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True Detective (season 1)
Season 1
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Promotional poster and home media cover art
Starring
No. of episodes8
Release
Original networkHBO
Original releaseJanuary 12 (2014-01-12) –
March 9, 2014 (2014-03-09)
Season chronology
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Season 2
List of episodes

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. Its principal cast consisted of Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles. The season had eight episodes; its initial airing concluded on March 9, 2014.

Engineered as a flashback narrative, the season focuses on the lives of Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin "Rust" Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Harrelson). Over a seventeen-year period, they must recount the investigation into the murder of prostitute Dora Lange and the histories of several other unsolved crimes, the perpetrator of which remains at large. During this time, Hart's personal problems threaten his marriage to Maggie (Monaghan), and Cohle struggles to cope from his troubled past. The season's themes are masculinity and religion. The influences of horror and comic literature on the season's main narrative has been the subject of analysis.

Pizzolatto initially conceived True Detective as a novel, but felt it was more suitable for television. The episodes, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, were filmed in Louisiana over a three month period. The series received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and was cited as one of the strongest dramas on television. It was a candidate for numerous television 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 recognizing its writing, cinematography, direction, and acting.

Episodes

See also: List of True Detective episodes
No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
11"The Long Bright Dark"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoJanuary 12, 2014 (2014-01-12)2.33[1]
22"Seeing Things"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoJanuary 19, 2014 (2014-01-19)1.67[2]
33"The Locked Room"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoJanuary 26, 2014 (2014-01-26)1.93[3]
44"Who Goes There"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoFebruary 9, 2014 (2014-02-09)1.99[4]
55"The Secret Fate of All Life"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoFebruary 16, 2014 (2014-02-16)2.25[5]
66"Haunted Houses"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoFebruary 23, 2014 (2014-02-23)2.64[6]
77"After You've Gone"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoMarch 2, 2014 (2014-03-02)2.34[7]
88"Form and Void"Cary Joji FukunagaNic PizzolattoMarch 9, 2014 (2014-03-09)3.52[8]

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

  • Meghan Wolfe as young Macie Hart

Production

Conception

Before creating True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto had worked as a literature professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, DePauw University, and the University of Chicago.[9] He developed a fascination for fiction writing while attending graduate school at the University of Arkansas; inspired by HBO's series The Wire, The Sopranos, and Deadwood,[10] he began working on a short story collection that he later published as Between Here and the Yellow Sea in 2006.[9] Several years later, he wrote a full-length novel titled Galveston (2010), and around the same time he began preparing to write for television; his earlier attempts were unsuccessful because of a lack of money.[10]

Pizzolatto was appointed as a screenwriter for AMC's series The Killing in 2011. He credits the show with giving him a glimpse of the inner workings of the television industry. Pizzolatto grew increasingly dissatisfied with the its creative direction, and left the writing staff two weeks into the series' second season.[9]

True Detective was originally intended to be the follow-up to Galveston, but once the project took definite form, Pizzolatto thought it was more suitable on screen.[9][11] The writer pitched Galveston to two executives, and from May to July 2010 he developed six screenplays, including an early, 90-page draft of the pilot episode script.[9][10] He wrote another script for the series shortly after his departure from The Killing, thanks in part to the support of the production company Anonymous Content.[9] Pizzolatto did not hire a writing staff at this point because he believed such an approach would not yield the desired result. "As someone with a novelistic background I just didn’t have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don’t think you necessarily get the best story through that approach."[12] The final copy of the project script was 500 pages long.[13][12] Pizzolatto secured a development deal with HBO for a potential pilot series early on,[9] and by April 2012 the network had commissioned eight episiodes of True Detective.[14]

Casting and crew

Top to bottom: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Monaghan star in season one as, respectively, Rustin Cohle, Martin and Maggie Hart

Pizzolatto began contemplating the lead roles while he was pitching the series to networks in early 2012.[9] True Detective's anthology format allowed him the freedom to employ film stars "because they’d only be committed to one season".[12] Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were among the actors Pizzolatto considered for star billing. McConaughey, who had recently finished filming Killer Joe (2011), was contracted well before HBO commissioned the season.[11] Impressed with his performance in The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Pizzolatto at first assigned him to play Hart but McConaughey convinced him to give him the part of Cohle.[15] When asked in a Variety interview about his decision to switch parts, the actor replied, "I wanted to get in that dude’s head. The obsession, the island of a man—I’m always looking for a guy who monologues. It’s something really important as I feel I’m going into my better work."[16] To prepare for the role, McConaughey created a 450-page analysis—the "Four Stages of Rustin Cohle"—to study his character's evolution during the season.[17]

Harrelson was the season's next significant casting, brought on to play Hart at McConaughey's request.[18][19] Harrelson, who joined True Detective in part because of the people involved in the project, had previously worked with HBO in the 2012 film Game Change.[20] Michelle Monaghan was assigned the season's female lead, Maggie, once she realized her character arc and "really saw where these characters went".[21] Michael Potts and Tory Kittles completed the principal cast, playing detectives Maynard Gilbough and Thomas Papania, respectively.[22][23]

Pizzolatto narrowed his search for a suitable director down to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Cary Joji Fukunaga, the latter of whom he knew from Anonymous Content. Fukunaga was formally appointed as director after Iñárritu pulled out of the project because of film commitments.[24][25] In preparation for his services, he carried out research with a homicide detective of the Louisiana State Police's Criminal Investigations Division to develop an accurate depiction of a 1990s homicide detective's work.[26] Fukunaga recruited Adam Arkapaw, director of photography of Top of the Lake, as project cinematographer. Arkapaw came to the director's attention for his work in Animal Kingdom (2010) and Snowtown (2011), and was hired after the two men negotiated a deal at a meeting in San Francisco.[27] Alex DiGerlando, who Fukunaga had worked with on Benh Zeitlin's Glory at Sea in 2008, was appointed as the production designer. Fukunaga said in an interview, "I knew what Alex accomplished in the swamps of Louisiana and given some money, how much more amazing he could be in building sets that would just be used for one or two days and be abandoned again".[28]

Filming

Initially, True Detective's first season was due to shoot in Arkansas, but Pizzolatto later chose to film in Louisiana to take advantage of state tax incentives and the area's distinctive landscape;[29] he said, "There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all ... [e]verything lives under layers of concealment. The woods are thick and dark and impenetrable. On the other hand you have the beauty of it all from a distance."[12] Principal photography consumed three months (between 100 to 110 days),[28] from January to June 2013.[27] Approximately five minutes of film was shot per day.[27] The crew filmed exterior shots at a remote sugarcane field outside Erath which, because it was partially burned, inspired a "moody and atmospheric" backdrop for corresponding scenes.[30] Some filming for the season one finale "Form and Void" took place at Fort Macomb, a nineteenth-century fort outside New Orleans.[31]

Fukunaga took cues from David Lynch's Twin Peaks to adapt his filming style for TV.[32] The entire season was shot on 35 mm film,[33] which the crew chose to achieve "a slightly nostalgic" quality.[27] Scenes were filmed using a Panavision Millennium XL2 camera, but the choice of lensing depended on the period from which said scenes took place. Those that were set in 1995 and 2002 were captured with Panavision PVintage lenses. According to Arkapaw, these lenses produced softer imaging because they were made of recycled low contrast glass. As these scenes were written as a reflection of Cohle and Hart's memory, production wanted to make them as cinematic as possible, to reflect "the fragmentation of their lucid imaginations back through their past".[27] To achieve this, they relied on 40 mm lenses to exaggerate composition.[27] The 2012 scenes were shot with Panavision Primo lenses: the images they produced in comparison were sharper and had much more contrast, creating a modern aesthetic and helping "pull characters out from their environments to hopefully help audiences get inside their heads".[27]

Opening sequence

The creation of the season's title sequence was a collaboration between director Patrick Clair and his Santa Monica-based studio Elastic, Clair's Sydney-based studio Antibody, and Brisbane-based company Breeder.[34][35] Pizzolatto and Fukunaga wanted the team to emphasize southern Louisiana's remote landscape, which juxtaposes many of the characters' traits and personal, inner struggles. Clair stated that from the start he had an "unusually clear" vision of True Detective's finished opening sequence.[34] Using Richard Misrach's Petrochemical America (2012) as a template, the production team initially photographed the local scenery, which were woven together to form the core of the title sequence. By the time production began animating, they had faced several problems: photographic stills were too grainy and footage was too jagged. As a result, many shots were digitally altered and slowed to about a tenth of their original speed, which, according to Clair, "evoked a surreal and floaty mood that perfectly captured what we were after".[34]

Creation of a 3D effect required the design team to use an assortment of low poly meshes. Using a variety of animation and special effects techniques, these images were later superimposed "with painstaking care" to avoid a sterile, digitized look. Clair said, "The most crucial thing to me was that this didn't feel digital, so we went to great lengths to incorporate as much organic imagery as possible".[35] The sequence's final cut was polished using optical glitching and motion distortion techniques.[34] Season one's opening theme is "Far From Any Road", an alternative country song originally composed by The Handsome Family for their 2003 album Singing Bones.[35] The Sydney Morning Herald included the opening sequence in its list of the "Ten of the Best" title sequences on television.[36]

Music

The season incorporates gospel and blues songs, which were selected by Pizzolatto and T Bone Burnett; the pair opposed the use of Cajun music and swamp blues for the season's musical score because "it's already been done so much".[37] Artists featured in season one include Bo Diddley, The Staple Singers, Grinderman, Vashti Bunyan, and Captain Beefheart. Burnett said the score was intended to be character-driven, rather than inspired by other crime fiction series. He said:

It's all about the character ... [t]he depth of character is the breadth of music you get to use. So all I have to do is imagine what they're listening to, and imagine the stories rattling around in their heads. How do you strengthen that? How do you make that resonate? It's about having the songs become part of the storytelling.[37]

Burnett also composed original pieces with Cassandra Wilson and Rhiannon Giddens, the latter of whom used a Swarmatron synthesizer.[37]

Themes and influences

Masculinity is an established trope in season one of True Detective. The show's portrayal of its female characters—sex workers, the deceased, and "a nagging wife"—highlighted the "blinkered worldview and the very masculine, Southern cop culture they inhabited".[38] As such, the women "remained ancillary to the end".[38] In her analysis of season one, Salon's Janet Turley said women "become reflections of the men", given the True Detective universe is observed through the lenses of the show's male leads.[39] Sam Adams of Indiewire said the season's central story focused on "the horrible things men do to women", many of which are never reported or investigated by authorities. Adams said, "No one missed Dora Lange. Marie Fontenot disappeared, and the police let a rumor stop them from following up".[40] The role of women is only more profound because Cohle is made to suffer by virtue of his ex-wife and deceased daughter, and Hart is unable to "deal appropriately with the women who are there".[40]

True Detective also explores Christianity and the dichotomy between religion and rationality. Pizzolatto was born into a devout Catholic household; he said that as a child he saw religion as storytelling that acts "as an escape from the truth".[41] According to The Daily Beast, the season alludes to Pizzolatto's childhood and creates a parallel between Christianity and supernatural theology. "Both ... are stories. Stories people tell themselves to escape reality. Stories that 'violate every law of the universe.'"[41] It said this message is not critical of religion per se but religious zeal "can wind [you] up in some pretty sick places".[41] Jeff Jensen from Entertainment Weekly said the show becomes more self-aware through Cohle's harsh critiques of religion, which he views as a vehicle for commentary "about pop culture escapism".[42]

Pizzolatto used Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow as the backbone for much of the season's story.

Critics have offered many readings of the influence of weird and horror fiction on True Detective's narrative, specifically Thomas Ligotti and Robert W. Chambers' short story collection The King in Yellow (1895), as well as nihilism and philosophical pessimism.[43] Michael M. Hughes of io9 said True Detective's recurring use of yellow echoes that of The King in Yellow; in both cases, yellow symbolizes insanity, decadence, and mental illness.[44] "Carcosa" and "The Yellow King", both mentioned in Lange's personal diary, are motifs that describe her killer. Cohle, presented as the season's sympathetic lead, has a pessimistic view of humanity, which The Wall Street Journal's Michael Calia called "the prevailing one on the show".[45] The show's swampy, rural setting manifests its dark undertones, "seething with dread", and, according to Calia, channeling the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer; he said, "[e]xistence itself is the culprit in the show's central crime, which is not necessarily the murder of Dora Lange, but the tragedy of humanity".[45] Other philosophers identified as influences include Jim Crawford, Ray Brassier, Emil Cioran, David Benatar, and Eugene Thacker.[46] The Atlantic said True Detective was "Fincherian in the best sense", a fusion of Se7en (1995) and Zodiac (2007), because of its subject matter, sleek cinematography, and "vivid, unsettling" aura.[47]

Beside horror fiction, some commentators noted further influences from comic book literature. Adams likened Cohle to the protagonist of Alan Moore's The Courtyard and drew parallels with Grant Morrison's The Invisibles for the show's brief exploration of M-theory with one of Cohle's monologues.[48] ComicsAlliance and New York columnist Abraham Riesman cited Top 10 as the inspiration for the season finale.[49][50]

Reception

Reviews

The American press considered True Detective to be among the best television shows of 2014.[51] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season garnered a rating of 85% based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus says, "In True Detective, performances by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey reel the viewer in, while the style, vision and direction make it hard to turn away."[52] On Metacritic, season one has a score of 87 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[53]

British philosopher Nick Land called True Detective "the most intelligent series in TV history".[54] Tim Goodman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, said the acting, dialogue, and sleek production are its most satisfying attributes.[55] HitFix's Alan Sepinwall agreed and said these qualities "speak to the value of the hybrid anthology format Pizzolatto is using here ... points to a potentially fascinating shift in dramatic series television".[56] In his review for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson said the season successfully marries Fukunaga's "portentous, heavy palette" with Pizzolatto's script, producing "a captivating and offbeat tweak of a well-worn genre".[57] The Daily Telegraph critic Chris Harvey called True Detective "the most ambitious TV drama for a long time".[58] Andrew Romano in his review for The Daily Beast said the first half of the season forms "one of the most riveting and provocative series I've ever seen",[59] and by the fourth episode, Christopher Orr of The Atlantic calledTrue Detective "the best show on TV".[47]

The ensemble performances, chiefly those of McConaughey and Harrelson, were frequently mentioned in the critiques. Robert Bianco in USA Today wrote that the pair met, and occasionally exceeded, the "enormously high" performance expectations of the "golden age of TV acting".[60] David Wiegand of San Francisco Chronicle said the two men were "in a class of their own",[61] and Los Angeles Times journalist Robert Lloyd said their work was of "a very high order".[62] The Boston Globe singled out Monaghan for her work on the show,[63] as did Todd VanDerWerff from The A.V. Club, who wrote, "while her role is more thankless, she invests it with spirit".[64] Variety's Brian Lowry said the True Detective cast consisted of "fine players on the periphery".[65] RedEye, The Independent, and The Guardian also praised the ensemble performances.[66][67][68]

Some reviews were not as enthusiastic as the consensus about the season. The New York Times journalist Mike Hale and Slant Magazine said the script too readily deferred to religion as its narrative backbone.[69][70] Hank Steuver of The Washington Post said the show fell short of its own ambitions.[71] Emily Nussbaum from The New Yorker commended the show's fluid style but criticized its portrayal of women; she said it revelled in "macho nonsense".[72] James Poniewozik of Time wrote that, despite having strong characters in Cohle and Hart, "everyone around them is much more flat".[73]

Accolades

See also: List of awards and nominations received by True Detective
Award Category Nominee(s) Result
66th Primetime Emmy Awards[74] Outstanding Drama Series True Detective Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Matthew McConaughey Nominated
Woody Harrelson Nominated
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Cary Joji Fukunaga Won
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Nic Pizzolato Nominated
66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards[74] Outstanding Music Composition for a Series T Bone Burnett Nominated
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series Alexa L. Fogel, Christine Kromer and Meagan Lewis Won
Outstanding Make-up for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) Felicity Bowring, Wendy Bell, Ann Pala, Kim Perrodin, Linda Dowds Won
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series Adam Arkapaw Won
Outstanding Main Title Design Patrick Clair, Raoul Marks, Jennifer Sofio Hall Won
Outstanding Art Direction for a Contemporary or Fantasy Series Alex DiGerlando, Mara LePere-Schloop, Tim Beach, Cynthia Slagter Nominated
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series Affonso Goncalves Nominated
72nd Golden Globe Awards[75] Best Miniseries or Television Film True Detective Nominated
Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Matthew McConaughey Nominated
Woody Harrelson Nominated
Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Michelle Monaghan Nominated
30th TCA Awards[76] Outstanding New Program True Detective Nominated
Program of the Year Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries, and Specials Won
Individual Achievement in Drama Matthew McConaughey Won
4th Critics' Choice Television Awards[77] Best Drama Series True Detective Nominated
Best Actor in a Drama Series Matthew McConaughey Won
19th Satellite Awards[78] Best Drama Series True Detective Nominated
Best Actor in a Drama Series Woody Harrelson Nominated
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film Michelle Monaghan Nominated
21st Screen Actors Guild Awards[79] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Matthew McConaughey Nominated
Woody Harrelson Nominated
67th Writers Guild of America Awards[80] Dramatic Series Nic Pizzolato Won
New Series Won
67th Directors Guild of America Awards[81] Drama Series Cary Joji Fukunaga Nominated
2nd Location Managers Guild Awards[82] Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Television Series Batou Chandler Won

Viewership

True Detective debuted to 2.3 million U.S. viewers, becoming HBO's highest rated series premiere since the pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire.[83] Ratings remained steady and peaked at the season's finale, which drew 3.5 million viewers.[84] Season one attracted an average of 2.33 million viewers.[85] The series became HBO's most-watched new series, with a gross audience viewership of 11.9 million viewers per episode.[86]

Home media release

On June 10, 2014, HBO Home Entertainment released the first season of True Detective on DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. In addition to the eight episodes, both formats contain bonus content including interviews with McConaughey and Harrelson, Pizzolatto, and composer T Bone Burnett on the show's development; "Inside the Episode" featurettes; two audio commentaries; and deleted scenes from the season.[87]

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