WINTER TV PREVIEW: Full coverage of the season’s shows
Hart is bigger and balder in the present day, a loquacious picture of respectability Cohle, mustached, with long, stringy hair, seems to have fallen on hard times. The story here runs in flashback as two former police detectives, Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Harrelson), are interviewed separately about a 1995 murder case they worked together in Louisiana, near the beginning of their partnership. 10 Calendar section said character Martin Hart, played by Woody Harrelson, was “a hallucinating insomniac.” The description was of character Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey.
“True Detective”: A review of the HBO series “True Detective” in the Jan. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star in the first season, which has been entirely written by novelist Nic Pizzolatto and entirely directed by Cary Fukunaga (“Jane Eyre”). As in FX’s anthology “American Horror Story,” each season will tell a discrete story - a strategy that, if nothing else, might attract commitments from name artists interested in long-form storytelling, or prestige television projects, but less sanguine about signing on to a series that could run for years. The title might be misleading - there is nothing fact-based about the show, but like its namesake it is planned as an anthology. “True Detective,” a quietly terrific new series debuting Sunday on HBO, takes its title, though not its style, from a famous old real-crime magazine, popular back when people turned to reading for the sort of stimulation they get mostly through television now.