About
True Detective is a television crime drama series centered around police investigations led by two homicide detectives. Created by the show’s head writer Nic Pizzolatto, the show is presented as an anthology series with each season featuring a unique cast of characters and self-contained storyline.
History
In April 2012, the premium cable and satellite television network HBO selected True Detective for an eight-episode pilot season. On January 12th, 2014, True Detective premiered on HBO, introducing Rustin Cohle (played by Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (played by Woody Harrelson) as two detectives investigating a case of serial murders in Louisiana over the course of 17 years.
Fandom
On April 23rd, 2012, the /r/truedetective[7] subreddit was created for discussions related to the HBO crime drama series. Within the first two years, the subreddit accumulated upwards of 13,900 readers. In early 2014, he Tumblr blogs True Detective Show[9] and True Detective HBO[8] were launched, which highlight captioned animated GIFs from the show. As of February 2014, over 3,800 images have been submitted to DeviantArt under the tag “true detective” (shown below).[10]
Related Memes
True Detective Valentines
On February 5th, 2014, the True Detective Valentines[5]single topic blog was launched on Tumblr, highlighting Valentine’s Day e-cards with captions containing notable dark quotes from the television series (shown below).
On February 11th, Redditor Qweef posted a Valentine’s Day e-card of featuring a screenshot and quote from detective Rustin Cohle to the /r/TrueDetective[11] subreddit (shown below). In the first two weeks, the post gathered more than 450 up votes and 35 comments.
True Detective Conversations
On February 4th, 2014, writer Bobby Finger created the True Detective Conservations[1] Tumblr blog, which features custom 3-pane comics depicting humorous conversations between detective Martin Hart and his nihilistic partner Rustin Cohle (shown below), bearing many similarities to the “We Need to Go Deeper” and “The Rock Driving” comics. That month, several Internet humor sites highlighted notable examples from the blog, including BuzzFeed,[2] The Daily Dot[3] and UpRoxx.[4]
#TrueDetectiveSeason2
In anticipation of the second season of the show, which will introduce a new story and cast of characters, fans began tweeting photos of their favorite actors to replace McConaughey and Harrelson with the hashtag #TrueDetectiveSeason2 (shown below). According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,[6] there were over 24,000 tweets containing the #TrueDetectiveSeason2 hashtag on February 19th.
#TrueDetectiveSeason2 Clear winners pic.twitter.com/bxd9tlAO5d
— Giana Mucci (@RatedGiana) February 20, 2014
On February 20th, 2014, actor Joel McHale tweeted two photographs in which he and fellow Community actor Jim Rash are dressed as True Detective characters Rust Cohle and Martin Hart. Many Twitter users began retweeting the images with the #TrueDetectiveSeason2 hashtag.
Here's
— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) February 20, 2014RashisTVUgly</a> & I shooting a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GameOfThrones&src=hash">#GameOfThrones</a> parody for <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSoup">TheSoup…wait… pic.twitter.com/tnuYylJS2G
Here's another shot of
RashisTVUgly</a> & me for a <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSoup">TheSoup parody of Homeland…I think. Wait… pic.twitter.com/v596EdDehu— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) February 21, 2014
Search Interest
External References
[1]Tumblr – True Detective Conversations
[2]BuzzFeed – This is the True Detective Meme Youve Been Waiting For
[3]The Daily Dot – True Detective Conversations Tumblr
[4]UpRoxx – True Detective Conversations
[5]Tumblr – True Detective Valentines
[6]Topsy – #TrueDetectiveSeason2
[7]Reddit – /r/truedetective
[8]Tumblr – True Detective HBO
[9]Tumblr – True Detective Show
[10]DeviantArt – true detective
[11]Reddit – Happy Valentines Day or whatever