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 True Detective ( 2014-

True Detective is an American Crime Drama television series created and Hosted By HBO. The series premiered on January 12, 2014. Each season of the series is structured as a disparate, self-contained narrative, employing new cast and following various sets of characters and settings and Interesting cases.

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 Season 1

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This Season focuses on a flashback narrative story(Case),the season focuses on the lives of two Louisiana state police homicide detectives Rustin Cohle(Rust) and Martin Hart . Over a seventeen-year period, they must recount the investigation into the murder of prostitute Dora Lange and the histories of several other unsolved crimes, the perpetrator of which remains at large. During this time, Hart's personal problems threaten his marriage to Maggie , and Cohle struggles to cope with his troubled past. The season explores masculinity and Christianity, and the show's portrayal of women and the influences of horror and comic literature on its main narrative have been the subject of analysis.A serial killer is a easy person on books but very hard in reality.

Episode 1

January 3, 1995. State homicide detectives Martyand Rust investigate the murder of a prostitute, 28-year-old Dora Lange. Her corpse is found posed as if in prayer, her head is crowned with deer antlers, and her body is surrounded by twig latticeworks closely resembling  bird traps. Hart and Cohle focus on a five-year-old missing-persons case of a child named Marie Fontenot. Around the same time, another child claimed to have been chased through woods by a "green-eared spaghetti monster." Hart invites Cohle to dinner at Maggie's Idea but is infuriated when Cohle arrives drunk. While following up on the Fontenot disappearance, they discover another twig latticework.

Seventeen years later in May 2012, Hart and Cohle are separately interviewed about the Lange investigation by detectives Thomas Papania  and Maynard Gilbough . Hart and Cohle have not spoken since an altercation a decade ago. The crime scene of a recently slain woman closely resembles the Lange murder scene, suggesting that despite Cohle and Hart's claims of apprehending the killer in 1995, the killer may remain at large.

Episode 2

In 2012, Cohle reflects on his daughter's death in a car accident, which led to the collapse of his marriage and his spending four years as an undercover narcotics investigator. His undercover career ended with a lethal gunfight, after which he was hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. After his release, Cohle requested a job in homicide and was partnered with Hart, who is now divorced.

Flashback in 1995. Animosity between Cohle and Hart flares after Cohle suspects Hart is cheating on Maggie. Cohle is experiencing visual hallucinations caused by years of drug use as an undercover officer. Reverend Billy Lee Tutty, a celebrated evangelist and cousin of the governor, advocates a police task force focusing on "anti-Christian crimes," including the Lange murder. Hart and Cohle's investigation leads them to a remote ranch harboring runaway girls who work there as prostitutes. They find Lange's diary, which contains repeated references to "Carrossa" and a "YellowKing," at the ranch. In the wreckage of a burnt-out church Lange attended, they find a wall painting depicting a human figure wearing deer antlers.  

Episode 3

2012. The interviews continue, revealing Hart's questionable moral views and Rust's nihilistic sense of humanity.

1995. Hart and Cohle, after speaking with pastor Joel Theriot, learn that Lange was sometimes seen at church with a tall man with distinctive scarring. Their investigation continues in the face of pressure to turn the case over to Tuttle's new task force. Hart enters a jealous rage when he discovers his mistress Lisa  with another man. While researching old investigations, Cohle identifies symbols similar to the Lange case in the death of Rianne Olivier, which was classified as accidental. Hart and Cohle visit Light of the Way Academy, a religious school run by Tuttle that Olivier attended, but find it abandoned save for a groundskeeper. They discover that Olivier's boyfriend, Reggie Ledoux  is an ex-con who was a cellmate of Dora Lange's ex-husband, Charlie, and has since skipped parole. The techniques are improved now...

 

Episode 4

In 1995, Charlie Lange  says he showed pictures of Dora to Ledoux. Hart tracks down an associate of Ledoux and forces him to name the Iron Crusaders, a biker gang out of Texas for which Ledoux is now cooking , who previously was a member of the gang while undercover, takes personal leave to infiltrate it, saying he needs to visit his dying father. Lisa reveals the affair to Maggie, who leaves the house with their daughters. Hart confronts Maggie at her workplace; Cohle extricates him from a standoff with security officers. Cohle's contact in the Iron Crusaders, Ginger, promises access to the gang's meth supply in exchange for Cohle's (who is known to the gang as "Crash") help robbing a rival gang. The robbery goes badly, with fatalities on both sides and rising chaos in the rival gang's neighborhood. They Escaped.

In 2012, Hart and Cohle maintain the story of Cohle's sick father in the face of skeptical questioning.

 

Episode 5

By 2002, Hart and Maggie have reconciled and Cohle is dating again. While Cohle is consulting on a police interrogation, the prisoner asks for a bargain in exchange for information about Dora Lange's killer, who he claims is still at large and killing. He mentions the "Yellow King," which gets Cohle's attention. The prisoner kills himself in his cell before Cohle can investigate his claims. Cohle returns to Light of the Way Academy, where he finds dozens of twig sculptures and dark imagery on the walls.

In 2012, Papania and Gilbough tell Hart they suspect that Cohle, who they allege conveniently led Hart to every clue or lead in the case, has been orchestrating the killings. Cohle is also a person of interest in Rev. Billy Lee Tuttle's suspicious death two years earlier, which was around the time Cohle returned to Louisiana. Cohle walks out of his interview after the detectives accuse him.Angry and impatient Cohle.

Episode 6 

In 2012, Papania and Gilbough interview Maggie, who deflects their questions.Cohle and Rust Meet and are ready to talk now.

In 2002, Cohle links a series of missing persons to Tuttle-funded schools. A former pastor in Tuttle's ministries claims Tuttle covered up child molestation. Ledoux's surviving victim, now institutionalized with , tells Cohle about a third attacker—a giant man with scars—and begins screaming when Cohle asks her about the man's face. Tuttle complains to the police department following a tense meeting with Cohle, who has been warned to cease his investigation and is suspended from duty. Hart begins an affair with Beth , a former underage prostitute whom he interviewed in 1995 while working on the Lange case. After Maggie discovers the affair, she has sex with Cohle, because she knows that Hart would never forgive her for that. After she tells Hart, he and Cohle fight in the police station parking lot. Cohle quits the police force immediately after.

Episode 7

In 2012, Cohle presents Hart with evidence of a cult he believes is responsible for the disappearance of dozens of women and children along the coast in Louisiana. Among the evidence is a videotape of the ritualistic rape and murder of Marie Fontenot by men in costumes and masks, which Cohle stole from a safe in Rev. Tuttle's home. Cohle denies killing Tuttle, speculating that others did it to prevent Tuttle from being blackmailed over the tape. Hart, shaken from watching the videotape, agrees to join the investigation. They learn that Tuttle had an illegitimate half-brother with the surname Childress, whose son had scars on his face. They also learn that their former colleague Steve Geraci  was ordered by his boss, Ted Childress—then the sheriff of Vermilion Parish—to cut short his investigation of Fontenot's disappearance. Hart and Cohle accost Geraci to coerce the details from him, threatening him if he should try to go to the authorities or have them arrested. Gilbough and Papania ask the groundskeeper Cohle encountered at Light of the Way Academy in 1995 for directions to the burnt-out church. They drive off without noticing the lower part of his face is heavily scarred,They watch a horrible video as a evidence to the 1995 case.

Episode 8

In 2012, the "man with the scars" is shown living in a large house in squalor with a female relative with whom he has a sexual relationship. He speaks cryptically in multiple accents and keeps his father's decaying corpse in a shed on his property. Later, he goes to work painting a school, where he watches children on the playground. Hart and Cohle extract details from Geraci by showing him the Fontenot tape. Hart thinks the "green-eared spaghetti monster" may have been the scarred man covered in green paint after painting a house in Dora Lange's neighborhood in 1995. They trace the paint job to a small business owned by William Childress that employed a man with scars on his face. They visit William Childress's home—the house where the "man with the scars" lives. Cohle pursues the man, William Childress's son Errol, through a labyrinth of trees and tunnels that Errol identifies as Carcosa. At the end, Cohle discovers an idol draped in yellow and covered in skulls, and briefly sees a spiraling vortex. Cohle is then attacked by Errol. Hart discovers William's decaying corpse and runs to Cohle's aid. Hart and Cohle fight Errol; they are both severely wounded but Cohle manages to kill him. Hart calls Papania and Gilbough to the scene and arrive with backup. Hart and Cohle recover in hospital while Papania and Gilbough connect Errol to dozens of missing-person cases and murders, including Dora Lange's. The Tuttles escape prosecution. Hart breaks down in tears when Maggie and their daughters visit him. Cohle reveals that during his ordeal he felt the loving presence of his dead father and daughter, and the experience has given his life renewed purpose. The two detectives reflect on the universal battle between light and dark.

True Detective is a must watch show.the journey of two detectives who throw their ego and come together to solve a mystery case which was pending since 1995.Sometimes the culprit in right in front of us but still we miss it.True detective teaches a lot 

My Personal Rating For This True Detective's Season 1 - 9.4/10.0