'True Detective' creator Nic Pizzolatto drops major season 2 plot details, explains season 1 finale for Cohle and Hart [SPOILERS]

The first season of HBO's True Detective ended this week, and fans said good-bye to the characters of Rust Cohle and Marty Hart. This is because each season is set up to introduce a new case and new characters, basically feeling like a brand new show each year. The show's creator and head writer Nic Pizzolatto recently sat down to discuss the first season and dropped some major hints for the upcoming second season in terms of plot and characters.

 We'll get to the more exciting part of the interview first, where Pizzolatto mentions a few details of the second season of True Detective.

"Okay. This is really early, but I'll tell you (it's about) hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system," he said.

We recently reported on the creator possibly confirming that the second season would involve female leads, so this statement adds to that idea. You can read more on this HERE!

In this interview, Pizzolatto also addressed how the fans that were disappointed with the season one finale were viewing the show from the incorrect standpoint. Pizzolatto as well as star Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have explained time and time again that the series centers on the detectives, and not the gruesome murders. Basically, if you're asking questions about the "Yellow King" and coming up with theories, you're over thinking True Detective.

"This is a story that began with its ending in mind, that Cohle would be articulating, without sentimentality or illusion, an actual kind of optimism," Pizzolatto explained. "That line, you ask me, the light's winning, that was one of the key pieces of dialogue that existed at the very beginning of the series' conception. For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. And it would have been the easiest thing in the world to kill one or both of these guys. I even had an idea where something more mysterious happened to them, where they vanished into the unknown and Gilbough and Papania had to clean up the mess and nobody knows what happens to them. Or it could have gone full blown supernatural. But I think both of those things would have been easy, and they would have denied the sort of realist questions the show had been asking all along."

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