True Detective: The Long Bright Dark (2014)
Season 1, Episode 1
10/10
One of the best hour-long pilots
5 April 2023
It's amazing the amount of material they fit into this episode. Rust's character (McConaughey) is more fully previewed here compared to Marty (Harralson), but Rust was always the main character. Harralson has more work to do since Marty is a cop character that seems more familiar. He crushes it. I'd say his performance is the best in the show.

That said, the character of Rust is so good and McConaughey brings him to life in a way that makes Rust one of the all time best screen detectives.

There's so many combined clues or red herrings, suggestions, questions and mysteries in this episode. It's dizzying.

For fans of murder mysteries and southern gothic with the suggestion of the cultic/supernatural.
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