimed HBO series don’t get how creator Nic Pizzolatto‘s complex, rich dialogue — that doesn’t spoon feed audiences answers like the common cop procedural — can be boiled down to nonsensical gibberish, and are calling “TheSoup” out.