HBO’s anthology series “True Detective” is back after five years with a new season that will compete at the 2024 Emmy Awards. This latest installment that premiered in January comes with the subtitle “True Detective: Night Country” and, while still part of the franchise, it’s the first to not have the involvement of creator Nic Pizzolato – other than his executive producer credit. It was instead developed by Issa Lopez who wrote (or co-wrote) and directed all six episodes, and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as detectives in an Alaskan town investigating the disappearance of eight scientists. Let’s re-examine the three previous seasons of “True Detective” at the Emmys – which garnered a combined total of 22 nominations and five wins – to determine possible nominations in categories for the current season.
Here is the complete Emmys history for the first three seasons of “True Detective”:
Season 1 (2014):
Best Drama Series
Nic Pizzolato,...
Here is the complete Emmys history for the first three seasons of “True Detective”:
Season 1 (2014):
Best Drama Series
Nic Pizzolato,...
- 4/1/2024
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
Spoilers follow.
"True Detective: Night Country" is a murder mystery. But the fourth season of the crime anthology series tells a deeper story, with new showrunner Issa López weaving a dense narrative full of symbolism and metaphor. So full of cryptic imagery is this season, that fans of the series will no doubt struggle to keep up with just what it all means, or whether it means anything at all.
Reintroducing elements from season 1 has been a big part of "Night Country," which, early in its run, confirmed it was a direct sequel to the original season. That means we've seen plenty of the ominous spiral symbol, which originated in the series pilot and represented the sinister Carcosa or Yellow King cult. In "Night Country," however, the spiral has played an even bigger role, with López seemingly set to reveal its origins by the end of her season.
But the...
"True Detective: Night Country" is a murder mystery. But the fourth season of the crime anthology series tells a deeper story, with new showrunner Issa López weaving a dense narrative full of symbolism and metaphor. So full of cryptic imagery is this season, that fans of the series will no doubt struggle to keep up with just what it all means, or whether it means anything at all.
Reintroducing elements from season 1 has been a big part of "Night Country," which, early in its run, confirmed it was a direct sequel to the original season. That means we've seen plenty of the ominous spiral symbol, which originated in the series pilot and represented the sinister Carcosa or Yellow King cult. In "Night Country," however, the spiral has played an even bigger role, with López seemingly set to reveal its origins by the end of her season.
But the...
- 2/10/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Premiering almost exactly 10 years after the launch of the first season and almost exactly five years after the Mahershala Ali-centric third season — time being a flat circle, as the now-punchline goes — True Detective: Night Country is perched precariously in conversation with, and in contrast to, the show created by and steered by Nic Pizzolatto.
Created by Issa López, who wrote or co-wrote most of the season and directed all six episodes, Night Country is, in some ways, a throwback to the first season, bringing back the uncomfortable intersection of true crime narrative and supernatural undertones. The season also includes direct nods to imagery and dialogue from the first season — generally unnecessary citations that feel like a sop to the Pizzolatto-worshipping corner of the fandom, since otherwise Night Country is at odds with the previous seasons in terms of theme and overall perspective.
Night Country pushes aside Pizzolatto’s trademark...
Created by Issa López, who wrote or co-wrote most of the season and directed all six episodes, Night Country is, in some ways, a throwback to the first season, bringing back the uncomfortable intersection of true crime narrative and supernatural undertones. The season also includes direct nods to imagery and dialogue from the first season — generally unnecessary citations that feel like a sop to the Pizzolatto-worshipping corner of the fandom, since otherwise Night Country is at odds with the previous seasons in terms of theme and overall perspective.
Night Country pushes aside Pizzolatto’s trademark...
- 1/2/2024
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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
‘True Detective’ creator Nic Pizzolatto has signed on to write Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ movie, reuniting with Mahershala Ali, who starred in the third season of his crime series. ‘Blade’ boasts Oscar winner Ali as the title vampire slayer, with Aaron Pierre, Delroy Lindo and Mia Goth among the starry cast.
Pre-production on the film is underway, with Pizzolatto taking on writing duties, working from a draft of the script by Emmy nominee Michael Starrbury, which has been said to be ‘darker than most MCU movies’, reports ‘Variety’.
Directed by Yann Demange, who helmed ‘White Boy Rick’ and the pilot for ‘Lovecraft Country’, the film is expected to begin filming in late May in Atlanta.
The ‘Blade’ reboot was first announced at Comic-Con in 2019, when Marvel Studio chief Kevin Feige surprised Hall H by announcing Ali would take up the mantle of the infamous daywalker after Wesley Snipes played the Marvel Comics...
Pre-production on the film is underway, with Pizzolatto taking on writing duties, working from a draft of the script by Emmy nominee Michael Starrbury, which has been said to be ‘darker than most MCU movies’, reports ‘Variety’.
Directed by Yann Demange, who helmed ‘White Boy Rick’ and the pilot for ‘Lovecraft Country’, the film is expected to begin filming in late May in Atlanta.
The ‘Blade’ reboot was first announced at Comic-Con in 2019, when Marvel Studio chief Kevin Feige surprised Hall H by announcing Ali would take up the mantle of the infamous daywalker after Wesley Snipes played the Marvel Comics...
- 4/29/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
“True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto has signed on to Marvel Studios’ “Blade” movie, reuniting with Mahershala Ali, who starred in the third season of his HBO crime series.
“Blade” boasts Oscar winner Ali as the title vampire slayer, with Aaron Pierre and Delroy Lindo and Mia Goth, among the starry cast. Pre-production on the film is underway, with Pizzolatto taking on writing duties, working from a draft of the script by Emmy nominee Michael Starrbury, which has been said to be “darker than most MCU movies.”
Directed by Yann Demange, who helmed “White Boy Rick” and the pilot for “Lovecraft Country,” the film is expected to begin filming in late May in Atlanta.
The “Blade” reboot was first announced at Comic-Con in 2019, when Marvel Studio chief Kevin Feige surprised Hall H by announcing Ali would take up the mantle of the infamous daywalker after Wesley Snipes played the Marvel Comics...
“Blade” boasts Oscar winner Ali as the title vampire slayer, with Aaron Pierre and Delroy Lindo and Mia Goth, among the starry cast. Pre-production on the film is underway, with Pizzolatto taking on writing duties, working from a draft of the script by Emmy nominee Michael Starrbury, which has been said to be “darker than most MCU movies.”
Directed by Yann Demange, who helmed “White Boy Rick” and the pilot for “Lovecraft Country,” the film is expected to begin filming in late May in Atlanta.
The “Blade” reboot was first announced at Comic-Con in 2019, when Marvel Studio chief Kevin Feige surprised Hall H by announcing Ali would take up the mantle of the infamous daywalker after Wesley Snipes played the Marvel Comics...
- 4/28/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
"True Detective" season 1 was one of the most enjoyably unsettling seasons of TV ever produced. Writer/Creator Nic Pizzolatto crafted a detective show like no other, mixing in elements of cosmic horror, Nietzschean philosophy, and one of the creepiest secret society plots ever conceived. But you know what the most disturbing thing about that first season was? The fact that Errol Childress (Glenn Fleshler), the serial killer who's eventually taken out by detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson), was just the tip of the iceberg.
Throughout the first season of "True Detective," Marty and Rust uncover an occult-worshiping, human-sacrificing abuse ring, whose members occupy high-level positions in society. And by the end of the season, it's clear Childress was a particularly sadistic part of a much more insidious whole.
Now, the trailer for the upcoming "True Detective: Night Country," suggests we might be about to delve...
Throughout the first season of "True Detective," Marty and Rust uncover an occult-worshiping, human-sacrificing abuse ring, whose members occupy high-level positions in society. And by the end of the season, it's clear Childress was a particularly sadistic part of a much more insidious whole.
Now, the trailer for the upcoming "True Detective: Night Country," suggests we might be about to delve...
- 4/15/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- 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
Early in the third season of HBO's "True Detective," fans and Redditors perked up at the mention of a "crooked spiral," which the fictional true-crime documentarian Elisa Montgomery (Sarah Gadon) connected to the straw dolls found in the forest near a dead body at the end of the first episode. After Will and Julie Purcell go missing, the boy is discovered in a praying pose, and Montgomery suspects his death is part of a larger conspiracy. "There's a web forum that posts about real-life criminal cases, things that are unsolved or unresolved," she explains to retired detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali). "They have a whole...
The post Why True Detective's Creator Tied Seasons 1 And 3 Together appeared first on /Film.
The post Why True Detective's Creator Tied Seasons 1 And 3 Together appeared first on /Film.
- 8/5/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- 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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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
“Between the World and Me” is coming to HBO, and the premium cabler’s adaptation of the acclaimed book will boast an all-star cast.
WarnerMedia announced on Wednesday that the special, which will air on HBO on November 21, will feature Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, Alicia Garza, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Jharrel Jerome, Mimi Jones, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Ledisi, Janet Mock, Jason Moran, Joe Morton, Wendell Pierce, Phylicia Rashad, Greg Alverez Reid, Mj Rodriguez, Kendrick Sampson, Yara Shahidi, Nate Smith, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Olivia Washington, Pauletta Washington, Susan Kelechi Watson, Michelle Wilson, and Oprah Winfrey.
The 2015 “Between the World and Me” non-fiction book, written by Coates and formatted as a letter to his teenage son, centers on the author’s thoughts and experiences on being Black in the United States. Originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater in 2018, HBO’s special will combine elements of that production,...
WarnerMedia announced on Wednesday that the special, which will air on HBO on November 21, will feature Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, Alicia Garza, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Jharrel Jerome, Mimi Jones, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Ledisi, Janet Mock, Jason Moran, Joe Morton, Wendell Pierce, Phylicia Rashad, Greg Alverez Reid, Mj Rodriguez, Kendrick Sampson, Yara Shahidi, Nate Smith, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Olivia Washington, Pauletta Washington, Susan Kelechi Watson, Michelle Wilson, and Oprah Winfrey.
The 2015 “Between the World and Me” non-fiction book, written by Coates and formatted as a letter to his teenage son, centers on the author’s thoughts and experiences on being Black in the United States. Originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater in 2018, HBO’s special will combine elements of that production,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
No hairstylist has been more instrumental in shaping the looks of African American actors and actresses for television and film of the last 10 years than Lawrence Davis, one of the most sought-after talents in his field. His skill alone doesn’t account for why Davis has worked on more than 80 movies and TV series — in addition to winning two Emmys — his real talent lies in how he uses his craft in a critical, and often underestimated role in the visual storytelling of a film or TV series. “It’s a key element of defining a character for an actor because hair is a language too, especially for Black people,” said Mahershala Ali, who brought Davis onto “Green Book” and “True Detective” to collaborate with to establish his characters. “It’s hard to overstate the value of — or at least how — African Americans express something about themselves through how they chose to wear their hair.
- 6/23/2020
- by Leah Lu
- Indiewire
The Republican Party has split down the middle on Mrs. America Season 1 Episode 6.
Phyllis Schlafly attempted to secure the presidential nomination for Ronald Reagan, a more conservative candidate than President Gerald Ford.
But Jill Ruckelshaus, arguably the face of the progressive Republican movement, was determined to stop Phyllis and her band of "Reaganites."
Ultimately, "Jill," portrayed how Jill and Phyllis came to their respective beliefs. The two women were both Republicans but differed when it came to social justice.
Phyllis: Your husband supports you leaving your children on a Saturday afternoon?
Jill: Yes, he wants me to have my own life, my own career.
Phyllis: Well, there's nothing stopping you from doing just that.
Permalink: Well, there's nothing stopping you from doing just that. Added: May 03, 2020
Phyllis was conservative for various reasons.
She believed that women were fully equal and could pursue any career path they choose. She thought second-wave...
Phyllis Schlafly attempted to secure the presidential nomination for Ronald Reagan, a more conservative candidate than President Gerald Ford.
But Jill Ruckelshaus, arguably the face of the progressive Republican movement, was determined to stop Phyllis and her band of "Reaganites."
Ultimately, "Jill," portrayed how Jill and Phyllis came to their respective beliefs. The two women were both Republicans but differed when it came to social justice.
Phyllis: Your husband supports you leaving your children on a Saturday afternoon?
Jill: Yes, he wants me to have my own life, my own career.
Phyllis: Well, there's nothing stopping you from doing just that.
Permalink: Well, there's nothing stopping you from doing just that. Added: May 03, 2020
Phyllis was conservative for various reasons.
She believed that women were fully equal and could pursue any career path they choose. She thought second-wave...
- 5/6/2020
- by Sarah Novack
- TVfanatic
The 2020 SAG Awards have come and gone, with the first award of the evening going to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Tony Shalhoub for Male Actor in a Comedy Series and the last to “Parasite” for Best Cast in a Motion Picture.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge won the award for Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series for “Fleabag,” while the Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series went to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Its star, Rachel Brosnahan paid tribute to Brian Tarantina, who played Jackie the emcee at the Gaslight comedy club and died in November at the age of 60.
Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Marriage Story.” Brad Pitt won for his role in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” “The Crown” won Best Ensemble in a Drama Series. Joaquin Phoenix won Best Lead Actor for “Joker,” while Renee Zellweger won Best Lead Actress for “Judy.”
Also...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge won the award for Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series for “Fleabag,” while the Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series went to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Its star, Rachel Brosnahan paid tribute to Brian Tarantina, who played Jackie the emcee at the Gaslight comedy club and died in November at the age of 60.
Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Marriage Story.” Brad Pitt won for his role in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” “The Crown” won Best Ensemble in a Drama Series. Joaquin Phoenix won Best Lead Actor for “Joker,” while Renee Zellweger won Best Lead Actress for “Judy.”
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- 1/20/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and HBO’s Veep came into the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards looking like a front-running candidate to make history but in the end the Academy voters elected to go in a different direction by making Fleabag the victor.
Veep and Louis-Dreyfus were shockingly shut-out in favor of a scruffy newcomer with populist charms: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the executive producer, creator, writer and star of Fleabag, was the unexpected winner in the category of best actress in a comedy series, which denied Louis-Dreyfus a chance to make history as the first performer to win nine Emmys.
Louis-Dreyfus instead remains tied with Cloris Leachman for the most career Emmy wins (eight) by any performer. Fleabag also won the prize for best comedy and Waller-Bridge grabbed a third statuette for best writing, which left Veep looking like a latter-day Walter Mondale.
Veep closed out its seventh and final season in May with...
Veep and Louis-Dreyfus were shockingly shut-out in favor of a scruffy newcomer with populist charms: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the executive producer, creator, writer and star of Fleabag, was the unexpected winner in the category of best actress in a comedy series, which denied Louis-Dreyfus a chance to make history as the first performer to win nine Emmys.
Louis-Dreyfus instead remains tied with Cloris Leachman for the most career Emmy wins (eight) by any performer. Fleabag also won the prize for best comedy and Waller-Bridge grabbed a third statuette for best writing, which left Veep looking like a latter-day Walter Mondale.
Veep closed out its seventh and final season in May with...
- 9/23/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
In an age when Netflix’s “Skip Intro” button threatens to make a TV show’s opening credits into an endangered species, it’s more important than ever to acknowledge the work being done by the artists who set the tone for some of the year’s most notable series. “I have two jobs,” says two-time Emmy winner Patrick Clair, nominated this year for the haunting introduction to “True Detective” Season 3. “The main title needs to prove its worth — and also make it worth watching again and again.” His fellow nominees in the main title design category share that philosophy, while also revealing how they went about innovating — or in some cases, re-innovating — the art of these brief yet stunning sequences.
“Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”
(Netflix)
Elastic creative director Lisa Bolan was inspired by the actual cassette tape technology that captured those original interviews in her...
“Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”
(Netflix)
Elastic creative director Lisa Bolan was inspired by the actual cassette tape technology that captured those original interviews in her...
- 8/1/2019
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Variety Film + TV
Season 3 of True Detective was well received, and star Mahershala Ali scored an Emmy nomination for his role as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. But what are the chances of Season 4?
HBO president of programming Casey Bloys provided a (slight) update at the TCA press tour on Wednesday. “I think Nic [Pizzolatto] has ideas, but I don’t think he’s landed on anything that he feels passionately about,” he said.
This echoes previous comments from Bloys, who said in February it would handle a potential fourth season the same way as it did with Season 3. He said earlier this year, “If Nic has an idea that he is excited about, we will talk about it but not rushing into anything.”
After a three-and-a-half year hiatus, the third season of Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series returned in January. The season told the story of a macabre crime...
HBO president of programming Casey Bloys provided a (slight) update at the TCA press tour on Wednesday. “I think Nic [Pizzolatto] has ideas, but I don’t think he’s landed on anything that he feels passionately about,” he said.
This echoes previous comments from Bloys, who said in February it would handle a potential fourth season the same way as it did with Season 3. He said earlier this year, “If Nic has an idea that he is excited about, we will talk about it but not rushing into anything.”
After a three-and-a-half year hiatus, the third season of Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series returned in January. The season told the story of a macabre crime...
- 7/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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
It’s about time that two-time supporting actor Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (“Green Book” and “Moonlight”) got a lead role, and his troubled Arkansas cop, Wayne Hays, was a game-changer for Season 3’s “True Detective” on HBO.
The fact that Ali got to play Hays at three different stages of his life: his thirties, forties, and seventies, made it a more remarkable achievement as we got to witness the personal impact of the macabre murder mystery. The three faces of Hays became a study in hope, futility, and dementia as he is consumed by the case. And the masterful makeup and hair work aided in Ali’s powerful performance.
Beginning with his grandfather as a point of reference, Ali collaborated with makeup artists Debi Young and Mike Marino and hairstylist Lawrence Davis to create a unified look that suited him best. “He asked me to come do this project with...
The fact that Ali got to play Hays at three different stages of his life: his thirties, forties, and seventies, made it a more remarkable achievement as we got to witness the personal impact of the macabre murder mystery. The three faces of Hays became a study in hope, futility, and dementia as he is consumed by the case. And the masterful makeup and hair work aided in Ali’s powerful performance.
Beginning with his grandfather as a point of reference, Ali collaborated with makeup artists Debi Young and Mike Marino and hairstylist Lawrence Davis to create a unified look that suited him best. “He asked me to come do this project with...
- 5/17/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
“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
There’s very little that’s off-limits on “True Detective.” In Season 2, Vince Vaughn’s character stares up at a stain on his bedroom ceiling. The first season’s climax took place in a winding maze of overgrowth and may have included a portal to another realm.
But series writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto draws the line at season-long hallucinations. Speaking after the end of last week’s Season 3 ender, Pizzolatto addressed the enigmatic final sequence, which returns Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) back to Vietnam, when and where he served in the military. Some writers and commenters took this as a possible indication that much of what the audience saw in the season — the case of a missing girl, his marriage to Amelia (Carmen Ejogo), and multiple grisly deaths — was just a vision of Wayne’s as he made his way through the jungle.
“Yeah, that’s not true,” Pizzolatto...
But series writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto draws the line at season-long hallucinations. Speaking after the end of last week’s Season 3 ender, Pizzolatto addressed the enigmatic final sequence, which returns Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) back to Vietnam, when and where he served in the military. Some writers and commenters took this as a possible indication that much of what the audience saw in the season — the case of a missing girl, his marriage to Amelia (Carmen Ejogo), and multiple grisly deaths — was just a vision of Wayne’s as he made his way through the jungle.
“Yeah, that’s not true,” Pizzolatto...
- 3/2/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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
On Sunday night Mahershala Ali took home his second career Best Supporting Actor Oscar for “Green Book,” but it turns out his year in the awards spotlight is just beginning. According to Gold Derby’s early Emmy predictions, Ali has leading 13/2 racetrack odds to win the Emmy this September for his leading role on HBO’s limited series “True Detective.” Can Ali do what Matthew McConaughey couldn’t do five years ago and take home the Emmy for “True Detective” months after claiming the Oscar?
See 2019 Oscars: Full list of winners (and losers) at the 91st Academy Awards [Updating Live]
As awards pundits will tell you, the first season of “True Detective” helped McConaughey win Best Actor for “Dallas Buyers Club” (2013), as the well-reviewed program aired smack-dab in the middle of Oscar voting. Much of McConaughey’s awards narrative that year focused on his transition from surfer dude to serious actor, and...
See 2019 Oscars: Full list of winners (and losers) at the 91st Academy Awards [Updating Live]
As awards pundits will tell you, the first season of “True Detective” helped McConaughey win Best Actor for “Dallas Buyers Club” (2013), as the well-reviewed program aired smack-dab in the middle of Oscar voting. Much of McConaughey’s awards narrative that year focused on his transition from surfer dude to serious actor, and...
- 2/25/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
True Detective season 3 finale "Now Am Found" redeems a lawnmower man in an uplifting twist.
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective Season 3 Episode 8
True Detective season 3, episode 8, “Now Am Found,” closes out season 3 with the most insidious twist a series as dark as this can present, a happy ending. More than just happy, it is positively uplifting. And the thing that keeps it afloat is the lies it took to get it to rise. True Detective is about deception. At the close of the last episode, Detective Wayne Hays drove off in the limo of a very important figure in the community. Edward Hoyt, here played by Michael Rooker, who sideswiped Kevin Costner's New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as he looked for the true conspirators in a presidential assassination in Oliver Stone's JFK.
We get a short flashback to Hays as campus security at a...
This True Detective review contains spoilers.
True Detective Season 3 Episode 8
True Detective season 3, episode 8, “Now Am Found,” closes out season 3 with the most insidious twist a series as dark as this can present, a happy ending. More than just happy, it is positively uplifting. And the thing that keeps it afloat is the lies it took to get it to rise. True Detective is about deception. At the close of the last episode, Detective Wayne Hays drove off in the limo of a very important figure in the community. Edward Hoyt, here played by Michael Rooker, who sideswiped Kevin Costner's New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as he looked for the true conspirators in a presidential assassination in Oliver Stone's JFK.
We get a short flashback to Hays as campus security at a...
- 2/24/2019
- Den of Geek
[This story contains spoilers for the Feb. 17 episode of True Detective, "The Final Country."]
Time really is a flat circle in the world of True Detective.
After hinting at a connection to the show's first season a few times, the seventh episode of season three made it explicit: Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) moves in the same world as Rust Cohle and Marty Hart.
That revelation came in the 2015 portion of the story, when TV producer Elisa (Sarah Gadon) showed Wayne a screenshot of a newspaper front page detailing Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Hart's (Woody Harrelson) 2012 takedown ...
Time really is a flat circle in the world of True Detective.
After hinting at a connection to the show's first season a few times, the seventh episode of season three made it explicit: Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) moves in the same world as Rust Cohle and Marty Hart.
That revelation came in the 2015 portion of the story, when TV producer Elisa (Sarah Gadon) showed Wayne a screenshot of a newspaper front page detailing Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Hart's (Woody Harrelson) 2012 takedown ...
- 2/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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
I Am the Night episode 5, "Aloha," says goodbye and hello to a recurring past.
Culture
This I Am the Night review contains spoilers.
I Am the Night Episode 5
I Am the Night episode 5, "Aloha," opens at Dr. George Hodel's (Jefferson Mays) 1949 incest trial. A psychiatric expert is explaining how 14-year-old Tamar suffers from a kind of dementia that causes delusions of grandeur and comes from a mania for sex. This was apparent even when Tama was 11. The daughter has been making up stories about her father for a long time, and the list of accusations includes the Black Dahlia murder, the testimony continues.
The series has a lot of ground to cover in the George Hodel backstory, most of which directly affects how we see the main character, Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), his granddaughter. Jay Singletary (Chris Pine) covered the original trial. It destroyed his career. As he drops off...
Culture
This I Am the Night review contains spoilers.
I Am the Night Episode 5
I Am the Night episode 5, "Aloha," opens at Dr. George Hodel's (Jefferson Mays) 1949 incest trial. A psychiatric expert is explaining how 14-year-old Tamar suffers from a kind of dementia that causes delusions of grandeur and comes from a mania for sex. This was apparent even when Tama was 11. The daughter has been making up stories about her father for a long time, and the list of accusations includes the Black Dahlia murder, the testimony continues.
The series has a lot of ground to cover in the George Hodel backstory, most of which directly affects how we see the main character, Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), his granddaughter. Jay Singletary (Chris Pine) covered the original trial. It destroyed his career. As he drops off...
- 2/17/2019
- Den of Geek
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
After a three-and-a-half year hiatus, Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series True Detective returned for a third season last month. The new installment, headlined by Mahershala Ali, is five weeks into its eight-episode run, and the network is very happy with it.
“Creatively, ratings-wise, it did everything that we wanted it to do,” HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys said in an interview with Deadline. “It’s up to 8 million viewers an episode, we were thrilled with the review, I think fans have really liked it. Obviously acting is superb. I was very, very, very happy with all aspects of it.”
Is HBO already thinking about a fourth installment?
“I think we are going to handle it the same way as the last one — if Nic has an idea that he is excited about, we will talk about it but not rushing into anything,” Bloys said. “I think Nic is...
“Creatively, ratings-wise, it did everything that we wanted it to do,” HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys said in an interview with Deadline. “It’s up to 8 million viewers an episode, we were thrilled with the review, I think fans have really liked it. Obviously acting is superb. I was very, very, very happy with all aspects of it.”
Is HBO already thinking about a fourth installment?
“I think we are going to handle it the same way as the last one — if Nic has an idea that he is excited about, we will talk about it but not rushing into anything,” Bloys said. “I think Nic is...
- 2/8/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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
A confrontation in 1980, a security-camera video in 1990 and a TV production's research in 2015: All three are central to the fourth episode of HBO's True Detective, and all three have the potential to upend the narrative thus far.
They also raise a lot of questions about how and why things fell apart for both the case of Will and Juile Purcell and for Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali), the man at the center of the story. There's a lot to unpack in each timeline of "The Hour and the Day" (co-written by David Milch and creator ...
They also raise a lot of questions about how and why things fell apart for both the case of Will and Juile Purcell and for Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali), the man at the center of the story. There's a lot to unpack in each timeline of "The Hour and the Day" (co-written by David Milch and creator ...
- 1/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
(Spoilers ahead for the first three episode of season 3 of HBO’s “True Detective”)
The HBO mystery anthology series “True Detective” took a lengthy hiatus after its second season aired way back in 2015, but now it’s back with Mahershala Ali in a new story that spans decades.
We’re three episodes in, and it’s still tough to know what to make of this whole thing so far. That’s not too terribly surprising, given the cryptic and slow burning nature of the show — creator Nic Pizzolatto and co. are big on holding back key details until the right moment.
Here’s the broad stuff we know about the mystery at the center of Season 3 of “True Detective” so far (we’ll get into smaller details in a bit). A pair of children, a brother and sister named Will and Julie Purcell, went missing after school one day in...
The HBO mystery anthology series “True Detective” took a lengthy hiatus after its second season aired way back in 2015, but now it’s back with Mahershala Ali in a new story that spans decades.
We’re three episodes in, and it’s still tough to know what to make of this whole thing so far. That’s not too terribly surprising, given the cryptic and slow burning nature of the show — creator Nic Pizzolatto and co. are big on holding back key details until the right moment.
Here’s the broad stuff we know about the mystery at the center of Season 3 of “True Detective” so far (we’ll get into smaller details in a bit). A pair of children, a brother and sister named Will and Julie Purcell, went missing after school one day in...
- 1/24/2019
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
The first season of HBO’s crime series “True Detective” arguably helped Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas Buyers Club”) win an Oscar in 2013, as the well-reviewed program aired smack-dab in the middle of Academy Awards voting. Now that Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) has taken the reigns as the Season 3 lead of the paycaster’s limited series, will he now follow in McConaughey’s Oscar-winning footsteps?
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McConaughey’s ascension from surfer dude to Oscar champ may not have happened without his critically acclaimed TV role as Detective Rustin “Rust” Cohle. His first major television performance, which later scored nominations at the Emmys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards, kept him top of mind as academy members began marking their ballots. “True Detective” aired for eight episodes in January-March of 2014, with phase two of Oscar voting taking place February 14-25 of that year.
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McConaughey’s ascension from surfer dude to Oscar champ may not have happened without his critically acclaimed TV role as Detective Rustin “Rust” Cohle. His first major television performance, which later scored nominations at the Emmys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards, kept him top of mind as academy members began marking their ballots. “True Detective” aired for eight episodes in January-March of 2014, with phase two of Oscar voting taking place February 14-25 of that year.
- 1/23/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
[This story contains spoilers for the Jan. 20 episode of HBO's True Detective, "The Big Never."]
The case of Will and Julie Purcell deepened and became more complex in Sunday's True Detective — and the effects of what happened (or didn't) in 1980 reverberated heavily in the show's later timelines.
Episode two revealed that in 1990, Julie is apparently still alive as her fingerprints were found at the scene of a robbery in Oklahoma, helping spark the reopening of the case. It also creates an opening for Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) to get out ...
The case of Will and Julie Purcell deepened and became more complex in Sunday's True Detective — and the effects of what happened (or didn't) in 1980 reverberated heavily in the show's later timelines.
Episode two revealed that in 1990, Julie is apparently still alive as her fingerprints were found at the scene of a robbery in Oklahoma, helping spark the reopening of the case. It also creates an opening for Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) to get out ...
- 1/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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 Performer | Mahershala Ali
The Show | True Detective
The Episode | “The Great War and Modern Memory” (Jan. 13, 2019)
The Performance | We can count on each season of True Detective to deliver a few things: intensely moody cinematography, a creepy murder case full of twists… and top-notch performances. (Yes, even Season 2. Colin Farrell was good!) This week’s Season 3 premiere added a new name to the True Detective Acting Hall of Fame in Ali, who sprinted out of the gate with an immediately mesmerizing, densely layered performance.
The Oscar winner is really giving three distinct performances here, portraying Arkansas detective Wayne Hays across three time periods.
The Show | True Detective
The Episode | “The Great War and Modern Memory” (Jan. 13, 2019)
The Performance | We can count on each season of True Detective to deliver a few things: intensely moody cinematography, a creepy murder case full of twists… and top-notch performances. (Yes, even Season 2. Colin Farrell was good!) This week’s Season 3 premiere added a new name to the True Detective Acting Hall of Fame in Ali, who sprinted out of the gate with an immediately mesmerizing, densely layered performance.
The Oscar winner is really giving three distinct performances here, portraying Arkansas detective Wayne Hays across three time periods.
- 1/19/2019
- TVLine.com
Time is a flat circle, or so they say. That old True Detective logic, first uttered in season one by Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle, has returned in season three, if not in quite those specific words, as creator Nic Pizzolatto once again plays with time in the latest incarnation of the Emmy-winning HBO crime anthology.
True Detective season three, which premiered its first two episodes Jan. 13, takes place in the Ozarks and centers on a new detective who, like Cohle, isn't much for mincing words: Wayne Hays, played across three different moments in time by Oscar winner Mahershala ...
True Detective season three, which premiered its first two episodes Jan. 13, takes place in the Ozarks and centers on a new detective who, like Cohle, isn't much for mincing words: Wayne Hays, played across three different moments in time by Oscar winner Mahershala ...
- 1/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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
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
Nick Harley Don Kaye Jan 12, 2019
Mahershala Ali will look to recapture the magic of the first season by blazing his own path as Wayne Hays in True Detective season 3.
True Detective returns after a lengthy hiatus to reclaim the fervent fan following and rampant online discussion that followed the series in its critically acclaimed first season. While the second season may have been a misfire, the inaugural year, anchored by incendiary performances from Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey was a sensation, with critics and bloggers tirelessly poring over every thread of the story, hoping to find some hidden or even supernatural meaning underneath.
McConaughey in particular benefitted from the first season’s widespread success. His performance as whacko existentialist Rust Cohle cemented McConaughey’s Hollywood comeback after his Oscar winning turn in Dallas Buyers Club and the characters spaced out musings became viral memes and a shtick that McConaughey could lean on for ad campaigns.
Mahershala Ali will look to recapture the magic of the first season by blazing his own path as Wayne Hays in True Detective season 3.
True Detective returns after a lengthy hiatus to reclaim the fervent fan following and rampant online discussion that followed the series in its critically acclaimed first season. While the second season may have been a misfire, the inaugural year, anchored by incendiary performances from Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey was a sensation, with critics and bloggers tirelessly poring over every thread of the story, hoping to find some hidden or even supernatural meaning underneath.
McConaughey in particular benefitted from the first season’s widespread success. His performance as whacko existentialist Rust Cohle cemented McConaughey’s Hollywood comeback after his Oscar winning turn in Dallas Buyers Club and the characters spaced out musings became viral memes and a shtick that McConaughey could lean on for ad campaigns.
- 1/12/2019
- 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
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