‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘True Detective’: Get a Glimpse of the New Seasons

On the same night HBO aired its shocking finale for “Sharp Objects,” the network also released teasers for its coming lineup of highly anticipated new programming. One is a full trailer for Season 3 of the anthology series “True Detective,” which stars Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff as detectives investigating a crime involving two missing children in the Arkansas Ozarks. The preview is ominous and enticing, with the kind of stark photography and haunting soundtrack we have come to expect of the series, created by Nic Pizzolatto.

There are glimpses of the story’s wide-ranging timeline (it spans three decades) by way of the costuming and hairstyles, as well the editing, which flashes back and forth between middle-aged and elderly images of Ali’s character, Detective Wayne Hays. Hays seems haunted by the case, and it appears that at least one theme for the new season will involve reconciliation with memories and the past. Season 3 is set to debut in January 2019.

For “Game of Thrones” obsessives, HBO has also finally released some footage from the final season. Interspersed within a teaser reel touting multiple new and returning programs, including the new seasons of “Barry” and “Big Little Lies,” is what amounts to maybe 15 seconds of “Game of Thrones” material, most of it from last season. But a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) reuniting is not nothing. Season 8 will return sometime in the first half of 2019.