“True Detective: Night time Nation” is the primary season of the HBO anthology collection not created by Nic Pizzolatto, who up till now had a writing credit score on each episode throughout the present’s first three seasons. The present’s fourth season, “Night time Nation,” hails from Issa López, whose 2017 horror film “Tigers Are Not Afraid” served as an business breakthrough for the writer-director. López directed and co-wrote all six episodes of the brand new season.

Whereas Pizzolatto remains to be an government producer on the present, he has made it fairly clear on social media amid “Night time Nation’s” run that he’s not concerned in any capability with the fourth season of the present. He allegedly commented in since-deleted social media posts that some Season 4 plot factors that connect with the present’s first season are “so silly” and informed one fan, “I definitely didn’t have any enter on this story or anything. Can’t blame me.”

López was lately requested by Vulture about Pizzolatto’s alleged criticisms of her version of “True Detective,” to which she answered: “I consider that each storyteller has a really particular, peculiar, and distinctive relation to the tales they create, and no matter his reactions are, he’s entitled to them. That’s his prerogative.”

“I wrote this with profound love for the work he made and love for the those who beloved it,” López added. “And it’s a reinvention, and it’s completely different, and it’s accomplished with the thought of sitting down across the fireplace, and [let’s] have some enjoyable and have some emotions and have some ideas. And anyone that wishes to affix is welcome.”

Selection has reached out to Pizzolatto’s crew for extra remark.

“True Detective: Night time Nation” is headlined by two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster and boxer-turned-actor Kali Reis and facilities on a homicide thriller involving an Indigenous Alaskan lady. The brand new season wowed TV critics, with Selection‘s Alison Herman calling it a “rewarding reboot” and “a haunting homicide thriller,” including: “The six-episode season additionally takes a notably completely different strategy to the supernatural, a background motif of previous installments that right here turns into a central theme.”

López made headlines after the collection premiered when she took to X (previously Twitter) to combat again towards poisonous trolls on Rotten Tomatoes. Whereas the fourth season of the HBO crime collection has earned glowing evaluations (it boasts a 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating from 73 evaluations), there’s apparently a bit of the fandom sad with the brand new course of the present (the Rotten Tomatoes viewers rating is at 69%).

“So, in case you preferred final night time’s [episode] of [‘True Detective: Night Country‘], and have a Rotten Tomatoes account, perhaps head over there and go away an viewers evaluate?” Lopez wrote to her followers. “The bros and hardcore fanboys of [Season 1] have made it a mission to tug the ranking down, and it’s type of unhappy, contemplating all of the 5 star ones.”

“True Detective: Night time Nation” airs new episodes on Sunday nights at 9pm ET on HBO and Max.