True Detective

If we want to nit-pick, it's a bit strange that the security officer goes on a murdering spree considering the actual secret he is supposed to keep hidden (but I guess one can argue it's not 100% sure he actually killed the parents, maybe the mother just overdosed on her payoff and the father killed himself after being told the truth by the security officer, but that sounds like a stretch). The cousin's paranoia and Hoyt's threats also feel over the top considering the crime. Or maybe it's because the actual crime does not sound worth killing over in comparison to what we thought happened, but actually the accidental death, the kidnapping / human trafficking, the sequestration, the drugging and the tampering with an investigation probably send you to jail for a very very long time, even considering the circumstances.

On more general considerations, I find there is too much of an imbalance in the portrayals of the private lives of the two detectives (making the bar fight scene a bit out of place as it's only the 3rd or 4th glimpse of Roland's life) and I feel they failed to nail one of their themes which is the death of a small town. I am not sure how they should have gone about it, considering we already see a lot of abandoned buildings and we get the mother's friend saying she is one of the few left in the area, but still, that aspect is too much of a distant background for my taste.