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True Detective

2014 – nowShow5 seasons · 30 episodesTV-MAReturning7 awards

DramaMystery
78
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.8Metacritic757.7
78
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.8Metacritic757.7

Summary

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.

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  • Friends night
  • Binge-friendly
  • Thought-provoking

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Fingerprint

  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Feasts your eyes.
  • Pulls you in.
  • Keeps you guessing.
  • Weighs on you.

Not for warmth, comfort or laughs.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Happiness Realized Too LateRare · in 16 titlesMarty acknowledges this as a fact of life when he looks back on his time investigating the crime in the 1990s, in between the present day (where he and Maggie have split up due to his infidelity), an…Arc Symbolin 522 titlesThe Devil traps, appearing at scenes associated with the murders.All 350 tropes

True Detective episodes

5 seasons · 30 episodes

  1. S1 E1 The Long Bright Dark, 8.9
  2. S1 E2 Seeing Things, 8.8
  3. S1 E3 The Locked Room, 9.1
  4. S1 E4 Who Goes There, 9.6
  5. S1 E5 The Secret Fate of All Life, 9.5
  6. S1 E6 Haunted Houses, 9.2
  7. S1 E7 After You've Gone, 9.2
  8. S1 E8 Form and Void, 9.6
  1. S2 E1 The Western Book of the Dead, 7.5
  2. S2 E2 Night Finds You, 7.6
  3. S2 E3 Maybe Tomorrow, 7.3
  4. S2 E4 Down Will Come, 8.1
  5. S2 E5 Other Lives, 7.6
  6. S2 E6 Church in Ruins, 8.2
  7. S2 E7 Black Maps and Motel Rooms, 8.5
  8. S2 E8 Omega Station, 8.0
  1. S3 E1 The Great War and Modern Memory, 8.5
  2. S3 E2 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, 8.0
  3. S3 E3 The Big Never, 7.7
  4. S3 E4 The Hour and the Day, 8.0
  5. S3 E5 If You Have Ghosts, 8.3
  6. S3 E6 Hunters in the Dark, 8.3
  7. S3 E7 The Final Country, 8.5
  8. S3 E8 Now Am Found, 8.0
  1. S4 E1 Night Country: Part 1, 7.1
  2. S4 E2 Night Country: Part 2, 6.8
  3. S4 E3 Night Country: Part 3, 6.3
  4. S4 E4 Night Country: Part 4, 6.2
  5. S4 E5 Night Country: Part 5, 6.8
  6. S4 E6 Night Country: Part 6, 5.5

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