I don’t even remember seeing the spiral in her room.
Seeking male attention in other places, or even seeking to get into trouble, perhaps, to get the attention of her father it was not related to the killings or anyone around them. I read Audrey’s behavior as being the direct result of an inattentive father. I never read into what she was doing as having any relation to the crimes or the cult. Looking at the comments on several reviews of the finale, there’s a particularly heavy obsession, borderline insanity, with why the “clues” about Marty’s daughter Audrey (the drawings, dolls, and crown) were never addressed. As much as we in development might have wanted to see the general sort of feeling of conspiracy and learn more about what this cult might have been about, the weight of the story needed to focus on Marty and Rust’s relationship. He sent me The Simpsons’ yellow king thing, and the one where the guy has an actual actor playing the yellow king. I’ve been sent a lot of this stuff because my agent is a huge fanboy. Some of it wasn’t intentional, like when the truck was driving by and there’s a yellow crown in the background. Most of that was definitely deliberate - the lawnmower driving in circles at the end of episode seven, the use of spirals and stars. What do you make of all the theorizing that went on around the show? The resolution to the murders was fairly straightforward - the crazy Spaghetti Monster did it - but there were many clues and Easter eggs planted along the way about this sprawling Tuttle/Childress/Ledoux conspiracy. Rather than the Yellow King and the books about Carcosa and the mythology around that being the centerpiece for the finale, it was just another layer. It was more of an added layer to the reasons behind the killings. I don’t necessarily think the final episode answered that, and I don’t think it was creator Nic Pizzolatto’s intention to answer that, even if people wanted it. There’s a lot of debate already about whether or not the finale settles the identity of the Yellow King - and whether it’s meant to be a person at all.
(Read our thorough recap of everything that went down in the finale here and our TV critic on the series as a whole here.) With Carcosa and Matthew McConaughey’s teary epiphany still on the brain Monday morning, Vulture spoke with Fukunaga about the many spinning theories still swirling (even now that the finale has aired) and putting together the show’s final chapter. But before that, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and director Cary Fukunaga took us to the depths of hell and back. In the end, Marty and Rust found hope, a first step out of the heart of darkness, if not the answers to every last awful detail of the Childress family history. ’True Detective’ director Cary Fukunaga with Matthew McConaughey.