True Detective Teaser Harrelson And Mcconaughey Slowly Track A Killer

‘True Detective’ Teaser: Harrelson And McConaughey Slowly Track A Killer

By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2013 2:22 pm EST

The show stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as detectives on the trail of a killer in Louisiana. Fukunaga directs the eight episodes of the first season, which hits on 2014. Nic Pizzolatto scripted. The first teaser trailer is below. It doesn’t give up much about the two detectives and their decade-plus case. It does, however, tell you a lot about the tone of the series.

An EW preview features quotes from Pizzolatto about the show and describes “pessimist Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and emotional family man Martin Hart (Harrelson)” saying that the tale begins with a set of murders in 1995 and flows forward for many years. “It’s more about the detectives than it is about the killer,” Pizzolatto says. “We trace both the case and the relationship [between the cops] and how they change — or don’t change — as the years progress.”