In those eight-odd hours of television drama from 2014, you can see almost all the distinctive features of prestige TV as we've known it for the past 25-odd years.
Like many prestige-era shows, the original True Detective is a dark reworking of a traditional American genre, in this case the police procedural in which odd-couple detective partners turn out to be perfect for each other.
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