This Place Is Like Someone's Memory Of A Town & That Memory Is Fading... True Detective - your next favourite show.

True Detective - (c) HBO 

"I know the difference between an idea and a fact"

Every now and again, a show comes along that just grabs you by the throat, keeps you on the edge of your seat, and makes you want each episode more than the last.

TRUE DETECTIVE is such a programme.

On the face of it, it's pretty much just another cop show - two detectives, played by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey,  investigate a series of gruesome murders in Louisiana.  

Shown through a series of flashbacks and interviews, the two men explain what happened 17 years previous, when the naked body of a woman was found, leading to kidnappings, drug busts and further murders.

So far, so procedural...

Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) & Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson)

(c) HBO

But then the writer, Nic Pizzolatto, throws the audience a curveball... and what a curveball it is.

It's hard to write a preview of a show as taught and full of twists without spoiling it.  As it has yet to be shown in the UK (Sky Atlantic have the rights), I don't want to ruin it for everyone!

Needless to say, if you like the same kind of fiction and games as I do, you'll LOVE True Detective.  I'll be revisiting the show week by week as soon as the UK airing starts.

The devil is in the detail - as will be shown over the next 8 episodes...