True Detective 

An anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Creator:

Nic Pizzolatto

Stars:

Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams

Top Rated TV #20 | Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 27 wins & 55 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Matthew McConaughey	...	Detective Rust Cohle (8 episodes, 2014)
Colin Farrell	...	Detective Ray Velcoro (8 episodes, 2015)
Woody Harrelson	...	Detective Marty Hart (8 episodes, 2014)
Rachel McAdams	...	Detective Ani Bezzerides (8 episodes, 2015)
Michelle Monaghan	...	Maggie Hart (8 episodes, 2014)
Taylor Kitsch	...	Officer Paul Woodrugh (8 episodes, 2015)
Michael Potts	...	Detective Maynard Gilbough (8 episodes, 2014)
Kelly Reilly	...	Jordan Semyon (8 episodes, 2015)
Tory Kittles	...	Detective Thomas Papania (8 episodes, 2014)
Vince Vaughn	...	Frank Semyon (8 episodes, 2015)
Chris Kerson	...	Nails (8 episodes, 2015)
Ritchie Coster	...	Mayor Austin Chessani (7 episodes, 2015)
Christopher James Baker	...	Blake Churchman (7 episodes, 2015)
Afemo Omilami	...	Police Chief Holloway (7 episodes, 2015)
James Frain	...	Lieutenant Kevin Burris (7 episodes, 2015)
J.D. Evermore	...	Detective Lutz (6 episodes, 2014)
Andy Mackenzie	...	Ivar (6 episodes, 2015)
Dana Gourrier	...	Cathleen (6 episodes, 2014)
Michael Irby	...	Detective Elvis Ilinca (6 episodes, 2015)
Abigail Spencer	...	Gena Brune (6 episodes, 2015)
Timothy V. Murphy	...	Osip Agronov (6 episodes, 2015)
Yara Martinez	...	Felicia (6 episodes, 2015)
Adria Arjona	...	Emily (6 episodes, 2015)
Madison Wolfe	...	Audrey Hart (6 episodes, 2014)
Alain Uy	...	Ernst Bodine (6 episodes, 2015)
Jon Lindstrom	...	Jacob McCandless (6 episodes, 2015)
Kevin Dunn	...	Major Ken Quesada (5 episodes, 2014)
W. Earl Brown	...	Detective Teague Dixon (5 episodes, 2015)
Joe Chrest	...	Detective Demma (5 episodes, 2014)
Michael Hyatt	...	Katherine Davis (5 episodes, 2015)
Leven Rambin	...	Athena Bezzerides (5 episodes, 2015)
Lera Lynn	...	Singer (5 episodes, 2015)
Dane Rhodes	...	Detective Favre (5 episodes, 2014)
Alexandra Daddario	...	Lisa Tragnetti (4 episodes, 2014)
C.S. Lee	...	Richard Geldof (4 episodes, 2015)
Lolita Davidovich	...	Cynthia Woodrugh (4 episodes, 2015)
Tony Molina Jr.	...	Detective (4 episodes, 2014)
Vinicius Machado	...	Tony Chessani (4 episodes, 2015)
Trevor Larcom	...	Chad Velcoro (4 episodes, 2015)
Matt Battaglia	...	Commander Floyd Heschmeyer (4 episodes, 2015)
Solomon Shiv	...	Michael Bulgari (4 episodes, 2015)
Meghan Wolfe	...	Maisie Hart (4 episodes, 2014)
David Morse	...	Eliot Bezzerides (3 episodes, 2015)
Rick Springfield	...	Dr. Irving Pitlor (3 episodes, 2015)
Jackson Beals	...	Detective Mark Daughtry (3 episodes, 2014)
Glenn Fleshler	...	Errol Childress (3 episodes, 2014)
Michael Harney	...	Steve Geraci (3 episodes, 2014)
Alex Fernandez	...	James O'Neal (3 episodes, 2015)
Erin Moriarty	...	Audrey Hart (3 episodes, 2014)
Jim Klock	...	Detective Ted Bertrand (3 episodes, 2014)
Gabriel Luna	...	Miguel Gilb (3 episodes, 2015)
Jack Topalian	...	Armin (3 episodes, 2015)
Arthur Darbinyan	...	Leonid (3 episodes, 2015)
Garrett Kruithof	...	Detective Jimmy Dufrene (3 episodes, 2014)
Agnes Olech	...	Veronica Chessani (3 episodes, 2015)
Emily Rios	...	Betty Chessani (3 episodes, 2015)
Christian Campbell	...	Richard Brune (3 episodes, 2015)
Courtney Halverson	...	Erica Jonson (3 episodes, 2015)
Don Yesso	...	Commander Speece (3 episodes, 2014)
Carla Vila	...	Danielle Delvayo (3 episodes, 2015)
Benjamín Benítez	...	Gonzales #1 (3 episodes, 2015)
Robert Renderos	...	Gonzales #2 (3 episodes, 2015)
Ronnie Gene Blevins	...	Stan (3 episodes, 2015)
Jay O. Sanders	...	Billy Lee Tuttle (2 episodes, 2014)
Fred Ward	...	Eddie Velcoro (2 episodes, 2015)
Lili Simmons	...	Beth (2 episodes, 2014)
Shea Whigham	...	Joel Theriot (2 episodes, 2014)
Christopher Berry	...	Danny Fontenot / ... (2 episodes, 2014)
Brad Carter	...	Charlie Lange (2 episodes, 2014)
Johnny McPhail	...	Robert Doumain (2 episodes, 2014)
Charles Halford	...	Reggie Ledoux (2 episodes, 2014)
Pedro Miguel Arce	...	Danny Santos (2 episodes, 2015)
Ashley Grace	...	Lacey Lindel (2 episodes, 2015)
Molly Hagan	...	Mrs. Harris (2 episodes, 2015)
Alyshia Ochse	...	Lucy (2 episodes, 2014)
Miranda Rae Mayo	...	Vera Machiado (2 episodes, 2015)
Brighton Sharbino	...	Maisie Hart (2 episodes, 2014)
Weronika Rosati	...	Agnes (2 episodes, 2015)
Mark Chaet	...	Jew Diamond Dealer (2 episodes, 2015)
Chet Grissom	...	Bart Sallis (2 episodes, 2015)
Luke Edwards	...	Lenny Tyler (2 episodes, 2015)
Stevin Knight	...	Dan Howser (2 episodes, 2015)
Joseph Sikora	...	Ginger (2 episodes, 2014)
Jamison Jones	...	Will Davidson (2 episodes, 2015)
Anjul Nigam	...	Ventura County Medical Examiner (2 episodes, 2015)
Riley Smith	...	Steve Mercer (2 episodes, 2015)
Ronny Cox	...	Catalast Executive / ... (2 episodes, 2015)
Cooper Roth	...	Aspen Conroy (2 episodes, 2015)

Storyline

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

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Plot Keywords:

anthology | louisiana | police investigation | police detective | infidelity | 

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Taglines:

Man is the cruelest animal. (Season 1)

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 January 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Pravi detektiv

Filming Locations:

Louisiana, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Anonymous Content, Passenger

Technical Specs

Runtime:

55 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9

Did You Know?

Trivia

Series creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote the entire first season by himself, without any input from a writing staff (which is unusual for a major American TV series). For the second season, he hired novelist Scott Lasser to help break stories.

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Goofs

Detective Rust Cohle is seen looking at his watch as it beeps. His watch is a mechanical dive watch without any digital components, and is unable to beep.

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Quotes

Detective Rust Cohle: I can't say the job made me this way. More like me being this way made me right for the job. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age you know who you are. Now I live in a little room, out in the country behind a bar, work four nights a week, and in between I drink. And there ain't nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

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Connections

Referenced in The Simpsons: 'Cue Detective (2015)

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Soundtracks

Far From Any Road
By The Handsome Family

User Reviews

Stellar cast , super interesting plot , brilliant direction , well written dialogs....now thats what i call Good Television!

When i first heard about the show , i thought to myself that with a premise and cast like that , what could go wrong with this show? Well there could have been a lot of things. For example the plot may have been overdone or under thought , direction may have been all over the place , but the first episode proved that it was not to be so.

The plot looks delicious...yes it does and the neat direction just purely compliments the smooth design of the show. Even though story telling is non linear at times , but it has been managed very well with subtle dialogue and the growing suspense. It does get dark at times but handles all its complications with ease.

The casting is clever...very clever. Both Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are brilliant actors and at the same time have a certain mystery about them that is Perfect for the show. They have a firm grip of their respective characters and seem dissolved in them.

This show is NOT just a regular cop drama or a clichéd murder mystery. It is much much more and has already proved so in the first episode. Much is expected from it and the future looks bright for True Detective.

UPDATE ( Episode 2-6 ) - Now 6 episodes have gone by and i believe my views have changed a little. The richness of the show in the first couple of episodes completely PALES in comparison to the speed, smoothness and uniqueness in the latter episodes. From the 4th episode is when the show actually picked even more momentum and proved its worth as possibly the greatest thing on television at the moment. McConaughey is truly having the golden period of his career. The future (probable) Academy Award winner (For DBC) is at his freaking best as Rust Cohle. Harrelson is brilliant as the angry and flawed Marty Hart. I liked this show. But now i am addicted to it.

With 2 more episodes of the season to go , one can only expect the best from this fast-paced , beautifully crafted show.

So far, an obvious 10/10.

Final update: ( Episode 7 & 8 )-- Well the series ended last night on a very thoughtful note. Up until the 7th episode, the show had picked up so much speed and given us so much to think about that i was expecting a little too much from the last couple of episodes. Who wasn't.

*********** If you haven't seen the series , please Don't read on*********

The 7th episode was truly amazing as it set the stage for Rust and Marty's final adventure of the series. There was too much anticipation for the final episode, but did it deliver. Yes and No, depending entirely on how you look at it. There were no unusual shocking twists and there were no unrealistic happenings. It was quiet a daring and a brilliant end to a show that explored beyond any other show's reach. But to be very honest, as a single episode , the finale wont stand out. But as an entire series , i believe we have been treated to one of the best television series ever made. The writing and direction have been top notch. Acting has been flawless. Am gonna miss it.

10/10