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92-679: True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto . The series, broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States, premiered on January 12, 2014. Each season of the series is structured as a self-contained narrative, employing new cast ensembles, and following various sets of characters and settings. The first season , starring Matthew McConaughey , Woody Harrelson , Michelle Monaghan , Michael Potts , and Tory Kittles , aired in 2014. It takes place in Louisiana and follows

184-415: A C−, calling it "so unconvincing," adding "I couldn't believe how little all this resolution affected me after The Killing so thrillingly took my grudging engagement for a ride a few weeks ago. This is the same show that delivered Richmond’s hospital nightmare, the hunt for Holder, the anti-Western standoff " Sayonara, Hiawatha ," and the crazy train of the last two weeks? No, this is the full-circle episode,

276-534: A Drama Series for "Who Goes There". For the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards , the series was nominated for seven awards, and won four, including Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series and Outstanding Main Title Design. For the 67th Writers Guild of America Awards , the series won for Best Drama Series and Best New Series. For the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards , Harrelson and McConaughey both received nominations for Best Drama Actor. For

368-508: A case she had put behind her. The fourth season features detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder handling the fallout of their actions from the previous season while investigating the murder of a family whose only survivor is a member of an all-boys military academy. The pilot was ordered by AMC in January 2010 and then was picked up for a full series order in August 2010. The series

460-505: A collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology . Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express. Many popular old-time radio programs were anthology series. On some series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries , the only constant was the host, who introduced and concluded each dramatic presentation. One of

552-664: A different cast in each episode, but several series in the past, such as Four Star Playhouse , employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a different drama each week. Some anthology series, such as Studio One , began on radio and then expanded to television. The word comes from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία ( anthología , "flower-gathering"), from ἀνθολογέω ( anthologéō , "I gather flowers"), from ἄνθος ( ánthos , "flower") + λέγω ( légō , "I gather, pick up, collect"), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60   BCE, originally as Στέφανος ( στέφανος ( stéphanos , "garland")) to describe

644-410: A different cast of characters and self-contained narratives in various time periods and locations. When preparing season 4, subtitled Night Country , director and writer Issa López chose to create a "dark mirror" of the first season: "Where True Detective is male and it's sweaty, Night Country is cold and it's dark and it's female." In February 2024, following the fourth-season finale, HBO renewed

736-417: A female American character like her probably ever." Entertainment Weekly ' s Ken Tucker gave it a B+, saying, "The acting is strikingly good" and that "[s]ome viewers may find The Killing a little too cold and deliberate, but give it time. Its intensity builds steadily, giving the series unexpected power." Alex Strachan of The Vancouver Sun said the series "is soaked in atmosphere and steeped in

828-612: A fourth and final season consisting of six episodes. Cast members Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman returned, with Veena Sud as showrunner, and executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin returning as writers. Reviewers and fans of the first three seasons noted similarities and borrowed elements from David Lynch 's TV series Twin Peaks and the follow-up film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , and compared and contrasted Sud and Lynch's works. The series premiere

920-463: A lead role for the fourth season. The season, subtitled Night Country , is set in Alaska , and follows detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro as they investigate the disappearance of eight men from a research station . In June 2022, HBO officially greenlit the series and Kali Reis was cast in the lead role of Evangeline Navarro, a role that was originally conceived as Latina. The season

1012-570: A literature professor for the University of Chicago , the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and DePauw University . He also delved into fiction writing , having developed a fascination for it as a graduate student at the University of Arkansas . His first published work was the short story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea , released in 2006. The author published his debut novel, Galveston , four years later and around

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1104-563: A new type of anthology format in the U.S. Each season, rather than each episode, is a standalone story. Several actors have appeared in the various seasons, but playing different roles—in an echo of the Four Star Playhouse format. The success of American Horror Story has spawned other season-long anthologies such as American Crime Story and True Detective . Anthology film series are rare compared to their TV and radio counterparts. There have been several attempts within

1196-473: A number of photographers, including aerial shots captured by David Maisel . However, unlike season one, season two's title sequence incorporates deep, vivid gold and red color, thereby presenting "that more complicated view of California". Leonard Cohen 's "Nevermind" is the season two opening theme, which is a song from Cohen's 2014 album Popular Problems . The theme song's lyrics change with every episode, incorporating different verses from Cohen's song. For

1288-533: A pair of Louisiana State Police detectives, and their pursuit of a serial killer with occult links over a 17-year period. The second season , starring Colin Farrell , Rachel McAdams , Taylor Kitsch , Kelly Reilly , and Vince Vaughn , aired in 2015. It is set in California , and focuses on three detectives from three cooperating police jurisdictions and a criminal-turned-businessman as they investigate

1380-458: A pool of candidates Pizzolatto had in mind for star billing. Although the actor was to play Detective Martin "Marty" Hart, he later convinced Pizzolatto to cast him as Cohle. Instead, Harrelson was assigned the role of Hart at McConaughey's request. Michelle Monaghan played the female lead Maggie Hart, while Michael Potts and Tory Kittles were given the roles of Detectives Maynard Gilbough and Thomas Papania, respectively. Major recurring roles in

1472-522: A possible conspiracy within the campaign race and the Seattle police department. The Larsen murder case gets closed with the discovery of those involved in it. A year after the Rosie Larsen case, Stephen Holder searches for a runaway girl and uncovers a string of murders connected to one of Sarah Linden's previous murder investigations. Linden, no longer a detective, must return to both a career and

1564-586: A remote sugarcane field outside of Erath , in addition to real life locations such as Fort Macomb , a nineteenth-century fort located outside of New Orleans . California was selected as the setting for True Detective 's sophomore season. Producers were urged to avoid filming in Los Angeles and, instead, focus on the more obscure regions of the state to "capture a certain psycho-sphere ambiance". Production began in November 2014. The third season

1656-436: A score of 68/100 based on reviews from 23 critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 67% approval rating with an average rating of 7.0/10, based on 30 critic reviews; the website's critics consensus reads, " The Killing 's second season feels a bit tedious and unsure of where it wants to go, but it succeeds in keeping the audience on its toes, thanks to consistently fantastic acting and some strategic storytelling." Lori Rackl of

1748-589: A series of crimes they believe are linked to the murder of a corrupt politician. The third season , starring Mahershala Ali , Carmen Ejogo , Stephen Dorff , Scoot McNairy , and Ray Fisher , aired in 2019. It takes place in the Ozarks over three time periods as a pair of Arkansas State Police detectives investigate a macabre crime involving two missing children. The fourth season , titled True Detective: Night Country and starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis , aired in 2024. It takes place in Alaska and follows

1840-415: A third season, which takes place in the Ozarks over three decades. The first two episodes were directed by Jeremy Saulnier ; he had been expected to direct the third episode, but had to exit the series due to scheduling conflicts. In March 2018, it was announced that Daniel Sackheim was added as director and that he and Pizzolatto would direct the remaining six episodes. Pizzolatto is the sole writer, with

1932-609: A two-year contract extension with HBO, effectively renewing the series for two additional seasons. Much like its predecessor, season 2 of True Detective consists of eight episodes, all written by Pizzolatto. However, the responsibility of directing was assigned to several people. Justin Lin directed the first two episodes. Fukunaga, who directed all of season one, did not return as director; he remains, however, an executive producer, as do McConaughey and Harrelson. Pizzolatto hired fellow novelist Scott Lasser to help develop and write stories for

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2024-458: A viewer watches the show during the report period (including DVR recordings , reruns, and streaming on HBO Go ). The season averaged 2.33   million total live plus same-day viewers, with viewership numbers generally trending upward over the course of the season. The premiere was the second most-watched series debut for the network with 2.3   million viewers, behind Boardwalk Empire 's 4.8   million in 2010. The sixth episode of

2116-406: A way that is how a story should be told." AMC announced on July 27, 2012 that the series would not be renewed for a third season. However, Fox Television Studios announced that they were attempting to shop the show to other networks. In August 2012, it was revealed that Fox Television Studios was in talks with both DirecTV and Netflix in an attempt to revive the series. In November 2012, it

2208-512: A weekly program from the second season until the end of its run in 1956. Ida Lupino was brought on board as the de facto fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, and Niven, she owned no stock in the company. American television networks would sometimes run summer anthology series which consisted of unsold television pilots . Beginning in 1971, the long-run Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology series brought British productions to American television. In 2011, American Horror Story debuted

2300-587: A well-worn genre". Despite its critical regard, some critics were not as enthusiastic in their reviews of season one. The New York Times journalist Mike Hale thought the script too readily deferred to religion as its narrative backbone, as did Chris Cabin from Slant Magazine . Hank Steuver of The Washington Post wrote that True Detective failed to realize its own ambition. The ensemble performances, namely McConaughey and Harrelson, were frequently mentioned in reviews. Robert Bianco in USA Today wrote that

2392-465: Is "Far from Any Road", an alternative country song originally composed by The Handsome Family for their 2003 album Singing Bones . The Sydney Morning Herald included season one's opening sequence in their list of the "Ten of the Best" title sequences on television. Clair took a similar approach to creating the title sequence for True Detective ' s second season. Production used material from

2484-558: Is filmed in Vancouver , British Columbia , with some scenes in season two filmed in Coquitlam , British Columbia , at Riverview Hospital . Production began on the pilot episode on December 2, 2010. The pilot is written by series creator and executive producer Veena Sud and is directed by Patty Jenkins . In contrast to the original Danish series , executive producer Veena Sud explained, "We're creating our own world. We are using

2576-520: Is florid to a fault and so unrelentingly grim that it becomes about as much fun as being stuck in L.A. traffic." On Metacritic , the season has a score of 61 out of 100, based on 41 critics. David Hinckley of the New York Daily News gave it a very positive review, and wrote: "It's still the kind of show that makes TV viewers reach for phrases like 'golden age of television drama'" and "the second installment of True Detective goes out of

2668-523: Is the prime suspect in the murder investigation and discuss their theories about the case and its suspects with other fans. A personality quiz titled "How Would You Be Cast in a Crime Thriller?" telling users what part they would be cast in on The Killing based on their reactions to various crime-related situations was also released prior to season one. AMC's The Killing website also featured exclusive sneak-peek and behind-the-scenes videos, trivia games, numerous photo galleries, episode and character guides,

2760-418: Is the same.  But the story, packed inside a single minute, stands on its own." The first actor to be cast for True Detective was Matthew McConaughey , who acted as Detective Rustin "Rust" Cohle . McConaughey came to Pizzolatto's attention for his performance in the 2011 thriller film The Lincoln Lawyer , and was contracted before the series was commissioned by HBO. He and Woody Harrelson were among

2852-475: The Chicago Sun-Times stated: "Few television shows are as addictive as this pensive, wonderfully paced suspenser." The Washington Post ' s Hank Stuever stated: "My own enjoyment of The Killing begins and ends with the gloom so brilliantly conveyed by its pace and performances." Brian Lowry of Variety stated the series remained "compelling," adding that "the writers... are adept at overcoming

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2944-486: The 40th TCA Awards , Night Country received nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Drama and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Drama (for Foster). Anthology series An anthology series is a written series, radio , television , film , or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode , season , segment, or short . These usually have

3036-485: The 4th Critics' Choice Television Awards , the series was nominated for Best Drama Series , and McConaughey won for Best Actor in a Drama Series . For the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards , the series was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, Harrelson and McConaughey were both nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Pizzolatto was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "The Secret Fate of All Life", and Fukunaga won for Outstanding Directing for

3128-412: The 72nd Golden Globe Awards , the series was nominated for Best Miniseries or Television Film , Harrelson and McConaughey were both nominated for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film , and Monaghan was nominated for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film . For the 67th Directors Guild of America Awards , Fukunaga was nominated for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series for

3220-503: The Golden Age of Television of the 1950s with series such as The United States Steel Hour and The Philco Television Playhouse . Dick Powell came up with an idea for an anthology series, Four Star Playhouse , with a rotation of established stars every week, four stars in all. The stars would own the studio and the program, as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had done successfully with Desilu studio. Powell had intended for

3312-493: The Danish series as a blueprint, but we are kind of diverging and creating our own world, our world of suspects and, potentially, ultimately who killed Rosie Larsen." Sud describes the series as "slow-burn storytelling in a sense that every moment that we don't have to prettify or gloss over or make something necessarily easy to digest, that we're able to go to all sorts of places that are honest, and dark, and beautiful and tragic, in

3404-489: The acting "tremendous" and saying that he "was instantly hooked by the moody atmosphere of this season-long murder mystery set in Seattle." He went on to say, "What really stands out for me, in this age of cookie-cutter procedurals, is how The Killing dramatizes the devastation a violent death has on a family, a community, on the people involved in the investigation. Nothing about this show is routine." Subsequent episodes were met with lesser praise by some critics, criticizing

3496-408: The characters... I honestly feel like any kinder feelings I have for the second season came from the complete lack of investment I had in it." Sean McKenna of TV Fanatic rated the finale 4.7 out of 5 stars, but, upon first viewing, "wasn't sure what to feel. I wasn't elated. I wasn't excited" but after watching it again was "sucked into the world, mesmerized not by the victory of our hero cops... but by

3588-403: The complete series is streaming in the United States on both Hulu and Amazon Prime Video , with none of the seasons hosted on Netflix. Season-one promotion on AMC's The Killing website included "Rosie's Room", a virtual simulation of murder victim Rosie Larsen's bedroom that users could explore in order to learn more about Rosie's life and search for secrets and clues that could help lead to

3680-450: The discovery of who is responsible for her untimely death. Users could peek inside Rosie's dresser, look under her bed, listen to her answering machine messages, flip through her vinyl record collection, and explore her laptop computer to access her social networking profile, vlogs, photos, and emails. Season-one promotion also included an interactive application called the "Suspect Tracker" whereby users could vote each week for who they think

3772-558: The duo met, and even exceeded occasionally, the "enormously high" performance expectations of the "golden age of TV acting". David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times journalist Robert Lloyd singled out the two men for their work in the series; The Boston Globe did the same for Monaghan. Variety 's Brian Lowry said the True Detective cast consisted of "fine players on

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3864-623: The earliest such programs was The Collier Hour , broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932. As radio's first major dramatic anthology, it adapted stories and serials from Collier's Weekly in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post . Airing on the Wednesday prior to each week's distribution of the magazine, the program soon moved to Sundays in order to avoid spoilers with dramatizations of stories simultaneously appearing in

3956-653: The end "insulting." Finally, Maureen Ryan of AOL TV said that the finale "killed off any interest I had in ever watching the show again." "[The show] began last spring looking like the smartest, most stylish pilot in years," complained Heather Havrilevsky in The New York Times Magazine . "Fast-forward to the finale, in which we learn that what we've been watching is actually a 26-hour-long episode of Law & Order , and we're only halfway through it." The early seasonal episodes received generally favorable reviews from critics, with Metacritic giving it

4048-490: The episode "Who Goes There". Night Country garnered a total of nineteen nominations at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards , thus becoming the most nominated season of the show. Foster won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie . Among many, it received nominations for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series , Outstanding Supporting Actor (for Hawkes), Outstanding Supporting Actress (for Reis), Outstanding Directing and Writing (for Lopez). At

4140-484: The exceptions of episodes 4 and 6 which he co-wrote with David Milch and Graham Gordy, respectively. Mahershala Ali was cast as the lead character, playing Wayne Hays , a state police detective from northwest Arkansas. Ray Fisher plays Wayne's son, Henry Hays; Carmen Ejogo plays Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980; Stephen Dorff plays Roland West, an Arkansas State Investigator; Scoot McNairy plays Tom Purcell,

4232-427: The father of the missing children; and Mamie Gummer plays Lucy Purcell, the mother of the missing children. In March 2022, it was reported that a fourth season of True Detective was in development, with Issa López writing a pilot episode and Barry Jenkins as executive producer. López would also direct the pilot if HBO moved forward with the project. In May 2022, it was reported that Jodie Foster would star in

4324-416: The first [season] into an obsession for many seems to have drained out of writer Nic Pizzolatto's prose." Sean T. Collins of Rolling Stone gave it a negative review and described the season as having "emerged as the year's most passionately disliked show", and described it as a "squandered opportunity" for Nic Pizzolatto. The third season received positive reviews, in comparison to the mixed reception of

4416-480: The first season garnered a rating of 91%, based on 99 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "In True Detective , performances by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey reel the viewer in, while the style, vision and direction make it hard to turn away." On Metacritic , season one scored an 87 out of 100, based on 41 critics. Reviewers from The Daily Beast , The Atlantic , and The Daily Telegraph cited True Detective as

4508-482: The first season include Kevin Dunn as Major Ken Quesada and Alexandra Daddario as Lisa Tragnetti. Daddario appeared in a four-episode arc as a court reporter having an extramarital affair with one of the main characters; her nude scene with Woody Harrelson attracted much attention. Cary Joji Fukunaga was appointed as director of True Detective 's first season. He competed with Alejandro González Iñárritu for

4600-447: The first season's 11.9   million. The third season's two-episode premiere drew 1.4 and 1.2 million viewers in linear television format; this was a decline from the first two seasons. The fourth-season premiere received 2   million viewers, including viewership from its linear HBO airing and streaming on Max . Viewership for the fourth season steadily increased with each episode, culminating in 3.2   million total viewers for

4692-592: The first season, Clair and his team took a variety of photos of the Louisiana scenery, which became the sequence's backbone. They superimposed these images onto low poly meshes , thanks to the use of various animation and special effects techniques. This was a meticulous process for production, since they wanted to avoid creating a digitized look for the sequence. Once its final cut took form, the team polished it by employing optical glitching and motion distortion technique. True Detective ' s season one opening theme

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4784-479: The first two weeks of the investigation of the murder of local teenager Rosie Larsen and has three main storylines: the police investigation into Rosie's murder, the Larsen family's attempts to deal with their grief, and the fluctuating electoral fortunes of a political campaign that becomes embroiled in the case. The season resumes the investigation into the murder and reveals secrets about the Larsen family as well as

4876-407: The fourth season had commenced. Producer Mari-Jo Winkler and writer-director Issa López both announced that filming had finished in early April 2023. The season premiered on January 14, 2024. True Detective 's first season received widespread acclaim from television critics, with several naming it among the best television dramas of the year. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ,

4968-400: The fourth season, Night Country , a new sequence was commissioned from London-based Peter Anderson Studios, set to Billie Eilish 's song " Bury a Friend ", a major influence on the show cited by showrunner Issa López. As the fourth season sought to distinguish itself visually from prior entries, Anderson chose not to use superimposed images. Instead, the company was flown out to Iceland to film

5060-426: The gut-wrenching moments that unfolded." CraveOnline 's William Bibbiani called the finale "an odd duck." After citing Jamie's early revelation as "melodramatic silliness," Bibbiani added: "The rest of the episode gets its job done, with one major, glaring flaw. The characters end up more or less where they need to be, but some nearly ridiculous loose ends remain." Brandon Nowalk of The A.V. Club rated this finale

5152-513: The horror genre to have a franchise with an anthology format, such as with the Halloween franchise where the third film, Halloween III: Season of the Witch , was meant to be the beginning of a series of anthology horror films, but due to negative reception that plan was shelved. Anthology video games have been very rare since the 1980s. The Killing (American TV series) AMC announced

5244-411: The investigation into the sudden disappearance of a team of eight men from a research station. Issa López serves as writer and director, marking Pizzolatto's first time as neither writer nor showrunner. The first season received widespread acclaim and earned high ratings for HBO. It received numerous awards , chiefly for its acting, cinematography, writing, and direction. Reception to the second season

5336-498: The magazine. Radio anthology series provided for science fiction , horror , suspense, and mystery genres (all produced in the US, unless noted): The final episode of Suspense was broadcast on September 30, 1962, a date that has traditionally been seen as marking the end of the old-time radio era. However, genre series produced since 1962 include: In the history of television, live anthology dramas were especially popular during

5428-422: The majority of the sequence "from scratch", using the same props and locations as the show itself. Although certain scenes involved CGI (such as the final shot of a car parked on the sea ice) and underwater sequences were filmed in a tank, the majority of the sequence was real footage. This allowed Anderson to recreate the arc of the story in miniature, tantalizing the audience with the unfolding story: "[t]he setting

5520-403: The most acclaimed since the first season. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has an approval rating of 92% based on 206 reviews with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Frighteningly atmospheric and anchored by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis' superb performances, Night Country is a fresh and frosty variation on True Detective ' s existential themes." On Metacritic,

5612-421: The one that takes the show back to its roots. Wah wah." Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 67% approval rating with an average rating of 7.3/10, based on 30 critic reviews; the website's critics consensus reads, "Though The Killing ' s third season doesn't do anything much differently than before, it continues to benefit from strong acting, and new viewers should be able to jump right in with ease." On Metacritic,

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5704-416: The parts of the show that do work, then it's not bad." The season finale, " What I Know ," received mixed reviews. Sepinwall stated: "I'd like to say that season 2 of The Killing was an improvement on season 1, and in some ways, it probably was. The second season certainly did a better job of doing what Veena Sud claimed to be doing last year, in that it took advantage of the extra time to sketch in some of

5796-544: The periphery". True Detective 's second season received mixed reviews. Praise was given to the performances of Farrell, McAdams and Kitsch, cinematography, and action sequences. However, many critics felt it was weaker than the first season. Most criticism focused on the convoluted plot and dialogue. On Rotten Tomatoes , the season has a rating of 47%, based on 127 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Despite some memorably grizzled performances, True Detective ' s second season

5888-518: The position, but Iñárritu dropped out because of other film commitments. To prepare, Fukunaga conducted research with a real-life homicide detective of the Louisiana State Police 's Criminal Investigations Division. The director brought on Adam Arkapaw as the project cinematographer , and hired Alex DiGerlando, who he worked with on Benh Zeitlin 's Glory at Sea (2008), as the production designer. In January 2014, Pizzolatto signed

5980-437: The program to feature himself, Charles Boyer , Joel McCrea , and Rosalind Russell . When Russell and McCrea backed out, David Niven came on board as the third star. The fourth star was initially a guest star. CBS liked the idea, and Four Star Playhouse made its debut in fall of 1952. It ran on alternate weeks only during the first season, alternating with Amos 'n' Andy . It was successful enough to be renewed and became

6072-522: The same time began preparing to branch out into the television industry (earlier attempts were never realized due to lack of capital). Intended to be Galveston 's follow-up, Pizzolatto felt True Detective was more suited to film. Pizzolatto shopped the novel to two TV executives, and, once he secured a deal in May 2010, drafted six screenplays , including the pilot episode (" The Long Bright Dark ") script, which ran 90 pages. He devoted another script for

6164-515: The season finale and averaged 12.7   million cross-platform viewers for the season, to become the most-watched season of the series. For the 30th TCA Awards , True Detective won for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries, and Specials and received nominations for Outstanding New Program and Program of the Year ; and McConaughey won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Drama . For

6256-488: The season has a score of 53/100 based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". When it premiered, the pilot was AMC 's second-highest original series premiere, following The Walking Dead . The premiere drew 2.7 million viewers and a 2 household rating. The two encores of the premiere episode brought the ratings of the premiere up to a total of 4.6 million total viewers and a 3.7 household rating. The UK premiere on Channel 4 brought in 2.2 million viewers. In

6348-455: The season has a score of 69/100 based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 47% approval rating with an average rating of 6.5/10, based on 19 critic reviews; the website's critics consensus reads, "While its characters still intrigue and its atmosphere remains absorbingly dark, The Killing succumbs to silliness in its fourth season, straying into distractingly overwrought territory." On Metacritic,

6440-413: The season has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 46 critics. With an average gross audience of 11.9   million viewers, the first season of True Detective was HBO 's most-watched show in its first year of airing, surpassing Six Feet Under ' s 11.4   million viewers in 2001. This rating system counts all airings of a show in its average audience rating, no matter how many times

6532-425: The season was watched by 2.6   million viewers, and became the first episode to surpass the premiere, while the season-finale was watched by 3.5   million viewers, a 50% increase over the premiere's ratings. The second-season premiere sustained the viewership numbers of the first season, as the episode was watched by 3.2   million viewers. However, the season's ratings kept a generally downward trend, as

6624-438: The season-finale was watched by 2.7   million viewers, a 22% drop in comparison to the final episode of the first season. Nevertheless, it was the most-watched telecast for the day it aired, drawing an additional 550,000 total viewers from the season's penultimate episode. Overall, the second season of the series averaged 2.61   million total viewers, and 11.3   million viewers in gross audience numbers, slightly below

6716-545: The second half of the season. The season's first significant casting was Colin Farrell as Detective Raymond "Ray" Velcoro. Vince Vaughn , playing the role of criminal and entrepreneur Frank Semyon, was officially cast toward the end of the month. By November, True Detective 's principal cast expanded to include Rachel McAdams as Detective Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides, Taylor Kitsch as California Highway Patrol Officer Paul Woodrugh, and Kelly Reilly as Jordan Semyon, Frank's wife. In August 2017, HBO officially greenlit

6808-455: The second season, the viewership and ratings dipped to a series low 1.59 million viewers and 0.6 rating with adults aged 18–49. In March 2013, Netflix closed negotiations with Fox Television Studios with a deal to be the exclusive subscription service for the series' third season. Netflix streamed the season approximately three months after its finale. It already provided the first two seasons. In November 2013, Netflix announced it picked up

6900-461: The second season. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 84%, based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 7.65/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Driven by Mahershala Ali's mesmerizing performance, True Detective ' s third season finds fresh perspective by exploring the fallibility of memory." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 35 critics. The fourth season has received widespread critical acclaim,

6992-441: The series for a fifth season with López returning in her roles. The initial location for principal photography of True Detective 's first season was Arkansas , but Pizzolatto later opted to film in Louisiana, which was cheaper due to its generous film-tax incentive program . Production lasted 100 consecutive days, and each episode was shot on 35mm film . The crew filmed exterior shots of various constructed sets, including

7084-406: The series for a fourth and final season after AMC had canceled it. By July 2018, it was reported that the first three seasons would be removed from Netflix on August 1, 2018. However, all four seasons were removed from the service in several countries on that date, with only Australia and New Zealand still hosting the complete series and Japan hosting the fourth season. As of January 2019 ,

7176-434: The series shortly after his departure from The Killing ' s writing staff in 2011, thanks to the support of Anonymous Content . The final copy, amounting to 500 pages, was written without the aid of writing staff. By this time, Pizzolatto secured a development deal with HBO, and by April 2012, the network commissioned True Detective on an order of eight episodes. Set up as an anthology series , each season will feature

7268-534: The series's cancellation in July 2012, but picked it up for a third season after a renegotiation with Fox Television Studios and Netflix . The Killing was again cancelled by AMC in September 2013, but Netflix announced in November 2013 that it had ordered a fourth season consisting of six episodes to conclude the series. The complete fourth season was released on Netflix on August 1, 2014. The first season covers

7360-446: The show would be returning to AMC, planning for a May 2013 debut, with production set to begin months before that. Cast members Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman were confirmed to return, with Veena Sud as showrunner and returning writers including executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin . On December 12, 2012, it was confirmed that cast members Billy Campbell , Michelle Forbes , and Brent Sexton would not return for

7452-486: The show's reliance upon increasingly implausible red herrings to drive each episode and the withholding of details about each character's background, especially Rosie's, thus making them difficult to relate to or empathize with. The first-season finale was met with negative reviews from some critics. The Los Angeles Times called it "one of the most frustrating finales in TV history," with Alan Sepinwall of HitFix.com calling

7544-413: The stark realism of Scandinavian crime novelists Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson " and that it "is not as much about a young girl's murder as it is a psychological study of what happens afterward, how a tight-knit community tries to recover and how a dead child's mother, father and siblings learn to deal with their pain in their own private ways." Matt Roush of TV Guide applauded the series, calling

7636-424: The stodgy pace by dangling tantalizing clues near each hour's end, creating a strong pull to see what transpires next." HitFix 's Alan Sepinwall compared this season to the first and called it "better." He added: "The performances are still good, and now the characterization is a bit better. When you add that to the fine atmosphere... and you view the mystery itself as a kind of necessary evil that allows you to see

7728-537: The strongest show in recent memory. Tim Goodman from The Hollywood Reporter said the acting, dialogue, and sleek production were the series' most redeeming qualities. HitFix 's Alan Sepinwall agreed, and believed that these attributes "speak to the value of the hybrid anthology format Pizzolatto is using here ... points to a potentially fascinating shift in dramatic series television". Richard Lawson , writing for Vanity Fair , said that Pizzolatto and Fukunaga's sensibilities produce "a captivating and offbeat tweak of

7820-458: The third season. On January 15, 2013, AMC and Fox Television Studios announced that the series had been renewed for a 12-episode third season. Production started on February 25, 2013, in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada, and ended on June 25, 2013. AMC ultimately canceled the series after the third season in September 2013. However, in November 2013, two months after its cancellation, Netflix announced it had picked up The Killing for

7912-421: The way not to echo the first". Hank Stuever of The Washington Post gave it a generally positive review, praising the performances, and wrote: "There is something still lugubrious and overwrought about True Detective , but there's also a mesmerizing style to it — it's imperfect, but well made." A mixed review came from Brian Lowry of Variety , who wrote: "Although generally watchable, the inspiration that turned

8004-418: Was confirmed that Fox Television Studios was in final negotiations with Netflix to continue the series for a third season. AMC, which had originally canceled the show, was also included in the deal, which would gain the network the privilege of airing the new episodes before being hosted by Netflix, in return for sharing any associated production costs with Netflix. Variety reported on November 30, 2012, that

8096-565: Was filmed at various locations throughout Northwest Arkansas, including Fayetteville, Bentonville, Lincoln, Rogers and Springdale. Filming began in February 2018 and was wrapped in August of the same year. Led by creative director Patrick Clair, True Detective ' s title sequences were developed by a collaborative team consisting of three motion-design studios: Santa Monica -based Elastic, Antibody and Breeder, both based in Australia. For

8188-629: Was filmed in Iceland on an estimated budget of $ 60 million. In September 2022, John Hawkes , Christopher Eccleston , Fiona Shaw , Finn Bennett , and Anna Lambe joined the cast. Further cast additions were announced in October 2022, including Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star LaBlanc and Joel D. Montgrand, while also confirming that the new season would be the first not written by Pizzolatto, who will turn over primary writing and showrunning duties to López. HBO confirmed on November 8, 2022, that production on

8280-464: Was more divided, although the show maintained high viewership. The third season received positive reviews, but saw a drop in viewership. Night Country earned the highest viewership ratings for the series, and received widespread critical acclaim. It earned the highest number of Emmy Award nominations for the series. A fifth season, with López returning as the showrunner, is in development. Before developing True Detective , Nic Pizzolatto worked as

8372-467: Was praised by most critics. Metacritic gave it a score of 84/100 based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 8.5/10, based on 36 critic reviews; the website's critics consensus reads, " The Killing is a slow burning mystery with an eerie, multi-dimensional story propelled by thoughtful writing, believable characters, and realistic horror, even if its season finale

8464-403: Was unsatisfying." Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter gave the series a very positive review, calling it "excellent, absorbing and addictive. When each episode ends, you long for the next—a hallmark of great dramas." Goodman also praised Mireille Enos 's performance as the lead character Sarah, saying, "It's not until you watch Enos play Sarah for a while that it sinks in—there hasn't been

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