True Detective Season 3: Everything You Need To Know

4. The Cast & Characters

As mentioned, Mahershala Ali is taking on the leading role this time around, playing Detective Wayne Hays. Hays is a veteran of two tours of Vietnam, and now works for the Arkansas Police Department. He hunts wild boar for fun, but is described as an intense character.

His partner in solving crime is Roland West, played by Stephen Dorff (Blade), himself a Vietnam vet who, like Hays, is haunted by a baffling crime from his past. The main cast is rounded out by Carmen Ejojo, who plays a schoolteacher connected to the case of two missing children from the 1980s, and DCEU's Cyborg actor Ray Fisher, who plays the son of Ali's Hays, Henry.

There's plenty of depth to the cast too, including supporting turns from Scoot McNairy as a grieving father, Mamie Gummer as a mother who finds herself involved in a crime, and Josh Hopkins as an attorney.