Don’t Expect Season 3 Of True Detective Anytime Soon

 

According to HBO programming president Casey Bloys, we might not get to see the third season of True Detective anytime soon.

He said “I’m not sure we have the right take for a third season right now, it’s not dead. We are hoping for a third season, a very valuable franchise for us.” Bloys echoed the sentiments of former HBO programming president Michael Lombardo in saying that it’s important to let showrunner/writer Nic Pizzolatto take his time to hash out a strong, worthwhile story for any possible third season.

HBO was widely lambasted for pushing Pizzolatto through tight deadlines to get season 2 ready for a 2015 bow, which many blame for the show’s apparent dip in quality. Bloys said that Pizzolatto, who has an overall deal working for HBO, has been preoccupied with other projects and taking a break from True Detective, but that it’s likely a third season would be supervised by Pizzolatto and actually written by someone else.
Given how acclaimed the first season was, it’s hard to believe HBO won’t try to replicate that lightning-in-a-bottle success sometime down the line, but one has to imagine the network was stung, badly, by the lackluster reception for season 2.