'True Detective' News, Latest Update: HBO President Calls Season 2 'Enormously Satisfying', Teases Season 3
The second season of HBO's hit action drama TV series "True Detective" is currently suffering major backlash from fans and critics alike who sees the Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn-led installment a far cry from that of the highly-praised Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson season.
Despite all this, the network's president believes that the sophomore outing of the show has served its purpose and is "enormously proud" of it.
"I think the show works," HBO chief Michael Lombardo said during the 2015 Summer TCA press tour. "First of all, I think you need to watch the entirety of it. I have and I think it's enormously satisfying."
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Lombardo went on commend the series creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto.
"I think Nic is a very — adventurous is not the right word — he's a bold storyteller. I mean that only in the most positive of ways. I think he takes risks in how he lays out a story, in the pacing of stories and I think it pays off in this particular season," the executive continued.
HBO put so much faith into series creator that the show's future is entirely entrusted into the writer's hands.
"I have already called him and said, 'Nic, if you want to do a season three, let's start talking,'" Lombardo explained. "I'm not calling him to say, 'Let's talk about season three if you follow some rules of mine.' That's not a conversation I'm ever interested in having or think I need to have with Nic."
"What he's doing on True Detective is so much bolder and braver and ultimately, for me, satisfying, that I would happily be in business with him for a very long time," he said.
"True Detective" Season 2 airs this Sunday, August 2, 9 p.m. with Episode 7 titled "Black Maps and Motel Rooms."
