FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) — HBO announced on Sunday (Aug. 26) a January 2019 release date for “True Detective” Season 3.
The show just wrapped up filming in Northwest Arkansas, the River Valley, and other locations within the Natural State. Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar for “Moonlight,” will play the lead role of Wayne Hays, an Arkansas State Police detective. Carmen Ejogo will play Amelia Reardon, a school teacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980.
The third season, from creator, showrunner and University of Arkansas graduate Nic Pizzolato, plays out in three separate time periods. It’s about a state police detective who finds that the more he investigates a particular crime the more macabre it becomes.
A few spots are recognizable in the trailer, such as Devil’s Den State Park and the Baptist Ford Bridge in Greenland. The show was shot throughout the region, including AQ Chicken in Springdale, along College Avenue in Fayetteville and A to Z in Fort Smith.
