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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. Watch Joel McHale and Jim Rash’s ‘True Detective’ Parody From last night’s episode of The Soup, here’s a sharp-looking True Detective parody starring Community duo Joel McHale and Jim Rash as an […]
    By Bradford Evans
  2. vulture quiz
    True or False Detective Quiz: Did Rust Say It?Can you distinguish Rust’s pontifications from those of McConaughey in Mud, Magic Mike, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?
    By Jesse David Fox
  3. true detective
    Watch The Soup Take on True DetectiveSay it again, Rust.
    By Margaret Lyons
  4. truths
    I Don’t Need True Detective to Solve Its CrimeWho cares about the murder? Give us more of Rust’s philosophies.
    By Margaret Lyons
  5. videos
    A Very Silly True Detective Yellow King TheoryWe were wondering who that guy was.
    By Gilbert Cruz
  6. james franco writes an essay
    Here’s What James Franco Thinks About Twin Peaks“I was in junior high when the series came on, and I was more interested in watching Beverly Hills, 90210.”
    By Lindsey Weber
  7. unusual acts of devotion
    True Detective: McConaughey Rust Cohle ChartThe “Four Stages of Rustin Cohle.”
    By Gilbert Cruz
  8. remakes
    See True Detective Done Law & Order StyleHooray for mash-ups.
    By Margaret Lyons
  9. The Best of This Week’s True Detective Recaps: ‘After You’ve Gone’Your recap of the recaps.
    By Anna Silman
  10. photos
    Let’s Talk About Those Creepy Rural Mardi Gras Pictures on True DetectiveIn reality, Courir de Mardi Gras has nothing to do with murder or creepy rape cults.
    By Anna Silman
  11. fact-check
    Ask a Philosopher: What’s Up With True Detective’s Rust Cohle?“He is drawn to the extreme fringes of philosophical speculation.”
    By Matt Patches
  12. good looks
    See Some Behind-the-Scenes True Detective PhotosWhat a fun-looking shoot.
    By Gilbert Cruz
  13. fantasy texts
    Director Cary Fukunaga Is an A+ Texter“I have a bunch of GIFs of Cary Grant in my phone that I send people.”
    By Margaret Lyons
  14. directors chair
    True Detective Director Cary Fukunaga Is Making a War MovieHe won’t be directing season two.
    By Jesse David Fox
  15. gifcap
    Here Are the Only Two GIFs You’ll Need From Last Night’s True DetectiveTime is a … Ugh, never mind.
    By Lindsey Weber
  16. chat room
    True Detective’s Michelle Monaghan Q & A“I have people coming up to me … telling me to give Marty another chance.”
    By Denise Martin
  17. supercuts
    Watch This Supercut of McConaughey Being a Downer on True DetectiveThings are not all right, all right, all right.
    By Abraham Riesman
  18. memes memes memes
    #TrueDetectiveSeason2: Good Jokes, Everyone!Pair the hashtag with an unlikely duo and poof: You’re a casting director.
    By Lindsey Weber and Jesse David Fox
  19. odd pairings
    That Time That Reggie Ledoux Hung Out With Richard Simmons“I couldn’t even leave the Hyatt because I didn’t want to go out in the street as Reggie Ledoux.”
    By Gilbert Cruz
  20. deep dives
    True Detective: Who Is the Yellow King? Here Are Some TheoriesCome down here into Carcosa with us.
    By Gilbert Cruz
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