The BEST seasons of True Detective

Every season of True Detective ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of True Detective!

An anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Last Updated: 3/25/2024Network: HBOStatus: Continuing
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Season 1
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9.11
5049 votes

#1 - Season 1

First Aired 1/13/2014

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

Season 3
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7.52
1518 votes

#2 - Season 3

First Aired 1/14/2019

Season 3 tells the story of a macabre crime involving two missing children in the heart of the Ozarks, a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Season 2
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6.52
2509 votes

#3 - Season 2

First Aired 6/22/2015

A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.

Night Country
star
6.30
865 votes

#4 - Night Country

First Aired 1/15/2024

When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.