Episode

The Long Bright Dark

by Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, Cary Fukunaga, Reporter and 94 others

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, ar

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Characters

Nic Pizzolatto (8)Rust Cohle (5)Matthew McConaughey (5)Woody Harrelson (3)Martin Hart (3)

“I’ll tell you guys — and believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

Tagged: Family, Do Men Need Families To Be Normal?

“Rust: I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist. Marty: Um, okay. What’s that mean? Rust: Means I’m bad at parties.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Pessimism, Cynical, Being Cynical, Jokes About Being Cynical, Introverts

“I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience…”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Evolution Made Mistakes, Cynicism About Human Nature, Nature, Our Creation

“I was just a regular type dude, with a big ass dick.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective

“I'll tell you guys, believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Martin Hart, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective

“This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, an accretion of sensory, experience a…”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: True Detective

“It’s all one ghetto, man, giant gutter in outer space.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

Tagged: Space, Outer Space