On last night's Conan, we got to see what Matthew McConaughey's already True Detective-y new Lincoln commercials would look like with a bit of True Detective dialogue in the mix. (The answer is: they would look like True Detective!)

Earlier this week, True Detective creator and known schmuck Nic Pizzolatto was accused of plagiarism—largely of works by author Thomas Ligotti—in an essay from two dudes: Mike Davis and Jon Padgett. Today, Pizzolatto and HBO reached out to Deadline to refute the accusation.

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has been accused of lifting phrases and ideas from writer Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror, as well cribbing ideas from works by numerous other writers.

Last week, we came the closest yet to getting a concrete detail about True Detective's heavily-rumored-about second season with the report that Colin Farrell was in talks to sign on as one of four leads. Today, a few (possible) major plot details have emerged.

Deadline reports that Colin Farrell is "deep in negotiations" to star in the upcoming season of HBO's multi-Emmy nominee True Detective.

The newest name in the maybe-mix for the second season of HBO's True Detective—the details of which are still being kept fiercely under wraps—is Exorcist and French Connection director William Friedkin.

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has already written a handful of episodes for the show's second season and has a good idea of what might come in the third. But, as he told reporters at the Banff World Media Festival, fans shouldn't expect much of a future for the show after that.

It appears that you can cross another name off the list of potential stars for the second season of True Detective: two representatives for Christian Bale tell Defamer that the Batman star won't be appearing in the next edition of the hit HBO show.

Words comes from Nerdist that Jessica Chastain has been offered a lead role in the second season of Nic Pizzolatto's HBO anthology drama True Detective.

In honor of Presidents Day, President Barack Obama is celebrating the holiday by sitting at home and watching his favorite television shows. The only difference between Obama and a normal person is that Obama is probably sitting at home watching advance episodes of Game of Thrones while you're stuck watching the season 3 trailer over and over.

HBO just released the trailer for the upcoming Matthew McConaughey / Woody Harrelson crime thriller True Detective and holy Jesus I think I just came.