Engineered as an anthology, each season of True Detective introduces new cast ensembles, characters, settings, and self-contained narratives.
The show's first season is set in Louisiana and follows a pair of Louisiana State Police homicide detectives (McConaughey and Harrelson), and their pursuit of a serial killer over the course of seventeen years.
Behind the scenes of a Shakespearean theater troupe, as troubled artistic director Geoffrey Tennant takes over after the sudden death of his former mentor to direct a production of Hamlet, the play that once drove him into a nervous breakdown.