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72-486: This article is about the given name. For the ancient name of Mecca, see Bakkah . Becca Pronunciation / ˈ b ɛ k ə / BEK -ə Gender Female Origin Word/name Hebrew Meaning "To Tie, To Bind" Other names Related names Rebecca, Becky, Beck, Rivkah, Rebeka. Becca is a feminine given name , often

144-683: A blessing to its people with milk and water." The name Bakkah is woven into the kiswa , the cloth covering the Kaaba that is replaced each year before the Hajj . The Valley of the Bakha ( Hebrew : עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא Emeq haBakha , Hebrew pronunciation: [ʔemek habaχa] ), or the Valley of Bakha, also transliterated as Baka or Baca , is mentioned in Psalms 84 , in the following passage: Blessed

216-469: A bush and then sat down a bowshot distance's away as to not watch him die, and when he began to cry, God called from Heaven to Hagar to take Ismael and continue traveling, where then he opened her eyes, revealing a well. The Islamic tradition holds that a spring gushed forth from the spot where Hagar had laid Ishmael, and this spring came to be known as the Well of Zamzam . When Muslims on hajj run between

288-606: A chicken processing plant where Lucy worked. It funds a children's charity which is offering a reward for information about the children's disappearance. A Native American man, Brett Woodard, is beaten by locals who believe he is responsible for the children's disappearance. At the Purcell house, Hays finds a photo album containing a photograph of Will taken at his first communion, with his fingers interlaced and his eyes closed. In 1990, Amelia talks with law enforcement officers to discover more details about Julie Purcell's fingerprints at

360-691: A college football scholarship to an NCAA school at the Division II level or higher Becca Pizzi (born 1980), American marathon runner Becca Swanson (born 1973), American bodybuilder and powerlifter Rebecca Ward (born 1990), American sabre fencer In other fields [ edit ] Becca Balint (born 1968), American educator, writer and politician Becca Stevens (priest) (born 1963), American Episcopal priest Fictional characters [ edit ] Becca Chang , in The Loud House and The Casagrandes Becca Corbett, in

432-400: A committee." In July 2016, Casey Bloys, who had succeeded Lombardo as HBO head of programming two months earlier, confirmed plans for a third season, describing True Detective as "a valuable franchise" and revealing that both the network and creator Pizzolatto were open to another season. In March 2017, it was revealed that David Milch had been recruited to assist Pizzolatto in preparing

504-456: A director, we'll be a go on that." On August 31, 2017, after director Jeremy Saulnier was confirmed to work alongside Pizzolatto, HBO officially greenlit the third season of True Detective . The story was announced to span three decades and take place in the Ozarks , as partner detectives investigate a macabre crime, with Ali in the lead role of state police detective Wayne Hays. Talking about

576-475: A happy marriage. Hays and West search their house and find Playboy magazines under Will's mattress, and a hole in Will's closet looking into Julie's room. They learn that Lucy's cousin had previously stayed in Will's room while Will slept on the couch. Hays meets Will's English teacher, Amelia Reardon. Using his tracking skills, he finds Will's body in a cave, with his fingers interlinked as if in prayer. In 1990,

648-521: A local teenager, are found on Will Purcell's bicycle. Hays and West interrogate him and threaten him with prison rape. Amelia visits Lucy Purcell to give her the children's school projects. Lucy cries "I have done a terrible thing", but becomes angry when Amelia says she can talk in confidence to Wayne Hays. Locals see Brett Woodard talking to children, and chase him to his house, where he sets tripwires and Claymore mines, and distributes rifles around his house. In 1990, Hays finds footage of Julie Purcell from

720-1429: A short form of Rebecca ; however, it is also a name in its own right. People [ edit ] In arts and media [ edit ] Music [ edit ] Becca (Singer, Songwriter) , (Born 1994), Venezuelan Urban Singer Beca (musician) , American singer Becca (Ghanaian singer) (born 1984), Ghanaian Afropop singer, songwriter and actress Rebecca Akosua Acheampomaa Acheampong Becca (musician) (born 1989), American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Rebecca Hollcraft, lead singer of Stars In Stereo Becca Albee , American musician and visual artist Becca Barlow (born 1985), American rock guitarist and background singer Becca Bradley (born 1991), American Christian musician Becca Stevens (born 1984), American singer and guitarist Becca Tobin (born 1986), American actress, singer and dancer Other media [ edit ] Becca Albee , American musician and visual artist Becca Bernstein (born 1977), American artist Becca Fitzpatrick (born 1979), American author Becca Kufrin (born 1990), American reality TV star Becca Tobin (born 1986), American actress, singer and dancer ((Бекка Медведкина 1983г.р.)), из Украинского фильма Приключения ГТИД 1997 года выпуска Киевского. In sport [ edit ] Becca Hamilton (born 1990), American curler Becca Longo (born 1999), American football kicker, first woman to earn

792-656: A stone as it has been identified in the Islamic tradition, but rather he interprets the sentence hinting at the possible Levantine location of Bakkah. Another theory, coined as the Mecca–Petra Theory—or simply the Petra Theory—by the development of it from Dan Gibson , suggests that the original location of Bakkah is Petra , a historical city which was located in Arabia Petraea , which is also situated in

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864-455: A televised appeal for Julie Purcell to come forward. A woman indirectly claiming to be Julie Purcell calls the police hotline, saying that "Julie Purcell" is not her real name, and telling "the man from TV, acting like my father" to leave her alone. She asks "Where's my brother?" Hays and West visit Freddy Burns, who tells them that Will was looking for his sister on the night they went missing. Burns says Will wanted to know where "they" went; Julie

936-407: A third season of True Detective . Talking about the deal, the president of HBO programming Michael Lombardo stated, "I am thrilled to continue our relationship with Nic, as he is one of the most exceptionally talented writers and producers working today. I look forward to seeing where his unique creative vision will take us next." Variety reported that the network had requested some changes for

1008-404: A third season, namely that Pizzolatto work with a staff of writers or with a new showrunner. These proposed changes were made in response to the less favorable reception that the second season received compared to the first , which was in part attributed to the lack of a creative counterpart to Pizzolatto. The strong artistic input from Cary Joji Fukunaga , who had directed all eight episodes in

1080-565: A valley of bakha trees which served as a battlefield between Israel and Philistia . In this interpretation, the psalm gives glory to the Tribe of Levi and praises their inheritance of priesthood ("whose strength is in thee") over an inheritance of land. Another Jewish interpretation states that the psalm is a celebration of pilgrimage to the Temple (at this time, the First Temple), and that

1152-459: Is a distinction: Bakkah refers to the Kaaba and the sacred site immediately surrounding it, while Mecca is the name of the city in which they are both located. According to Lisān al-'Arab of Ibn Manẓūr, the site of the Kaaba and its surroundings was named Bakkah due to crowding and congestion of people in the area. The Arabic verb bakka (بَكَّ), with double "k", means to crowd like in a bazaar. This

1224-452: Is closed. Amelia interviews a friend of Lucy's, who has a photograph of Will and Julie trick-or-treating on Halloween, with the chaff doll. In the background are two adults dressed as ghosts; one black and one white. Amelia discovers that Dan O'Brien met a black man with one eye in a bar that Lucy used to work at. Hays examines Lucy's phone records and finds that she made several calls to Harris James before she died. James then flew to Las Vegas;

1296-470: Is commonly recorded to have only been used twice throughout all of Biblical Hebrew; both instances, one of which is plural (הַבְּכָאִים [habəxɔim] , habekha'im ), are dated to the same era and associate considerably with the land of Israel, while Bakkah is a hapax legomenon of the Quran that directly associates with a Bronze Age location, which is traditionally located in the southern region of

1368-515: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bakkah According to Muslim scholars Bakkah is an ancient name for Mecca , the most holy city of Islam . (The word Mecca is only used once in the Quran in verse 48:24 ("And it is He who withheld their hands from you and your hands from them within [the area of] Makkah after He caused you to overcome them. And ever is Allāh, of what you do, Seeing.")) Most Muslims believe Mecca and Bakkah are synonyms, but to Muslim scholars there

1440-403: Is not to be confused with another unrelated Arabic verb bakā (بَكَىٰ) (single k) which is the past tense of yabkī (يَبْكِي), to cry. Islamic tradition identifies Bakkah as the ancient name for the site of Mecca. An Arabic word, its etymology , like that of Mecca, is obscure. One meaning ascribed to it is "narrow", seen as descriptive of the area in which the valley of the holy places and

1512-520: Is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. those Who passing through the valley of the Bakha, they make it a spring; Also blessing the first rain will give. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. The composition of the psalm is credited to the Sons of Korah , a Levite clan which regularly performed musical compositions for David and in

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1584-597: The First Temple . The same Hebrew word בכא ( bakha ) is associated with a battle accounted in 2 Samuel 5:23–24 and in 1 Chronicles 14:13–16 which took place on the Valley of Rephaim , about 4–7 kilometers southwest of the present-day Old City of Jerusalem . In the accounts, David is advised to engage the Philistines in battle when he hears the sound of marching in the tops of the bakha trees. Muslims see

1656-497: The Hejaz . A literal translation is "Valley of the Bakha", although the translations into Biblical Greek assumed it to be the similar-sounding word בכה ("bakhah"), "crying", and translates it as ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι τοῦ κλαυθμῶνος ("Valley of Mourning", "Valley of Weeping"). Tom Holland and Patricia Crone , both revisionist scholars of early Islamic history , postulate that Mecca and Bakkah might not be different spelling variations of

1728-773: The Masoretic Text of the psalm, including ones outside of English. The name עמק הבכא ( Emek haBakha ) is also used for the loosely-related Valley of Tears , located in the Golan Heights which received its name during the Yom Kippur War . The word Bakha ( Biblical Hebrew : *𐤁𐤊𐤀 [bɔxɔ] ) is pronounced in terminal stress, unlike Bakkah , which is penultimately stressed. Although both Bakha and Bakkah are of Semitic origin, they are composed of different abjad letters: b-kh-' (Bet-Kaph-Aleph) for Hebrew, and b-k-h (Bet-Kaph-He) for Arabic. Bakha

1800-566: The Ozarks over three decades, as partner detectives investigate a macabre crime involving two missing children. The opening theme of the season is the song " Death Letter " written by Son House and performed by Cassandra Wilson from her 1995 album New Moon Daughter . Mahershala Ali plays the lead role of detective Wayne Hays , while Stephen Dorff plays his partner, detective Roland West. Series creator Pizzolatto makes his directorial debut, sharing directing assignments with Jeremy Saulnier and Daniel Sackheim . Pizzolatto also serves as

1872-420: The showrunner and writer of most of the episodes, with the exception of the fourth and sixth, which he co-wrote with David Milch and Graham Gordy respectively. In November 2015, a few months after the conclusion of the second season, HBO reached an overall deal through 2018 with series creator and executive producer Nic Pizzolatto , that called for him to develop a number of new projects, that could include

1944-622: The 2010 film Rabbit Hole , played by Nicole Kidman Becca Fisher , on the Canadian TV series Flash Forward Becca Hays, in True Detective season 3 Becca Hayton , on the soap opera Hollyoaks Becca Swanson , on the British soap opera EastEnders Becca, a young aspiring witch from the film Hocus Pocus 2 Other uses [ edit ] Becca (film) , a 1989 British-Australian television film Becca, in

2016-577: The 80s," while lead actor Mahershala Ali added that "[the landscape] is such a character in the story. It would have been such a shame if we had shot it any other place." Pizzolatto, who spent four years of his life in Fayetteville as a student at the University of Arkansas , found the area evocative and powerful, and revealed that it was important for him to shoot the season in Arkansas, as this

2088-513: The Levant instead of the modern location of Mecca. The major point of the theory is that the qibla of early mosques face Petra more accurately than Mecca. Others have challenged the notion of comparing modern readings of qibla directions to early mosques’ qiblas as they claim early Muslims could not accurately calculate the direction of the qibla to Mecca and so the apparent pinpointing of Petra by some early mosques may well be coincidental. Surely

2160-829: The Old English poem Widsith , the ruler of the Banings See also [ edit ] Beca (disambiguation) Rebecca (given name) References [ edit ] [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Becca&oldid=1233171949 " Categories : Given names English feminine given names English-language feminine given names Feminine hypocorisms Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

2232-497: The Purcell case. After Woodard's death, the disappearance of Will and Julie Purcell was attributed to him. Will Purcell's bookbag was found under Woodard's porch. Hays realizes that it must have been planted there afterwards, because it was undamaged by the Claymore mine explosion. However, West's superiors wanted him to blame Woodard; West cannot show this information to them without them shutting down his task force. Tom Purcell makes

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2304-399: The Purcell children lied about intending to meet a friend, Ronnie Boyle. They pretended they saw him regularly. Hays and West interview a farmer, who claims he has already spoken to the police. He reports seeing the Purcell children regularly going into the woods. He reports seeing a brown car with a black man and a white woman. Hays and West find the children had a Hoyt Foods bag. Hoyt Foods is

2376-473: The Quran ( 6:42 , 42:7 ) call it Umm al-Qura , meaning "mother of all settlements". In Islamic tradition, Bakkah is where Hagar ( Hājar ) and Ishmael ( Ismā'īl ) settled after being taken by Abraham ( Ibrāhīm ) to the wilderness, a story comparable to the Book of Genesis (21:14-21). Genesis tells that Abraham gave Hagar food and a skin of water, but that Hagar and Ishmael ran out of water to drink in

2448-464: The Sons of Korah. In the earlier psalms, they are seen as lamentations from being away from Zion and in the presence of enemies, who give taunts about the psalmist being away from Zion and being rejected by God, and cries about the weakness of the soul deficient in faith are given. Linking with Psalms 84, the same psalmist would praise the presence of God which is at Zion, and yearns to be there as well. As

2520-522: The agency's CEO noting, "This is the largest production we've ever cast." Additional casting calls were issued in June 2018 on Backstage , for Asian talent to portray Vietnamese civilians and soldiers. In February 2018, filming began in Arkansas, with Jeremy Saulnier and Nic Pizzolatto splitting directing assignments. However, when Saulnier exited the production after the first two episodes, it became clear that it would take longer than expected to complete

2592-480: The case's conclusions. Wayne Hays' superiors try to force him to write a statement repudiating her article, but he refuses and is demoted. He tries to break up with Amelia, but then decides to marry her. In 1990, Edward Hoyt threatens Hays, saying he has footage of Harris James' car being followed by Hays' car leaving the Hoyt Foods plant, and a GPS tracker on Harris James. Amelia and Hays argue and he resigns from

2664-521: The chaff dolls are made by a female parishioner. She in turn tells them that a black man with a milky eye bought several at a recent fair, saying they were for his nieces and nephews. They find a man matching this description, who is uncooperative. He says he attends the Presbyterian church, not the Catholic one. The priest is unusually keen to hear Hays' confession. The fingerprints of Freddy Burns,

2736-410: The city of Mecca are located, pressed in upon as they are by mountains. Widely believed to be a synonym for Mecca, it is said to be more specifically the early name for the valley located therein, while Muslim scholars generally use it to refer to the sacred area of the city that immediately surrounds and includes the Kaaba . The form Bakkah is used for the name Mecca in the Quran in 3:96 , while

2808-483: The courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah . Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through

2880-559: The early Islamic history, he later postulates the region of Mamre as a possible location, currently located in the West Bank . He identifies Mamre as an ancient Arabic pilgrimage site, citing a mid-7th century account by a Nestorian chronicler that parallels the Quranic description. He also proposes “Maqam Ibrahim,” two words mentioned in the Quran along with Bakkah, which can be translated as "the place where Abraham stood," not being

2952-399: The filming. On March 30, 2018, Variety wrote in regard to Saulnier's departure: "Sources said the filming on location in Arkansas has been tough at times, and that Pizzolatto and Saulnier had differences of opinion on the episodes." Saulnier was replaced by veteran director Daniel Sackheim, who would also divide directing assignments on the remaining six episodes with Pizzolatto. The season

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3024-482: The first House ˹of worship˺ established for humanity is the one at Bakkah—a blessed sanctuary and a guide for ˹all˺ people. In it are clear signs and the standing-place of Abraham. Whoever enters it should be safe. Pilgrimage to this House is an obligation by Allah upon whoever is able among the people. And whoever disbelieves, then surely Allah is not in need of ˹any of His˺ creation. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for

3096-441: The first season, was thought to have benefited the show. By contrast, the second season enlisted a number of directors, effectively leaving Pizzolatto free to create the season on his own. In June 2015, in an interview with Vanity Fair , Pizzolatto had stated, "If I'm making a movie or a show or whatever, I'm expressing something on a personal level or else it doesn't mean anything to me. If I'm doing that, it works better without

3168-474: The form Mecca is used in 48:24 . In South Arabic , the language in use in the southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula at the time of Muhammad , the b and m were interchangeable. The Quranic passage using the form Bakkah says: "Surely the first House ˹of worship˺ established for humanity is the one at Bakkah—a blessed sanctuary and a guide for ˹all˺ people." Other references to Mecca in

3240-469: The hills of Safa and Marwah seven times, it is to commemorate Hagar's search for help and the resulting revelation of the well of Zamzam. In addition to the Islamic tradition that Hagar and Ishmael settled in Bakkah, the Quran relates that Abraham came to Mecca to help his son Ishmael build the Kaaba adjacent to the well of Zamzam. Ibn Ishaq , the 8th-century Arab Muslim historian, relates that during

3312-422: The implication is that he murdered her. Hays persuades West to confront James, but he attacks them and they shoot him dead. They bury his body; West is angry at Hays. That night, Hays burns his clothes and refuses to tell his wife why. The next day, Edward Hoyt calls Hays, demanding to discuss "the events of last night". Hays gets into Hoyt's car, which drives away. In 1980, Amelia has written an article criticizing

3384-546: The mention of a pilgrimage to the Valley of Bakha in the passage as a reference to Mecca, similar to the Quran in 3:96. Some also draw connections of the passage "they make it a place of springs" to the Book of Genesis ' account of how Hagar the Egyptian has a well revealed to by God in the outskirts of Beersheba, presumably on the way to Bakkah. In Judaism and in Christianity , there are other interpretations of

3456-569: The mother of Ishmael and an Egyptian slave to Sarah (Abraham's wife and half sister in Genesis), from Abraham (who remains in Beersheba) due to Ismael provoking Sarah on the day of Isaac 's weaning , and she travels alone with Ismael, who she later gets an Egyptian wife for during their stay at the Desert of Paran . Unlike Arab tradition, Genesis accounts that Hagar set a dying Ismael underneath

3528-456: The outskirts of Beersheba . In Arab tradition, Hagar runs back and forth between Safa and Marwa —two elevated points—seven times to search for help before sitting down in despair, at which point an angel appeared and hit the ground with his heel (or his wing) and caused a miraculous well to spring out of the ground. However, the account in Genesis focuses more about the outcasting of Hagar,

3600-473: The pharmacy CCTV. West reports that Lucy Purcell died of a drug overdose in 1988 in Las Vegas. In 1980, the police arrive just as locals attack Brett Woodard's house. Claymore mines go off, killing some of the locals. Woodard shoots locals and policemen. Hays tells Woodard to drop his rifle, but Woodard commits suicide by cop . In 1990, Wayne Hays and Amelia's marriage is suffering because of her book about

3672-446: The pharmacy. West asks Hays to join his reopened investigation into the case. In 1980, Hays and West interview the Catholic priest about Will Purcell's communion photograph. The priest takes photos of all first communicants, but Will is the only one who has his eyes closed. The priest tells Hays and West that the Purcell children were excited about seeing an aunt; they respond that the children did not have an aunt. The priest reports that

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3744-408: The police force. He becomes head of campus security at a university, and Amelia becomes a lecturer at the same university. True Detective season 3 (2019) : Percentage of positive critics' reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes The third season garnered positive reviews, and was praised as a return to form in comparison to the second season, which had received mixed reviews after

3816-421: The positive reception that the first season had received. On Rotten Tomatoes , the season has a rating of 84%, based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 7.65/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Driven by Mahershala Ali's mesmerizing performance, True Detective ' s third season finds fresh perspective by exploring real-world events – though it loses some of the series' intriguing strangeness along

3888-519: The presence of God, where prayers are offered. Still, many Jews and Christians utilize the alternative translation of bakha into tears , which has been practiced since Greek translations and continued throughout Latin and English translations. In this—unlike בכה ( bakhah ), which is translated to cry —בכא ( bakha ) would translate to tears , as a Biblical Hebrew counterpart to the common Modern Hebrew word for tears , דמעות ( dema'oth ). This still exists with modern translations which strongly reference

3960-466: The psalm. One Jewish interpretation is based on how the psalm is composed by Levites, a tribe of Israel which are not given inherited land amongst the other tribes, but rather travel—particularly as shepherds—between the lands of the other tribes ("They go from strength to strength") and have priesthood responsibilities as their inheritance ("every one of them in Zion appeareth before God"), and as they travel, they bring pasture to desolated lands, such as

4032-472: The psalmist desires to be in the Temple—the Presence of God—and details steps of the way to Jerusalem, where it is located. On the way, the pilgrims may pass through the Valley of Bakha, which could be synonymous with the Valley of Rephaim, as it is a valley where bakha trees grow according to 2 Samuel 5:22–24 . Here, the phrase "also blessing the first rain will give" refers to the beginning of winter in

4104-403: The psalmist is away, he writes about the pilgrimage back to Jerusalem, where dry and desolate places like the Valley of Bakha may be encountered, but it will be enlightened by the pilgrims, and treated it as if they were places of springs; finding refuge through hardship—the rains are the responses by God through faith during the troubling times. After the pilgrimage, the pilgrims are congregated in

4176-449: The region of Israel—the first rains—suggesting that the pilgrimage is for the festival of Sukkot , when prayers of rain are offered. If this is the case, the psalm may be based on Psalms 122 , which is also traditionally a psalm about a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Sukkot, which is credited to David. Another interpretation, which is used by Jews and Christians, links the psalm as a successor to Psalms 42–43 , which are also credited to

4248-495: The renewal, Bloys stated: "Nic has written truly remarkable scripts. With his ambitious vision and Mahershala Ali and Jeremy Saulnier aboard, we are excited to embark on the next installment of True Detective ." Besides Pizzolatto, who also serves as the season's showrunner, other executive producers of the season include Saulnier, Fukunaga, Scott Stephens , season one stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey , along with Steve Golin , Bard Dorros, and Richard Brown. Saulnier

4320-690: The renovation of Kaaba undertaken by the Quraysh before Islam, found an inscription in one of the corners of the foundation of the building that mentions Bakkah. Composed in Syriac , it was incomprehensible to the Quraysh until a Jew translated it for them as follows: "I am Allah, the Lord of Bakka. I created it on the day I created heaven and earth and formed the sun and the moon, and I surrounded it with seven pious angels. It will stand while its two mountains stand,

4392-877: The same area, a view commonly held by historical and modern Islamic authors, but rather Bakkah existed in another place. Holland, in his 2012 book In the Shadow of the Sword , states that Bakkah must have been located somewhere near Byzantine Empire 's southern frontier, citing Mecca before Islam being absent in Byzantine records of Hejaz , Quran mentioning Byzantine military expeditions and Quranic imagery (such as Mušrikūn having cattle and gardens of vines, olives, and pomegranates) being vastly different from desert regions of Mecca and being more in line with wetter Syria - Levant region. Although he asserts that it's not possible to ascertain where Bakkah had exactly stood during

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4464-408: The season. Sackheim would divide up directing assignments on the remaining episodes with Pizzolatto, who also serves as the sole writer of the season, except for the episodes four and six, which he co-wrote with David Milch and Graham Gordy respectively. Academy Award -winner Mahershala Ali plays the lead role of state police detective Wayne Hays. In an interview with Variety , Ali revealed that he

4536-697: The series taking place in Arkansas, the director of Arkansas Economic Development Commission had stated in December 2017, "This is the largest and most expensive production we've ever had in the state. With an estimated year from start to finish, we know that local businesses and vendors will enjoy a boon from the production." The season wrapped filming in Fayetteville in August 2018. Talking about their experience, executive producer Scott Stephens said, "Everything we've needed has been right at our fingertips, from period architecture to abandoned buildings that still evoke

4608-494: The third season, and that writing the first two episodes had already been completed. In June 2017, The Tracking Board reported that Mahershala Ali was in early discussions with HBO to play the lead role of the season. In July 2017, Bloys told reporters at the press tour of the Television Critics Association that Pizzolatto had written the third season almost in its entirety, and added "When we find

4680-494: The unsolved case is reopened. Hays is informed that Julie Purcell is still alive; her fingerprints were found in a pharmacy after a burglary. In 1980, Tom's parents suggest that Tom might not have been Julie's father. Hays and West try to find the source of some chaff dolls found near Will Purcell's body. A student reports that Julie Purcell was given one while trick-or-treating on Halloween. The Purcells receive an anonymous note telling them not to look for Julie. Hays wonders why

4752-420: The valley of the Bakha make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion. True Detective (season 3)#Cast The third season of True Detective , an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto , was confirmed by HBO on August 31, 2017, and premiered on January 13, 2019. The story takes place in

4824-489: The way." On Metacritic , the season has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 3, 2019. In addition to the eight episodes, both formats contain bonus content including the featurettes "Designing the Decades" and "A Conversation with Nic Pizzolatto and T Bone Burnett" as well as deleted scenes and an extended version of

4896-455: Was expected to direct the first three episodes of the season. However, in March 2018, after he had completed the first two episodes, Saulnier exited the series due to scheduling conflicts, although several sources reported Saulnier's "differences of opinion" with Pizzolatto. Daniel Sackheim was announced to replace Saulnier, with the veteran director also being added as an executive producer for

4968-441: Was filmed by Random Productions LLC at various locations throughout Northwest Arkansas, including Fayetteville, Bentonville, Lincoln, Rogers and Springdale. Filming took place mainly in Fayetteville, from Mount Sequoyah to homes, apartments and restaurants around the city. Filming on location also included the use of stunts and pyrotechnics in residential areas, namely car explosions, smoke and loud noises. In regard to production on

5040-525: Was not alone. The fingerprints found on Will and Julie's toys have gone missing from the case file. Hays and West interview someone who recognized Julie Purcell from the CCTV footage. He says she called herself "Mary July", was confused about what year it was, and said she was a "secret princess" from "the pink rooms". In 1990, Tom Purcell's body is found, staged to look like a suicide. Dan O'Brien has gone missing when Hays and West try to ask him about it. The case

5112-671: Was originally offered a supporting role, as the main character was supposed to be white, but that he had convinced Pizzolatto that he was suited for the lead. In November 2017, Carmen Ejogo was added to the cast in the role of schoolteacher Amelia Reardon, followed in January 2018 by Stephen Dorff as detective Roland West. Joining them was Ray Fisher as Henry, the son of Wayne Hays. In January 2018, The Agency Inc. issued casting calls for up to 1,500 actors, stand-ins and photo-doubles to begin filming in Northwest Arkansas, with

5184-426: Was the place he had in mind when he was writing the episodes. The narrative alternates between three time periods: 1980, 1990, and 2015. In 1980, Will and Julie Purcell tell their father they are going to a playground to meet a friend, but do not return. Detective Wayne Hays and his partner Roland West organize a search. Hays is a Vietnam veteran who worked as a tracker. The Purcells' parents, Tom and Lucy, do not have

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