True Detective Season 2: 10 Rumours You Need To Know

3. There'll Be Multiple Directors

Cinematic writing, music and performances all helped to make True Detective the best movie we spent eight hours watching on our tellies(well, laptops, let's be honest) this year. Besides the words everyone was saying, who was saying them, and the selection of gloomy country - plus the odd hip-hop - tracks that were playing in the background were all responsible for the prestige, atmospheric feel, but the one person who brought them all together? That'll be Cary Joji Fukunaga, who previously directed the similarly moody and visually stunning big screen outings Sin Nombre, and the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Fukunaga not only delivered some of the most thrilling sequences we've seen anyway for a good long while (including the finale and that one much-vaunted six-minute tracking shot from episode four), but also made gave the show a unified, cinematic look. Next season seems to be focussing on the latter more than the former, luring in a selection of big screen directors to helm a few episodes each. We're a little concerned that this may make the show lose some of its visual spark, or at least seem a bit more messy than the original, but we're reassured a little by some of the directors involved. Some of those directors are pretty bloody exciting, you see, including none other than Exorcist and French Connection mastermind William Friedkin reportedly being in talks to direct some episodes.