‘True Detective’ Season 5 Setting Revealed As HBO Series Gears Up For Production
deadline.comWe are not in Alaska anymore. The upcoming fifth season of HBO‘s Emmy-winning crime anthology series True Detective — and the second with Issa Lopez as writer/showrunner — is moving along.
It also is moving to another state, HBO’s Head of Drama Series and Film Francesca Orsi told Deadline during an interview at The White Lotus Season 3 premiere while discussing the network’s upcoming slate. “It’s set in New York, in Jamaica Bay,” Orsi said. “Issa has a lot to say, not unlike she did with Night Country.
It’s a different milieu but just as powerful.” Filming on the new season is slated to begin in the coming months, with casting in preliminary stages. “I’m really excited about it.
We have a small writers room going with Issa; she’s excited,” Orsi said. “We just gave notes on the first two episodes, the entire season.
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