HBO’s must-see drama is coming back for another round, this time with even more A-listers.
In January a new dramatic series, True Detective, premiered to rave reviews, and quickly grew to an audience of 11.9 viewers per week. The network’s breakout hit beat out The Sopranos and Game of Thrones for viewers in the first season. This made True Detective HBO’s most watched first season in the network’s history.
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) plays Rusty Cohle to Woody Harrelson’s (The Hunger Games) Martin Hart, two Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division homicide detectives who are hunting for a serial killer across seventeen years. Rusty and Martin begin the story in the present day in separate interrogations, where they reopen a ritualistic murder investigation that they thought they had solved in 1995. The timeline shifts and moves through the eight episodes pulling the viewer into the detectives’ past to help uncover the killer. Through the show we experience what they did: religious zealots, oil industry pollution and corruption on both sides of the law. Writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto and director Cary Fukunaga keep us intrigued with their beautifully written storyline and sprawling, expressive backdrops.
True Detective recently was submitted to the TV Academy. This means that the show will probably be up for Emmy consideration in the “Best Drama” category. This also makes McConaughey and Harrelson eligible in the “Lead Male Actor in a TV Drama” category. Although it’s too early to say how the Emmys may turn out, this is great news for this breakout hit and its two lead actors.
For those of you who missed this ground breaking new series, HBO is releasing True Detective on, Blu-ray and DVD, on June 9th, 2014. If you’ve already seen it, the ride isn’t over yet: pre-production has begun on season 2, with a whole new cast (rumor has it Brad Pitt may be involved in this one) and a new crime to solve.