Jodie Foster stars in the highly anticipated new season of anthology series True Detective

Oscar-winner Jodie Foster plays the lead in this hit series – and the role is being compared to her famous character on Silence of the Lambs.

Another famous face will take the lead in the next season of chilling HBO anthology series, True Detective.

Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in the fourth season of the drama series, True Detective: Night Country, which returns to screens after a five-year absence.

The series – which premieres locally on BINGE on January 15 – Foster plays Detective Liz Danvers who is assigned to investigate the disappearance of eight men working at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Alaska.

Jodie Foster stars in the new season of True Detective.

Danvers and her sidekick, Detective Evangeline Navarro (played by Keli Reis), go to great lengths to solve the mystery buried in the town’s own dark history, but face some home truths along the way.

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Keli Reis stars alongside Foster in the show.

The pair are investigating the disappearance of eight researchers in the small Alaskan town.

“To solve the case, [they] will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice,” reads the show’s synopsis.

Each season of True Detective tells its own tale, therefore the HBO series has always employed an impressive cast each season.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson played the leads in the first season in 2014.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson starred in Season 1.

Season 2 premiered in 2015 with Taylor Kitsch, Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams starring, and Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff took over in Season 3 in 2019.

Jodie Foster in a scene from her 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.

Next season’s offering has Foster in the role of lead of detective, with comparisons being drawn to her unforgettable role as FBI Agent Clarice Starling the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs.

“[She is] a long way from Clarice,” Foster said in a recent interview with Total Film magazine.

“Clarice is all about the ethics and she’s quiet and reserved and always doing the right thing, and that is not Danvers. I kind of hope Clarice never got this cynical.”

True Detective: Night Country premieres January 15 on BINGE and on Fox Showcase at 8.30pm and available On Demand.

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