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True Detective: Night Country S4 E6

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“Part Six”

The fourth season of True Detective came to its conclusion tonight on HBO Max with an extra long episode that wrapped up the storylines well and left some ambiguity in what happened with Navarro.

The show moved at a rapid pace throughout. They had a lot to cover.

The story of what happened to the frozen naked people was something else. I never would have guessed about what the answer was to the mystery. I am not sure if this felt like a cheat or a clever way to keep it unexpected.

Top notch performances tonight from Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as they were stranded together in the blizzard with Raymond Clark, who was able to provide us with some answers (sort of).

The case was a nice mixture of real world and supernatural as everything made sense, but the mysteriousness of the setting remained in tact.

Was that Navarro’s spirit or real live body visiting Danvers at the end? I know what I think, but we will never know for sure.

A really enjoyable season with a very strong finale. I was really pleased with True Detective: Night Country.

True Detective: Night Country S4 E5

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“Part Five”

I had forgotten that True Detective: Night Country was releasing its penultimate episode on Friday night instead of its typical Sunday night because of the inevitable competition of the Super Bowl. I did not think of it until tonight as I was watching American Nightmare on Netflix. After that was over, I pulled up Max and loaded up episode 5.

What an episode.

The confrontation at Danvers’ home between Hank Prior, Danvers, Otis and Peter was just shocking. Watching Peter put a bullet into his father’s head to protect Danvers after his father had shot and killed Otis was an unbelievable scene. 

The scene between Peter and Danvers at the police station was compelling as hell and really set up what was to come.

It was a tough episode for Peter, ending with one of the most tragic things that he had to do. He could not stand there and watch his father execute Danvers and so his hand was forced.

Hank did confess that he did not kill Annie, but he did move the body. I guess you can scratch him off the suspects list. With Navarro and Danvers on their way to the cave where Annie was killed, I expect all kinds of drama coming next week in the finale.

By the way, the Tsalal deaths have been deemed an accident by way of an avalanche by the medical examiners in Anchorage. This, of course, is fairly coincidental as Pete had just found evidence linking Silver Sky Mining with Tsalal. Silver Sky Mining’s exec Kate McKittrick is clearly crooked and had ordered Hank to make sure Otis could not take Liz and Navarro to the caves.

Something is in those caves and the reveal next week could be epic.

True Detective: Night Country S4 E4

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“Part Four”

Night Country continues to be a creepy and, at times, devastating look at both mental illness and the effects of isolation and the lack of daylight.

This week, Navarro’s sister, diagnosed with several mental illnesses, leaves the clinic and walks into the water, drowning herself. To say that Navarro does not respond positively to the news is an understatement. She flies off the handle at the clinic and then picks a fight with a group of men who leave her bloodied and battered.

Meanwhile, things aren’t great for Danvers. Her step-daughter leaves, Danvers spends Christmas Eve alone and drunk.

Navarro is seeing some horrors and she is afraid that the mental illness ran through her family. Ghosts are everywhere here apparently.

The supernatural element of this show has really started kicking into high gear. When Otis Heiss said that they were in the “night country” now, it really felt like something creepy.

And I really feel for Navarro.

The show has been firing on all cylinders for me and, with just two episodes left, I’m excited to see the mystery of the Tsalal murder solved.

True Detective: Night Country S4 E3

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“Part Three”

Holy crap.

Okay, I was thinking that this episode was slow and there was not too much going down. I mean there was some minimal advancement on the case and there was some good character development, especially for Navarro.

Then, the last fifteen minutes or so, shit went crazy.

So much so that when the episode went to black, I was feeling uneasy and downright disturbed from the video on Annie’s phone and the unnatural warning from the injured  Dr. Anders Lundt, with his legs amputated. This supernatural twist was creepy as all hell and really punctuated the scene, with him making a comment about Navarro’s mom. Coincidentally, we found out earlier this episode what had happened to her.

We also discovered the fact that the six dead, frozen bodies most likely had not died of being frozen, that they were dead before they were frozen. 

I also found out that the season is now half over, which was shocking to me. There is so much going on right now that I hope they are able to nail the landing on this series because it is truly compelling at this point.

True Detective: Night Country S4 E2

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“Part 2”

So, after the weird and supernatural feel of the first episode last week, this week’s True Detective is a lot of procedural investigations, questions (both the right and wrong questions) and interactions among characters.

At the end of last episode, a ghost had led his former wife to a group of bodies frozen in the ice. Turned out they were scientists working at a station out in the Alaskan night.

How they wound up in a frozen pile, naked, with their clothes folded neatly in piles nearby. 

I must say that when the hand broke off and the body screams, I jumped. One of them survived! 

And it looked as if the scientists have some kind of connection to the case of Annie’s murder from six years before. There is a spiral tattoo that plays a prominent part this the mystery. Danvers and Evangeline (and a throwback to season 1).

Raymond Clark was not among the mass of frozen bodies, indicating that he might still be alive and out there.

Another week and the mystery is becoming bigger as we go. I enjoyed the characters quite a bit and I look forward to seeing where this goes next.

True Detective: Night Country S4 E1

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“The Long Bright Dark”

True Detective season one was one of the best seasons of TV you are ever going to find. Season two was a huge step down. I did not watch season three. 

Season four has debuted on Max. I did not know it had started until I saw it on Hulu. I knew it was coming out soon, and I wanted to give this new season a chance.

Jodie Foster is the star of this season which is taking place in Alaska. Foster is a fantastic actor who has a realness to her, a natural feel. 

According to the opening text, this is set around December 17th, which was the last sunset of the year. I can’t imagine what it would be like to live at night for two weeks or more. 

This first episode started building up these characters and there are some definitely intriguing people living in Alaska. It also began the new case, with a body found without a tongue that apparently has ties to a previous one. That case had some tie to Kali Reis, the boxer-turned-actor, playing the role of trooper Evangeline Navarro, an indigenous native with some spiritual connections. 

There is something mystical going on too. It was not 100% clear what was happening. Ghosts maybe? There was a scene that reminded me of Killer Bob from Twin Peaks. Oh, and there was a polar bear. 

I found this interesting and I love the supernatural stuff here. Jodie Foster is top notch and I think this season has started off strong.