(Though True Detective hasn't been officially renewed, as you will see below, it will be.) And so will McConaughey's and Harrelson's tenures on the show next season will reboot with another arc and another cast created by Pizzolatto.
#True detective season 1 episode 2 serial
The eighth of Season 1's eight episodes airs Sunday, and the story of Rust, Marty, and the serial murder case that has framed a 17-year period of their lives will conclude. (Or not enjoy it: One gift True Detective has given us is vibrant, fun conversations around the show's excellence but its provocations have also birthed intelligent dissent.) And yes, it's also possible to enjoy True Detective even if you have no idea who the Yellow King is, or whether time is indeed a flat circle. Each week, creator Nic Pizzolatto's grim, literary time-jumping crime story - in which McConaughey plays the haunted, philosophizing Rust Cohle, and Harrelson plays the gone-to-seed good ol' boy Marty Hart (who is smarter than he looks, to his chagrin) - is picked through and expanded upon by a vigilant audience of 11 million. HBO's True Detective was always going to be a big deal because of the Matthew McConaughey/Woody Harrelson of it all - but it's safe to say that viewers' obsessive behavior around the show has come in at the high end of expectations.