TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3 Could Still Happen, But HBO Wants A Change

After an amazing first season that arguably ranks among the best seasons of television of all time, this year's second season of HBO's True Detective was a monumental disappointment. Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and especially Vince Vaughn couldn't bring the same magic to showrunner Nic Pizzolatto's dialogue that Matthew McConaughey did in season one, and without director Cary Fukunaga's consistently awesome direction to hold it together, the whole season fell apart. Pizzolatto, the creator of the show, spent years writing the first season but only had 14 months to write the second season, and it's a job he does all by himself without the aid of any other writers. I can respect wanting the show to be your own vision from a writing standpoint, but after the abysmal reception of season two, it sounds like the network wasn't exactly thrilled with how things turned out.

HBO has made a new deal with Pizzolatto that runs through 2018, and a third season of the show is still an option. From Variety:

Sources say HBO has been looking to make a change in the way the show is run, given the critical response to the second season, and has presented Pizzolatto with a number of options. Those options include: him working with a staff of writers, having a new showrunner come in, as well as him going it alone again. In all scenarios, he would remain an exec producer.

Sources say HBO has been pressing Pizzolatto for an answer so they can move forward with production on the show.

It's unclear how the last option they present him — "going it alone again" — is any different than what he's been doing for the first two seasons, but perhaps there's a component we don't know about, like allowing him to take an extra year to write the scripts instead of jumping straight into production on a third season in 2016. Pizzolatto doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would be willing to compromise, so I'm guessing if there is a third season, he's going to want it all to himself...to either take the blame if it goes south or all of the redemption if it's anywhere close to the quality of season one.

What do you think?