An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
StatusReturning Series
TypeScripted
Original LanguageEnglish
Network
Specials of True Detective premiered on January 7, 2014
Season 1 of True Detective premiered on January 12, 2014
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.
Season 2 of True Detective premiered on June 21, 2015
A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.
Season 3 of True Detective premiered on January 13, 2019
Season 3 tells the story of a macabre crime involving two missing children in the heart of the Ozarks, a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Night Country of True Detective premiered on January 14, 2024
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Jodie Foster
Liz Danvers
Kali Reis
Evangeline Navarro
Fiona Shaw
Rose Aguineau
Finn Bennett
Peter Prior
Isabella Star LaBlanc
Leah Danvers
John Hawkes
Hank Prior