Abstract:
This thesis will revolve around crime series. True Detective is a popular American crime series that presents itself as being groundbreaking, innovative and new. In the following pages I will try to analyse whether that is true or not.
Older American crime series revolve around a team of detectives, who are all flat characters. In big American metropolises they solve one murder after the other, each one more spectacular as the next.
True Detectives two main characters are much less typical ‘heroes’. We see the dark side of each of the detectives personality as they slowly try to unravel one murder within the time frame of one season, in the outskirts of Louisiana.
In some ways True Detective is comparable with The Killing, an extremely successful Danish crime series. The narrative structure of both series is the same, nevertheless there are also differences to be noted. The different plot lines don’t come together the same way, the setting is comparable but not the same, and also the characters share similarities.
