The two leading men in HBO’s moody crime series True Detectives, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, are nominated for Emmys in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category. Award predictors see the scales tipping in True Detective‘s favor–the show won four awards at the Creative Arts Emmys and its rival Breaking Bad won just one. But whether it’s McConaughey or Harrelson…Tune in Monday. (Oh stop it about Kevin Spacey–Netflix is not TV! Or is it?)
As four-time Emmy-nominated actor Charlie Sheen would say, McConaughey is already “winning.” He just won an Oscar for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club. About agreeing to do True Detective with an inexperienced showrunner (novelist Nic Pizzolatto) and unknown director (Cary Fukunaga), McConaughey recently told Deadline: “I read those first two episodes, and the quality was so apparent, and had such an identity to it that even without reading the final six episodes, I felt this was going to be hard to screw up.”