The two detectives, played by Harrelson and McConaughey, are bad people themselves who, in the course of the show, commit adultery, murder, kidnapping, beatings, thievery (B&Es) and perjury.

True Detective is a painfully dark, depressing, brutal and ugly story about very horrible and sick people doing evil things

sink to, as well as the people who courageously put themselves forward, going up against them in what transpires in this show as a titanic struggle - of the definitely-conflicted versus something wicked that is both not quite explainable yet must be challenged, even though the battle is never-ending

People with their problems usually just commit suicide, I think.