While following up on the Fontenot disappearance, they discover another twig latticework. Around the same time, another child claimed to have been chased through the woods by a 'green-eared spaghetti monster.' At the insistence of his wife Maggie ( Michelle Monaghan), Hart invites Cohle to dinner, but is infuriated when Cohle arrives drunk. Hart and Cohle turn to a five-year-old missing-persons case of a child named Marie Fontenot. Her corpse is found posed as if in prayer, her head is crowned with deer antlers, and her body is surrounded by twig latticeworks closely resembling Cajun bird traps. State homicide detectives Martin 'Marty' Hart ( Woody Harrelson) and Rustin 'Rust' Cohle ( Matthew McConaughey) investigate the murder of a prostitute, 28-year-old Dora Lange. Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, January 3, 1995. See also: List of True Detective episodes No.

It was a candidate for numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film, and won several other honors for writing, cinematography, direction, and acting.

The series was widely acclaimed by critics and was cited as one of the strongest dramas of the 2014 television season.

The episodes, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, were filmed in Louisiana over a three-month period. Pizzolatto initially conceived True Detective as a novel, but felt it was more suitable for television. True Detective 's first season explores themes of philosophical pessimism, masculinity, and Christianity critics have analyzed the show's portrayal of women, its auteurist sensibility, and the influence of comics and weird horror fiction on its narrative. During this time, Hart's infidelity threatens his marriage to Maggie (Monaghan), and Cohle struggles to cope with his troubled past. Seventeen years later, they must revisit the investigation, along with several other unsolved crimes. As an anthology, each True Detective season has its own self-contained story, following a disparate set of characters in various settings.Ĭonstructed as a nonlinear narrative, season one focuses on Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin 'Rust' Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin 'Marty' Hart (Harrelson), who investigated the murder of prostitute Dora Lange in 1995. The season had eight episodes, and its initial airing concluded on March 9, 2014. The principal cast consisted of Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles. The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 12, 2014, on the premium cable network HBO.

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