# HBO True Detective Season 3 will film in Arkansas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172 "2017-12-23T23:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/1 "2017-12-23T23:01:55Z")
Good news for my home state. 😉 300 local jobs are getting created. It’ll be fun spotting local businesses and locations. Nic Pizzolatto, a 2005 graduate of the University of Arkansas wrote the majority of the new season. I’ve never seen the show. Guess I need to watch and get caught up. Is it a cool show? Big hit? [https://www.google.com/amp/amp.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/dec/22/hbos-true-detective-set-begin-filming-third-instal/](https://www.google.com/amp/amp.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/dec/22/hbos-true-detective-set-begin-filming-third-instal/) > [@](#): > > The third installment of HBO’s crime anthology series True Detective, starring Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali, is scheduled to begin filming in Northwest Arkansas early next year, officials announced on Friday. > > The production, with a $70 million budget, is estimated to have an economic impact of at least $100 million, the city of Fayetteville said in a statement. > > Chung Tan, the director of economic development for the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, said that between 50 and 100 scouters are already in the region taking pictures and talking with business owners to determine where to shoot the popular series. ---
**Author:** ![May\_20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@May\_20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/May_20)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/2 "2017-12-23T23:40:32Z")
That’s fantastic news! I don’t watch the show, either, but it’s good to see good things happen in NWA, or anywhere in the state. Maybe I’ll have to check out the show, too. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/3 "2017-12-24T00:17:23Z")
The Hell you say? That is seriously cool. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/4 "2017-12-24T00:39:16Z")
The first two seasons were great but it’s an anthology series (each season tells an unrelated story) so you won’t have to get caught up at all. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/5 "2017-12-24T00:43:40Z")
The first season was pretty good, but I thought the big climax was a disappointment. The atmosphere was great, the acting was great, everything was pretty good so I have few complaints and I overall enjoyed it. The second season sucked. Everything about it was tedious and heavy-handed. It was an awful missed opportunity in every way. I hope the third season will be closer to the first. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/6 "2017-12-24T04:01:35Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > The first season was pretty good, but I thought the big climax was a disappointment. The atmosphere was great, the acting was great, everything was pretty good so I have few complaints and I overall enjoyed it. > > The second season sucked. Everything about it was tedious and heavy-handed. It was an awful missed opportunity in every way. > > I hope the third season will be closer to the first. This is my opinion. I actually liked the first season quite a lot. The second season was terrible. The story was completely ridiculous and had so many seemingly arbitrary things thrown at the wall to see what stuck. If they can capture what was special about the first season again that would be great. One advantage of the anthology format is that the terrible second season doesn’t hinder later story efforts. ---
**Author:** ![May\_20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@May\_20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/May_20)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hbo-true-detective-season-3-will-film-in-arkansas/805172/7 "2017-12-24T20:51:44Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The first two seasons were great but it’s an anthology series (each season tells an unrelated story) so you won’t have to get caught up at all. Thanks! That’s good to know. 🙂