This Sunday, True Detective makes its highly anticipated comeback with a thrilling season that looks to bring the crime anthology back to its glory days. But it would take more than the star power of Jodie Foster and a frigid new setting to reinvigorate a show that had long lost its luster as one of the biggest TV phenomenons of the past decade. Those play a part, for sure, but there’s a more significant factor at play: the deft direction of showrunner Issa López, who draws from the best classic horror movies to transform True Detective into a full-fledged supernatural thriller.
