The biggest sign that True Detective: Night Country will be a return to form since the hit first season is simple: It’s got us speculating on how the two are connected.
True Detective is back. Wait. What’s True Detective?
It’s been nearly 10 years since HBO introduced audiences to True Detective in Jan. 2014. A TV show with a name so goofy that it absolutely had to be good for anyone to take it seriously, the first season of creator Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology drama was striking in its pairing of a resurgent Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in a murder mystery with an eerie Weird Fiction subtext and an all-timer title sequence.
Successive seasons of True Detective failed to be a sensation the way its award-winning first was. After a much-delayed third season arrived in 2019, the series was effectively put on ice, and Pizzolatto’s working relationship with HBO came to an end (while another one at FX failed to even take off).
HBO, however, still believes in the magic of that first season enough to put some juice behind a new installment.
