True Detective and The Problem of Personal Significance on First Things
I have a terrible confession to make: I've yet to watch True Detective. I preordered the Blu-Ray from Amazon, though and I'm waiting for it with bated breath.
This article by Pete Spiliakos on First Things seems like a pretty decent read, though. I read some until I started learning too much about the show.
True Detective’s mythology borrowed from Robert W. Chambers’King in Yellow mythology and from H. P. Lovecraft. (There is a point where a bundle of sticks seems designed to recall the idol in Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu.)True Detective and The Problem of Personal Significance