After being off-the-air for two years — and following and plenty of speculation about its future — HBO’s True Detective is making some progress behind the scenes toward a new season.EW has exclusively learned that creator Nic Pizzolatto has penned at least the first two episodes for a potential third edition of the acclaimed anthology crime drama.We have also learned that Emmy-winning writer-producer David Milch — the mind behind dramas such as Deadwood and NYPD Blue — is coming on board to work with Pizzolatto.The extent of Pizzolatto and Milch’s collaboration is still early days and not yet formalized. Obviously, Milch’s experience as a writer will be a key component, but for the record he’s not expected to serve as the True Detective showrunner (at this stage, there is no specified season 3 showrunner). Also keep in mind a third season has also not yet been greenlit, so new episodes are far from certain.
EW has exclusively learned that creator Nic Pizzolatto has penned at least the first two episodes for a potential third edition of the acclaimed anthology crime drama.
We have also learned that Emmy-winning writer-producer David Milch — the mind behind dramas such as Deadwood and NYPD Blue — is coming on board to work with Pizzolatto.
The extent of Pizzolatto and Milch’s collaboration is still early days and not yet formalized. Obviously, Milch’s experience as a writer will be a key component, but for the record he’s not expected to serve as the True Detective showrunner (at this stage, there is no specified season 3 showrunner). Also keep in mind a third season has also not yet been greenlit, so new episodes are far from certain.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/27/true-detective-season-3-david-milch/
― Number None, Monday, 27 March 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Went to buy 3 at the bootleg place on the weekend; not there yet, so I rewatched 1. I think I liked it even more this time: the one thing that initially wore me down, McConaughey's one-note, relentless nihilism, wasn't a big problem this time. Would I rather he lightened up now and again, made a joke, did some McConaughey-like stuff ("Alright, alright, alright, I think we got our guy...")? Yes, that'd still be my preference. But his character seemed more valid to me, and I mostly felt like I was watching two great actors carrying everything along. I thought the timeline--'95/02/present--was juggled really well. (Emily Nussbaum makes a fair point about the way the main female characters are sometimes just props in service of the story: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-disappointing-finale-of-true-detective.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
the finale of the third season will be on the 24th of this month
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
good lord this made me laugh but I still 100% stand by it with the exception that I also include film these days. Actually, I'm a little confused as to why I made the effort to exclude it in the first place.
Anyway, imagine worrying about spoilers? Maybe worry about missing 99% of the point of what you're watching.
Guys, this is TV, not film. The ending doesn't mean shit and I say this as a lifelong fan of tv.― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Thursday, May 22, 2014what are you even talking about
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Thursday, May 22, 2014
what are you even talking about
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 14 July 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Season 4! Jodie Foster!
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
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
Rewatched S1 over the last week or so and found it overwhelming. The first time I watched it, I was hung up on the ending; I found the redemptive arc unnecessary or over-coded. This time, I was moved to the point where I had to pause it and pull myself together. Maybe it's age. I even dug the overt 'Jesus' reference in the reflected shot of Rust in the hospital window.
Thinking on the Jesus reference, made me wonder if Rust's seemingly foolish act on tackling Carcosa alone was all part of his 'meditation on the crucifixion' motif that was set running in E02 (I think?): Rust was looking for a way to sacrifice himself.
Here's a weird thing. I've had the final act of episode 5 in my head for years but could never place which series it was from and I certainly didn't remember it as part of TD. It was only halfway through the episode that I was like 'shit, it's the single-take scene!'. I love it as a piece of stand-alone telly but I don't think it fits the whole season at all. I think it's a 'kill your darlings' moment and the season could easily stand without it (with, admittedly, a different solution for finding Ledoux).
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:07 (seven months ago) link
Also, one of my favourite things: watching a season that has a long-ass ILX thread to follow along with. SO much better than hot-take Onion/NYT watch along bullshit.
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:09 (seven months ago) link
Whenever a thread like this is revived with enthusiasm, I immediately want to rewatch. Which I will, shortly.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 September 2023 03:02 (seven months ago) link
i was hoping we had a debut date for season 4 announced...bah
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 11 September 2023 03:09 (seven months ago) link
Held up by the strike?
― clemenza, Monday, 11 September 2023 03:11 (seven months ago) link
i think it's already finished so I would guess not, but maybe
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 11 September 2023 03:17 (seven months ago) link
Recently rewatched The Wolf Of Wall Street and immediately thought of rewatching S1 for more bonkers McConaughey.Chinaski otm - the two parter thread for Twin Peaks The Return is ILX at its finest.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 12:18 (seven months ago) link
I read *Galveston* this week and enjoyed it. Like others have said, it is essentially an exercise in cliche but that's part of the point and comfort of noir, right? I really like his sense of place and this is a love letter to Galveston as much as a hardbitten crime story. Galveston (the place) is lit up with the light of memory and sadness.
The book supports the idea that he can't write women (female characters are either sex workers, carers or sentimentalised children), but the existential agony of the central character is well portrayed.
I looked for TD stuff, obviously, but location aside, and a pointed bit where the central character cuts figures out of Lone Star cans, there isn't much there beyond a generalised ambient savagery.
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Friday, 22 September 2023 18:09 (six months ago) link
Rewatched S1 for at least the second time (I post about it just above in 2019). I won't open the whole massive thread to see what I wrote the first time, but I think I have the same very minor quibble: that they do such a great job leading up to the final episode, it's slightly anticlimactic when Errol Childress and his half-sister turn out to be sort of conventional backwoods monsters (or at least their maze-like lair seems familiar). I don't know what I was waiting for, but something that really lived up to the unspeakable horror of the VHS tape. Which they do a great job with--you can just barely see what's going on in dim outline, and the rest is conveyed through the horrified reaction of whoever's watching it. I do love how Errol turns up halfway through the season, and Cole thinks back to that encounter in the final episode.
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 October 2023 16:19 (six months ago) link
I need to watch this again.
Isn't it kind of a noir trope that the true Big Bad always slips away while our Hero gets at best a smaller victory, sometimes none at all?
― ryan, Saturday, 14 October 2023 16:25 (six months ago) link
i think you're too easy on the wrap up there clem
its *hugely* disappointing that the gothic horror we've been chasing is a bumfuck on a tractor
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 October 2023 16:52 (six months ago) link
one of the hardest nose dives in tv history
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 14 October 2023 16:59 (six months ago) link
I think that was my reaction the first time, I guess the letdown inevitably gets factored in ahead of time when you revisit. There are still things about the story I'm not clear on, like how involved Tuttle was--was he just part of the cover-up or was he a participant?--that I'm sure could be cleared up easily with a little online reading.
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 October 2023 17:03 (six months ago) link
My expectations for s4 are so unreasonable, if it isn't good I'm gonna plotz
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:27 (three months ago) link
I’m going to give it a chance but only I cause already pay for this dumb azz platform
― calstars, Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:53 (three months ago) link
John Hawkes is turning into a Sean Penn/Dwight Yoakam hybrid creature.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 January 2024 04:00 (three months ago) link
i’m in i dont care how it turns out its jodi its weird its cold i’m down
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 January 2024 04:57 (three months ago) link
Naming the research station after a Ligotti story is a good omen. The first episode was great.
― ShariVari, Monday, 15 January 2024 18:08 (three months ago) link
Yeah, first episode was very strong. A copy of The Thing clearly on display in the research station is a good sign. They're setting up a lot of Native myth-meets-cosmic horror stuff that I hope pays off well.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
Gene Wolfe's "Urth Of The New Sun" visible on bookshelf also.
― ian, Monday, 15 January 2024 18:30 (three months ago) link
Ahh I've been reading (actually Audible-ing) Gene Wolfe very slowly for the past couple years. Wouldn't have guessed that for a reference point!
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:53 (three months ago) link
xps Tsalal appears to be the title of a Ligotti story, but also (pace Google) an Antarctic location that figures in Poe's Narrative of Sir Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as various continuations/sequels by Jules Verne and others
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 January 2024 18:55 (three months ago) link
Wondered for a while what John Hawkes has been up to. Good to see him in this.
Hope there'll be a flashback where the one station employee is explaining Wilco and Cormac McCarthy to the other biologists.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 15 January 2024 19:08 (three months ago) link
Lol but I thought Wilco bro and Blood Meridian bro were two different guys!
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 January 2024 19:18 (three months ago) link
Ope, you're right! If only the music playing on repeat was Andrew Bird whistling instead of "Twist and Shout"...
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 15 January 2024 19:39 (three months ago) link
i like that its research station AND town (plus mine) … adds a lot of potential texture to story & characters, already feel some of that in this first epfoster’s danvers has a great “over-it-clarice-starling” without specifically being played that way, if that makes sense and i love the actress playing navarro already - her whole scene with the spongebob toothbrush was a good and very drfinitive signpost ie “there’s a new writing/directing sherriff in town”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 January 2024 20:02 (three months ago) link
Yes the setting is very interesting to me. The swampy Gulf Coast setting of season 1 (still the only season I've watched) felt massive and yawningly empty, but this show feels different. Ennis is established from the beginning as a place of entanglements and collisions, where people jeer at drunk drivers from the open windows of their homes. But then the research station, which you would expect to be the most claustrophobic bottle-episode kind of place, instead has this weirdly liminal quality, like the airlock of a spaceship: a place you only visit en route to (or returning from) the void.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 January 2024 20:30 (three months ago) link
Season 2 is still fascinating to me for its potential, and the setting was a big part of it: taking major strands of California (cults, agriculture, land rights) and setting it mostly in Ventura County. Needed a single director for the whole thing and/or a few more drafts, but as ep 1 of this new season came to an end I realized it ended the same way s2e1 did (though s2e1 ends with Nick Cave covering Alabama's "All The Gold In California" and this one starts and ends with Billie Eilish).
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 15 January 2024 20:40 (three months ago) link
Season 2 is underrated. The annoying aspects (that goddamn nightclub singer, Colin Farrell's useless kid) are actually fairly easy to dismiss, and the Vince Vaughn/Kelly Reilly relationship is actually really well drawn. I've watched it several times.
Still haven't watched Season 3.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 15 January 2024 20:48 (three months ago) link
S3 is good! But also steers aways fromanything much in the way of cosmic horror, so it feels more like its own thing. Dorff & Ali are great.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 January 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
I liked this first episode, maybe a lot, but wow that was some new low bar for an opening sequence, Harry Potter 1 VFX
― remember how much your mother loves you (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 03:29 (three months ago) link
Am appreciating an mostly accurate depiction of Arctic after dark
The aerial shots of Ennis are great, the perfect grid of one story shitty buildings, and pitch black shadow.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 03:35 (three months ago) link
went well with a sundown of 5pm yesterday and a low of -8 last night
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:34 (three months ago) link
those cursed arctic research stations were everyone dies always look so cosy
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:28 (three months ago) link
The setting and potential supernatural stuff happening giving a bit of The Terror vibes (well plus 150 years lol)
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:42 (three months ago) link
I agree with the JF detective character that the first priority when arriving at a potential crime scene is turn that fucking beatles shite off
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:47 (three months ago) link
lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:51 (three months ago) link
creepy AF omg i am loving this
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 07:01 (two months ago) link
also holy shit DOCTOR WHO is in this?AND he’s boning CLARICE STARLINGomg this show man
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 07:03 (two months ago) link
God I love this show but I am far too impatient for it.
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 09:58 (two months ago) link
I just want the mystery solved! Whose spiralling these people!
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 09:59 (two months ago) link
Loving Ennis tho. Need more arctic in my tv screen
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 10:01 (two months ago) link
They really needed to hire an ilxor as music advisor. Some horrendous choices this season
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 10:30 (two months ago) link
The music is frustrating especially after three seasons that had original soundtracks. It’s credible that this is the music in Ennis — I’ve listened to CBC stations from Arctic towns and imagine listening to the songs they play, The Everly Brothers and so on, in such isolated places — but the music budget going to The Beatles and Billie Eilish feels like such a waste. The show is following the TD template in so many other ways but really dropped that part of it this season.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2024 11:06 (two months ago) link