True Detective back to its sinister best...
Crime drama delves into case of mysterious child murder
Marie’s technique Blade baddie Stephen Dorff) probe a disturbing crime involving two missing children in the dark and swampy city of Ozarks.
We’re first introduced to Arkansas state cop Wayne Hays (played by Ali) – a womanising detective whose Stephen Dorff and Mahershala Ali army days in Vietnam still haunt him – in the 1980s. Fast forward to the ’90s and we see him looking forward to revive his flagging career. Then in 2015 we encounter him as a retired widower struggling with dementia. A documentarian who decided to reopen the unsolved case of the missing girls comes calling at the retired cop’s door and the investigation is blown wide open again. Hayes, whose memory is failing him at this point, sits down for an interview with a true crime TV Marie Kondo series and starts putting more pieces of the case together.
School teacher Amelia Riordan (played by Ejobo) emerges as a key figure as she has a connection with the two missing children.
As the mystery unravels viewers will be drawn into a dark world filled with sinister religions and sects just waiting to exploit the lives of innocent people.
Wayne faces his own demons as his attempts to uncover the unsolved case force him to go back to his past and his family. Brooding and troubled, he used to be a tracker in the Vietnam War, and wanders around looking for clues.
True Detective airs on Monday at 2am and again at 9pm on Sky Atlantic when it also becomes available on Now TV.