Mathijs Peters, in a piece for Film International, argued that True Detective probes Schopenhauerian philosophy through its approach to individuality, self-denial, the battle between dark and light, and so forth.
Mathijs Peters je u tekstu za Film International istaknuo da Pravi detektiv preuzima Schopenhauerovu filozofiju kroz svoj pristup individualnosti, samoodricanju i bitci između svjetla i tame.