True Detective

Anyone out there watching True Detective? The new HBO novel for television?
It consists of no more than 8 episodes, all written by novelist and screenwriter Nick Pizzolatto, directed by Cary Fukunaga, music by T Bone Burnett, and starring Mathew McConaughy and Woody Harrelson?

I just watched the first two episodes, and was mesmerized. I honestly think it's the best written, acted and directed show that I've seen since Breaking Bad, or on that same level.
Although that could change.

It's about an investigation into what occurred during an old case that went awry. Two cops, Rust Cohl and Martin Hart, reluctant partners, investigate a case back in Lousiana in 1995, over 10 years later, they are separately interviewed by the new cops working a similar case, to determine what happened during the old one.

Television critic Alan Sepinwall on True Detective:

“I have literally no interest in serial killers,” novelist Nic Pizzolatto told me while discussing “True Detective,” the new HBO drama series he created that debuts Sunday night at 9.

This seems a funny thing to say, given that “True Detective” is the story of two Louisiana cops, played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, investigating a serial killer case that spans 17 years. Even with “Dexter” gone, TV is awash in serial killer melodrama — some of it great, like NBC’s “Hannibal,” some of it stupid and self-congratulatory like FOX’s “The Following” — and “True Detective” lets McConaughey stand around grisly crime scenes tossing out phrases like "meta psychotic" and "paraphilic love map,” sounding very much like other fictional profilers.

But the more you watch “True Detective” — or, rather, the longer you remain under its hypnotic spell — the easier it is to understand Pizzolatto’s point. This is a show about duality and hidden identities (the opening title sequence features an array of ordinary images laid over other much darker ones), and one that's ultimately much, much less interested in the serial killer than it is in the two men chasing him.

And those men, as written by Pizzolatto and played by McConaughey and Harrelson, are riveting.

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-matthew-mcconaughey-woody-harrelson-amaze-in-hbos-true-detective#BWQ2DBPqH10BXc4P.99

I'd have to agree - the two detectives as portrayed by McConaughey and Harrelson are riveting. And the story has this eerie, twisty mystery that makes you want to know what happened with these men. And the narrative structure, which is two detectives in the present (2012) interviewing Martin and Cohl about their past, but interviewing them separately. It delves into how what we remember often varies from what is, and how people remember things differently.

Here's the trailer:

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