True Detective: The Locked Room (2014)

On January 3rd, 1995, just outside of Erath, Louisiana, Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart, begin investigating the murder of prostitute Dora Lange. Lange’s body is found nude and posed in prayer, with deer antlers atop her head and a spiral symbol drawn on her back. Twig latticeworks surround her body.

This is how HBO’s award winning series TRUE DETECTIVE, from creator Nic Pizzolato begins. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star as Cohle and Hart, the two Louisiana homicide detectives that go on a seventeen year journey down a rabbit hole that leads to a wide spread, multi generational conspiracy that involves the elites in positions of power from the state legislature to the local church. 

“The Locked Room”, written by Pizzolato and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, premiered on January 26th, 2014. Join Dan and Faith of The Late Night Fright as they journey back to the beginning of this landmark show to examine the clues and dig deeper into the themes, symbolism, and characters of this engrossing nonlinear narrative. 

Can you taste the psychosphere? Tune in each Monday to the Late Night Fright for a look back at each episode from True Detective’s first season.