Don’t Expect More Than 3 Seasons of True Detective

“Every season, I’m essentially creating a brand new TV show and it can’t have any growing pains, like a regular first season. If it works, it has to work right out of the box and that’s incredibly exhausting. I mean the job’s exhausting to begin with, but it’s doubly exhausting, and I’m writing every episode. So I can’t imagine I would do this more than 3 years,” says Pizzolatto, who adds he would like to work on a “regular TV show” and does not rule out writing more novels in the future. But this was sort of how I shoe-horned my way in, so I’ll be sticking with it for a while.”