HBO's True Detective To Premiere January 12th, 2014

Last month we featured a trailer from HBO's upcoming series True Detective. At the time, the cable network had not yet announced the premiere date … but now it has: January 12th, 2014.

The 8-episode storyline is set in 2012, when Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.