HBO TV Series True Detective Season 2 Release Date and News: Will Be About “Hard Women, Bad Men and the Secret Occult History of the United States Transportation System”

By Kara Michelle Sep 02, 2014 01:59 AM EDT

HBO TV Series True Detective Season 2 Release Date and News: Will Be About "Hard Women, Bad Men and the Secret Occult History of the United States Transportation System"

The True Detective HBO series Season 2 release date will likely be on "June 21st, 2015, plus or minus a week," according to HBO Watch.

Filming for the True Detective Season 2 TV series begins this month. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO programming director Michael Lombardo who spoke at the Edinburgh TV Festival last month, said: "We're going to start shooting in September for it to air next summer. [It has] different characters, a different setting. It's set in California, all of California. There are three cops. One of the characters is female. I think that's probably all I'm allowed to say. We'll probably be announcing casting soon."

True Detective Season 2, unlike the first season, will be structured as an anthology. Unlike Season 1 which has Cary Fukunaga as sole director and actors Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey playing the leads for all of its eight episodes, True Detective Season 2 will have different stories involving different characters with different directors and different casts per episode or sets of multi-part episodes.

The True Detective Season 2 TV series will, however, continue to have Nic Pizzolatto as its showrunner. Of him, Lombardo said, "When you have a success like True Detective, it's challenging, less for us and more for someone like Nic, how to face the page again and start afresh and not be haunted by the success of the show you've just done. But the writing is better than last season. It's exceptional."

In related True Detective Season 2 news, according to Screen Rant, Pizzolatto revealed more: "Right now, we're working with three leads... The characters are all new, but I'm deeply in love with each of them. We've got the entire series broken out with a couple of scripts, and we'll probably start casting in earnest in the coming months." Previously, Pizzolatto told Hit Fix that True Detective Season 2 will be about "hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system."