‘True Detective’ Renewed for Season 5 With ‘Night Country’ Creator Issa López Returning Under New HBO Overall Deal

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  1. “True Detective” has been renewed for Season 5 at HBO. Issa López, the creator of “True Detective: Night Country,” will helm the fifth season under her new overall deal with HBO.

    The renewal comes as little surprise, given the success of “Night Country,” which saw Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star in the fourth installment of the HBO anthology series. Per HBO, the season is the most-watched installment of the show to date, with 12.7 million cross platform viewers. The season finale on Feb. 18 was the most-watched episode of the season, drawing 3.2 million viewers across HBO and Max. That represents a 57% increase over the show’s premiere viewership in January.

    “From conception to release, ‘Night Country’ has been the most beautiful collaboration and adventure of my entire creative life,” López said. “HBO trusted my vision all the way, and the idea of bringing to life a new incarnation of ‘True Detective’ with Casey, Francesca and the whole team is a dream come true. I can’t wait to go again.”

    “Issa Lopez is that one-of-a-kind, rare talent that speaks directly to HBO’s creative spirit,” added Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming and head of HBO drama series and films. “She helmed ‘True Detective: Night Country’ from start to finish, never once faltering from her own commendable vision, and inspiring us with her resilience both on the page and behind the camera. Alongside Jodie and Kali’s impeccable performances, she’s made this installation of the franchise a massive success, we are so lucky to have her as part of our family.”

    In “Night Country,” detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) investigate the disappearance of eight men working at a remote arctic research station in Alaska. They soon discover the events at the station could be connected to one of their old cases, dragging them both into a dark and unexpected journey.

    The season also starred Finn Bennett, Fiona Shaw, Christopher Eccleston, Isabella Star LaBlanc, and John Hawkes. Guest stars included Anna Lambe, Aka Niviâna, and Joel D. Montgrand.

    At this time, Foster and Reis are not attached to the fifth installment, as the show has changed its lead actors with each new season.

    López served as the writer, executive producer, and showrunner on “Night Country.” Foster executive produced in addition to starring.

  2. Yeah…I don’t understand all the internet hate.

    I thought Season 4 was fantastic and I loved the two leads.

    Hopefully Season 5 will be just as engaging.

  3. Is this good because I was hearing positive hype for the first few eps and then it dropped off?

  4. Is it just me or did the last episode seemed rushed as heck?

  5. The first season is still the only actual season of True Detective. That IP has been dead for a decade now and they’re still unbuckling to fuck its corpse every few years.

  6. I liked season four but just drop the True Detective name already. Every season lives in season one’s shadow.

  8. Maybe she’ll actually write a story in the spirit of True Detective this time. It’s subsequently become clear Night Country was her project shoehorned into a True Detective franchise mold.

  11. I liked season 4, but it should have been its own show. it was nothing like the style or spirit of TD.

  12. So many fun concepts in this last season that were totally uncapitalized on (or lacked commitment — it’s okay if something intimated to be supernatural is such, it’s all a fantasy anyway, just own it). Oh well.

  17. True Detective season 1 was worthy of being an episodic tale due to is scope. The season begins with two detectives who are at the start of their careers and ends with them retired, trying to close the one loose end they left behind. It spans decades. The character arcs are a roller coaster and we end the season rooting for two very different people than we began with. There are few flashbacks, and much of the distant past of Rust is a mystery we only get glimpses of.

    This season of TD spans two weeks. We find out major plot lines via flashbacks several episodes in. I think the goal of these was to act as a twist. (We knew Jodie & Navarro were covering something up from the past & it was hinted that Jodie was the one who pulled the trigger until we saw it was actually Navarro). I would argue the characters at the end are largely the same people we were introduced to in episode 1.

    This season really avoids the core plot in favor of relationship scenes. I feel like detective work should be the main focus of the show, but it really felt like that took a back seat to the personal drama which was far less interesting IMO.

  19. Couldn’t even get past episode 4 of this season. Won’t be starting the next. I want a show about detectives, not some weird quasi-horror idea shoehorned into TD.

  20. I have been into every season. A few episodes into this latest season and I like it so far

  25. The 92% Tomatometer goes to show that critics are absolutely worthless. Wonder how much they got paid to sell out their artistic integrity to pretend this show was anything other than bad.

  26. They should cancel the series and bring back raised by wolves

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