Will True Detective Season Two Remain a Secret Until its Premiere?

By Reuben Levine | May 22, 2015

True Detective has proven to be one of HBO’s most secretive productions. Whether it’s because creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto doesn’t embrace social media or for some other, less obvious reason, there are special rules when it comes to True Detective. And even though we’ve learned a lot in the past few weeks — it at least feels that way — there are still plenty of details we don’t know.

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In a quick little Q&A with Medium, Nic Pizzolatto let it slip that T. Bone Burnett would have some involvement with True Detective’s second season. There have been no further details, and at this point it’s likely that we’re going to have to wait until June to get the real scoop of Burnett’s full involvement.

That is, unless HBO decides to send out another press release before the premiere.

It’s possible, but it doesn’t feel very likely.

Music isn’t the only question that we still have. There is still the matter of directors, a question that’s been hanging around almost as long as the case of True Detective’s music has. We are less than a month away from the second season of True Detective, but these questions don’t feel as if they’re very pressing to HBO or True Detective.

And at this point, is it really a big deal? The matters of the music and directors felt much more important a few months back when we knew almost nothing. That’s not the case anymore, and with so little time left until True Detective season two premieres it barely registers anymore.

At this point it’s probably that there are just going to be certain aspects about True Detective’s production that we’re just not going to be privy to until the very last-minute. It used to be aggravating, but now it feels worth barely more than a shrug of the shoulders.

We’ll wait because we have to wait. Because that’s how True Detective chooses to play its cards.

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