Since I don’t have HBO I wasn’t able to catch their latest hit original series True Detective during its eight-episode first season run that began last January. But once it hit home video I was finally able to pick up the box set and binge watch every single hour, and by the end I was convinced I had just seen the best season of a television crime series since the first episode of the CBS classic Wiseguy in 1987. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson both turned in some of the finest performances of their respective careers, aided immeasurably by the writing of creator Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Joji Fukunaga‘s atmospheric direction.

Now some possible casting and story details have surfaced, and can be read below if you’re all caught up and anxious for info on the sophomore season.

Season 1 of HBO’s mesmerizing crime drama True Detective is nearing its finale, with last night’s episode, titled “After You’ve Gone,” being the next to last installment. In this 7th episode, we see former partners Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) in 2012 teaming up once more, but this time it’s off the grid, and they’re searching again into the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.

HBO has released a 4 1/2-minute “Inside The Episode #7” video, which you can watch here below, along with a video recap of the episode and a few clips.

HBO’s crime drama True Detective has truly become the show to watch. Aside from the fine acting and great directing – like for this standout 6-minute single-take tracking shot, we’re learning more now about the mythology behind the main storyline. The show centers on two homicide detectives, played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, who are telling their story of how they tracked a ritualistic serial killer seventeen years prior.

In the second episode, the detectives find the journal belonging to murder victim Dora Lange, who wrote about the powerful “The Yellow King.” As it turns out, The Yellow King is inspired by the 1895 anthology of weird tales of horror and madness by Robert W. Chambers called The King in Yellow. In some behind-the-scenes videos for last night’s episode, “The Secret Fate of All Life,” show creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto talks about how this literary reference is part of the mythology for True Detective. You can watch the videos here below.

The first trailer for HBO’s upcoming new drama series True Detective has been released.

The show stars big names in Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as a pair of detectives in 2012 who need to revisit a homicide case from 1995, which only opens old wounds and pulls them back in.

You can read a full synopsis for True Detective and check out the first trailer here below.