There’s no question that the first season of HBO’s “True Detective” is widely considered not just the show’s best season, but one of the best seasons of TV ever created.
Series creator Nic Pizzolatto, director Cary Fukunaga, and stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson hit it out of the park with that inaugural edition of the anthology series – so much so that every subsequent season has failed in attempts to bottle lightning twice.
The closest since, arguably, was the recent fourth season ‘Night Country’ which famously Pizzolatto was not involved in and was very public about his dislike for. Issa Lopez created and handled that season which fared the best since the first with critics and awards bodies.
Appearing recently on the Nothing Left Unsaid podcast (via Variety), Pizzolatto revealed he has an idea for a new story that would see first-season lead characters Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Harrelson) return:
“I actually have another story for Cohle and Hart that – who knows? – maybe we’ll do it one day. It’s character-based again. … But it’s not something I’ve written or anything. It’s just, I had that in my head. And we’ve talked about getting back together and doing it, and I think the guys are open to it. It’s just a question of whether that would ever happen or not.”
McConaughey and Harrelson have remained close in the years since, both will shortly appear in a new Apple TV+ comedy series, and McConaughey has often spoken highly of his time working on the HBO series.
Pizzolatto also says he took himself out of the equation when it came to the show’s fourth season, saying: “I was the one who walked away from my contract at the end of 2019” as he was “tired of walking in that much darkness” and had personal issue to attend to.
He added that it was “right and appropriate” for HBO to move on without him. The network is already developing a fifth season with Lopez returning as showrunner.
