"Time is a flat circle" may be the most famous quote to emerge from HBO's True Detective. But putting the memes aside, here's ...

Is Travis Rust Cohle’s father? The first season of "True Detective" was set in Louisiana, but Alaska figured into the storyline through Rust Cohle's (Matthew McConaughey) backstory.

However, back in True Detective Season 1, we learn that the nihilistic detective Rustin “Rust” Cohle was born in Texas, but raised in Alaska by his survivalist father Travis after his parents ...

Barring a baffling narrative reversal, True Detective: Night Country’s second episode appeared to relatively quickly confirm the fan theory about Rose’s ghostly messenger being Rust Cohle’s ...

Rust was born in 1964, according to the first season of True Detective, which would make him around 60 at the time of Night Country, since it takes place in the modern day (the exact year hasn’t ...

But in addition to a few bravura directorial flairs and some ponderous bloviating by Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Cohle, the one thing everyone remembers is the season’s terrifying villain, the ...