HBO's True Detective burned brightly for both audiences and critics during its first season, but seemed to dim considerably for the second. Word on a third has been relatively quiet as creator Nic Pizzolatto appeared to move on to other projects, but now, according to Entertainment Weekly, he's working away on a potential new run of episodes and has NYPD Blue/Deadwood's David Milch coming on board with him.
EW is quick to stress that this is all still a work in progress, that the cable channel has yet to give the official go-ahead and that Milch's involvement level has yet to be confirmed. He won't be running the show despite his years of experience in TV, and there has been no announcement about who might take the job if the new season does go ahead. But Pizzolatto has reportedly written the first two episodes of the new run, so it appears we may yet get to see more from the anthology crime show.
There are, as you'd expect at this point, zero details to share in terms of setting. But this is our pitch: what if, and hear us out, the new season is set in the late 1870s in a small frontier town and with the local sheriff investigating a murder. And what if, when the show has been shot, they use the sets to give Milch's Deadwood a proper finale? It's crazy, but it might just work...