Tis the season of tons of podcast interviews. This one, with Chad Lott and Marc Kate of the awesome horror-philosophy podcast Scary Thoughts, departs from the usual High Weirdness concerns of late. In it, we dive into the first season of True Detective, from 2014, still one of my favorite TV series of the millennium. Chad and Marc are both great conversationalists, and in our discussion, we covered philosophical pessimism, cosmic horror, police procedurals, serial killers, gnostic notions, and the great state of Louisiana. As Chad and Marc admit, we barely scratched the surface of what makes this series so thought provoking, but I suspect you will still find the show thought provoking!
Erik Davis is an author, scholar, podcaster, and speaker based in San Francisco.