True Detective Season 3 Starring Mahershala Ali Officially Announced, A "Macabre Crime Set In The Ozarks"

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – It’s official: HBO is moving forward with a third season of anthology True Detective.

Nic Pizzolatto will serve as the lone writer on the season save for David Milch, who co-wrote the fourth episode. (An episode count has not yet been revealed.)

Pizzolatto, who created the series, will serve as showrunner and direct alongside relative newcomer Jeremy Saulnier. Executive producers include Pizzolatto, Saulnier, Scott Stephens and season one stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as well as original director Cary Joji Fukunaga. Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Richard Brown will also be credited as exec producers.

Season three 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.

As previously announced, Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) will topline season three as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.

Macabre crime…with a mystery that deepens over decades…playing out IN 3 SEPARATE NARRATIVES IN 3 SEPARATE TIME PERIODS:

LET’S GOOOOOO.  Take me back to the Season 1 magic, erase last season from my brain forever.

The rumors about a True Detective Season 3 were swirling pretty hard for a while after a lot of people worried they might call it a wrap on the whole operation after a disastrous season 2.   Luckily for all the TD fans HBO confirmed last month that they had signed Mahershala Ali up and even had 5 finished scripts already, and that they were “terrific.”  Obviously they said they were terrific but now that all the details are coming together I have high hopes that they might actually be.  That we might all return to that magical time in 2014 when True Detective was appointment television, where everyone sat glued to the screen then hit Reddit to read/write fan theories for hours instead of bleaching their eyeballs to try and forget about Vince Vaughn.

TD3 officially greenlit, officially announced, officially ready to roll.  They brought on another director too, Jeremy Saulnier, who did Green Room (a Feitelberg favorite) and Blue Ruin (incredible movie a lot of people have probably never even heard of).  Expectations from this blogger’s chair are sky high.

Also I’ll just ask it-

…Are we…are we bringing back Daddario?

PS,

The Ozarks, so hot right now.  Not sure who the county commissioner of the Ozarks paid off in Hollywood but they went from relatively unknown to anyone outside of the Ozarks to the centerpiece of two of the biggest television shows of 2017.