http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/06/true_detective_season_two_review_it_feels_like_a_direct_retort_to_nic_pizzolatto.html

True Detective’s first season was a detective story slathered in a unique Bayou funk. A sweaty, metaphysical, eerie take on buddy cops who jawed about philosophy instead of doughnuts, it turned its audience into sleuths for the Yellow King. The series was also a collaboration: between Matthew McConaughey as the soulful nihilist Rust Cohle and Woody Harrelson as hammy good ol’ boy Marty Hart, and between series creator Nic Pizzolatto and director Cary Fukunaga, whose copious talents cannot overshadow his statuesque man bun (it’s that good a man bun).