I can’t play down the admiration I have for HBO’s True Detective series that’s just finished on Sky Atlantic this past weekend, so the news that you can already pick it up as a download is truly remarkable, especially if you’re wanting to catch-up on one of the most ambitious shows in recent times.
HBO Home Entertainment’s groundbreaking and universally acclaimed new thriller series is now available to own and watch instantly via Amazon Instant Video, Wuaki.tv, blinkbox and Google Play™ following its successful UK broadcast.
The next must-see series for fans of HBO’s The Sopranos and The Wire, this existential drama is a truly unsettling cinematic epic in long form, starring Academy® Award winner Matthew McConaughey and Emmy® Award winner Woody Harrelson. Their characters are partners on a sinister case that takes place in the pits of rural Louisiana, contending with oil industry pollution, religious zealots and satanic sacrificial murders.
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Harrelson) are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge into 2012, as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they’d left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.
Created and written by Nic Pizzolatto (The Killing) and directed by Cary Fukunaga, TRUE DETECTIVE features the haunting, opening title song Far From Any Road by The Handsome Family. The outstanding soundtrack also includes T Bone Burnett (Inside Llewyn Davis, O Brother Where Art Thou?), The Black Angels, Father John Misty, Steve Earl and many more.
We’re also excited that you’ll be able to purchase True Detective this June on Blu-ray and DVD! More news on those very shortly.
