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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. casting couch
    Colin Farrell in Talks for True DetectiveThings just got handsomer!
    By Margaret Lyons
  2. true detective season 2
    True Detective Will Have Four Leads NowOne more and it’s just an ensemble, folks.
    By Margaret Lyons
  3. Which of These 5 Opening Credits Sequences Deserves an Emmy?In other words, who has the best credits?
    By Brennan Carley
  4. Everything You Need to Know About This Year’s Best Comedy and Drama NomineesWe have a reading list for you!
    By Brennan Carley
  5. emmys wtf
    Why True Detective vs. Fargo Isn’t HappeningThe Emmy committee continues to vex with its strange category-submission rules.
    By Denise Martin
  6. and the winner is…
    Vulture TV Awards: Best MusicA score that’s happy to stay in the background.
    By Nathan Barr
  7. vulture tv awards
    Vulture TV Awards: The Year’s Best-Directed Scene Is From True DetectiveIt’s not the one you think.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  8. carcosa
    People Had Many Game of Thrones/Carcosa JokesThe three-eyed raven is the Yellow King.
    By Gilbert Cruz
  9. best laid plans
    Nic Pizzolatto ‘Can’t Imagine’ More Than 3 Seasons of True DetectiveTotal.
    By Margaret Lyons
  10. what could have been
    McConaughey Says He Would Do More True DetectiveToo late now.
    By Margaret Lyons
  11. casting
    True Detective: 8 Actresses Who Should Be Lobbying for the LeadFrom Reese Witherspoon to Lupita Nyong’o.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  12. memes
    And Then There Were Three: The #TrueDetectiveSeason2 Meme Gets a New SpinThree apparently is not a crowd.
    By Lindsey Weber
  13. coming attractions
    True Detective Will Have 3 Leads Next SeasonSays Nic Pizzolatto.
    By Margaret Lyons
  14. tv
    Jessica Chastain Confirms She Won’t Be on True Detective Season 2We’re still sad.
    By Jada Yuan
  15. rumors
    No, Jessica Chastain Will Not Be on True Detective’s New SeasonHopes? Dashed.
    By Margaret Lyons
  16. true detective season 2
    Reps Say That Jessica Chastain Will Not Be in True Detective Season 2Keep those suggestions coming.
    By Anna Silman
  17. upfronts 2014
    Seitz on the Rise of the Bespoke TV SeriesSmall-screen storytelling is finally breaking out of the box.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  18. emmys 2014
    The Emmy Race Just Got CrazierThe loosely defined category requirements have caused an increased amount of nomination hopscotch.
    By Denise Martin
  19. kudos
    True Detective Will Compete As Drama, Not MiniseriesFor this year’s Emmys.
    By Margaret Lyons
  20. craft work
    How True Detective’s Cinematographer Got These 9 Shots“Rust’s apartment was supposed to be a place that you don’t want to spend too much time in.”
    By Matt Patches
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