True Detective's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, recently gave his first one-on-one interview in four years and discussed, among many other things, whether the show's third season is based on real events or not.
Speaking to EW, Pizzolatto was asked if the show's third season had any relation, as some had mentioned, to the West Memphis 3 "Satanic panic" case in which three eight-year old children were killed in a manner related to a Satanic ritual.
Pizzolatto answered, simply, "Not at all. You're moved off that pretty quickly. It's really not informed by that."
Pizzolatto continued to discuss how impressed he was with lead actor Mahershala Ali, who's character is going through early stages of dementia in his later years, and how this new story came to him "spontaneously and organically."
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Speaking to EW, Pizzolatto was asked if the show's third season had any relation, as some had mentioned, to the West Memphis 3 "Satanic panic" case in which three eight-year old children were killed in a manner related to a Satanic ritual.
Pizzolatto answered, simply, "Not at all. You're moved off that pretty quickly. It's really not informed by that."
Pizzolatto continued to discuss how impressed he was with lead actor Mahershala Ali, who's character is going through early stages of dementia in his later years, and how this new story came to him "spontaneously and organically."
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