Through its first three seasons, HBO crime anthology True Detective liked to flirt with the occult. From Rust Cohle’s (Matthew McConaughey) otherworldly hallucinations in season 1 to the mystic hills of the Ozarks in season 3, the series frequently left the door open for realities beyond our own. Time is a flat circle, after all.
It’s only fitting then that True Detective season 4, subtitled True Detective: Night Country, has similarly cosmic origins. The season, which stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as detectives investigating mysterious disappearances during the perpetual night of winter in Northwest Alaska, came together in a kismet fashion. In a pre-season conversation with journalists, Night Country writer, director, and producer Issa López discussed how she was already working on a very True Detective-esque script before she got an actual True Detective call from HBO.
“I had put a bunch of ideas on a pot to cook and...
It’s only fitting then that True Detective season 4, subtitled True Detective: Night Country, has similarly cosmic origins. The season, which stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as detectives investigating mysterious disappearances during the perpetual night of winter in Northwest Alaska, came together in a kismet fashion. In a pre-season conversation with journalists, Night Country writer, director, and producer Issa López discussed how she was already working on a very True Detective-esque script before she got an actual True Detective call from HBO.
“I had put a bunch of ideas on a pot to cook and...
- 1/14/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Nick Pizzolatto's anthology crime series, "True Detective," revolves around people who are haunted by the past. However, in the end, unresolved cases and emotions find their way to justice and closure — here, time is a flat circle, and we are guided by the natural laws of eternal recurrence. Season 3 of the show took these themes to their extremes, where two detectives, Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff), spend most of their lives chasing some sort of closure about a missing persons case that was first filed in 1980. As a result, the web of interconnected clues that emerged in the narrative's multiple timelines led to a flurry of fan theories, ranging from ones that were probable to those that might be considered obsessively far-fetched.
The answers that season 3 ultimately provided were simpler than the elaborate theories spun on social forums. It was revealed that (spoilers ahead!) Will's death was an accident,...
The answers that season 3 ultimately provided were simpler than the elaborate theories spun on social forums. It was revealed that (spoilers ahead!) Will's death was an accident,...
- 4/29/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Jodie Foster and Kali Reis will team up in the snowy Arctic in the first look at HBO’s “True Detective” Season 4.
“True Detective: Night Country,” which is slated to premiere in 2023, follows two detectives as they investigate the disappearance of six workers in Alaska.
“Meet your new True Detectives,” the official Twitter account for the series posted Wednesday. “The darkness of the Arctic falls heavy upon #NightCountry. The new season of the HBO Original #TrueDetective, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, is coming soon. #NightCountryHBO”
Meet your new True Detectives.
The darkness of the Arctic falls heavy upon #NightCountry. The new season of the HBO Original #TrueDetective, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, is coming soon. #NightCountryHBO pic.twitter.com/max4kpK15p
— True Detective (@TrueDetective) February 15, 2023
The official logline is as follows: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal...
“True Detective: Night Country,” which is slated to premiere in 2023, follows two detectives as they investigate the disappearance of six workers in Alaska.
“Meet your new True Detectives,” the official Twitter account for the series posted Wednesday. “The darkness of the Arctic falls heavy upon #NightCountry. The new season of the HBO Original #TrueDetective, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, is coming soon. #NightCountryHBO”
Meet your new True Detectives.
The darkness of the Arctic falls heavy upon #NightCountry. The new season of the HBO Original #TrueDetective, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, is coming soon. #NightCountryHBO pic.twitter.com/max4kpK15p
— True Detective (@TrueDetective) February 15, 2023
The official logline is as follows: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal...
- 2/15/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Bryan Fuller's style is difficult to replicate. Full of detail, sometimes muted by shadows or vibrant with gore, it's easy to recognize his signature on earlier creations such as "Pushing Daisies" and "Dead Like Me." "Hannibal" has resonated the strongest with his fans, though. Hannifans are a testament to the power of fandom, keeping this three-season series alive — with the hope of a continuation — via new art, fanfiction, and recreating Hannibal's cuisine with the help of the series' food consultant Janice Poon ... without Lecter's most unique, uh, ingredients.
Sumptuous and elegant (are we talking about the show or Mads Mikkelson as Dr. Hannibal Lecter?), Fuller's creation believes in the intelligence of its viewers, never holding back the details of a damaged mind. Lecter's psychology is the most intriguing, often kept locked tight, but Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) is the key to unraveling pieces of him. That requires an...
Sumptuous and elegant (are we talking about the show or Mads Mikkelson as Dr. Hannibal Lecter?), Fuller's creation believes in the intelligence of its viewers, never holding back the details of a damaged mind. Lecter's psychology is the most intriguing, often kept locked tight, but Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) is the key to unraveling pieces of him. That requires an...
- 11/2/2022
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Jodie Foster is set to star in the upcoming season of “True Detective” on HBO.
The new season will officially be titled “True Detective: Night Country.” Here’s a logline for the installment:
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
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Here’s What’s New on HBO and HBO Max in May 2022
Issa López has been tapped to write, direct, and executive produce. Foster will also executive produce. Other executive producers are Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak of Pastel.
Season 3 of “True Detective” starred Mahershala Ali as detective Wayne Hays and Stephen Dorff as his partner Roland West.
The new season will officially be titled “True Detective: Night Country.” Here’s a logline for the installment:
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Also Read:
Here’s What’s New on HBO and HBO Max in May 2022
Issa López has been tapped to write, direct, and executive produce. Foster will also executive produce. Other executive producers are Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak of Pastel.
Season 3 of “True Detective” starred Mahershala Ali as detective Wayne Hays and Stephen Dorff as his partner Roland West.
- 5/26/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
The Bat
Blu ray
The Film Detective
1959 / 1.85:1/ 80 min.
Starring Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead
Cinematography by Joseph Biroc
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Released during the dog days of summer in August of 1959, The Bat was an air-conditioned summer treat for the eight year-old unprepared for a blood and thunder horror movie – even if this mild thriller does star that consummate killer Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead as a novelist who dabbles in murder – the more gruesome, the better.
Price plays Malcolm Wells, a small-town doctor who’s just witnessed the confession of one John Fleming, a larcenous bank president who’s embezzled a fortune from his own vault. Knowing an opportunity when he sees it, Wells promptly shoots Fleming and sets off to find the loot, hidden in a creaky mansion called The Oaks. Waiting for him is Cornelia Van Gorder (Moorehead), a specialist in pulp fiction unaware that the...
Blu ray
The Film Detective
1959 / 1.85:1/ 80 min.
Starring Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead
Cinematography by Joseph Biroc
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Released during the dog days of summer in August of 1959, The Bat was an air-conditioned summer treat for the eight year-old unprepared for a blood and thunder horror movie – even if this mild thriller does star that consummate killer Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead as a novelist who dabbles in murder – the more gruesome, the better.
Price plays Malcolm Wells, a small-town doctor who’s just witnessed the confession of one John Fleming, a larcenous bank president who’s embezzled a fortune from his own vault. Knowing an opportunity when he sees it, Wells promptly shoots Fleming and sets off to find the loot, hidden in a creaky mansion called The Oaks. Waiting for him is Cornelia Van Gorder (Moorehead), a specialist in pulp fiction unaware that the...
- 5/12/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
If you haven't had a chance yet to check out season three of True Detective, you're missing out. Not only is it a true return to form after the convoluted mess that was season two, Mahershala Ali is a revelation. Almost as great as Ali was actor Stephen Dorff. I was floored by his performance as alcoholic and world weary detective Roland West. The actor parlayed his performance into a lead…...
- 1/9/2020
- by Corrye Van Caeseele-Cook
- JoBlo.com
By now we all know that the film the Academy selects as the “Best Picture” of any given year is rarely the actual Best Picture, but some years it’s hard to explain why they picked what they picked. Never mind “Shakespeare in Love” beating “Saving Private Ryan,” because at least “Shakespeare in Love” is a handsome production with a witty script. Never mind “Dances with Wolves” beating “Goodfellas,” because at least “Dances with Wolves” is a respectable western. We’re taking a look at the films that we can’t watch, even in a vacuum, without cringing nowadays. And when you compare them with the nominees that didn’t earn the Oscar, it’s just plain hard to justify why the Academy voted the way it did.
“The Broadway Melody” (1929)
The second Best Picture winner, and the first synch sound movie to win the top prize, was innovative for the time.
“The Broadway Melody” (1929)
The second Best Picture winner, and the first synch sound movie to win the top prize, was innovative for the time.
- 1/7/2020
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Call it coincidence or just Oscar’s great luck.
The same year that Matthew McConaughey took home a Lead Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, he found himself with an Emmy nomination in the Lead Actor Drama Series category for HBO’s True Detective series. This year, history repeats itself for Mahershala Ali who after winning a best supporting actor Oscar (his second) for Universal/DreamWorks/Participant’s Green Book, finds himself with an Emmy nom in the Lead Actor Limited Series/Movie slot for the same HBO series.
True Detective‘s season 3 takes place within three different timelines: In 2015 with retired detective Wayne Hays (Ali), his memory failing, looking back at the disappearance of 12-year-old Will and 10-year-old Julie Purcell. He reflects on the days and weeks immediately following the 1980 crime, as well as developments in 1990, when he and his former partner, Roland West, were subpoenaed after...
The same year that Matthew McConaughey took home a Lead Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, he found himself with an Emmy nomination in the Lead Actor Drama Series category for HBO’s True Detective series. This year, history repeats itself for Mahershala Ali who after winning a best supporting actor Oscar (his second) for Universal/DreamWorks/Participant’s Green Book, finds himself with an Emmy nom in the Lead Actor Limited Series/Movie slot for the same HBO series.
True Detective‘s season 3 takes place within three different timelines: In 2015 with retired detective Wayne Hays (Ali), his memory failing, looking back at the disappearance of 12-year-old Will and 10-year-old Julie Purcell. He reflects on the days and weeks immediately following the 1980 crime, as well as developments in 1990, when he and his former partner, Roland West, were subpoenaed after...
- 7/16/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephen Dorff admits that when he first auditioned for the third season of “True Detective,” he “didn’t know what the part really was.” What at first seemed to be a straight-forwarded cop character quickly became so much more as the anthology crime story moved between three different decades, requiring some of the actors, including Dorff and his on-screen partner in policing, Mahershala Ali, to sit in the hair and makeup chair for hours to be turned into older versions of themselves.
But because Dorff says he got a “natural feeling” for who is Detective Roland West was supposed to be internally from those first few scenes, he quickly realized “what a great role I had.” And as the months since the show wrapped went on, Dorff realized he loved Roland so much, he didn’t want to fully shake the man. His next small screen series, “Deputy,” also sees him playing a “horseman lawman,...
But because Dorff says he got a “natural feeling” for who is Detective Roland West was supposed to be internally from those first few scenes, he quickly realized “what a great role I had.” And as the months since the show wrapped went on, Dorff realized he loved Roland so much, he didn’t want to fully shake the man. His next small screen series, “Deputy,” also sees him playing a “horseman lawman,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
“I burst into tears,” reveals Carmen Ejogo about her reaction to the highly anticipated finale of the recently concluded third season of HBO’s acclaimed anthology crime drama “True Detective.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Ejogo above.
“The fact that the show becomes this beautiful meditation on love and time and the cyclical nature of what time is, and is deeply poetic and is very hopeful in the end,” Ejogo says, “was a wonderful payoff. It’s pretty genius how [it] takes you down a certain path and it becomes something so much more glorious and promising and optimistic in many ways. I was just blown away,” she admits when looking back at the season and how it ultimately left audiences on a relative high.
The show’s third season is set over three intertwining time periods, as Detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) investigate the...
“The fact that the show becomes this beautiful meditation on love and time and the cyclical nature of what time is, and is deeply poetic and is very hopeful in the end,” Ejogo says, “was a wonderful payoff. It’s pretty genius how [it] takes you down a certain path and it becomes something so much more glorious and promising and optimistic in many ways. I was just blown away,” she admits when looking back at the season and how it ultimately left audiences on a relative high.
The show’s third season is set over three intertwining time periods, as Detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) investigate the...
- 4/9/2019
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
“To ask somebody to make that significant of a shift and totally rethink your story was the first thing to accomplish,” Oscar winner Mahershala Ali said when he pitched himself to True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto about taking on the lead role for Season 3 of the HBO anthology series.
“My only insecurity was if the story would be fundamentally changed by changing the race of the lead character,” said Pizzolatto, who was joined by Ali at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event Sunday on the Paramount lot. “Mahershala assured me he didn’t want the story changed and he didn’t want the character defined by his race but to be, as he was on the page, something of a broader, more dimensional leading man than just someone whose defining characteristic would be race.”
Pizzolatto loved the idea and went back to rewrite the episodes to make sure to strike a...
“My only insecurity was if the story would be fundamentally changed by changing the race of the lead character,” said Pizzolatto, who was joined by Ali at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event Sunday on the Paramount lot. “Mahershala assured me he didn’t want the story changed and he didn’t want the character defined by his race but to be, as he was on the page, something of a broader, more dimensional leading man than just someone whose defining characteristic would be race.”
Pizzolatto loved the idea and went back to rewrite the episodes to make sure to strike a...
- 4/7/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
True Detective‘s Stephen Dorff will remain on the right side of the law as the titular star of Fox’s contemporary western-themed drama pilot Deputy, TVLine has learned.
The potential series, created and executive-produced by Castle writer Will Beall, finds Dorff playing Bill Hollister, “a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors but utterly lost in a staff meeting. When the La County Sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West.”
Fox has made a script commitment to the “ensemble procedural,” with a significant...
The potential series, created and executive-produced by Castle writer Will Beall, finds Dorff playing Bill Hollister, “a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors but utterly lost in a staff meeting. When the La County Sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West.”
Fox has made a script commitment to the “ensemble procedural,” with a significant...
- 2/28/2019
- TVLine.com
“What if there’s another story? What if something went unbroken? All this life, all this loss — what if it was really one long story that just kept going and going until it healed itself? Wouldn’t that be a story worth telling? Wouldn’t that be a story worth hearing?”
These are the words of Amelia Hays to her husband Wayne … sort of. The late writer is just a figment of the aging detective’s senile imagination when she says this to him, providing the final piece in the...
These are the words of Amelia Hays to her husband Wayne … sort of. The late writer is just a figment of the aging detective’s senile imagination when she says this to him, providing the final piece in the...
- 2/25/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Harley Feb 25, 2019
The central mystery of True Detective Season 3, the disappearance of Julie Purcell, is finally solved.
The following contains spoilers for True Detective Season 3.
In the end, True Detective Season 3 was a long story that healed itself. When Julie Purcell disappeared, when her brother Will was found dead in Devil’s Den, a wound opened up in the center of a small Arkansas town that proceeded to swallow the lives of Wayne and Amelia Hays, Roland West, Lucy and Tom Purcell, and many others. In particular, Wayne’s work, his marriage, and his memories were so intertwined with the case that the mystery of Julie’s disappearance was all that held his mind together to keep it from unraveling. But all of the lives that were consumed, the tears shed, and the hours spent combing through the evidence eventually lead to something growing out of all that misery.
The central mystery of True Detective Season 3, the disappearance of Julie Purcell, is finally solved.
The following contains spoilers for True Detective Season 3.
In the end, True Detective Season 3 was a long story that healed itself. When Julie Purcell disappeared, when her brother Will was found dead in Devil’s Den, a wound opened up in the center of a small Arkansas town that proceeded to swallow the lives of Wayne and Amelia Hays, Roland West, Lucy and Tom Purcell, and many others. In particular, Wayne’s work, his marriage, and his memories were so intertwined with the case that the mystery of Julie’s disappearance was all that held his mind together to keep it from unraveling. But all of the lives that were consumed, the tears shed, and the hours spent combing through the evidence eventually lead to something growing out of all that misery.
- 2/25/2019
- Den of Geek
As the third season for “True Detective” draws to its conclusion, HBO gives us an inside look at the final episode in this thrilling crime series.
Each season of “True Detective” has its own narrative and story arc. Following Detectives Wayne Hayes and Roland West, the third season explores the investigation into the disappearance of two missing children, as well as the detectives’ own troubles, over the course of three separate time periods.
Continue reading Watch: A Sneak Peak At The Final Episode Of ‘True Detective’ Season 3 at The Playlist.
Each season of “True Detective” has its own narrative and story arc. Following Detectives Wayne Hayes and Roland West, the third season explores the investigation into the disappearance of two missing children, as well as the detectives’ own troubles, over the course of three separate time periods.
Continue reading Watch: A Sneak Peak At The Final Episode Of ‘True Detective’ Season 3 at The Playlist.
- 2/18/2019
- by Margaret Kennedy
- The Playlist
In a True Detective hour where familiar symbols make a big, mind-blowing comeback, there’s a morbid and marvelous shot near the start of this week’s episode — “The Final Country” — that serves as a signifier all its own. It’s 1990, and detective Wayne Hays arrives at an unspecified crime scene, seemingly right near where Will Purcell was killed and his sister Julie potentially kidnapped one decade earlier. With the camera locked on him, the policeman makes his way up the twisting stairs of a tower near the woods, slowing...
- 2/18/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Feb 17, 2019
On True Detective Season 3, True Criminal's producer follows a Crooked Spiral from Carcosa to True Detective Season 1
True Detective Season 3 Episode 7 “The Final Country,” crosses over to season 1 through a close-up shot of an article headlined “Former State Police Officers Stop Alleged Serial Killer.” The photo accompanying the piece shows the detectives who solved the case are Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson). The investigation suggests a much larger and darker conspiracy than a backwoods serial killer.
A group of connected and powerful men may have gotten away with a series of heinous crimes. “The Final Country” ends on a note of possible collusion between Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and a possible suspect in a similar unpunished crime, the wealthy and connected Edward Hoyt. Any kind of deal between this cop and that criminal, however coerced, would constitute the biggest betrayal the series ever offered.
On True Detective Season 3, True Criminal's producer follows a Crooked Spiral from Carcosa to True Detective Season 1
True Detective Season 3 Episode 7 “The Final Country,” crosses over to season 1 through a close-up shot of an article headlined “Former State Police Officers Stop Alleged Serial Killer.” The photo accompanying the piece shows the detectives who solved the case are Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson). The investigation suggests a much larger and darker conspiracy than a backwoods serial killer.
A group of connected and powerful men may have gotten away with a series of heinous crimes. “The Final Country” ends on a note of possible collusion between Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and a possible suspect in a similar unpunished crime, the wealthy and connected Edward Hoyt. Any kind of deal between this cop and that criminal, however coerced, would constitute the biggest betrayal the series ever offered.
- 2/16/2019
- Den of Geek
True Detective season 3 crosses over with season 1 and reveals who got buried in the woods in "The Final Country."
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective Season 3 Episode 7
True Detective season 3, episode 7, “The Final Country,” opens outside the three designated timelines. It is set somewhere between the 1990 reopening of the case and the 2015 documentary filming of it. Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) is taking his daughter to college. It is a warm scene filled only with the fears of separation. It is a far cry from the terrors he faces on the job, and yet the screams can still be made out.
The collegiate orientation setting segues into a crime scene, made disorienting because it is placed halfway up an outdoor metal staircase. Tom, whose last encounter with the two detectives ended with a shriek of disintegration, is dead from what looks like a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Roland West...
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective Season 3 Episode 7
True Detective season 3, episode 7, “The Final Country,” opens outside the three designated timelines. It is set somewhere between the 1990 reopening of the case and the 2015 documentary filming of it. Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) is taking his daughter to college. It is a warm scene filled only with the fears of separation. It is a far cry from the terrors he faces on the job, and yet the screams can still be made out.
The collegiate orientation setting segues into a crime scene, made disorienting because it is placed halfway up an outdoor metal staircase. Tom, whose last encounter with the two detectives ended with a shriek of disintegration, is dead from what looks like a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Roland West...
- 2/11/2019
- Den of Geek
Intense, frightening, revelatory: Without losing the melancholy tone and pointedly un-stylized writing that has characterized this season from the jump, True Detective hit a new high with this week’s episode, aptly titled “Hunters in the Dark.” It follows our suite of protagonists — retired cop Warren Hays, his old partner Roland West,the late novelist Amelia Hays, grieving, alcoholic father Tom Purcell — as they journey deeper into darkness surrounding the death of Will Purcell and the disappearance of his sister Julie. Whether they’re running down clues, discovering literal torture...
- 2/11/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
The Performer | Natasha Lyonne
The Show | Russian Doll
The Episode | “Ariadne” (Feb. 1, 2019)
The Performance | 2019 has only just begun, but we suspect that one of the year’s best performances has already graced our screens: Lyonne’s wry, spirited and wholly unforgettable turn as Nadia, the cynic at the center of Netflix’s trippy comedy Russian Doll.
Though Lyonne is captivating from Russian Doll‘s very first frame, it’s her work in the season finale that left the biggest impression — spoilers ahead! — because she’s actually playing two Nadias. After finally breaking the time loop in which they’ve been stuck,...
The Show | Russian Doll
The Episode | “Ariadne” (Feb. 1, 2019)
The Performance | 2019 has only just begun, but we suspect that one of the year’s best performances has already graced our screens: Lyonne’s wry, spirited and wholly unforgettable turn as Nadia, the cynic at the center of Netflix’s trippy comedy Russian Doll.
Though Lyonne is captivating from Russian Doll‘s very first frame, it’s her work in the season finale that left the biggest impression — spoilers ahead! — because she’s actually playing two Nadias. After finally breaking the time loop in which they’ve been stuck,...
- 2/9/2019
- TVLine.com
Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff met at the airport. The “Moonlight” and “Somewhere” stars were on their way to Arkansas to start production on the much-anticipated, long-awaited third season of “True Detective.” Buzz was already strong; a daunting 120-day shoot was looming, cloaked in secrecy and filmed in remote Arkansas locations far removed from their respective homes. They hopped off the plane and met the drivers who escorted them to their new residence.
“It was funny,” Dorff said. “The drivers thought we were the camera guys. They’re like, ‘Where’s all your camera gear?’ We looked at each other, and we just kind of smirked.”
That, said Dorff and Ali, was when their partnership began. They understood that they weren’t in Hollywood anymore, and were about to embark on a project that could change their careers.
“[‘True Detective’] was one of my favorite shows,” Ali said. “After seeing that first season,...
“It was funny,” Dorff said. “The drivers thought we were the camera guys. They’re like, ‘Where’s all your camera gear?’ We looked at each other, and we just kind of smirked.”
That, said Dorff and Ali, was when their partnership began. They understood that they weren’t in Hollywood anymore, and were about to embark on a project that could change their careers.
“[‘True Detective’] was one of my favorite shows,” Ali said. “After seeing that first season,...
- 2/5/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Time may or may not be a flat circle, but the success rate of Wayne Hays and Roland West sure is. This week’s True Detective — “If You Have Ghosts” — comes straight from series creator Nic Pizzolatto, who shows our heroes working together diligently to solve the mystery of Will Purcell‘s murder and Julie Purcell‘s disappearance. In fact, these partners try to tackle the case in three different decades … and find themselves in dead ends each time.
In the 1980 timeline, when Brett Woodard‘s landmine booby traps go off,...
In the 1980 timeline, when Brett Woodard‘s landmine booby traps go off,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
True Detective drops the most balanced episode of season 3 so far with "If You Have Ghosts."
TV
Note: This episode of True Detective is available now on HBO Now and HBO Go. It will air at its usual time on Sunday night, February 3.
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective Season 3 Episode 5
Detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) arrived on the scene last week just in time to see a local vigilante group trip a claymore in a cliffhanger ending. True Detective season 3 episode 5, doesn't offer a quick landing. "If You Have Ghosts" opens with the Purcell Task Force in 1990 dealing with the fallout from a nationally televised Donahue appearance by the state prosecutor. Law enforcement often reaches out to the public for tips on unsolved crimes, but in this case, the cops aren't the only ones looking for Lucy, and she may slip further underground.
TV
Note: This episode of True Detective is available now on HBO Now and HBO Go. It will air at its usual time on Sunday night, February 3.
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective Season 3 Episode 5
Detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) arrived on the scene last week just in time to see a local vigilante group trip a claymore in a cliffhanger ending. True Detective season 3 episode 5, doesn't offer a quick landing. "If You Have Ghosts" opens with the Purcell Task Force in 1990 dealing with the fallout from a nationally televised Donahue appearance by the state prosecutor. Law enforcement often reaches out to the public for tips on unsolved crimes, but in this case, the cops aren't the only ones looking for Lucy, and she may slip further underground.
- 2/1/2019
- Den of Geek
You might say that tonight’s episode of True Detective — “The Hour and the Day” — goes out with a bang. Hunted by a lynch mob that wrongfully (and racist-ly) believes him to be a child-killer, Brett “Trashman” Woodard booby-traps his home using techniques he learned in ‘Nam. The landmine rigged to detonate the moment the goons kick open his front door blasts us right into the closing credits.
But the preceding hour-plus of television wasn’t explosive per se. Co-written by Nic Pizzolatto and David “Deadwood” Milch, with the former making his directorial debut,...
But the preceding hour-plus of television wasn’t explosive per se. Co-written by Nic Pizzolatto and David “Deadwood” Milch, with the former making his directorial debut,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “True Detective” Season 3, Episode 4, “The Hour and the Day.”]
You can tell “True Detective” is working well when the longest episode of the season doesn’t feel like it. “The Hour and the Day” clocks in at an hour and seven minutes, and even though it’s largely a transitionary entry — lots of leads that don’t pan out, and lots of character development left unresolved — it’s rich, engrossing, and smooth. It also spotlights a lot of what Nic Pizzolatto has done to make Season 3 an overall improvement over Season 2, and that includes bringing in David Milch to co-write this script.
For starters, let’s look at Patti Faber, a dear good woman. Early in Episode 4, detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) go interview the elderly dollmaker, who set off the black detective’s “hillbilly radar” before the two even met. And what do you know,...
You can tell “True Detective” is working well when the longest episode of the season doesn’t feel like it. “The Hour and the Day” clocks in at an hour and seven minutes, and even though it’s largely a transitionary entry — lots of leads that don’t pan out, and lots of character development left unresolved — it’s rich, engrossing, and smooth. It also spotlights a lot of what Nic Pizzolatto has done to make Season 3 an overall improvement over Season 2, and that includes bringing in David Milch to co-write this script.
For starters, let’s look at Patti Faber, a dear good woman. Early in Episode 4, detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) go interview the elderly dollmaker, who set off the black detective’s “hillbilly radar” before the two even met. And what do you know,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Thrills and chills! Twists and turns! Mind-warping philosophical rants, past occult conspiracies, and the highly stylized dialogue of a million film noirs from another dimension!
These are the things that True Detective built its reputation on, the things that made its groundbreaking first season a prestige-tv alternative. And in this week’s episode — “The Big Never” — well, you’ll find none of those things here. Three episodes deep into its third season, the HBO anthology show may be back on the familiar sad Southern buddy-cop beat, but aside from the...
These are the things that True Detective built its reputation on, the things that made its groundbreaking first season a prestige-tv alternative. And in this week’s episode — “The Big Never” — well, you’ll find none of those things here. Three episodes deep into its third season, the HBO anthology show may be back on the familiar sad Southern buddy-cop beat, but aside from the...
- 1/21/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
The horrors of the job follow Hays and West home from "The Big Never" on True Detective season 3, episode 3.
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective: Season 3 Episode 3
For a full accounting of the case at the center of True Detective season 3, episode 3, "The Big Never," begins with Detective Roland West, played by Stephen Dorff. We haven't seen the decade older middle era version of the Detective Hays' (Mahershala Ali) partner yet. This reviewer was wondering if the now-Lieutenant lived to see the second part of the timeline. Glad he did because he brings the paperwork. It's the first thing he does at the May 19, 1990, deposition. West sees nothing wrong with how it all came down back in the fall of 1980. At least, that's the confidence he shows in the face of accusations the investigation was faulty.
West lights a cigarette and gets comfortable. But there is something in...
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective: Season 3 Episode 3
For a full accounting of the case at the center of True Detective season 3, episode 3, "The Big Never," begins with Detective Roland West, played by Stephen Dorff. We haven't seen the decade older middle era version of the Detective Hays' (Mahershala Ali) partner yet. This reviewer was wondering if the now-Lieutenant lived to see the second part of the timeline. Glad he did because he brings the paperwork. It's the first thing he does at the May 19, 1990, deposition. West sees nothing wrong with how it all came down back in the fall of 1980. At least, that's the confidence he shows in the face of accusations the investigation was faulty.
West lights a cigarette and gets comfortable. But there is something in...
- 1/16/2019
- Den of Geek
An odd couple of cops catches a disturbing murder case. The victim is posed in ritualistic fashion, with handmade pagan symbolism left at the scene. Their investigation leads them into dark and depressive corners of the downwardly mobile American South. Years later, questions arise about whether the real killer had ever been caught. And in the present day, the more soulful side of the partnership fights painful memories as he revisits the case for one last stab at justice.
We promised ourselves we weren’t gonna say “Time is a flat circle.
We promised ourselves we weren’t gonna say “Time is a flat circle.
- 1/14/2019
- by Sean T. Collins
- Rollingstone.com
True Detective is back on the case: HBO’s crime anthology returned for a third season on Sunday night with a densely plotted two-hour premiere — will you keep following the clues?
After a typically evocative credit sequence, we head to rural Arkansas, where we meet state police detective Wayne Hays, played by Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. The mystery plays out across three time periods: In 1980, Hays and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) are called in to investigate after two local kids — Will and Julie Purcell — go missing one night. But we also see Hays ten years later in 1990, facing...
After a typically evocative credit sequence, we head to rural Arkansas, where we meet state police detective Wayne Hays, played by Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. The mystery plays out across three time periods: In 1980, Hays and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) are called in to investigate after two local kids — Will and Julie Purcell — go missing one night. But we also see Hays ten years later in 1990, facing...
- 1/14/2019
- TVLine.com
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “True Detective” Season 3, Episode 1, “The Great War and Modern Memory,” and Episode 2, “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.”]
After nearly three-and-a-half years off the air, “True Detective” is back, and it’s traveling back in time — again. The Season 3 premiere introduces Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) in three different timelines: In 2015, he’s a retired detective suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, who’s asked to remember what happened during a homicide case from 1980. In this, the oldest timeline, Wayne and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) are tasked with solving a small-town murder: one boy dead, his sister missing — later, in 1990, it appears she’s alive.
These are the basics of creator, writer, and producer Nic Pizzolatto’s new season, but there’s far more going on than that. The premiere, titled “The Great War and Modern Memory,” is grounded in the anthology series’ past — there are plenty of nods to everyone’s favorite season,...
After nearly three-and-a-half years off the air, “True Detective” is back, and it’s traveling back in time — again. The Season 3 premiere introduces Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) in three different timelines: In 2015, he’s a retired detective suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, who’s asked to remember what happened during a homicide case from 1980. In this, the oldest timeline, Wayne and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) are tasked with solving a small-town murder: one boy dead, his sister missing — later, in 1990, it appears she’s alive.
These are the basics of creator, writer, and producer Nic Pizzolatto’s new season, but there’s far more going on than that. The premiere, titled “The Great War and Modern Memory,” is grounded in the anthology series’ past — there are plenty of nods to everyone’s favorite season,...
- 1/14/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Nick Harley Feb 18, 2019
True Detective is back on HBO and we're examining each episode to find each the best, strangest, and most hard-boiled moments.
“The harvest moon cloaked the expansive Ozark wilderness with an odd milky glow. The steps of the search party crunched the dead leaves beneath their feet, creating a dull roar in the still night.” *Takes long drag of cigarette, stares out the window searchingly, a sad saxophone swells*
Sorry, I was just doing a little light roleplaying as True Detective writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto. To get into character, I went outside and starred into the eye of a dead raccoon I found in the street while pounding cans of Lone Star. Anyway, welcome to the True Detective Awards! Each week, we’ll be breaking down all of the big moments from True Detective Season 3, honoring each episode’s best, strangest, and most hard-boiled scenes with completely arbitrary,...
True Detective is back on HBO and we're examining each episode to find each the best, strangest, and most hard-boiled moments.
“The harvest moon cloaked the expansive Ozark wilderness with an odd milky glow. The steps of the search party crunched the dead leaves beneath their feet, creating a dull roar in the still night.” *Takes long drag of cigarette, stares out the window searchingly, a sad saxophone swells*
Sorry, I was just doing a little light roleplaying as True Detective writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto. To get into character, I went outside and starred into the eye of a dead raccoon I found in the street while pounding cans of Lone Star. Anyway, welcome to the True Detective Awards! Each week, we’ll be breaking down all of the big moments from True Detective Season 3, honoring each episode’s best, strangest, and most hard-boiled scenes with completely arbitrary,...
- 1/14/2019
- Den of Geek
Alec Bojalad Feb 25, 2019
True Detective Season 3 features three different timelines and we're here to help you keep them straight.
The important thing you need to know about True Detective Season 3's timelines is that they're not designed to screw with you.
Seriously. While presenting one case over three different timelines, decades apart, isn't the most straightforward way of telling a story, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is adamant that the timelines don't exist to trip the viewer up or obscure the truth.
"I wanted to sort of be like, 'no tricks up my sleeve,'" Pizzolatto told Den of Geek. "Because 2015 and 1990 are happening at the same time as 1980, you're sort of constantly being told what is going to happen, like, all the time, you know?"
The three timelines in True Detective Season 3 cover the case of the missing Purcell kids in West Finger, Arkansas as it develops in 1980, 1990, and...
True Detective Season 3 features three different timelines and we're here to help you keep them straight.
The important thing you need to know about True Detective Season 3's timelines is that they're not designed to screw with you.
Seriously. While presenting one case over three different timelines, decades apart, isn't the most straightforward way of telling a story, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is adamant that the timelines don't exist to trip the viewer up or obscure the truth.
"I wanted to sort of be like, 'no tricks up my sleeve,'" Pizzolatto told Den of Geek. "Because 2015 and 1990 are happening at the same time as 1980, you're sort of constantly being told what is going to happen, like, all the time, you know?"
The three timelines in True Detective Season 3 cover the case of the missing Purcell kids in West Finger, Arkansas as it develops in 1980, 1990, and...
- 1/13/2019
- Den of Geek
Alec Bojalad Don Kaye Jan 11, 2019
True Detective Season 3's three timelines aren't just a gimmick, creator says. They will server to reward attentive viewers.
It's been well documented by now that True Detective Season 3 will feature three disparate timelines. "True" detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) will be investigating the same case across three decades - 1980, 1990, and 2005.
What's not as well known or remembered, however, is that True Detective is no stranger to the three-timeline gambit. True Detective Season 1 featured three timelines as well, though many viewers only recall the big "two" that featured the original Reggie Ledoux case and the one where Matthew McConaughey had gray hair and made little figurines out of Lone Star cans. And by many viewers, I mean literally me, who couldn't even recall the third "middle" timeline when penning this True Detective Season 3 review.
Perhaps, however, those mythical "many" viewers...
True Detective Season 3's three timelines aren't just a gimmick, creator says. They will server to reward attentive viewers.
It's been well documented by now that True Detective Season 3 will feature three disparate timelines. "True" detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) will be investigating the same case across three decades - 1980, 1990, and 2005.
What's not as well known or remembered, however, is that True Detective is no stranger to the three-timeline gambit. True Detective Season 1 featured three timelines as well, though many viewers only recall the big "two" that featured the original Reggie Ledoux case and the one where Matthew McConaughey had gray hair and made little figurines out of Lone Star cans. And by many viewers, I mean literally me, who couldn't even recall the third "middle" timeline when penning this True Detective Season 3 review.
Perhaps, however, those mythical "many" viewers...
- 1/11/2019
- Den of Geek
Alec Bojalad Jan 13, 2019
It's another season of True Detective, and you know what that means! The True Detective Season 3 opening credits still rule.
True Detective isn’t always reliable. True Detective Season 1 was great, True Detective Season 2 was not. The wait between seasons 1 and 2 was a little over a year while the wait between season 2 and 3 was three years. Hey…wait a minute…maybe those two facts have something to do with each other!
But regardless of HBO’s anthology true crime series’ other imperfections, there is always something consistently great about each season: the opening credits. As designed by Patrick Clair and his Antibody production studio, the True Detective opening credits have always perfectly established the Southern (and one time Southern California) Gothic tone of the show.
True Detective Season 3’s almost exactly 90-second long opening credits are no different as it turns out. The credits feature an ominous...
It's another season of True Detective, and you know what that means! The True Detective Season 3 opening credits still rule.
True Detective isn’t always reliable. True Detective Season 1 was great, True Detective Season 2 was not. The wait between seasons 1 and 2 was a little over a year while the wait between season 2 and 3 was three years. Hey…wait a minute…maybe those two facts have something to do with each other!
But regardless of HBO’s anthology true crime series’ other imperfections, there is always something consistently great about each season: the opening credits. As designed by Patrick Clair and his Antibody production studio, the True Detective opening credits have always perfectly established the Southern (and one time Southern California) Gothic tone of the show.
True Detective Season 3’s almost exactly 90-second long opening credits are no different as it turns out. The credits feature an ominous...
- 1/11/2019
- Den of Geek
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV.
Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, “True Detective” returns on HBO and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” debuts on NBC.
“Manifest,” NBC, Monday, 10 p.m.
In the winter premiere of the hit freshman series, Michaela’s next-level calling launches her on a mission that brings her relationship with Jared to a head, while Ben explores an alternate meaning to Michaela’s calling that leads him to a new alliance and a powerful new adversary.
“Schooled,” ABC, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m.
In the series premiere of the “Goldbergs” spinoff, Lainey returns to William Penn Academy as the new music teacher. she has a hard time adjusting to being an authority figure, but she realizes...
Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, “True Detective” returns on HBO and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” debuts on NBC.
“Manifest,” NBC, Monday, 10 p.m.
In the winter premiere of the hit freshman series, Michaela’s next-level calling launches her on a mission that brings her relationship with Jared to a head, while Ben explores an alternate meaning to Michaela’s calling that leads him to a new alliance and a powerful new adversary.
“Schooled,” ABC, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m.
In the series premiere of the “Goldbergs” spinoff, Lainey returns to William Penn Academy as the new music teacher. she has a hard time adjusting to being an authority figure, but she realizes...
- 1/7/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
In the third season of HBO’s True Detective, Mahershala Ali plays Arkansas state cop Wayne Hays, investigating the same child murder case across three eras: as a hotshot detective in 1980 whose troubled service in Vietnam is close in the past; as a family man looking to resurrect his career in 1990; and as a retired widower battling dementia in 2015 while a TV documentarian reopens the investigation. As people keep asking why the elderly Hays wants to revisit such ugliness, he explains that going over the details of the story again...
- 1/3/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
With its new installment “True Detective,” one of TV’s most baroque series, is keeping things simple — relatively speaking.
Some things haven’t changed: Yes, the third season restlessly jumps through time. And as Det. Wayne Hays, a cop investigating the disappearance of two children in small-town Arkansas, Mahershala Ali lends gutsy commitment and a willingness to be shrouded in old-age makeup, just as Matthew McConaughey had done in Season 1.
But what’s striking about the latest iteration of a show that’s worn its taste for excess proudly, even as the audience recoiled, is its leanness. Tightly directed (in its first episodes by Jeremy Saulnier) and plotted, and with a performance at its center that steers away from calling attention to itself, the new “True Detective” transcends hype and amounts to 2019’s first pleasant small-screen surprise.
It’s the 2010s and Ali’s Hays, a former police detective who...
Some things haven’t changed: Yes, the third season restlessly jumps through time. And as Det. Wayne Hays, a cop investigating the disappearance of two children in small-town Arkansas, Mahershala Ali lends gutsy commitment and a willingness to be shrouded in old-age makeup, just as Matthew McConaughey had done in Season 1.
But what’s striking about the latest iteration of a show that’s worn its taste for excess proudly, even as the audience recoiled, is its leanness. Tightly directed (in its first episodes by Jeremy Saulnier) and plotted, and with a performance at its center that steers away from calling attention to itself, the new “True Detective” transcends hype and amounts to 2019’s first pleasant small-screen surprise.
It’s the 2010s and Ali’s Hays, a former police detective who...
- 1/2/2019
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Synopsis: Playing out in three separate time periods, the new season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades. Mahershala Ali stars as Arkansas state police detective Wayne Hays, who originally investigated the crime, with Stephen Dorff starring as Roland West, the detective who investigated the case with Hays, and Carmen Ejogo…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
The good news about Season 3 of HBO’s True Detective: It has nowhere to go but up. After a universally acclaimed freshman season that reintroduced us to the pleasures of Matthew McConaughey, the crime anthology returned in 2015 with a universally panned sophomore season… and hasn’t been heard from since. Now, three and a half years later, it’s back — and having seen the first four episodes, I can say that Season 3 is marginally better than Season 2, at the very least. But despite a tremendous lead performance from Mahershala Ali, it doesn’t quite reach the heights of Season 1, either.
- 1/2/2019
- TVLine.com
Let’s get this out of the way: “True Detective” Season 3 is good. Whether or not you believe the first season to be an untouchable classic or an overrated but well-acted cop show, Nic Pizzolatto’s new episodes are a big step up from a second season as muddled and meaningless as that water stain above Vince Vaughn’s bed. With strong performances all-around — and a flat-out remarkable turn from Mahershala Ali — HBO’s third season benefits from reliable genre elements, a compelling central story, and aesthetics as lush as they are eerie.
Taking place over three time periods, Season 3 focuses on Wayne Hays (Ali), an Arkansas police detective and Vietnam veteran who takes on the case of a missing brother and sister in 1980. He and his partner, Roland West (Stephen Dorff), aren’t exactly exemplary officers — they spend their shifts shooting at rats and sipping Miller High Life — but...
Taking place over three time periods, Season 3 focuses on Wayne Hays (Ali), an Arkansas police detective and Vietnam veteran who takes on the case of a missing brother and sister in 1980. He and his partner, Roland West (Stephen Dorff), aren’t exactly exemplary officers — they spend their shifts shooting at rats and sipping Miller High Life — but...
- 1/2/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Law enforcement breaks rules to crack cases in True Detective Season 3. Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff get under the skin.
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective: Season 3 Episode 1
"Yeah, of course I remember," retired Arkansas state detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) says at the very beginning of True Detective season 3 episode 1, "The Great War and Modern Memory." He is giving a deposition, dated May 12, 1990, on a case from a decade prior to that.
It was a full moon on Friday, November 7, 1980, the day Steve McQueen died. Hays and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) were called to investigate two missing kids, a brother (Phoenix Elkin) and his sister (Lena McCarthy). The deposition scene follows an establishing shot of a kid's bicycle tires, complete with a clothes-pinned baseball card rattling the spokes, happily careening up a quiet street on its way to what must be an unhappy destination. It...
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective: Season 3 Episode 1
"Yeah, of course I remember," retired Arkansas state detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) says at the very beginning of True Detective season 3 episode 1, "The Great War and Modern Memory." He is giving a deposition, dated May 12, 1990, on a case from a decade prior to that.
It was a full moon on Friday, November 7, 1980, the day Steve McQueen died. Hays and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) were called to investigate two missing kids, a brother (Phoenix Elkin) and his sister (Lena McCarthy). The deposition scene follows an establishing shot of a kid's bicycle tires, complete with a clothes-pinned baseball card rattling the spokes, happily careening up a quiet street on its way to what must be an unhappy destination. It...
- 12/30/2018
- Den of Geek
True Detective Season 3 is a return to form...a form that pop culture has since moved past from.
This is a spoiler-free True Detective season 3 review, based on the first five episodes.
In Atlanta’s fourth episode, “The Streisand Effect,” Earn (Donald Glover) and Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) are headed to a pawn shop to get some quick money for Earn. En route Earn reveals that he doesn’t know who movie star Steve McQueen is. Darius responds that that’s understandable - most black people don’t know who Steve McQueen is. Earn doubts this claim. Later on at the pawnshop, Earn spots a Steve McQueen poster and asks the black owner of the shop if he knows who Steve McQueen is. “Yeah,” the owner responds. “Would you know who Steve McQueen was if you didn’t work here?” Darius asks, not willing to concede the point. “Black people don...
This is a spoiler-free True Detective season 3 review, based on the first five episodes.
In Atlanta’s fourth episode, “The Streisand Effect,” Earn (Donald Glover) and Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) are headed to a pawn shop to get some quick money for Earn. En route Earn reveals that he doesn’t know who movie star Steve McQueen is. Darius responds that that’s understandable - most black people don’t know who Steve McQueen is. Earn doubts this claim. Later on at the pawnshop, Earn spots a Steve McQueen poster and asks the black owner of the shop if he knows who Steve McQueen is. “Yeah,” the owner responds. “Would you know who Steve McQueen was if you didn’t work here?” Darius asks, not willing to concede the point. “Black people don...
- 12/26/2018
- Den of Geek
HBO has released a new full trailer for True Detective season three, which seems to tell a fascinating story of a man named Wayne Hays and the mystery of two missing children in the heart of the Ozarks that defined his life.
Mahershala Ali takes on the role of Arkansas state police detective Wayne Hays, who has been haunted over the course of his life by this dark crime that took place in the 80s. The story takes place over the course of three decades, and the mystery deepens over that time period.
Ali is joined by Stephen Dorff, who will play a character named Roland West, he's also an Arkansas State Investigator and the partner of Hays. Carmen Ejogo also stars in the series as Amelia Reardon, who is an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to the two missing kids.
I’m excited for this next season! It looks...
Mahershala Ali takes on the role of Arkansas state police detective Wayne Hays, who has been haunted over the course of his life by this dark crime that took place in the 80s. The story takes place over the course of three decades, and the mystery deepens over that time period.
Ali is joined by Stephen Dorff, who will play a character named Roland West, he's also an Arkansas State Investigator and the partner of Hays. Carmen Ejogo also stars in the series as Amelia Reardon, who is an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to the two missing kids.
I’m excited for this next season! It looks...
- 12/12/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
“Things I’ve seen, things I know, wouldn’t do anything but cause harm,” Mahershala Ali’s Wayne Hays says in “True Detective’s” Season 3 trailer.
The third installment of the HBO limited series follows two children’s disappearance in the Ozarks, and the way it haunts state police detective Hays over the course of three decades.
The Oscar winner will be joined by Stephen Dorff as Roland West, Hays’ partner on the case. Carmen Ejogo appears in the new season as an Arkansas schoolteacher connected to the missing children, and Mamie Gummer has a recurring role as the children’s mother. The third season was directed by Daniel Sackheim, who took the reins from Jeremy Saulnier, as Variety reported exclusively in March. Saulnier directed the first two episodes, with Sackheim dividing up the other six with creator and executive producer Nic Pizzolatto, who’s making his directorial debut.
The...
The third installment of the HBO limited series follows two children’s disappearance in the Ozarks, and the way it haunts state police detective Hays over the course of three decades.
The Oscar winner will be joined by Stephen Dorff as Roland West, Hays’ partner on the case. Carmen Ejogo appears in the new season as an Arkansas schoolteacher connected to the missing children, and Mamie Gummer has a recurring role as the children’s mother. The third season was directed by Daniel Sackheim, who took the reins from Jeremy Saulnier, as Variety reported exclusively in March. Saulnier directed the first two episodes, with Sackheim dividing up the other six with creator and executive producer Nic Pizzolatto, who’s making his directorial debut.
The...
- 11/2/2018
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
HBO has released a new full railer for the third season of True Detective and it offers us our best at the series, which stars Mahershala Ali in the role of Arkansas state police detective Wayne Hays.
The story takes place over the course of three decades in the life of his Hays who is haunted by a case he was working on, a dark crime in the heart of the Ozarks involving two missing children in the 1980s, and there’s "a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods."
Ali will be joined by Stephen Dorff, who will play a character named Roland West, he's also an Arkansas State Investigator and the partner of Hays. Carmen Ejogo also stars in the series as Amelia Reardon, who is an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to the two missing kids.
This looks like it’s...
The story takes place over the course of three decades in the life of his Hays who is haunted by a case he was working on, a dark crime in the heart of the Ozarks involving two missing children in the 1980s, and there’s "a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods."
Ali will be joined by Stephen Dorff, who will play a character named Roland West, he's also an Arkansas State Investigator and the partner of Hays. Carmen Ejogo also stars in the series as Amelia Reardon, who is an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to the two missing kids.
This looks like it’s...
- 11/2/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The long-awaited third season of HBO’s “True Detective” finally has a premiere date.
The new season will debut on the premium cabler on Jan. 13 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt, with the season consisting of eight episodes. The new season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. Mahershala Ali stars as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. Carmen Ejogo and Stephen Dorff also star. Dorff will play Roland West, an Arkansas State Investigator. Ejogo will play Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980.
The third season was directed by Daniel Sackheim, who took over from Jeremy Saulnier as Variety reported exclusively. Saulnier directed the first two episodes; Sackheim divided up the final six with series creator/executive producer Nic Pizzolatto,...
The new season will debut on the premium cabler on Jan. 13 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt, with the season consisting of eight episodes. The new season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. Mahershala Ali stars as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. Carmen Ejogo and Stephen Dorff also star. Dorff will play Roland West, an Arkansas State Investigator. Ejogo will play Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980.
The third season was directed by Daniel Sackheim, who took over from Jeremy Saulnier as Variety reported exclusively. Saulnier directed the first two episodes; Sackheim divided up the final six with series creator/executive producer Nic Pizzolatto,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
HBO has released the first trailer for the third season of True Detective and it offers us our first look at Mahershala Ali in the role of Arkansas state police detective Wayne Hays. The trailer teases the story which will take place over the course of three decades in the life of his character and it's made clear that he is haunted by a case he was working on. In the trailer he says:
"Before you ever knew me, I wasn’t scared much. That wasn’t a fear for me. Things I’ve seen, things I know, wouldn’t do anything but cause harm. My whole brain’s a bunch of missing pieces."My job…. there’s no certainty. This peace… is more haunting than anything. I want to know the whole story."
Ali will be joined by Stephen Dorff, who will play a character named Roland West, he's...
"Before you ever knew me, I wasn’t scared much. That wasn’t a fear for me. Things I’ve seen, things I know, wouldn’t do anything but cause harm. My whole brain’s a bunch of missing pieces."My job…. there’s no certainty. This peace… is more haunting than anything. I want to know the whole story."
Ali will be joined by Stephen Dorff, who will play a character named Roland West, he's...
- 8/27/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Quantico alum Josh Hopkins and Jodi Balfour (The Crown) are set to recur, along with Lonnie Chavis (This Is Us), in the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO crime anthology series True Detective.
Starring Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy, Mamie Gummer and Ray Fisher, the next installment tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Hopkins will play Jim Dobkins, a private attorney in Fayetteville, Arkansas involved in deposing state police detectives in an ongoing investigation. Balfour will play Lori, long-term love interest to Det. Roland West. Chavis will play Wayne Hays’ (Ali) son at age 9.
They join previously announced recurring cast Michael Greyeyes, Jon Tenney, Rhys Wakefield, Sarah Gadon, Emily Nelson, Brandon Flynn and Michael Graziadei.
As with the breakout original installment of True Detective,...
Starring Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy, Mamie Gummer and Ray Fisher, the next installment tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Hopkins will play Jim Dobkins, a private attorney in Fayetteville, Arkansas involved in deposing state police detectives in an ongoing investigation. Balfour will play Lori, long-term love interest to Det. Roland West. Chavis will play Wayne Hays’ (Ali) son at age 9.
They join previously announced recurring cast Michael Greyeyes, Jon Tenney, Rhys Wakefield, Sarah Gadon, Emily Nelson, Brandon Flynn and Michael Graziadei.
As with the breakout original installment of True Detective,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Author: Zehra Phelan
The cast list for season 3 of the HBO series, True Detective is starting to fill out with the latest name to join the cast announced as Fargo and Godless actor Scoot McNairy.
Related: True Detective season 3 News
McNairy will play Tom, a father who suffers a terrible loss that ties his fate to that of two state police detectives over 10 years. Dorff will play the role of the Arkansas State Investigator Roland West, the partner of Ali’s Wayne Hays who is a Northwest Arkansas state police detective. Ejogo will play Amelia Reardon, a school teacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980.
The third season of the anticipated series will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Jeremy Saulnier (“Green Room,” “Blue Ruin”) will...
The cast list for season 3 of the HBO series, True Detective is starting to fill out with the latest name to join the cast announced as Fargo and Godless actor Scoot McNairy.
Related: True Detective season 3 News
McNairy will play Tom, a father who suffers a terrible loss that ties his fate to that of two state police detectives over 10 years. Dorff will play the role of the Arkansas State Investigator Roland West, the partner of Ali’s Wayne Hays who is a Northwest Arkansas state police detective. Ejogo will play Amelia Reardon, a school teacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980.
The third season of the anticipated series will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Jeremy Saulnier (“Green Room,” “Blue Ruin”) will...
- 1/17/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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