{"id":84739,"date":"2018-10-11T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/10\/11\/hbos-true-detective-season-3-starring-mahershala-ali-to-premiere-jan-2019\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:33:24","slug":"hbos-true-detective-season-3-starring-mahershala-ali-to-premiere-jan-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/hbos-true-detective-season-3-starring-mahershala-ali-to-premiere-jan-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO’s True Detective Season 3 Starring Mahershala Ali To Premiere Jan 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

HBO’s True Detective Season 3 Starring Mahershala Ali To Premiere Jan 2019, New Images Posted<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

October 11, 2018<\/p>\n

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HBO has announced that True Detective will return for its eight-episode third season SUNDAY, JAN. 13 (9:00\u201310:00 p.m. ET\/PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by other episodes subsequent Sundays at the same time.<\/p>\n

The new season stars\u00a0Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo,\u00a0Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy,<\/strong> Mamie Gummer, Ray Fisher,\u00a0Rhys Wakefield, Michael Greyeyes, Jon Tenney, Deborah Ayorinde & Jodi Balfour.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The third season of the anthology series is set in the heart of the Ozarks wherein a disturbing crime occurs and a mystery that deepens over decades plays out in the three separate time periods.<\/p>\n

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Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will portray Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas, while Dorff will play an Arkansas State Investigator named Roland West and Wayne\u2019s partner. Mamie Gummer will play a young mother of two named Lucy Purcell at the center of a tragic crime. McNairy will play Tom, a father who suffers a terrible loss that ties his fate to that of two state police detectives over 10 years. Carmen Ejogo will portray Arkansas schoolteacher Amelia Reardon, who shares a connection with two missing children in 1980. Fisher will play Freddy Burns, Wayne\u2019s (Ali) son. Josh Hopkins is Jim Dobkins, \u201ca private attorney in Fayetteville, Arkansas involved in deposing state police detectives in an ongoing investigation.\u201d\u00a0Wakefield, Greyeyes and Tenney will play recurring characters Henry Hays, Brett Woodard and Alan Jones, respectively.<\/p>\n

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The first season of True Detective starred Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittle,<\/strong> with the second starring Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly<\/strong>, and Vince Vaughn<\/strong>. Season 2 didn\u2019t have the same critical success that the first one, although it did well in the ratings department.<\/p>\n

Executive producers on season three of \u201cTrue Detective\u201d are Nic Pizzolatto, Scott Stephens, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Steve Golin, Bard Dorros<\/strong>, and Richard Brown<\/strong>. Pizzolatto, the series creator, is serving as director, writer, and show runner.<\/p>\n