Season 1
🎬 8 Episodes 📅 2014 ⏱ 76 min
Beneath the murky surface of a Louisiana swamp lies a corruption so profound it consumes everyone who touches it. True Detective unfolds through fractured timelines, following two detectives as they recount a 1995 investigation into a ritualistic murder, their testimonies revealing the personal wreckage left in its wake. The series strips away their exteriors to expose the darkness festering within, suggesting that evil wears many faces and dwells in the most unexpected places. This is a searing examination of how obsession and moral decay slowly devour men whole.
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8
Episodes
2014
Year
76
min / ep
10.1
Watch Hours
1/4
Season No.
⭐ 9.0
Best Episode
Ep. 4 · Who Goes There?
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🎬 Episodes 8 episodes
1
⭐ 8.5
The Long Bright Dark
Former Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange, 17 years earlier. As they look back, details of the crime, replete with occult overtones, are accompanied by insights into the detectives…
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
2
⭐ 8.3
Seeing Things
Under pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a new task force. The pair lobbies for extra time to follow up on a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church. With his marriage to Maggie…
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
3
⭐ 8.6
The Locked Room
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. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confessio…
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
4
⭐ 9.0
Who Goes There?
Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting an East-Texas…
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
5
⭐ 8.9
The Secret Fate of All Life
A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his family, and Cohle starts a relationship while gaining a reputation as a closer in interrogations. As time passes and his…
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
6
⭐ 8.5
Haunted Houses
Maggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
7
⭐ 8.5
After You've Gone
Hart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto
8
⭐ 9.0
Form and Void
An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.
🎬 Cary Joji Fukunaga ✍️ Nic Pizzolatto