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True Detective - Season 1 (2014)

Posted By: angus77

Date: 20 Jun 2014 15:18:47

True Detective is an American television crime drama series on HBO created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, with the first season directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Season one stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson (both executive producers of the series), Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles, and uses multiple timelines to trace two Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division homicide detectives' hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana across seventeen years. The series premiered on January 12, 2014, and consisted of eight episodes which concluded on March 9, 2014. The series has received widespread critical acclaim.

The lives of two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana.

iMDB Rating: 9.4

Special Features:

Audio commentaries for episodes 4 & 5 - An interesting set of chats. The first is with creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto and composer/music supervisor T-Bone Burnett, and the second features those two gentlemen plus producer Scott Stephens. Though the commentators do quite often sit silently watching the show they made, when they do talk, their conversations about the actors, the story, the atmosphere and the themes of the show are entertaining and enlightening.

Making True Detective (15:01) - A pretty solid making-of featurette, with on-set footage and interview soundbites with the cast and creators.

Inside The Episode (36:01 total) - As with many of HBO's shows, these eight little featurettes allow viewers to get a post-game wrap-up of the episode they just watched and to get a sense of what the show's creators had in mind when they did what they did. While none of these pieces are earth-shattering, it's useful if you just want to have someone talk you through what you just watched – which might be something you need with this show.

Deleted Scenes (9:56 total) - Two sizable clips, neither of which seem like actual scenes that would have made the show. Instead, these are just longer uninterrupted takes of material we glimpse incorporated into other sequences within the show. The first is an uncut version of the sermon given by Rev. Joel Theriot (Boardwalk Empire's Shea Whigham) in episode 3; the second is a montage of images of the Louisiana coast expanded from the version in episode 8.

Up Close with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson (8:03 total) - Four short pieces that can be played separately or all together, where the two leads talk about working together on specific scenes. The last bit, which deals more generally with their frustrations with each other, seems to cut off just as it gets good and gossipy.

Conversation with Nic Pizzolato and T-Bone Burnett (14:24) - A fascinating discussion that begins with the topic of Burnett's signature musical score and his evocative use of source music cues, then continues into a broader exploration of the characters and the story of the series.

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