Originally Posted by
Nyx
Because it seems to come out of nowhere? Because Cohle, as we have come to know him, would never utter those things? So he had a near death experience. It wasn't even his first, remember? He had taken three bullets to the stomach many years prior, if nothing else. He was ready to die, ready to be done with this world, yet somehow (for some magical mystical reason) he gets transformed. But I get it, not many American shows can have a bitter pessimist atheist running around being the (anti?)hero without eventually neutering him with some spiritual crap and finding hope in the end. I wouldn't really have minded as much if it was his character gradually developing into that direction, over time. Instead, he just wakes up and boom, the light is winning.