Where can HBO's lauded True Detective be found online, and is it available on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime? Matthew McConaughey spent a period of his career mainly focused on fluffy romantic comedies like Failure To Launch or How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, and while they were successful, they didn't do much to stretch his acting muscles. The actor later decided to focus on meaty roles, leading to movies like The Wolf Of Wall Street and Dallas Buyers Club. The star attracted praise for his work and the term "McConaissance" was coined to describe his creative rebirth.
Arguably the highlight of this era was True Detective, where he played misanthropic cop Rust Cohle. The show paired him with Woody Harrelson (Venom 2) and a combination of a their performances, a great, hard-boiled story, and Cary Joji Fukunaga's atmospheric direction made it the must-watch series of 2014. Instead of following the same characters again, True Detective season 2 took the anthology approach and focused on a new cast instead, led by Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams, though it received a more mixed response than the first season. The future of the series was in question following the reaction to season 2, but the third season eventually arrived in 2019. The cast was led by Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff (Blade) and the season once again attracted positive reviews.
For those who wish to visit - or revisit - the melancholy thrills of all three seasons of True Detective thus far, where can it be found online? Sadly, it can't currently be found on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime for U.S. viewers, but it is available on HBO Now and Go, as well as DIRECTV. All three seasons can be purchased from iTunes, Google Play or Amazon too.
True Detective season 4 is currently being developed, though it's unknown who will star or when the show might return; considering the three-year gap between season 2 and 3, it might take a while. Fans would love to see a sequel to the first season, but while Matthew McConaughey has stated his interest in revisiting Rust in some form, Woody Harrelson has said he'd prefer to leave it alone, as he doubts a return could live up to audience expectation.
With the launch of streaming service HBO Max in May 2020, it's unlikely HBO shows like True Detective or Watchmen will make their way to rival platforms in the near future. Thankfully, however, there remains a lot of ways for viewers to find the acclaimed detective series online.