Meet Your New True Detective

Season 3 of True Detective is officially happening, per the Hollywood Reporter. Mahershala Ali is the lead on the latest installment of HBO's anthology series; he will play a state police detective from Arkansas who gets caught up in a "macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods." 

HBO held off on confirming the third season of the show until it found a director who would team up with show creator Nic Pizzolatto, who is basically the sole writer of this season. While the first season of the show was a massive hit, the second season failed to land with critics. The director the network found is Jeremy Saulnier, though Pizzolatto will also co-direct.

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