I've been appreciating it too, I'm very curious about their lighting: it's got a super gritty, minimalist and realistic feeling to it, which has me wondering how much natural light with bounces, etc they used. So far, I'm also really digging the performances. The whole feeling of the series is closer to that of cinema than TV, in my personal opinion, which I'm loving.

@robertGL

I think that the monologues are one of the best things there, and McConaughey's performance is one of the best I've seen recently, especially the interview scene in present time.

As the story goes, Rust Cohle has previously been in Narcotics, and he has been on an undercover mission for quite some time as I understood it. He got seriously addicted, the job totally fucked him up, and the police somehow owned him one, they couldn't just let him go, and he chose to transfer to homicide, also he was very good as a detective. Other cops hate him and his attitude, but they can't touch him on any level.

Performances are the best part for now, but also cinematography @JuMo. It was shot on Kodak Vision 3 5203 and 5219 stocks. Also, for the scenes in '95 they used some Panavision lenses from 1970s, it seems that the washed out, low contrast look was aimed for and achieved right in the camera. The present time scenes are shot with modern lenses.

We'll see how the story progresses, hopefully it will work, and not get into cliches. Now it's two weeks wait, wtf is that anyways?

I really love the writing on this show. Great dialogue and delivered by two great actors. I'm hooked.

I'm a little tired of the weird serial killer genre, but I'm digging the show. Sorta reminds me of The Killing. Which was very solid. (Not sure if it's coming back) McConaughey is finally living up to some of his early career hype as being the next Newman or whatever. He almost killed his career off as an actor with crappy rom coms. His last 2-3 years have been excellent.

This series is fantastic. Screenplay and dialogue are absolutely amazing

I only watch it for Alexandra Daddario. Wowzers!

http://io9.com/the-one-literary-reference-you-must-know-to-appreciate-1523076497

TV has now surpassed conventional commercial filmmaking for quality writing and stories

The reason is pretty simple. TV -- at least some corners of it -- is above all a writers' medium, unlike either commercial filmmaking or so-called American indies, and draws on people who can actually write, who often come to the work from the novel, rather than from the screenplay or "movie" business.

Interview with Nic Pizzolatto

Three years ago, Nic Pizzolatto was an assistant professor of literature at DePauw University in Indiana, a job he "fell into" rather than loved, and one he was desperate to escape. Television seemed like an impossible dream. "The idea was ludicrous," he says. "I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV."

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/feb/17/true-detective-nic-pizzolatto-mcconaughey-harrelson

Hahah. Maybe the police got pre-production one to test it :)

Most of the shots are 35mm kodak film with few digital exceptions. Nice description of lens used.

Arkapaw shot primarily on 35mm film—Kodak Vision 3 50D and 500T—and used two different sets of lenses to help differentiate the two time periods. He used Panavision PVintage optics—rehoused Panavision Ultra Speed prime lenses—for the main portion of the story and regular Primo primes for the contemporary portions. “It’s about recalling the past,” the cinematographer explains, “so we wanted all that footage to be shot through something suggesting a thin veil of time. Those older lenses are a little softer, less contrasty and [capture] a little less color.”

http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/dv/feature/crime-scenes-creative-storytelling-production-hbos-true-detective/65219

@inqbt8tr I see what you mean...

Is there something that is gnaw at you?

BTW you did not reference any source... Just get a life

@Jean71 why are you so upset by my opinion of the show? I could go into detail why I find the show pretentious and overrated, but that would take extra work, and it would accomplish nothing because fanboys will never accept any criticism that makes their beloved show seem less than what they believe it to be