True Detective (2014)

Season 1 (2014) Marty Hart likes things simple; Rust Cohle is a bleak philosopher who will not stop talking about time and meaning in the car. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey play them across two timelines, 1995 and 2012, so you watch the partnership form and then see what years of resentment did to it. It runs eight slow, heavy episodes. Later seasons switch to new stories and casts, so come here for this pair specifically.