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'True Detective' Season 3 Gets 2019 Premiere Date, First Photos

Matt Webb Mitovich
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Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff in True Detective. (Credit: Warrick Page/HBO)

True Detective will report for Season 3 duty on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019 — nearly three-and-a-half years since the HBO anthology’s sophomore finale aired.

Airing Sundays at 9/8c, the new, eight-episode season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks (where it was filmed), and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) headlines the latest ensemble as as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. The cast also includes Carmen Ejogo (Zero Hour), Stephen Dorff (Star), Scoot McNairy (Halt and Catch Fire) and Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife).

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True Detective‘s Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson-fronted Season 1 debuted to much acclaim and fanfare, earning both of its leads Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and averaging 2.3 million weekly viewers (in Live+SD numbers). Season 2 — starring Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly and Vince Vaughn — was critically savaged but averaged a slightly larger weekly audience.

True Detective Season 3
Carmen Ejogo and Mahershala Ali in True Detective. (Credit: Warrick Page/HBO)
True Detective Season 3
Mahershala Ali in True Detective. (Credit: Warrick Page/HBO)
True Detective Season 3
Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo in True Detective. (Credit: Warrick Page/HBO)
True Detective Season 3
Stephen Dorff and Mahershala Ali in True Detective. (Credit: Warrick Page/HBO)
True Detective Season 3
Mahershala Ali in True Detective. (Credit: Warrick Page/HBO)

Watch a trailer for Season 3 below:

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