Everyone tuned into the same wintry horror crime procedural this week. At least it looks that way because True Detective: Night Country is currently the #1 show on (HBO) Max. This season caught my attention when I learned Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) would be running the ship. As I made plans to be with my TV on Sunday nights, it was also announced that Kali Reis (Catch the Fair One) was cast in the series. It was double confirmation this wouldn’t be the typical cop drama that I have no patience for. I suspect many of us also tuned into the fourth season of this show for similar reasons. If you missed the premiere, I’m here to tell you this season isn’t like the others.
In this season,
“When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
True Detective: Night Country is written and directed by Issa López. It stars Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, and John Hawkes.
Twitter also seems to be living for this series. Many fans are specifically excited about this cast of badass women. We also are happy to see the series finally embracing the horror genre.
See what Twitter is saying about the new season below:
This is the fourth outing for True Detective. The previous seasons of the anthology are filled with actors I love, like Mahershala Ali, Colin Farrell, and Matthew McConaughey. However, it always seemed like it was primed to fall into the same traps as all other male-led copaganda titles. I’ve heard the earlier iterations are some of the best of this murky and overpopulated subgenre. However, I never felt the need to dive in. At least not until the creator of the series, Nic Pizzolatto, handed the keys to the castle to López.
Many of us are excited to see this tale as old time told from a completely different vantage point than we are used to. The first episode is already a refreshing change from the gruff detective tropes we are typically bombarded with.
Dread Central’s Editor-in-Chief, Mary Beth McAndrews, wrote in her review,
“López, along with a phenomenal cast and team of writers and directors, has delivered us exactly what we’ve been waiting for: a nuanced and scary crime drama that has a point of view and isn’t afraid to criticize the very institution of policing (which is the bare minimum in 2024).”
New episodes of True Detective: Night Country air on Sundays at 9 PM ET on Max.
Are you finding True Detective: Night Country to be one of your favorite recent watches? Then we can fangirl together at @misssharai as we wait for the next episode to hit Max this weekend.
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