True Detective
Ongoing Crime Drama Thriller

True Detective

๐Ÿ“… Jan 2014 ๐Ÿ“บ 5 Season(s)
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Synopsis

Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. True Detective centers on troubled cops and the investigations that drive them to the edge. Each season features a new cast and a new case.True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto.ย 

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Season 1

In 2012, two homicide investigators of the Louisiana State Police's Criminal Investigations Division - Rustin "Rust" Cohle and Martin "Marty" Hart - are summoned for questioning by detectives Maynard Gilbough and Thomas Papania over the Dora Lange murder investigation of 1995; they have not seen nor spoken to each other since an altercation concerning Martin's wife Maggie Hart over a decade prior. With many of the old files destroyed in Hurricane Rita, the two men are asked to recount the history of their working relationship, personal lives, and the Dora Lange murder investigation, as well as a series of other related individual cases as new evidence suggests that the perpetrator remains at large.

8 episodes ยท 2014
  1. 1. The Long Bright Dark (Jan 13, 2014)
  2. 2. Seeing Things (Jan 20, 2014)
  3. 3. The Locked Room (Jan 27, 2014)
  4. 4. Who Goes There (Feb 10, 2014)
  5. 5. The Secret Fate of All Life (Feb 17, 2014)
  6. 6. Haunted Houses (Feb 24, 2014)
  7. 7. After You've Gone (Mar 3, 2014)
  8. 8. Form and Void (Mar 10, 2014)

Season 2

When California Highway Patrol officer and war veteran Paul Woodrugh discovers a crime scene, it attracts Vinci Police Department detective Ray Velcoro and Ventura County Sheriff's Office CID Ani Bezzerides to the investigation. Also involved is Frank Semyon, a career criminal and entrepreneur, who is married to Jordan.

8 episodes ยท 2015
  1. 1. The Western Book of the Dead (Jun 22, 2015)
  2. 2. Night Finds You (Jun 29, 2015)
  3. 3. Maybe Tomorrow (Jul 6, 2015)
  4. 4. Down Will Come (Jul 13, 2015)
  5. 5. Other Lives (Jul 20, 2015)
  6. 6. Church in Ruins (Jul 27, 2015)
  7. 7. Black Maps and Motel Rooms (Aug 3, 2015)
  8. 8. Omega Station (Aug 10, 2015)

Season 3

Partner detectives investigate a macabre crime involving two missing children in the heart of the Ozarks, Arkansas. The story spans three decades.

8 episodes ยท 2019
  1. 1. The Great War and Modern Memory (Jan 14, 2019)
  2. 2. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Jan 14, 2019)
  3. 3. The Big Never (Jan 21, 2019)
  4. 4. The Hour and the Day (Jan 28, 2019)
  5. 5. If You Have Ghosts (Feb 4, 2019)
  6. 6. Hunters in the Dark (Feb 11, 2019)
  7. 7. The Final Country (Feb 18, 2019)
  8. 8. Now Am Found (Feb 25, 2019)

Night Country

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 must confront their pasts and the dark truths lying underneath the Arctic ice.

6 episodes ยท 2024
  1. 1. Night Country: Part 1 (Jan 15, 2024)
  2. 2. Night Country: Part 2 (Jan 22, 2024)
  3. 3. Night Country: Part 3 (Jan 29, 2024)
  4. 4. Night Country: Part 4 (Feb 5, 2024)
  5. 5. Night Country: Part 5 (Feb 12, 2024)
  6. 6. Night Country: Part 6 (Feb 19, 2024)

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