Ali does a stellar job. The same can be said of his presence throughout the five "True Detective" episodes HBO made available to critics, in which he plays Arkansas state cop Wayne Hays ...

In the third season of HBO’s “True Detective,” Mahershala Ali‘s Arkansas cop, Wayne Hays, is haunted for more than 30 years by a disturbing mystery involving two missing kids. Showrunner ...

Mahershala Ali's Wayne Hays doesn't immediately look like the kind of guy who would fill True Detective Season 3 with Rust Cohle-esque observations about the shape and structure of time.

Speaking of, the character himself played a big part in convincing Mahershala Ali to get involved with True Detective’s third outing. The way Ali put it, portraying Wayne was something of a life ...

As Mahershala Ali was receiving his second Oscar, the 'True Detective' third-season finale was setting the actor up to win his first Emmy. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic It was a good ...

Mahershala Ali won an Oscar in 2017 for his role in ... taking them on a journey into the past — in the first look at True Detective‘s third season. Ali, 44, stars in the highly anticipated ...

Dorff joins Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”), who the network ... play Arkansas school teacher Amelia Reardon. Season 3 of “True Detective” will take place in the Ozarks and tell the story ...

Bloys confirmed that Oscar-winning Moonlight actor Mahershala Ali has closed a deal to star ... Bloys noted that a third season of True Detective is much further along than a potential second ...

With the HBO series—not to mention another Oscar win—Ali is quickly establishing himself as the best actor in America Ali isn’t in every scene in True Detective; it just seems like it.

Mahershala Ali is set to kick off 2019 in a big way as the new lead of HBO’s anthology crime series “True Detective,” but he wouldn’t have gotten the lucrative role had he not spoken up ...

Living up to the electric duo of Rust Cohle and Marty Hart is no easy task, but Season 3's lead detectives won over the audience their own way. “It was funny,” Dorff said. “The drivers ...

“With his ambitious vision and Mahershala Ali and Jeremy Saulnier aboard, we are excited to embark on the next installment of ‘True Detective.'” More infectious variant pushing COVID numbers ...