True Detective Season 2 Isn’t About What We Thought It Was About

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Earlier today, HBO released some new information about True Detective and its widely anticipated second season. This includes new poster art (see below) and a Q&A with the show’s creator Nic Pizzolatto. It appears as if the show’s focus has changed a bit since its plot was described as a story of ‘Bad men, hard women and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system’ last year.

Here’s Pizzolatto on the changes to that logline:

“It’s not, I’m afraid. There’s definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system. That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that.”

Pizzolatto also talked about the show’s gothic sensibilities:

“The gothic horror suggested by Louisiana’s coastal landscape didn’t feel appropriate in this place. These new landscapes have their own unique voice and their own unsettling qualities. While there’s nothing occult in this season, I think there’s a disconcerting psychology to this world, and its characters have other kinds of uncanny reality with which to contend.”

It all suggests that the True Detective we’re going to get in season 2 will be much different than the one we experienced in season one. But as Pizzolatto explains, while there is no direct link between the two seasons, they do “have a deep, close bond in sensibility and vision, a similar soul, though this is a more complex world and field of characters.”

That soul can be found in Colin Farrell’s bolo tie.

True Detective returns on June 21 on HBO.

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