True Detective season 1

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The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, aired in eight episodes between January 12 and March 9, 2014 on the premium cable network HBO. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson lead a five-actor principal cast as Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin "Rust" Cohle and Martin "Marty" Hart. Each True Detective season follows a self-contained story, characterized by distinct sets of characters, settings, and events with shared continuity. Framed as a nonlinear narrative, True Detective season one explores Cohle and Hart's recollection of their investigation of the murder of Dora Lange from 1995 to 2002. They must revisit the investigation ten years later, as new evidence implicates the perpetrator in a slew of other unsolved murders and disappearances. Subplots in the season center on the men's personal lives. Pizzolatto initially conceived True Detective as a novel, but pursued a television concept because...

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