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True Detective: Night Country: Part 6 (2024)
We're all living in Issa's Night Country now
What a woman, what a writer team. 6 Great episodes finally led us to this satisfying finale.
This is Issa's world and we are all living in it.
She's proving once and for all that us women are just as capable, if not more so to create good television.
There are two distinct human experiences: The one of the mind and the one of emotions.
Yin and Yang.
Issa chose Yin with a touch of Yang.
Every mystery has a satisfying emotional conclusion.
The more cerebral minded folks will be left disappointed but it has been made abundantly clear that this is not a show for you.
If I had to summarize this show it'd be like this:
Girlbossing your way into the heart of the blizzard.
She's awake. Who's she? Issa? The cleaning ladies? Femininity? Yes!
What's she been woken up for?
To reclaim her seat amongst the greats.
Steven Spielberg who? Make room for Issa!
True Detective: Night Country: Part 4 (2024)
It's true, Detective. We live in a Night Country now.
I think I finally understand what this show is about.
The mystery, the murder and even the title "True Detective" is a red herring. This show is a high budget telenovela, full of the genre's tropes: Family drama, s*x, the likable but goofy dad who ordered a mail order bride who never shows up, the constant tension between married people. I could go on but Issa Lopez managed to subvert all our expectations and for that I commend her. Bravo Issa.
While watching yesterday's episode I vaguely remembered that a few episodes back there was something about some killed scientists. I don't recall exactly but it's obviously not that important because nobody is investigating it. But we learned a lot about Navaro's one note sister who's entire character is being schizophrenic. And by a lot I mean we just got more confirmation that she's mentally ill. There's not much else to be found there.
Then there was some family drama and something about the police cop's wife never wanting a baby but I don't really know what that was all about. Oh and his dad's mail order bride is unreliable. That we also learned.
That's about it. They kinda alluded to something right at the end with the jacket about some scientists or something but that's like episode 1 stuff. Who cares about stuff that happened in episode 1?
I need to know more about who's dating who, what's going on with the families? And is there a sudden pregnancy? Will they won't they?
Best telenovela to come out in years. I give it 9,5 lovable abuela out of 10 lovable abuela.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 3 (2024)
Walk it off partner, calm down
Remember when Community did that Law and Order episode where they made fun of tired tropes and cliches in crime shows back like in 2009? 15 years later we still get dialogue this bad.
I actually rolled my eyes when one cop was the angry cop and the other cop told her to calm down and walk it off.
Jesus Christ that would have been played out in 2005.
Stuff like that takes me out so much and reminds me we are watching a tv show. Just like that "In English, nerd" line.
This season feels like it was written by ChatGPT and approved by marketing people. There's no love in this project, which is a shame because I love the two leads.
There's so much potential here and I think I'm in the minority but Jodie foster and the pierced girl have a lot of Chemistry. They remind me of sisters who hate and love each others.
They are really wasted on such a loveless show.
I will keep watching it because I like the leads and Peter and I'm still intrigued by the mystery plot.
But I will always wonder what could have been.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 2 (2024)
Is this supposed to be a goofy One Piece'esque comedy or am I missing something?
Before the show runner accuses me of being a hating dude bro: I'm a woman.
I like the underlying mystery of the dead scientists but how are dancing ghosts more grounded in reality than what we've seen this episode?
Frozen bones don't just crack like that. Has nobody in the writing team ever handled frozen meat that's still attached to the bone? Sure if you flash froze it with liquid nitrogen you may make the bones brittle like that, but the temperature is apparently warm enough for the head, neck and lungs to unfreeze.
This is some real Gomu Gomu no freeze ass bs that could be in a light hearted One Piece adventure but not in True Detective.
And why is everyone so cool with seeing such a traumatic event?
Is everyone there a psychopath? That's nightmare fuel lmao.
We get so many throwaway scenes, how about one character acknowledging what they just saw. "Hey, about that human being we just saw scream like a zombie after we snapped off his hand... how are you dealing with that?"
And sure if this was a dark comedy it would work but TD season 4 takes itself very very serious.
The thing is I really like this season. I love the atmosphere, I like Jodie's role, I like the mystery. It's okay to like something but still acknowledge that it's not that good.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 1 (2024)
This premise doesn't work in 2024
First of all I actually like that True Detective has female leads now. I adore the premise of scientists going missing in a town without daylight.
But...
True Detective season 1 is now almost 10 years old. Rust's antics might have been a novel idea back then but every time a character in this episode talks I think to myself: Nobody talks like that. Season 1 always had meta commentary on Rust being a weirdo who says weird stuff. Now they all talk like that. It just doesn't feel real to me when everybody talks like an edgy, overly dramatic theater kid. Those aren't characters, they are mouth pieces of overly enthusiastic writers with no knowledge of the human condition.
The case itself is too big for the small town. You're telling me such an extraordinary crime involving scientists being found in grotesque poses in the ice doesn't leave this town? The whole world will be watching, especially after Covid. Thawing ancient bacteria is a disaster waiting to happen. You'd hear no end to the conspiracy theories on reddit, 4chan, twitter and tiktok.
This premise would have worked in 1980, but not today.
The FBI would take away that case faster than Jody can say "I hate the Beatles".
But I'm still excited about what's coming next. I'll just cringe watch it.