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...
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
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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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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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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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.