An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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- Seasons
- 4
- Episodes aired
- 30
- Latest aired
- S04E06
- Total runtime
- 1d 5h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 January 2014 – March 2014 8 episodes
- Season 2 June 2015 – August 2015 8 episodes
- the show was away for 3 years and 5 months
- Season 3 January 2019 – February 2019 8 episodes
- the show was away for 4 years and 10 months
- Season 4 January 2024 – February 2024 6 episodes
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S01E01 The Long Bright Dark
January 12 · 57min find the promo
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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.
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S01E02 Seeing Things
January 19 · 56min find the promo
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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.
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S01E03 The Locked Room
January 26 · 56min find the promo
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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&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.
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S01E04 Who Goes There?
February 9 · 55min find the promo
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Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting an East-Texas biker gang known to deal with their primary suspect.
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S01E05 The Secret Fate of All Life
February 16 · 55min find the promo
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A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his family, and Cohle starts a relationship while gaining a reputation as a closer in interrogations. As time passes and his daughters grow older, Hart faces new tensions and temptations, and Cohle learns from a double-murder suspect that there could be much more to an old case than he'd once thought. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting new intelligence that threatens Cohle and causes Hart to reassess everything he thought he knew about his former partner.
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S01E06 Haunted Houses
February 23 · 56min find the promo
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Maggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.
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S01E07 After You've Gone
March 2 · 51min find the promo
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Hart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.
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S01E08 Form and Void
March 9 · 53min find the promo
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An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.