True Detective — TV Episode Recaps & News

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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.

The Latest on True Detective

  1. time is a flat etc
    5 Possible Endings to Redeem True DetectiveDo we have to say it again? More crow mask!
    By Margaret Lyons
  2. fan theories
    Who Is True Detective’s Murderer? Here’s What Reddit Thinks.Remember that movie set?
    By Nate Jones
  3. push it
    Here’s a Button That Sums Up True Detective Season TwoBYO music-note emojis.
    By Margaret Lyons
  4. roll clip!
    Watch Marty Watch True Detective’s Second SeasonYikes.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  5. stay tuned
    Why Don’t People Stop Watching True Detective?Plus: What shows should you watch alone?
    By Margaret Lyons
  6. vulture tv podcast
    What’s the Downside to Marathon-Viewing?You really should be watching Rectify, you know.
    By Margaret Lyons and Matt Zoller Seitz
  7. time is a flat etc
    Maybe It’s Time to Start Thinking About True Detective Season 3More masks!
    By Margaret Lyons
  8. vulture remix
    True Detective Is Way Better Mashed Up With Starsky and HutchThe latest “Vulture Remix” addresses all your muscle-car needs.
    By Abraham Riesman
  9. tv
    True Detective and the Changing, Divisive Nature of the Aerial ShotPost-9/11 and post-NSA, the aerial imparts a new kind of unease, a more ambient dread.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  10. the vulture tv podcast
    Is True Detective Our New Hate-Watch?Do we watch with a combination of fascination and horror?
    By Gazelle Emami, Margaret Lyons, and Matt Zoller Seitz
  11. close listens
    The Story Behind True Detective’s Cover of ‘The Rose’That wasn’t an Elvis impersonator.
    By Paula Mejia
  12. close reads
    The David Lynchian Overtones of True Detective’s Second SeasonThe man is everywhere.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. theories
    So, What’s Going On Between Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Fukunaga?Sunday’s episode points to lingering bad blood.
    By Nate Jones
  14. The Art of the Title Sequence in True Detective“I think it’s actually a time for people to sit back and relax.”
    By John Horn
  15. design
    Ranking the Swank Modernist Homes of L.A. VillainsVillains live pretty well!
    By Greg Cwik and Wendy Goodman
  16. tv
    The Link Between Mad Men and True DetectiveWhat is it about Esalen that could be so essential to stories so divergent? 
    By Brian McGreevy
  17. chat room
    TD’s Abigail Spencer on Gena and Ray’s Backstory“There’s a lot of inner conflict around [the rape], which is going to play out over this season.”
    By Bruce Fretts
  18. True D’s Lynn Nothing Like the Singer She Plays“They gave me track marks for every shoot.”
    By Nate Jones
  19. the industry
    True Detective Season Two Premiere Up From Last Year’sBallers was also strong.
    By Josef Adalian
  20. the vulture tv podcast
    Orange Is the New Black’s Silent Norma SpeaksPlus, why it feels like True Detective had a humorectomy.
    By Margaret Lyons, E. Alex Jung, and Matt Zoller Seitz
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