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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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    The Real-Life Town That Inspired True Detective Season TwoMeet Vernon, California, an incorporated community where corruption charges outnumber people.
    By Nate Jones
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    What True Detective’s Credits Foreshadow About Season TwoParticularly as compared to season one’s titles.
    By Margaret Lyons
  3. What to Watch For on the New Season of True DetectiveThere’s a lot to untangle in Sunday night’s knotty plot with its interweaving story lines and visual clues.
    By Lisa Liebman
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    A History of True Detective’s New Theme Song, ‘Nevermind’A laconic, husky-throated dirge that hangs over the opening credits like a heavy fog.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Jimmy Fallon Plays True Confessions With the True DetectivesFeaturing Robert Durst.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  6. A Timeline of How We Got to True Detective’s Second SeasonA twisting trail of casting fake-outs, postal conspiracies, and rumored orgies.
    By Larry Fitzmaurice
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    True Detective’s Second Season Is Brooding, Sour, and Totally FascinatingIt often plays like a cousin of The Wire as directed by Michael Mann.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    How to Fawn Over True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto“When I was a boy and dreamed of literature, this is how I imagined a writer.”
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    What’s on TV for the Summer of 2015?From Orange Is the New Black to UnREAL.
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    True D Season 2 Will Have No Freaky Occult StuffNic Pizzolatto reveals there’s no more “secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.”
    By Nate Jones
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    The True Detective Season 2 Poster Is Foreboding As HellCome gather ‘round the fire.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    True Detective Season 2’s Most True Detective–y FacesThese guys have been practicing!
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    True Detective Season 2’s Most True Detective–y FacesThese guys have been practicing!
    By Lindsey Weber
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    Here’s Where We Stand on True Detective Season 2 [Updated]It’s not just a meme!
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    True D Will Finally Show Some ‘True D’ in ‘Colossal Orgy Sequence’HBO’s pervert executive strikes again!
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    Your Guide to New Star Trek 3 Director Justin LinThe Fast and Furious director is taking over for J.J. Abrams.
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    Ashley Hinshaw Lands a Role in HBO’s True Detective Season TwoShe will be troubled, apparently.
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    Here’s a Crazy Idea: Bring Back the Movie SerialA new entry every few months!
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