American detective series “True Detective” will be renewed for a fifth season, HBO announced on Thursday, days after the final episode of season 4 aired, AFP reported. The announcement of a new season is not surprising, given the success of Night Country, which originally centered on a female duo.

Jodie Foster and Cali Reiss in Season 4 of True Detective Night Country.Photo: courtesy of LMK / imago stock&people / Profimedia

Season 4 creator Issa Lopez has signed a deal with HBO and Warner Bros Discovery’s Max streaming platform to work on other “exclusive content,” the US channel said in a press release.

HBO has not said who will play the police detective duo this time around, which has changed every season since the first in 2014, while the Matthew McConaughey-Woody Harrelson duo that made the series famous.

Season 4 brought a record number of viewers for the series “True Detective”.

The six-episode season 4, set in Alaska, centers on the female duo of Jodie Foster and Kali Reiss, a local actress and former US boxing champion, and was a hit with 12.7 million viewers worldwide, a series best. ever, according to HBO.

For Jodie Foster, who recently gave an interview to the AFP agency, this fourth season was supposed to mirror the first. “Two boys, Louisiana: hot, everyone’s sweating… It’s the transparency of this brutal light. And we had exactly the opposite: two women, in the dark, in the cold, in the depths of the world,” she emphasized.

The two women investigate the mysterious deaths of eight scientists working at an Arctic research station, while Kali Reis pursues the murder of an indigenous woman years ago, a crime that had not been solved until then. A topic that intersects with her real life, the actress is involved in the fight against violence against indigenous women.

During the premiere of season 4, one of the original writers, Nick Pizzolatto, who is still one of the executive producers, criticized the script.

This criticism was widely commented on by specialist media in the US, and Cali Reis eventually responded on X (formerly of Twitter) that “when you don’t have anything positive to share, it’s the new trend to throw shit at others”.