Thanks to Pizzolatto’s decades-spanning story about two Louisiana detectives pushing themselves to brink of madness to get to the bottom of a grizzly murder, it’s two leads — Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson — and the rest of the stellar cast, True Detective Season 1 remains a landmark television event.
In the years since the show’s debut on HBO, the cast of True Detective Season 1 has gone on to have remarkable careers in film and on television, thanks in part to their outstanding performances we’re still discussing a half-decade later.
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly five years since Nic Pizzolatto’s demented yet fascicnating HBO crime anthology series True Detective came in and provided one of the greatest eight episodes of television before or since.
Here’s a brief rundown of what each actor has done since the conclusion of Nic Pizzolatto’s first major foray into television.