Despite receiving mixed criticism from spectators, the true HBO detective: Night Country (also known as season 4) was a great success for Max and convinced most critics. Therefore, a season 5 was locked shortly after his debut, with the writer-showrunner Issa López to return.
After months of radio silence when Lopez and his team focused on writing and polishing the scripts, it seems that the cameras will begin to record sooner rather than later, and their main environment is returning to civilization and the places full of people. More specifically, True Detective Season 5 (TBD title) will take us to Jamaica Bay, New York.
The HBO and film drama chief Francesca Orsi revealed the details to the deadline. “Issa has a lot to say, not very different from what he did with Night Country. It is a different, but equally powerful environment,” he added.
What big names could this new season lead to maintain the tradition of the surprising casts full of stars? It seems that we will not have to wait for much more to find out, since the casting is “in preliminary stages” and the filming is expected to begin in the coming months. For now, HBO and Max are playing safe things and aiming at a very distant 2027 release window. If I arrived in the first months, that would wait between seasons for three years.
“I am really excited about that. We have a small writer room with ISSA,” Orsi confirmed. The names of the scribes working with López have not yet been revealed, but the creator of the original series Nic Pizzolatto will not be involved. Nor did he have anything to say in season 4 directed by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis; In fact, he was quite critical.
In December 2024, López told the New York Post about some potential connections with Night Country, which in turn also connected to the first season of the series, so wait more than that, even if “New story, new characters , everything “is the central idea of 5.
