Gather ’round, friends. A tenuous ‘True Detective‘ season two update is here.
Dropping in T-6 weeks, the highly-frothed upon second season of HBO’s flawless ‘True Detective‘ has received some updates in the way of character posters and a Q&A with creator Nic Pizzolatto – covering most of the requisite bases: the relationship between season one and two, the general ~vibe~, its propensity for spawning conspiracy theories on Reddit, and the structure.
Pizzolatto’s Q&A with HBO was published on Medium today, with the series’ creator first and foremost ruling out the outward kinship between S01 and S02.
Pizzolatto says,
“There’s no relationship between the stories or characters, which was the result of fully committing to something new, but I do think that the seasons have a deep, close bond in sensibility and vision, a similar soul, though this is a more complex world and field of characters.”
The director also touched on a previous description of the new season, labelled as a show about “Bad men, hard women and the secret occult history of the US transportation system.” Pizzolatto shot down your hope to relive a study of the Yellow King:
“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….there’s nothing occult in this season.”
And on the structure of season 2, Pizzolatto confirmed that this time round, things will be different: no storytelling flashbacks, no confusing leaps. Makes sense after all, as we know what Time is.
Also released in order to deeply set your phasers to Keen: a series of character posters, offering a fleeting glimpse of our main players – Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch.
‘True Detective’ drops on June 21 in the US.
