True Detective Season 2: 5 Awesome Moments (And 5 That Sucked)

From Leonard Cohen's stylish opening-credits track, Nevermind—which tweaks the lyrics each episode, the first ending with 'I live among you/well disguised', the second with 'I don't know which/so never mind'—to the haunting Nashville stylings of singer/songwriter Lera Lynn (who plays the melancholy performer in Frank's bar) the music of season two works just as well as it did in season one, if not better.

Legendary musician T. Bone Burnett again composes the music for True Detective, and his style suits the woebegone world that the characters inhabit, but it's Cohen's title track, taken from his latest album, Popular Problems, that truly sets this up, as his voice—cracked, baritone and hoarse, like he's swallowed sand—sings the words that will resound though season two like a sorrowful mantra:

'In places deep/with roots entwined/I live the life/I left behind. The war was lost/the treaty signed/I was not caught/I crossed the line. I was not caught/though many tried/I live among you/well disguised.