True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has said that the only connective tissue between the first two seasons of the show is him — his interests, his love for crime stories, his obsessions.
That, of course, hasn’t stopped fans of the show from searching for — and finding! — things that could tie the two seasons together.
The Internet was awash with people trying to “solve” True Detective in season one, with its heavy references to the Yellow King, Carcosa and the works of writers like Thomas Ligotti. Stylistic homages aside — hello, David Lynch in the opening of episode three — those types of signposts haven’t been as present in the second season. The most intriguing of those theories comes from Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff, who speculates that the (as yet) unseen forces behind the murder of Ben Caspere are part of the same conspiracy that was behind the sexual abuse and murder at the heart of season one.
