I'm totally being a thread necromancer, but DH and I are about 3 episodes away from the finale.
This is such an intelligent show, and I am so impressed by Matthew Mcconaughey in particular. (Although I've had to turn off the fan and crank the volume up just so I can hear some of his monologues.)
I have a couple nitpicks. The roles for women are pretty abysmal. The options are: cop's wife, cop's Other Woman, cop's girlfriend for, like, 2 minutes of screen time, prostitute, and dead woman. Hopefully season two is better about that.
And since the show is so smart in other areas, I can't decide if some of the religious details are intentional, subtle clues that something is off or just bad research. No way in heck would an evangelical pastor from the deep South let a crucifix anywhere near his big tent revival. He would NOT make the sign of the cross. He would NOT have a statue of the Virgin Mary in his church, and the name of the church does not match Protestant conventions at all.
I only noticed because of my background, but it makes me wonder how off the police procedural stuff is, since that's not something I'm familiar with.