Okay, let us compare quotes from two Southern Characters:
Louisiana Police Detective Rust Cohle in HBO's "True Detective"
"I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; a secretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.:
Opposed the above I offer a quote from the 1993 film Gettysburg. Brigidier General Lewis Armistead just before leading his men in Pickett's Charge to to British Observer Col. Fremantle, on the irony of his uncle defending the original "Star Spangled Banner" at Ft. McHenry in 1814:
"Colonel Fremantle, it does not begin or end with my uncle, or myself. We're all sons of Virginia here.
"That major out there, commanding the cannon - that's James Dearing, first in his class at West Point, before Virgina seceded. And the boy over there with the color guard - that's Private Robert Tyler Jones. His grandfather was President of the United States. The colonel behind me - that's Colonel William Aylett. Now, his great-grandfather was the Virginian, Patrick Henry.
"It was Patrick Henry who said to your King George III, 'Give me liberty, or give me death.'"
There are boys here from Norfolk, Portsmouth, small hamlets along the James River... from Charlottesville and Fredericksburg, to the Shenandoah Valley. Mostly, they're all veteran soldiers now; the cowards and shirkers are long gone. Every man here knows his duty. They would make this charge, even without an officer to lead them. They know the gravity of the situation, and the mettle of their foe. They know that this day's work will be desperate and deadly.
"They know, that for many of them, this will be their last charge. But not one of them needs to be told what is expected of him. They're all willing to make the supreme sacrifice - to achieve victory, here... the crowning victory... and the end of this war.
"We are all here, Colonel. You may tell them, when you return to your country, that all Virginia was here on this day."
Now, which would you rather watch?
You’re asking me to chose between two programs, based on out-of-context quotes. As I’ve seen some of “True Detective”, I know some of the context. I haven’t seen any of the other one. If I had to chose right now, I’d chose “True Detective”. But, that’s both a provisional choice, and a false dichotomy. It’s a provisional choice, because I might change my mind if or when I see the other program. It’s a false dichotomy, because those aren’t my only choices.
I like the show; and they show some great female full frontal nudity on it to boot.