True Jodie

Well here’s some good news for gay women who love crime shows (me, I am talking specifically about me). Jodie Foster, yes two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, is going to star in the new season of the HBO crime series “True Detective.” Now, truth be told, I’ve avoided “True Detective” because of the testosterone-filled air of Very Important Man Stuff the show has given off since its inception. Men doing serious things seriously and all that.

But perhaps buoyed by the success of “”Mare of Easttown,” finally the anthological crime series is letting women do Very Important Woman Stuff instead. Jodie will star as Detective Liz Danvers and be paired with as as-yet unannounced fellow actress as Detective Evangeline Navarro. Yes, we’re getting two ladies doing Very Important Woman Stuff. My body is read. Let’s get our Cagney & Lacey, Rizzoli & Isles, Scott & Bailey back on with this one, ladies.

Jodie will also executive produce the fourth season, which is truly what all actresses should be doing because producing is power (and money and all that other good stuff). The new season also will have a new creative team behind it led by Mexican filmmaker/screenwriter Issa Lopez. The new season’s storyline is described as:

“When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”

Clearly, I’m already 100% here for this new season and look extremely forward to Jodie et al to do Very Important Woman Stuff on my small screen. I feel like Jodie might be gunning for an EGOT here, a la Kate Winslet. This is the kind of female-against-female competition I encourage. The kind that makes amazing television for us to watch.