True Detective season 1 drew inspiration from a real-life child abuse scandal in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, making the murder mystery even more disturbing.

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

Season one of True Detective is not only our favorite of the series, but arguably one of the best shows of all time. After all, you don't rank number 29 on IMDB's Top 250 Shows of All Time by accident, do you?

Errol William Childress Errol William Childress is the main antagonist of season one of the HBO series True Detective. He is a serial killer who rapes, tortures and murders women to perpetuate an old tradition having an arcane ritual passed down through the Tuttle cult which is his own family.

Do I need to watch season 1 of true detective before season 2? No - True Detective is an anthology show and each season is standalone.

Every Season Of True Detective, Ranked

• 3 Season 2 (2015)
• 2 Season 3 (2019)
• 1 Season 1 (2014)

While the series is largely a fictional work, writers Nic Pizzolato and David Milch have clearly drawn some inspiration from real-life cases and phenomena like the Satanic Panic, “stranger danger” and the rise of true crime in pop culture.

True crime shows offer a reassuring narrative formula, reinforce a sense of moral clarity, and remind us of our good luck.

The first season of its 2014 American anthology crime drama television series True Detective will forever go down as one of the best television series of all time.

HBO expected a hit, but when the second season came out, many of the reviews were excoriating. In Vox, Emily St. James declared the narrative an absolute disaster, from an “overcomplicated” yet “predictable” plot to the lack of a coherent directorial vision.

Governor Tuttle Is Actually the Yellow King His family connections offer more links to the cult: His cousin, the late Reverend Billy Lee Tuttle, seems to have been behind the funding of the Wellspring funding of religious schools, which have been linked to the ritual abuse.

Rust Cohle Is Not the Monster The double murderer who killed himself said he'd seen the killer before, but didn't identify Cohle as the Yellow King. The double murderer said that there's big people who knew about the Yellow King.