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The fourth season of True Detective features a supernatural mystery in the Arctic and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Critics praise the performances and the atmosphere, but some viewers are disappointed by the plot and the pacing.
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Jan 11, 2024 · True Detective. Season 4 Is a Bold Step in a New Direction. Jodie Foster investigates a spooky murder case in the frigid “night country” of Alaska. By Richard Lawson. January 11, 2024.
Jan 15, 2024 · The Independent's Nick Hilton praises the cinematography and the horror of True Detective: Night Country, the fourth instalment of Sky's acclaimed series. He criticizes the dialogue, the pacing and the political themes of the show, but admires Foster's performance as the chief of police.
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Feb 19, 2024 · The fourth season of True Detective, set in Alaska, tries to balance cosmic horror and feminist reclamation, but falls short on both counts. The finale reveals a disappointing twist and leaves many plot holes unresolved, undermining the show's potential.
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- The series goes to Alaska for the best season since its first
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By Katie Rife
Posted: Jan 12, 2024 9:21 pm
Every season of True Detective has a sense of place. Season 1 took viewers to the humid swamps of Louisiana, followed by inland California and the Ozarks in seasons 2 and 3. The latest installment of the HBO crime anthology doesn’t just have a new location, but a new subtitle and creator, too. Credited to director and lead writer Issa López (with a “based on” acknowledging Nic Pizzolatto’s work on the first three seasons), True Detective: Night Country moves the series to the harsh Arctic region of Alaska, where the sun never rises between the winter solstice and New Year’s Day.
That’s not the only reason the series is subtitled Night Country. As with previous True Detectives, there’s an element of the supernatural at play here, this time with a ferocious feminine twist. As the chants at a protest in the fictional town of Ennis go, Inuit people lived in the area long before Ennis – and indeed Alaska itself – existed. And their legends still live alongside them, in the dark subterranean ice caves underneath the now-rapidly melting permafrost.
The concept for Night Country blends John Carpenter’s The Thing with a small-town police procedural: In the first episode, the men at the research station outside of town disappear en masse. The only clue to what might have happened to them is a cell phone video that captures a member of the team, twitching and shivering and seemingly possessed, ominously intoning: “She’s awake.” Then the lights go out, the first of many chilling and expertly crafted horror sequences in the show.
Then the men are discovered, naked and fused together in a nightmarish ice sculpture out on the tundra. Their faces are frozen in fear. Some of them have clawed their own eyes out. All are grotesque and frightening to look at, one of many smart decisions made by López and her crew in terms of Night Country’s horror craft. With that discovery, the missing-persons investigation led by Ennis police chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster), and deputy Hank Prior (John Hawkes), and Hank’s son and newbie cop Peter (Finn Bennett) becomes a murder case. The dynamics between the three officers are fraught, but not as much as the relationship between Danvers and her former partner Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), a Native Alaskan who returned to the region as an adult after growing up in the lower 48.
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True Detective: Night Country is the best season of the series since the original. The horror sequences are especially good, and creator Issa López thoughtfully engages with the Alaska location without sacrificing the intrigue of a good detective story. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis make a formidable duo at the head of Night Country’s investigation, i...
IGN praises the HBO crime anthology's best season since its first, set in Alaska with a supernatural twist. The review highlights the horror sequences, the performances, and the engagement with the location and issues of the series.
- Katie Rife
Jan 11, 2024 · A haunting, riveting return to form for the HBO anthology series, set in Alaska and starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. The show explores murder, misogyny, racism, and possibly something out of H.P. Lovecraft in a dark, cold, and female mirror image of the original season.
Jan 2, 2024 · With eerie suspense, vibrant characters and a layer of the supernatural, the series' creator and director, Issa López, gives Night Country a singular feeling, and those opening credits suggest how:...
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