True Detective season 3 TV billboards...

Daily Billboard first came across Mahershala Ali in the sci-fi series The 4400, then shows like Alphas and House of Cards to his breakout Oscar-winning role in Barry Jenkins Moonlight.

Since then he's appeared in Luke Cage, Hidden Figures and in another critically-acclaimed role in Green Book.

Now the newly minted Golden Globe winner is headlining the third season of HBO's crime anthology series, True Detective, with the hopes of reviving Nic Pizzolatto's TV franchise after a much maligned second season.

He stars as Arkansas detective 'Wayne Hays', still haunted by a macabre case involving two missing children in the Ozarks in the 1980s.

These season three billboards were snapped along the Sunset Strip and Pico Boulevard from December 14 to December 26, 2018.

Fans of the shows can also check out these previous season billboards for True Detective.

Meanwhile admirers of Mahershala Ali can enjoy these Green Book movie billboards, this Moonlight movie billboard and this Calvin Klein underwear billboard.

This decades-spanning investigation will also star Stephen Dorff and Carmen Ejogo, so let's see if this eight-episode third season can return True Detective to audiences must-see lists.

UPDATED: Here's also an Emmy consideration billboard for the third season and its star spotted above the Sunset Strip on May 21, 2019.

And here's another oddly shaped Emmy FYC billboard for True Detective spied along Beverly Boulevard on May 31, 2019.

UPDATED: Congratulations to Mahershala Ali for receiving a SAG Award nomination for the third season of True Detective. This HBO FYC nominee billboard was spied along Sunset Boulevard on January 4, 2020.