'True Detective' Premiere: New HBO Series Starring Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson as Investigators [VIDEO]
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are coming to television in next Sunday's premiere of True Detective.
True Detective is an HBO anthology series feature McConaughey and Harrelson as two detectives as they hunt for a serial killer in the heart of Louisiana. McConaughey plays Rust Cohle, a sure-of-himself detective who gets involved in the case with Harrelson's character Martin Hart, a detective whose job has changed the man he once was.
Other actors involved in the new series include Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Dunn, Tory Kittles, Michael Potts, Alexandra Daddario and Elizabeth Reaser.
True Detective is an anthology series, so the first season will be its own self-contained story that will not extend to season 2. Each season will have an entirely new cast of characters and story, much like the format used by FX's American Horror Story. As McConaughey and Harrelson are movie stars, it is unlikely that they will return for another season.
The timeline for True Detective begins in 1995 when a girl is found murdered in a sugar cane field. Cohle and Hart are assigned to the case, which evolves into a 17-year process. Cohle and Hart do not get along, with Cohle's intensity and passion not gelling well with Hart's more laid back attitude.
The anthology series will not be a standard crime procedural show, according to HBO programming president Michael Lombardo.
"Even though it's called True Detective and structurally has two cops and a crime, it defies any categorization of a genre show," Lombardo said. "It is a rich, tightly constructed character piece, and that's what attracted us to it."
True Detective premieres Sunday, Jan. 12 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
Watch a True Detective preview here:
