(New York) The American detective series True Detective will be renewed for a fifth season, HBO announced Thursday, a few days after the broadcast of the last episode of season 4, performed for the first time by a female duo and audience success.
The episodes will once again be directed by Issa Lopez, who distinguished herself in the fourth season and signed a contract with HBO and the television platform. streaming Max from the same Warner Bros Discovery group to work on other “exclusive content”, indicates the American channel in a press release.
HBO does not specify who will play this time the duo of police detectives, which has changed each season since the very first in 2014 and the Matthew McConaughey-Woody Harrelson duo which made the series famous.
Returning for season 4 earlier this year, with a plot in the polar night of Alaska and an all-female duo with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, an indigenous actress and former American boxing champion, True Detective was a ratings success with an average of 12.7 million viewers worldwide, the best result for the series since it existed, according to HBO.
For Jodie Foster, recently interviewed by AFP, this fourth season was intended to reflect the first. “The two boys, it was Louisiana: it’s hot, everyone is sweating… It’s the clarity of this brutal light. And, with us, it was quite the opposite: two women, in the dark, in the cold, in the depths of the world,” she emphasized.
The two women investigate the mysterious deaths of eight scientists working on an Arctic research station, but Kali Reis is also haunted by the unsolved murder of an indigenous woman. A subject that intersects with her real life, the actress being involved in the fight against violence against indigenous women.
During its broadcast, season 4 also experienced its mini-psychodrama on social networks, when one of its original authors, Nic Pizzolatto, who is still part of the executive producers, relayed criticism against the scenario.
These criticisms were widely commented on by the American specialized media and Kali Reis ended up responding on X that “when you have nothing positive to share, throwing shit at others is the new trend”.