HBO's True Detective - Part 2

[Kane52630]

“True Detective” Season 3 Adds Carmen Ejogo to Star Opposite Mahershala Ali


Carmen Ejogo has joined Mahershala Ali in HBO’s third season of TRUE DETECTIVE, the premium cable network announced Friday.

The storyline of Season 3 of the anthology series follows a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Ejogo will play Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980. As previously announced, Ali plays the lead role of Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. It’s still unclear whether Hays will have a partner, as the investigators on the first two seasons all did.

Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room) will executive produce and direct the new season alongside series creator Nic Pizzolatto.

Joining Pizzolatto and Saulnier as executive producers will be the original True Detective trio of Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Cary Fukunaga, as well as Scott Stephens and Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Richard Brown.

It was a solid year for Carmen.

 

[Smilodon]

Ejogo is an exciting choice. I'm loving the casting this go around. Mahershala alone probably has more charisma than all of the S2 leads combined, and now we get Carmen Ejogo on top of that? Hype.

 

[David H.]

Nice.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'm curious if there are three separate time periods, what will they be exactly? Could this take place in the early 1900's-1800's too? Modern day, 1980, then all the way back further? Time is a constant theme for Pizzolatto so I'm curious how it'd all bounce around.

 

[NotNickFury]

Here comes Stephen Dorff.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/true-detective-season-3-adds-stephen-dorff-1071263

The HBO drama has cast Stephen Dorff in the next installment of the HBO series from creator Nic Pizzolatto. The Blade actor joins Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo in the drama's return. Dorff will play Roland West, an Arkansas State Investigator who, along with his partner, has his life and career influenced over three decades by a baffling crime.

 

[Sawyer]

Didn't see that one coming.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Dorff is a great and surprising choice but I can't help but be a little disappointed they're going with the two partners again especially when he intentionally wanted to go away from that in season two. I was hoping it would just be Ali as the sole detective. I'm just hoping he isn't playing this safe and Last Crusading it and this is just season one redressed.

Regardless, I have no doubt he will be a great character, so if that's the case and it'll be executed different, I probably won't complain. This is one of those things where whatever happens, I'm probably going to ****ing love it.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I'm okay with two partners, it's consistent banter that could work well.

 

[Fallen Angel]

I think we all knew this but its' been confirmed now.

TrueDetective season 3 will air in 2019 http://thr.cm/vobkdO

 

[squeekness]

Hope it's the beginning of the year and not the end.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Good. Take your time. I'm thinking early 2019. They need those ratings before Game of Thrones.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm glad that S3 is bringing back the separate time periods narrative. The second season had a s***ton of shortcomings, but that was a big one for me.

 

[Marvolo]

Since they didn't have GOT in 2018 they really should have gotten this out this year.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

I'm okay with two partners, it's consistent banter that could work well.

Agreed. It's always good to have someone to bounce back and forth off of, and Ali is SO ****ing intense that may really do him some good.

 

[_Superman_]

After watching season 2 again I don't think that season was that bad. It was just more or less a little different but I personally liked it.

 

[squeekness]

It does get better the more you watch it, yes. It grows on you.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

I haven't watched it, but it was NEVER gonna live up to the first season. It just set the bar way too high.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I haven't watched it, but it was NEVER gonna live up to the first season. It just set the bar way too high.

So go ahead and watch it. What have you got to lose? It's been nearly three years and expectations are gone.

I swear, it's pretty good. Not great, but good, warts and all. Most of all interesting and Pizzolatto's voice just makes it all the more unique.

If people seriously think this was bad television, you have not watched season six of Dexter. Jesus Christ, people act like this season is poison or something. It's a neo noir that has something to say, even if it's imperfect in getting there. It's worth watching at least once

As to the partner angle for this season, I did not consider the fact that detectives are assigned partners in investigations. There never really is a case where it's just one person doing the investigating. It just needs to be fresh.

Maybe this goes back to the 1960's instead of 1980 forward? Maybe Hays and West are newly assigned partners and it's sort of like an In The Heat of the Night thing going on between them?

 

[Inhuman117]

so 2019 than damn it i had count on 2018 but well at least we know when it reach

 

[Fallen Angel]

http://deadline.com/2018/01/true-de...ast-season-3-hbo-anthology-series-1202244190/

Scoot McNairy has been cast opposite Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo and Stephen Dorff in the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO crime anthology series True Detective.

Season 3 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. Ali will play the lead role of Wayne Hays, a state police detective from northwest Arkansas. 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.

 

[squeekness]

I'll be happy to watch in spite of the wait.

 

[Kane52630]

He's great in (almost) everything.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Goddamn. This cast.

I'm really curious what the exact timeline of all this is. It sounds like it's more than they're letting on.

Starts filming next month.

 

[Doctor Jones]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/true-detective-enlists-mamie-gummer-season-3-1082031

A Streep daughter cast. Had no idea there was a second Gummer.

 

[scarlet-witch]

She's pretty good, I've seen her in various TV shows. Dorff is the only question mark for me, but that's really based on how much I dislike Somewhere.