We feel almost bad in a way for Nic Pizzolatto for the way scrutiny was leveled on him before scripts for the upcoming second season of “True Detective” were even turned in. There was so much pressure to make the main character or characters either a woman or someone different than Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson […]
While “True Detective” may be a fantastic show, it is looking more and more like one that is going to have a specific end date in mind. Creator Nic Pizzolatto was one of the special guests this past week at the Banff World Media Festival, and one of the subjects that inevitably came up was the […]
One of the joys of “True Detective” was that it was one of those series that was strictly honest. It was billed as an eight-episode event, and while there is going to be another season of it, it is not tied directly into the original. You had a chance to watch this show, and know […]
For the upcoming second season of “True Detective,” it appears as though the show is not going to be taking the same measures at all to equal the tone and feeling of the first one. Rather than just giving you the same show or the same setting, you better prepare for something that will feel […]
In today’s edition of “news we wish was true,” we have a story that related to Jessica Chastain that could have made many fans out there happy. Last week, a rumor was started by Nerdist News that the star of “Zero Dark Thirty” was being considered for one of the lead roles in “True Detective” season […]
Now that the May sweeps are almost over, it is time that we really start to usher in a different sort of TV season: Summer awards shows! They really get going tomorrow with the Billboard Music Awards over on ABC, but there are many more of them that we are going to see play out […]
Some people may find it very annoying that networks are spending so much time jockeying for awards that are in a sense arbitrary forms of validation. We, however, find the entire matter to be extremely entertaining for so many reasons. The latest feud over the “True Detective” submission for the Emmys is exhibit A. Recently, […]
Earlier this spring, HBO threw down what we personally like to think of as a rather enormous gauntlet when it comes to “True Detective”: They decided that they are going to submit the show as a drama series rather than a miniseries for the 2014 Emmy Awards. Why make this move? It’s a definite show […]
Given that virtually nothing is known right now about a second season of “True Detective,” including when it will air, it is hard to really spend that much time speculating over casting. Without a confirmed script out there, how in the world can you sit around and say who should be involved? Yet, we imagine […]
Usually when we write about Emmy submissions, we usually have a single show to talk about. That is what makes this story so interesting: We’ve got a pair of shows that are making some surprising submission decisions for the big awards show. We start with “True Detective,” which almost everyone assumed was going to submit […]
