True Detective: Season 1

2014 · 8 episodes · ★ 8.7

What Season 1 of True Detective

In 2012, Martin Hart and Rust Cohle, two detectives from Louisiana, are interrogated by other police officers who suspect the killer has returned. The questions they face go back to 1995, when a young woman was found dead after a pagan ritual on the coastal plain in the south of the state. The series, created by Nic Pizzolatto, moves between several timelines. As they revisit the hunt for a serial killer with hidden ties that lasted seventeen years, the story focuses on their relationship, which has changed since they last worked together. The pressure from their boss also weighs on them, as he warns that they could be replaced by occult specialists.

8episodes

Jan 12, 2014premiered

Mar 9, 2014Latest episode

7.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 The Long Bright Dark
Jan 12, 2014 · 57 min · ★ 8.5
Former Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange, 17 years earlier. As they look back, details of the crime, replete with occult overtones, are accompanied by insights into the detectives’ volatile partnership and personal lives.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Kevin Dunn, Dana Gourrier, Madison Wolfe, Jay O. Sanders
1x02 Seeing Things
Jan 19, 2014 · 56 min · ★ 8.4
Under pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a new task force. The pair lobbies for extra time to follow up on a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church. With his marriage to Maggie already strained by work, Hart finds respite away from home.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Kevin Dunn, Dana Gourrier, Madison Wolfe, Lili Simmons
1x03 The Locked Room
Jan 26, 2014 · 56 min · ★ 8.7
A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Kevin Dunn, Dana Gourrier, Madison Wolfe, J.D. Evermore
1x04 Who Goes There?
Feb 9, 2014 · 55 min · ★ 9.0
Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting an East-Texas biker gang known to deal with their primary suspect.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Kevin Dunn, Dana Gourrier, J.D. Evermore, Brad Carter
1x05 The Secret Fate of All Life
Feb 16, 2014 · 55 min · ★ 8.9
A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his family, and Cohle starts a relationship while gaining a reputation as a closer in interrogations. As time passes and his daughters grow older, Hart faces new tensions and temptations, and Cohle learns from a double-murder suspect that there could be much more to an old case than he'd once thought. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting new intelligence that threatens Cohle and causes Hart to reassess everything he thought he knew about his former partner.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Kevin Dunn, Elizabeth Reaser, Christopher Berry, Dana Gourrier
1x06 Haunted Houses
Feb 23, 2014 · 56 min · ★ 8.5
Maggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Dana Gourrier, Brighton Sharbino, Erin Moriarty, Paul Ben-Victor
1x07 After You've Gone
Mar 2, 2014 · 51 min · ★ 8.6
Hart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Madison Wolfe, Tim Bell, Dave Davis, J.D. Evermore
1x08 Form and Void Season Finale
Mar 9, 2014 · 53 min · ★ 9.0
An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.
Directing: Cary Joji Fukunaga · Writing: Nic Pizzolatto · Starring: Madison Wolfe, Erin Moriarty, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Harney