Damned shame I don't have HBO.
The pilot is just great.
McConaughey's character Detective Rustin Cohle is tip top, perfect for psycho, serial killer noir.
Loved his quick explanation of philosophical pessimism.
Sounds more like Leopardi than Schopenhauer, but the guy sums it up in four or five sentences that completely freak Harrelson's character, Detective Martin Hart, a much more conventional and Christian fellow.
And I always like it when the detectives aren't just thugs, as they so often are in the usual police procedurals, and there really is an investigation for the thing to be about so that it's not all chases, shoot-outs, car crashes, and fist fights.
This is pretty far, say, from Hawaii Five-O, for example.
Why does Nic Pizzolatto, the show's creator and sole writer, have the least idea of philosophical pessimism?
Doesn't seem to have the right education for it.
On the other hand, Italian-American, background in literature, Leopardi - the dots maybe do connect.
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