True Detective (2014 - 2024)

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Scripted "The truth lies in the dark."TV Series

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TV-MA January 12th, 20144 Seasons, 30 Episodes

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

StarringMatthew McConaughey Jodie Foster Kali Reis

DirectorsDaniel Sackheim Nic Pizzolatto Issa López

WritersNic Pizzolatto Issa López David Milch

Review

True Detective Season 1 Review

Premiering on Max January 14th, ‘True Detective: Night Country’ offers a very different spin on the usual mystery story, one that draws upon the eternal clash between modern progress and native lands, between parents and children, and between the forces of right and wrong, even as the main characters sometimes cross those lines.Built around a typically excellent performance by Jodie Foster, in what might be her most iconic law enforcement role since Clarice Starling of ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, the new ‘True Detective’ pivots away from creator Nic Pizzolatto’s seasons of the show to focus instead on a stranger mystery –– time might have been a flat circle in the first season, but here it is frozen in ice.

Does ‘True Detective: Night Country’ find the light in the darkness?As mentioned, this will feel very different to past ‘True Detective’ seasons. While the show has generally re-invented itself with each iteration (from the Louisiana-set first to the California-inflected

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