It’s uncomplicated to neglect that there was a time in horror wherever a thriving movie couldn’t immediately be assumed to spawn a dozen sequels. If time is a flat circle, then this checklist should be a flat circle, also. Played with macho gravitas and sly humor by Matthew McConaughey, then in the center of the McConaissance, Cohle was the unpredictable wildcard to Woody Harrelson's more conventionally buttoned-up Marty Hart.