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True Detective

2024

4.7

723 reviews

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1-2 episodes (17)

1 Season 1, Episode 1 The Long Bright Dark

1/12/14

Series Premiere. Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), lead investigators in a macabre 1995 Louisiana murder, relive the case and their partnership in the wake of new info.

2 Season 1, Episode 2 Seeing Things

1/19/14

Under pressure to land a suspect, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle they might be replaced by three detectives from a new occult-crimes task force. Later, they follow a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church.

3 Season 1, Episode 3 The Locked Room

1/26/14

A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred 'tall man' seen with Dora Lange. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar.

4 Season 1, Episode 4 Who Goes There

2/9/14

Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting a biker gang known to deal with their suspect.

5 Season 1, Epsiode 5 The Secret Fate of All Life

2/16/14

A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting disturbing new intelligence.

6 Season 1, Epsiode 6 Haunted Houses

2/23/14

In 2012, Papania and Gilbough question Maggie, now divorced from Marty, about Cohle and Hart during 2002, the year their relationship fractured and Cohle quit the force following a suspension.

7 Season 1, Episode 7 After You've Gone

3/2/14

After Marty is shown a harrowing piece of evidence, he and Cohle forge a truce as they probe a murky conspiracy of disappearances connected to the Dora Lange murder, a path of connections that leads to the Tuttle family.

8 Season 1, Epsiode 8 Form and Void

3/9/14

Season One Finale. A seemingly arbitrary detail in a photograph, along with a homeowner's old tax records, provides Hart and Cohle with a vital new lead in their 17-year-old case--which they pursue to an apocalyptic confrontation.

9 Season 2, Episode 1 The Western Book of the Dead

6/21/15

Season Two Premiere. The disappearance of a city manager disrupts a lucrative land scheme and ignites an investigation involving three police officers and a career criminal who is moving into legitimate business.

10 Season 2, Episode 2 Night Finds You

6/28/15

Ray and Ani investigate a victim's depraved background, as does Frank, while Paul probes the Vinci PD.

11 Season 2, Episode 3 Maybe Tomorrow

7/5/15

Paul works the prostitute angle while Frank receives the first casualty in a secret war, and steps back into a world he'd left behind.

12 Season 2, Episode 4 Down Will Come

7/12/15

The detail works a pawn-shop lead to close in on a suspect in the Caspere case. Frank revisits his past to pay for his present.

13 Season 2, Episode 5 Other Lives

7/19/15

Ray and Frank contemplate new life choices; Ani and Paul follow a lead up the coast.

14 Season 2, Epsidoe 6 Church in Ruins

7/26/15

Desperate to locate a missing woman with intel about Caspere, Frank meets with Mexican drug dealers.

15 Season 2, Episode 7 Black Maps and Motel Rooms

8/2/15

Ray, Ani and Paul take precautionary measures to elude detection and untangle a dark mystery.

16 Season 2, Episode 8 Omega Station

8/9/15

Season Two Finale. Frank, Ray and Ani weigh their options as Caspere's killer and the scope of corruption are revealed.

101 Season 2 - A Look Inside

10/26/15

Venture into the dark underbelly of L.A. county as drawn for Season 2 of 'True Detective' in this preview.

About this show

Touch darkness and darkness touches you. From HBO and creator/executive producer Nic Pizzolato comes this searing crime drama series that follows troubled cops and the intense investigations that drive them to the edge.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

723 reviews

jane moran

September 15, 2015

Loved the club singer and was basically addicted to watching the opening credits which I know contain the plot clues/cues. The landscape of LA area so vast and fascinating but each shot was beautiful. Direction of acting, actors, amazing. Story still percolating, it was not a revenge flick and contemplated morality sincerely. Rest the guns and cigarettes and tell me your story again please.

Tom Halbert

March 25, 2014

Stunning show in nearly every way. The tale is gripping and the acting is seriously engaging. My only problem is a wish there were more of Marty & Rust. 8 episodes came and went before I could blink.

Robert Hodhew

November 2, 2016

The first couple of episodes were "dense" with characters. However the climactic couple of episodes had me crying at the edge of my seat. I now want to watch it again to see the clues I'd missed the first time around. Best thing I've watched in years.

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