True Detective [S1]: January 2014 Episodes
Episode #1: “The Long Bright Dark”
Debut: SUNDAY, JAN. 12 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Other HBO playdates: Jan. 12 (11:00 p.m., 1:00 a.m.), 13 (12:15 a.m.), 14 (9:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m.), 15 (10:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m.), 16 (midnight), 17 (9:00 p.m.), 18 (1:00 a.m.) and 24 (8:00 p.m.), and Feb. 4 (11:00 p.m.), 7 (7:00 p.m.) and 8 (10:15 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Jan. 13 (9:00 p.m.), 17 (1:15 a.m.) and 19 (3:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.), and Feb. 1 (5:00 p.m.) and 9 (4:00 p.m.)
Former Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange, 17 years earlier. As they look back, details of the crime, replete with occult overtones, are accompanied by insights into the detectives’ volatile partnership and personal lives.
Written by Nic Pizzolatto; directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
Episode #2: “Seeing Things”
Debut: SUNDAY, JAN. 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Jan. 19 (11:00 p.m., 1:00 a.m.), 20 (12:15 a.m.), 21 (8:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m.), 22 (10:00 p.m.), 23 (midnight), 24 (9:00 p.m.), 25 (9:45 p.m.) and 31 (8:00 p.m.), and Feb. 4 (midnight), 7 (8:00 p.m.) and 8 (11:15 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Jan. 20 (9:00 p.m.), 24 (1:15 a.m.) and 26 (12:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m.), and Feb. 1 (6:00 p.m.) and 9 (5:00 p.m.)
Under pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a new task force. The pair lobbies for extra time to follow up on a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church. With his marriage to Maggie already strained by work, Hart finds respite away from home.
Written by Nic Pizzolatto; directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
Episode #3: “The Locked Room”
Debut: SUNDAY, JAN. 26 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Jan. 26 (11:00 p.m., 1:00 a.m.), 27 (11:45 p.m.), 28 (9:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m.), 29 (10:00 p.m.), 30 (11:45 p.m.) and 31 (9:00 p.m.), and Feb. 1 (9:00 p.m.), 5 (10:00 p.m.), 6 (midnight), 7 (9:00 p.m.), 8 (12:15 a.m.) and 14 (8:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Jan. 27 (9:00 p.m.) and 31 (1:40 a.m.), and Feb. 1 (7:00 p.m.), 2 (12:30 a.m.), 3 (9:00 p.m.) and 9 (6:00 p.m.)
A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C-and-W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.
Written by Nic Pizzolatto; directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson On 'True Detective,' Real Life Friendship and Knocking It Out Of The Park
With promo ads plastered around cities with the words “man is the cruelest animal” written on them, HBO’s new drama “True Detective” stars two men who know what the hell they’re doing: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.In case you haven’t gotten enough with “Dallas Buyers Club,” “The Hunger Games,” “Out Of The Furnace” or the upcoming “The Wolf Of Wall Street,” in January, these two real-life friends play clashing Louisiana detectives chasing an eerie, bizarre murder. Set in 1995 and 2012, we see the pair change drastically as the details of the case unfold over the 17-year hunt.
If the scenes seem particularly eye-catching, it’s because they are directed by the talented Cary Fukunaga (“Sin Nombre,” “Jane Eyre”). The show is also written and created by award-winning novelist and short-story writer Nic Pizzolatto (who wrote two episodes of a similarly-themed show, “The Killing”).
The Huffington Post met McConaughey and Harrelson –- both in their socks, by the way –- at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles to talk about false modesty, knocking it out of the park and why you should always trust an asshole.
Without giving too much away, do you believe your characters are good men?
Matthew McConaughey: I think Rust Cohle’s a great man.
Woody Harrelson: A great man?
MM: Yeah, a great man.
WH: He’s a bit of a butthole sometimes.
MM: Yeah, you might call him an asshole, but talk about a constitution! Look, as I always say, I don’t mind assholes. It’s the dork I don’t trust. The dork is the one who’s trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he’s gonna stand.
WH: He’s not much for social graces.
MM: He has enough going on in his mind to entertain himself. He speaks the truth. It may be dark, but he’s not trying to share and he’s not trying to win over the masses. He’s not trying to gather an army. He’s got a pretty harrowing view of life being a shit storm, but he’s got a constitution and I can respect that guy.
WH: He’s not a guy you want to come over and hang out with you, pop a beer and watch the game. He’s not that guy. My character is a wonderful, awesome guy.
Martin Hart’s got some shit going on, too…
WH: Well, everybody has their Achilles heel [laughs]. He has some issues at home. But there’s a warmth to him that, for example, Cohle lacks.
We’re gonna see some warmth from Cohle, I think. Eventually.
MM: Is that right? Some real warm cuddly stuff? Listen, don’t take off your parka. Because I don’t think the temperature gauge is going to move up too much for ya.
Can you imagine switching roles?
MM: Yeah. I originally got the script to look at Martin Hart.
WH: At the time, I envied the Rust Cohle role. But I can’t imagine playing it nearly as good as he played it. And that’s not just some false modesty. I couldn’t have played it that well. He just played the shit out of that character.
Matthew, how did it end up that you took the part of Rust Cohle?
MM: I read it and I felt like I understood why they came to me for the Martin Hart role. I kind of understood who that guy was. But the guy who I couldn’t wait to hear what came out of his mouth was Rust Cohle. And I really identified with him in a hardcore way. I found myself leaving the script thinking about things he’d said.
I love philosophy. I don’t live his existence. I’m not that guy. I mean I’d hate to be in the guy’s head. Shit. But he can’t help it. That’s the thing with him. He was a very identified character.
He doesn’t seem like he’s looking for validation from anybody.
MM: In the 2012 scenes we see him come back in the interrogation room and he’s kind of throwing in his cards, basically saying I’m around a lot longer then I thought I’d be. Shit. So let’s deal with this. Would I like to off myself and get out of this shit storm? Yeah. But that’d be the wuss thing to do and that goes against my constitution. While I’m here in this jail called life, let’s let ‘em lay. There’s a respect I have for Cohle.
Woody, what do you identify most with your character of Martin Hart?
WH: I think he passionately loves his family. I think he’s just a very gregarious person. He really loves people.
What sets this show apart from other homicide or detective dramas? The Louisiana setting stands out.
MM: Louisiana is a character in it, for sure. The clues of the “who-done-it?” and how and why is almost a sub-story to finding out who these two men are. Who they became, how, who they aren’t, who they may be saying they are -- but they’re not.
It’s great how the show plays with time. We watch scenes from the original investigation in 1995 and then flash forward to current time in 2012, and we start to see that what’s being said in current time isn’t exactly lining up with the flashbacks.
MM: The intrigue of the whole piece is you meet us in 1995. And then you see Rust Cohle and Martin Hart in 2012 and you see what they look like, what they’re saying and what they’ve become. I’m just going, well, I got to get to the next episode because I want to see what happens in between these years. How they became that. What water went under the bridge here? And you just know it was not a smooth, rolling stream.
You two have worked together before on “EDtv” and “Surfer Dude.” What do you like best about working with each other?
MM: We’ve hung out more as real life friends then we have worked together. But it’s our first time doing a drama, and our first time really doing something where our characters are at real odds -- in opposition with one another.
WH: It’s nice to be able to be 100% confident that what the other actor is doing is fully within the integrity of the script and that he’s not phoning it in. In fact, he’s knocking it out of the park. I love working with him. He’s got a tremendous work ethic.
MM: I always come away from any time spent with Woody feeling younger. I always come away feeling lighter. Not only do I enjoy it in my real life, but I’ve found it to be really advantageous in my career because there’s a child-like innocence and purity that you get from him that’s inherently good for the craft. It’s the same thing that I get from my kids. I’m pretty much a free spirit but I like to think about things, measure them out, form a structure, get into the logic of situations. And as much as Woody can do all that, while some of us are trying to work out the logic of it, Woody is gone. He’s already doing it. There’s a freedom to that.
This is one thing I know for sure -- and he can’t help it if he tried. No mater how mad he could get at me, I know he has my best interest in mind. He really sincerely loves it when I do something really well or when I succeed. It purely makes him happy. It’s inspiring how much happiness I see him get from me succeeding [laughs].
WH: You can imagine how much happiness I’ve been having lately!
MM: You can’t ask someone to be like that. It comes from who he is. He’s as pure of a guy as I know.
"True Detective" airs on Jan. 12, 2014 at 9PM EST on HBO.
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Woody Harrelson and Mathew McConaughey team up on HBO's True Detective series starting Jan. 12
HBO has a new Louisiana Bayou detective series and some big names. Sure, they’re best known as Hollywood’s premiere pot-heads, but sometimes detective work could use a little “stoner clarity.”HBO’s True Detective will debut an eight series season on Sunday, Jan. 12. The series will be filmed entirely in Louisiana. The series was created by novelist Nic Pizzolatto who wrote eight episodes. It will be directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who made Jane Eyre.
The new crime drama will star Matthew McConaughey, most recently seen in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio and who was just nomited for a Golden Globe for his role in Dallas Buyers Club, will play Rust Cohle. Woody Harrelson, who I personally love in Natural Born Killers and Zombieland, but who was most recently seen in Out of the Furnace and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, will play Martin Hart. True Detective will also star Michelle Monaghan from Gone Baby Gone. She plays Hart’s wife, Maggie. She’s trying to keep the family together while the men in her life go off on their violent tangents.
Kevin Dunn from the HBO series Luck will play Hart and Cohle’s boss, Major Quesada. Tory Kittles from Sons of Anarchy will play Detecive Papania and Michael Potts from HBO’s The Wire plays Detective Gilbough. Elizabeth Reaser from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn plays as Laurie. Shea Whigham from HBO’s Boardwalk Empire plays revivalist Joel Theriot. Clarke Peters from HBO’s Treme plays a rural minister. Jay O. Sanders from Person of Interest will play Billy Lee Tuttle. Lili Simmons from Cinemax’s Banshee plays the perennial hooker with a heart of gold, Beth. Actually, forensics might fight out that her heart might just be gold plated.
The action of True Detective will be split between 1995, 2002 and 2012. The 1995 arc finds Hart and Cohle investigating a macabre murder with an occult twist. The 2002 arc shows why one of the dicks left the specialized force. The 2012 arc puts two other detectives on another case that brings them to the 1995 killing.
Martin Hart is a family man with two kids who’s was born and raised in Louisiana. His marriage is going under because of police work. Rust Cohle used to be an undercover narc from Texas. He keeps to himself and plays things close to the vest. Hart’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. Cohle, well, he’s got a whole set of empty glasses.
The first episode is called “The Long Bright Dark.” It debuts Sunday, Jan. 12 at 9 p.m. Hart and Cohle, who are now former Louisiana State CID agents, each tell what they know about the 1995 murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange. It was written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
The second episode is titled “Seeing Things.” It will air Sunday, Jan. 19 at 9 p.m. Harte and Cohle learn that they might be taken off the Lange murder task force by their boss, Quesada. Hart and Cohle ask for more time. They spend that time in a cathouse. It was written by Nic Pizzolatto; directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
Episode 3 is called “The Locked Room” and it airs Sunday, Jan. 26 at 9 p.m. Cohle and Hart follow a hidden image from a burnt out church to a tent-revival minister named Joel Theriot. People in his congregation remember that a a scarred “tall man” was seen with that prostitute woman, Dora Lange.
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