It’s an interesting and important connective to make, even if there aren’t any legitimate parallels to draw between Season 1’s Reverend Billy Lee Tuttle and Season 3’s chicken tycoon Hoyt, who will be played by Walking Dead vet Michael Rooker in the season finale.
Elisa’s finger-pointing detective work seems to come out of left field only because the more recent episodes within True Detective’s third season wisely stepped back from constantly reminding viewers of yellow kings and cryptic keepsakes.