Of course, a script this dense could have collapsed under its own pretension. It was saved by two elements: director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s unbroken visual poetry (the legendary six-minute tracking shot through the housing projects is now canon) and the alchemy of its leads.
Cohle articulates this better than any TV character before or since: “I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself—we are creatures that should not exist by natural law.” true detective