20 Most Intense TV Scenes Ever

By James Hunt / September 5, 2021

7. The Tracking Shot - True Detective

True Detective's first season was a slow-burner, but it sparked into life in its fourth episode, Who Goes There, with an all-time great tracking shot from director Cary Fukunaga.

Running around six minutes in length, the single take sees Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle at a drug raid gone wrong, and having to attempt to make it out alive.

The show's leading men were two movies stars, and this was a moment of pure cinema: a stunning, pulsating sequence that put lives at risk and left you gasping for air.