10 Confusing TV Shows That Nobody Understands

8. True Detective

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The sparse and intense first season of HBO's deeply disturbing, almost Lovecraftian crime thriller True Detective is undeniably complex at times.

But the story of Matthew McConnaughey and Woody Harrelson's mismatched cops trailing a psychotic child murderer and uncovering a vast underworld conspiracy in the process actually turns out to be surprisingly (and for some fans, disappointingly) simple by its denouement.

The viewer never learns the secrets of the cult the villain is involved with, but the pair nonetheless uncover the culprit and save the day in relatively straightforward if somewhat trippy fashion.

Not so with season two.

Centring on Colin Farrell's loose cannon detective, Rachel McAdams' troubled recruit, and Vince Vaughn's pseudo philosophical mob boss, the second season of the hit is an impossible to decipher disaster.

With intersecting hints of cults, satanism, and land ordinance violations, the show spun a web no one could hope to untangle, then left viewers with no key to this enigma beyond Vaughn's unintentionally hilarious koans.

It was Lynchian alright, but more in the vein of his appearances on The Cleveland Show than Mulholland Drive...

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