In the first season of True Detective, the hook was instantaneous.
You put Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in front of a brutal, ritualistic murder scene and you’ve got yourself an audience — it’s as simple as that. True Detective was so unexpected and so in tune with its viewers that even its frequent stumbles weren’t enough to pull (most of) us out of its universe.
I was going to solve the mystery, regardless of the path HBO and creator Nic Pizzolatto wanted to take me down.
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