True Detective (2014)

Seasons 1 and 3 Watch these two seasons of the anthology and skip the others for this purpose. Season 1 has Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson questioned in 2012 about the 1995 Louisiana murder they worked, as a similar killing drags it back open. Season 3 is the purest fit of all: Mahershala Ali's Wayne Hays works the disappearance of two children in the Ozarks across 1980, 1990 and 2015, his own memory failing as the case refuses to close. Both are slow, heavy and built on the gap between what the detectives remember and what really happened. Season 1 won five Emmys; season 3 is the quieter, sadder companion.