Season 2 of "True Detective" will be very different from the first.
Creator and writer Nic Pizzolato already affirmed that there will no longer be cultural references in the new season. The freshman run was teeming with those. And in a recent Q&A with HBO, he revealed what more this season will and won't have.
"There's definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system," Pizzolatto confirmed.
The series creator also explained that the disregard of the complicated facet was vital for the show to effectively focus on and explore its characters and its premise as a crime narrative.
"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," he explained. "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."
He also took time to reiterate that although the characters from the seasons and their "complex" worlds and stories do not, by any means, intertwine, the seasons are connected with the existence of a "deep, close bond in sensibility and vision,",which he eloquently referred to as "a similar soul."
Meanwhile, fresh and cool-looking promotional posters featuring the "True Detective" season 2 cast members were released just recently. Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch, who all look bold and intimidating, are pictured from the nose down in the promos.
Farrell is the "compromised" detective Ray Velcoro while Vaughn takes on the role of a criminal business mogul known as Frank Semyon, who struggles to save his life's work as his wife and ally struggle to save theirs. McAdams is a detective named Ani Bezzerides, who so often finds herself against her work's system. Lastly, Kitsch is a war veteran and a motorcycle cop named Paul Woodrugh, who stumbles upon a full-blown billion-dollar worth of monkey business piloted by three law enforcement groups and multiple criminal collusions. Their lives will cross after a mysterious murder that entails a web of conspiracies unfolds.
"True Detective " season 2 will premiere on June 21.
