True Detective - 2024 report by Whydis

True Detective

HBO premieres a new drama series, True Detective, this season focusing on Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) and "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), two detectives and former partners who worked in Louisiana's Criminal Investigation Division in the mid-19...

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Actor

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Crime

(10 reviews)
Music

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Performance

(18 reviews)
Write

(30 reviews)
Cast

(10 reviews)
Season

(40 reviews)
Line

(12 reviews)
Story

(40 reviews)
Time

(11 reviews)
Detective

(14 reviews)
Landscape

(3 reviews)
Man

(3 reviews)
Episode

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Reviews around actor (5.00 of 5)

  • Riveting, dark, hypnotic, with two of the best actors in Hollywood.
  • Even the villains were great: the dead girl's ex, the crazy hatchet-carrying, 666-scarred blond survivalist, and Errol, the biggest psychopath of them all, were played by excellent actors and seemed real, not buffoons
  • You won't find two more disparate actors working so well together, and both FAR FROM their comfort-zone roles.
  • The 2nd True Detective sucked because they didn't have the best actors
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Reviews around crime (5.00 of 5)

  • This is a really good crime show starts a little slow but picks up after a few episodes!
  • I think True Detective season 1 is among the best cop/crime series that's ever aired on TV
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Reviews around music (5.00 of 5)

  • Well-acted all around, well-written, well-directed, and the music is pretty good.

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Reviews around performance (4.33 of 5)

  • Along with Gandolfini, Ian McShane (Deadwood) and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), I would put his performance in the top five all-time HBO performances
  • Woody Harrelson and Mathew McConnaghy put have their characters nailed and give top-notch performances
  • One of the best mini series I have ever seen along with excellent performances all around.
  • Very fine performances by both principal actors, as well as supporting cast.
  • Matthew M and Woody put on their best performance ever.
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Reviews around write (4.22 of 5)

  • Wow on so many levels, but it does have some dark moments but very well written, and superb casting!!
  • The writing was extraordinary and the acting, superior.
  • The writing, acting and digital cinematography great in my opinion
  • The writing is phenomenal and the acting is beyond award-worthy
  • Great acting, great writing, great storyline, and as far as Hollywood goes, close to believable
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Reviews around cast (4.16 of 5)

  • Good plot, great cast, but a little slow.
  • Wow on so many levels, but it does have some dark moments but very well written, and superb casting!!
  • Very fine performances by both principal actors, as well as supporting cast.
  • Original series that was well directed, and had a good cast
  • Season 1 is superb in every way: Great casting; Great acting; Good cinematography and directing; and Great story line and screen play
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Reviews around season (4.07 of 5)

  • The season 1 involves the bizarre and the occult, are they not one in the same :-)
  • Many twists n turns, and to think is based on true events
  • I would have given 1 star if season 1 wasn't that great
  • Season 1 is amazing, I wasn't impressed by what I have seen of two.
  • Season 2 was a great disappointment, but I'll watch season 1 again-and-again!
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Reviews around line (4.03 of 5)

  • Season 1 is superb in every way: Great casting; Great acting; Good cinematography and directing; and Great story line and screen play
  • Both leads were superb, with fantastic plot and story line.
  • Many twists n turns, and to think is based on true events
  • Too much philosophical junk....needs more action and better story line
  • An excellent story line, and kept me waiting for the next development!
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Reviews around story (3.99 of 5)

  • That "slowness" is what makes for great acting and story set-up.
  • This is a very well thought out story, shadowy, strange and creepy both in plot, acting and photography
  • The story was quite dark and depressing, and it moved very slowly, especially the first couple of episodes, which crept along.
  • The story is stunning and you really get involved with their characters and world right from the get go.
  • Season 1 is superb in every way: Great casting; Great acting; Good cinematography and directing; and Great story line and screen play
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Reviews around time (3.95 of 5)

  • Not sure why we even wasted our time watching it..
  • My husband and I had a great time binge watching this over a weekend
  • Along with Gandolfini, Ian McShane (Deadwood) and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), I would put his performance in the top five all-time HBO performances
  • there was another place under your feet the entire time, now your ready to understand the town you knew so well
  • I watched this again and again, each time gaining more depth
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Reviews around detective (3.49 of 5)

  • Tenacious detectives search for a despicable killer for ten episodes
  • True Detective is captivating, complex, and makes you want to binge watch the entire series
  • The 2nd True Detective sucked because they didn't have the best actors
  • Mathew is a kind of unconventional person so he is perfect in this role as a unconventional detective
  • I love True Detective with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaugh
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Reviews around landscape (1.00 of 5)

  • Many twists n turns, and to think is based on true events
  • The plot, cast in a wretched, cynical, violent landscape where a crime is solved and all is creepy, engaging, edge of your seat stuff - but just background music really
  • Genuinely insightful gnostic philosophy muttered annoyingly from the passenger seat by an eternal outsider, while the bleak Southern landscape scrapes past outside the window

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Reviews around man (1.00 of 5)

  • This sardonic, unreachable man seems isolated in such a way that you'd expect him to watch the human condition without participating in its games, but no
  • McConaughey's character brought a pensive reflection on life's deeper themes, rather than to just be undone by the horror of evil men.
  • Many twists n turns, and to think is based on true events

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Reviews around episode (1.00 of 5)

  • I liked it a lot, but at times the episodes seemed to drag
  • Dark, moody, and often chilling, the episodes take place in the present during questioning of the two detectives by other La. state detectives, and during the investigation itself, spanning a seventeen-year time period

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More about True Detective

  • HBO premieres a new drama series, True Detective, this season focusing on Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) and "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), two detectives and former partners who worked in Louisiana's Criminal Investigation Division in the mid-1990s
  • In 2012, for reasons not immediately revealed, the two are interviewed separately by investigators about their most notorious case: the macabre 1995 murder of a prostitute by a possible serial killer with disturbing occult leanings
  • As they look back on the case, Hart and Cohle's personal backstories and often-strained relationship become a major focal point
  • Hart, an outgoing native Louisianan and family man whose marriage is being frayed by work stress and infidelity, is (at least on the surface) the polar opposite of Cohle, a lone-wolf pessimist and former narcotics detective from Texas
  • While the plot is moved forward by their shared obsession to hunt down the ritual killer, the true drama centers around the mercurial nature of Hart and Cohle's relationship and personalities, and how they affect each other as detectives, friends, and men.