It's a meteoric rise by any standards – and it doesn't stop there. "I knew True Detective wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop," he says. "But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience." Despite this, Pizzolatto held his nerve and demanded complete creative control. Incredibly, he got it: he is True Detective's sole writer, executive producer and showrunner, an almost unheard-of deal in America, where writing teams and copious notes from producers and studio execs are the norm. "I'm still a little amazed they agreed," he says. "At that point, I'd only written two episodes and had a rough outline of where the show would go. It helped that the newly in-demand McConaughey saw a copy of the script and lobbied to play the enigmatic Rust Cohle, a man plagued by hallucinations and his own pessimistic vision of an unjust world. "That was another way I got lucky," says Pizzolatto. "When Matthew expressed an interest, it was right before his renaissance. With a lesser actor, the part would have had to be drastically rewritten." I'd seen Killer Joe and knew he was one of the few actors who could say Rust's dialogue and make you believe it. #Radio show host southern louisiana serial killer in 1930 tv.
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