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True Detective
| Fandom | |
|---|---|
| Name: | True Detective |
| Abbreviation(s): | TD |
| Creator: | Nic Pizzolatto |
| Date(s): | 2014, 2015 |
| Medium: | TV |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | HBO official page |
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True Detective is an HBO crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto.
Canon
The story focuses on the personal and professional relationship of two homicide detectives in the Louisiana State Police, Rust Cohle and Marty Hart, through the recounting of an old murder case. The show is heavily influenced by Southern Gothic imagery, horror and weird fiction. It makes intertextual references to Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow and uses Carcosa, The Yellow King, and the color yellow as motifs through the episodes.
Fandom
The most popular pairing is Rust Cohle/Marty Hart. The fandom is fond of angst but shipping Rust and Marty as a more or less happy old married couple is also fairly popular.
Season 2, which introduced a new set of characters and a new story, was met with overall disinterest bordering on contempt. Season 3 was more well-received and generally considered to be closer in quality to Season 1.
Fanworks
Meta
Symbolism in True Detective
- Carcosa, the labyrinth symbolism by ex-libris
- Devil Nets by ex-libris
- On Poetry and Craft by ex-libris
- The Mask, (The King in Yellow) by ex-libris
- Katabasis by ex-libris
Fanfiction
- where you go to rest your bones by inkandcayenne. (gen)
- Senses by teethwax. (mostly gen)
- The Last Time I Saw You by scioscribe. (Hart/Cohle)
- Static by dancinguniverse. (Hart/Cohle)
- Lone Star by blackeyedblonde. (Hart/Cohle)
I Know what you want (you don't want to be alone) by Hosenfeld. (Velcoro/Cohle)
Fanart
Fanmix
- Rattlin' Bones by redwoodbleeds
- black river killer by whosedesignisitanyway
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