"True Detective" season 3 will star Oscar winner Mahershala Ali as the lead

[OnlinePoker]

Liked the first season but didn't care for the second as much. This season looks good based on the trailer.

[Hoyt]

1. Like you, the first season was excellent. 2nd season, not so much. This might be good.

[Cosmocat]

10. The previews seem promising

and as with most, I like the lead on this much more than season 2 ...

[gldstwmn]

2. I love this show. I am so glad it

is coming back for a third season. McConaughey and Harrelson were the greatest but I also like Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams.

[mr_lebowski]

3. I watched the whole season 1 twice, great, great TV ...

Season 2 I didn't watch due to the bad reviews, didn't want it ruined.

Mahershala Ali signing on for Season 3 sounds ... promising ... loved him as Remy in HoC and all else I've seen him in, powerful actor.

[Laffy Kat]

4. I know. I loved the first one and the second one couldn't keep my interest.

This one looks promising.

[PatSeg]

5. Season 1 was one of the best shows

I've seen on television. Season 2 was torturous to get through. I kept hanging in there hoping it would get better, but it actually got worse. I figured they'd probably just given up on the show. Glad to see there will be a season 3.

[Cosmocat]

6. Totally agree

Season one was one of the best tv in history, and I wasnt a fan of mcconahae. Season two was seriously painful.

[PatSeg]

7. I blamed a lot of it on Vince Vaughn

though the writing was pretty bad as well.

I've always like Vaughn as comedic actor, but he was so unbelievable as an intimidating gangster. What were they thinking?

[Cosmocat]

9. Yeah

Casting Vaughn was definitely a fundamental misstep. I am not a huge Colin Farrell fan, but he did OK given the project as a whole.

The overall feel to it was horrible, the story was confusing as hell, and too many key moments unbelievable. They spread themselves too thin with four main characters vs having two main characters in season one, and overall too many loose threads.

The texture provided by the southern atmosphere was brilliant in season one, they completely whiffed on trying to develop texture out of the urban west coast setting.

I actually dreaded watching it by the end.

[PatSeg]

13. The first one was so good

I actually watched some episodes twice. I knew it would be hard to live up to episode 1, but I didn't expect it to be so bad. I honestly can barely remember anything about it now, just that it was a chore to watch it.

You're right the southern atmosphere was amazing and Matthew McConaughey's dialogue was mesmerizing.

[Cosmocat]

14. Ive binge watched several times

I had a long-standing fairly low opinion of McConaughey, he had a few pretty good movies going into it, so I kind of came into it willing to give him a chance.

IMO his work on season 1 was possibly the best acting to my mind I've seen in my life. Woody was really good too. Maybe his best work too.

[PatSeg]

17. Oh, that was my opinion of McConaughey

in the show. It clearly was his work ever and as you say, possibly the best acting I've ever seen. I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

[octoberlib]

8. I love him!

[Paladin]

11. I'm with everybody else: Season 1 was a classic, Season 2 sucked beyond belief.

Advance word on Season 3 better be damn good, or I'll find something else to watch. Life is too short to waste time on sub-standard TV shows.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Season 3 was filmed in multiple Arkansas locations, including Fayetteville.

They came into the vintage resale shop, where I had a booth, in the early spring. Bought one of my old long dresses and they were given pictures of my working 1979 Curtis Mathis color console TV. The prop manager had purchased another, so that's still in my living room with my flat screen on top!
It was exciting. They bought like $4K of stuff in the store. Anything they liked from the 1970s.

Too bad, I don't have HBO so can't see if somebody wears my dress.

[aikoaiko]

15. For those who liked the first season of True Detective, I rec Sharp Objects on HBO

It's about a news reporter investigating small-town murders in her hometown, but it has the feel of the first season of True Detectives.

[IcyPeas]

16. watching Sharp Objects now...

The soundtrack is fantastic. Really adds to the mood of the show.

[aikoaiko]

18. very true.