The Best Episodes Directed By Cary Joji Fukunaga

Every TV Episode Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - Form and Void
    9.0/10(173 votes)

    #1 - Form and Void

    S1:E8

    An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Who Goes There?
    8.9/10(175 votes)

    #2 - Who Goes There?

    S1:E4

    Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting an East-Texas biker gang known to deal with their primary suspect.

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - The Secret Fate of All Life
    8.8/10(164 votes)

    #3 - The Secret Fate of All Life

    S1:E5

    A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his family, and Cohle starts a relationship while gaining a reputation as a closer in interrogations. As time passes and his daughters grow older, Hart faces new tensions and temptations, and Cohle learns from a double-murder suspect that there could be much more to an old case than he'd once thought. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting new intelligence that threatens Cohle and causes Hart to reassess everything he thought he knew about his former partner.

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - The Locked Room
    8.6/10(168 votes)

    #4 - The Locked Room

    S1:E3

    A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - After You've Gone
    8.5/10(162 votes)

    #5 - After You've Gone

    S1:E7

    Hart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Haunted Houses
    8.4/10(163 votes)

    #6 - Haunted Houses

    S1:E6

    Maggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Long Bright Dark
    8.4/10(192 votes)

    #7 - The Long Bright Dark

    S1:E1

    Former Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange, 17 years earlier. As they look back, details of the crime, replete with occult overtones, are accompanied by insights into the detectives’ volatile partnership and personal lives.

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Seeing Things
    8.2/10(175 votes)

    #8 - Seeing Things

    S1:E2

    Under pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a new task force. The pair lobbies for extra time to follow up on a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church. With his marriage to Maggie already strained by work, Hart finds respite away from home.

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Utangatta
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #9 - Utangatta

    S1:E9

    Owen and Annie meet again as a disgraced Icelandic spy and a CIA operative who helps him. Greta implores James to shut down the trial.

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Furs by Sebastian
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #10 - Furs by Sebastian

    S1:E4

    After taking the B pill, Annie and Owen find themselves on 1980s Long Island entangled in a strange caper involving a lemur.

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Option C
    7.7/10(38 votes)

    #11 - Option C

    S1:E10

    After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Part Three
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    #12 - Part Three

    S1:E3

    The group participates in its largest mission to date—the bombing of vital aircraft manufacturing plants deep within Germany.

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - The Lake of the Clouds
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #13 - The Lake of the Clouds

    S1:E8

    Annia and Ellia continue their quest, and Owen's mafioso father pressures him to protect the family. Greta counsels a bereaved Gertie.

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Windmills
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #14 - Windmills

    S1:E2

    When her pilfered stash of pills runs out, troubled Annie tries to quit -- but ends up blackmailing her way into the Neberdine study.

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Part Two
    7.4/10(25 votes)

    #15 - Part Two

    S1:E2

    The 100th bombs German U-boat pens in Norway. With the help of Lt. Crosby's navigating, a damaged B-17 struggles to get back to Britain.

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Exactly Like You
    7.4/10(39 votes)

    #16 - Exactly Like You

    S1:E5

    Annie and Owen are Arlie and Ollie, grifters attending a séance at the mysterious Neberdine mansion in the 1940s.

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Part One
    7.4/10(30 votes)

    #17 - Part One

    S1:E1

    Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force's campaign against Nazi Germany.

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Having a Day
    7.3/10(43 votes)

    #18 - Having a Day

    S1:E3

    Muramoto notices irregularities in Annie and Owen's data. He questions Owen, who recalls the worst night of his life: his brother's engagement party.

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  19. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Larger Structural Issues
    7.3/10(37 votes)

    #19 - Larger Structural Issues

    S1:E6

    Azumi tells James the whole truth about the study's snags and urges him to call his estranged mother, an esteemed therapist.

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Ceci N'est Pas Une Drill
    7.0/10(35 votes)

    #20 - Ceci N'est Pas Une Drill

    S1:E7

    Owen and Annie take the C pill. No longer connected, he belongs to a Mafia family, and she's a medieval guide hired by an ailing elf princess.

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Part Four
    6.9/10(24 votes)

    #21 - Part Four

    S1:E4

    Lt. Rosenthal joins the 100th just as one of its crews reaches a milestone. The U-boat pens at Bremen become a target for the second time.

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  22. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Chosen One!
    6.8/10(54 votes)

    #22 - The Chosen One!

    S1:E1

    Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Owen is the black sheep of the wealthy Milgrim clan. After losing his job, he enrolls in an experimental drug trial.

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Cary Joji Fukunaga Ratings Summary

"Form and Void" is the best rated episode directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. It scored 9/10 based on 173 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 3/9/2014 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Who Goes There?".