"La Louisiana di True Detective. Attori e attanti geografici in una serie televisiva"

This essay analyzes one of the latest and most successful TV series from the USA, True Detective, outlining some of its most significant narrative features, and focusing especially on the most recurrent and stereotypical ones: the male bond between the two detectives, against the backdrop of the evocative and mysterious Louisiana landscape. The essay suggests that the geographical landscape can be legitimately regarded as one of the story’s protagonists and attempts to define the elements of this protagonist role.