According to reports, the show will have three leads and hold connections to Night Country – much like that season had controversial connections with season one.
News of True Detective season five follows hot on the heels of a successful fourth run, set in Alaska.
In a development that proved divisive to a contingent of long-time fans of the HBO anthology series, season four was revealed to have direct links to characters and symbols featured in the acclaimed debut run, which aired in 2014.
After deciding to transpose a new series of True Detective onto her existing idea, the writer-director “set out to create it in the very same universe”.
Starring Jodie Foster, that series was titled True Detective: Night Country.
