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“How humanity pollutes the natural world has been a core True Detective inquiry, and Night Country confronts it by suggesting the land, especially in the corners of the world where humans were never supposed to survive, remembers things we forget. In Night Country, no one really knows why other people make the decisions they do, whether those choices are as mundane as turning down someone’s romantic overtures, as dangerous as demanding equal rights from the upper classes in a place with a colonial past, or as extraordinary as shedding one’s clothes and running out into the frozen tundra.” — Roxana Hadadi, “True Detective Crawls Back From the Void”

  1. Episode 8 Form and Void
    True Detective Recap: It’s the Little Things “Make flowers on me.”
  2. Episode 7 After You’ve Gone
    True Detective Recap: The Spaghetti Incident? Hart and Cohle ride again.
  3. Episode 6 Haunted Houses
    True Detective Recap: A Segway to Your Skull Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, but Hart knows it’s his own damn fault.
  4. Episode 5 The Secret Fate of All Life
    True Detective Recap: Another Brick in Dewall Go to bed. This isn’t about you.
  5. Episode 4 Who Goes There
    True Detective Recap: Use Your Wet Noodle Through the halfway point, the show is still building toward something big, but first, a detour to a biker bar.
  6. Episode 3 The Locked Room
    True Detective Recap: Don’t Mind If I Ledoux Um, is that creepy dude carrying a machete?
  7. Episode 2 Seeing Things
    True Detective Recap: Wake and Cake “I’m police. I can do to terrible things to people with impunity.”
  8. Episode 1 The Long, Bright Dark
    True Detective Pilot Episode Recap: Fight for Your Rite HBO’s dark, philosophical murder mystery starts with a bang.
  1. Episode 8 Omega Station
    True Detective Recap: The Evil That Men Do Time to wake up.
  2. Episode 7 Black Maps and Motel Rooms
    True Detective Recap: Sad and Lonely People Nothing remains but the rot and decay of their poorest choices.
  3. Episode 6 Church in Ruins
    True Detective Recap: The Great Escape Befores and afters.
  4. Episode 5 Other Lives
    True Detective Recap: By Hooker, by Crook Taking down the one percent.
  5. Episode 4 Down Will Come
    True Detective Recap: Hey, Man, Nice Shot That escalated quickly.
  6. Episode 3 Maybe Tomorrow
    True Detective Recap: Caddy Remarks Everyone hates ecigs.
  7. Episode 2 Night Finds You
    True Detective Recap: Death Crow The most scintillating character in “Night Finds You” is SoCal itself.
  8. Episode 1 The Western Book of the Dead
    True Detective Recap: Caspere the Friendly Ghost There’s very little to laugh about 60 minutes into this several-hour journey.
  1. Episode 8 Now Am Found
    True Detective Season Finale Recap: Nobody’s Gonna Hear It But Us The mystery draws to a close, then the episode just keeps going, a fitting end to a season as much about the investigators as their haunting case.
  2. Episode 7 The Final Country
    True Detective Recap: Somebody’s Got to Remember The season rebounds in a big way with an episode that perfectly balances the central mystery with impressive character work.
  3. Episode 6 Hunters in the Dark
    True Detective Recap: Under the Pink The season’s central mystery has finally come a little more into focus, but there’s still a lot that doesn’t add up.
  4. Episode 5 If You Have Ghosts
    True Detective Recap: Hardships and Tribulations Mid-season drag sets in with an episode that repeats much of what we’ve already seen — with one big exception.
  5. Episode 4 The Hour and the Day
    True Detective Recap: Major Cognitive Dissonance Is this season of True Detective’s fractured chronology working for it or against it?
  6. Episode 3 The Big Never
    True Detective Recap: Maps and Legends The central mystery of the Purcell abduction remains captivating, if increasingly bogged down by bits that don’t push the narrative forward.
  7. Episodes 1 - 2 The Great War and Modern Memory / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
    True Detective Recap: Into the Woods The Purcell case that will anchor this season begins simply enough — though this being True Detective, it doesn’t stay that way for long.
  1. Episode 6 Part 6
    True Detective: Night Country Season-Finale Recap: Ghost Town The sun finally rises for Danvers, Navarro, and the memory of Annie K.
  2. Episode 5 Part 5
    True Detective Recap: Bedtime Stories Pete now has his own tragic cover-up that will haunt him for the rest of his life.
  3. Episode 4 Part 4
    True Detective Recap: Night Country Now It’s getting more difficult to ignore the supernatural in Night Country.
  4. Episode 3 Part 3
    True Detective Recap: We Were Here Before Evangeline is beginning to feel the tension between her culture and her career, between who she is and what she does.
  5. Episode 2 Part 2
    True Detective Recap: The Slow Thaw Liz can no longer deny the connection between whatever happened at Tsalal and Annie’s unsolved murder.
  6. Episode 1 Part 1
    True Detective Season-Premiere Recap: The End of the World Issa López’s reimagined True Detective plunges Jodie Foster into perpetual darkness.

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    Mahershala Ali Cast In True Detective Season 3The man who invented yellow arrives to reinvent True Detective.
    By Jordan Crucchiola and Maria Elena Fernandez
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    Time to Get Your Hopes Up for a True Detective Season 3 Starring Mahershala AliYour casting dreams come True.
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    David Milch and Nic Pizzolatto Working Together on True Detective Season 3Will we finally get a show about the “secret occult history of the United States transportation system” Pizzolatto promised years ago?
    By Jordan Crucchiola
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    True Detective Season 3 May Happen After AllPossibly with someone other than Nic Pizzolatto in charge of writing it.
    By Whitney Friedlander
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    Matthew McConaughey Open to More True DetectiveMcConaughey would do more True Detective “the right way.”
    By Karen Brill
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    Why It Makes Sense to End the True Detective FranchiseIt’s just not worth the risk.
    By Josef Adalian
  8. unpopular opinions
    In Defense of True Detective Season TwoMaybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
    By Sean T. Collins
  9. the industry
    True Detective Probably Won’t Get a Third SeasonAccording to sources close to new HBO programming head Casey Bloys.
    By Nate Jones
  10. #feudseason2
    Which Celebrity Feuds Are Good Enough for Feud Season Two?Please, Ryan Murphy, bring us a season of J. Lo and Mariah Carey.
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    HBO Exec Takes Blame for True Detective S2“I set him up.”
    By Dee Lockett
  12. the industry
    HBO Inks Exclusive Deal With Nic PizzolattoThrough 2018.
    By E. Alex Jung
  13. Why Cronenberg Passed on True Detective Season 2[Sips tea.]
    By E. Alex Jung
  14. the industry
    True Detective: Assessing the DamageAnd what might happen behind the scenes of a potential third season.
    By Josef Adalian
  15. close reads
    The Modern Noir Has Atrophied (and It’s Not All True Detective’s Fault)All style and no substance.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  16. the vulture tv podcast
    Why Mr. Robot Succeeds Where True Detective FailsAnd what’s a cinematic TV show, anyway?
    By Gazelle Emami, Margaret Lyons, and Matt Zoller Seitz
  17. close reads
    True Detective: What Went WrongI defended it at first, but after a while I had to stop because it was making a fool of me.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  18. season finales
    The Winners and Losers of True Detective Season TwoCary Fukunaga: Winner! Vince Vaughn? Err …
    By Margaret Lyons
  19. [email protected]
    Let’s Talk About True Detective’s Season Two FinaleSo bad it’s good?
    By Gazelle Emami
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    Jimmy Fallon Owes Taylor Kitsch a Naked LapJohn Carter beat Jimmy Fallon in a game of beer hockey.
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