Night Country: Part 2

I was giddy when I found out the was another season. However, when I found out that it was a new writer/director I was highly skeptical. It made me wonder if it was a show that just had the True Detective tag attached.

The first episode got me intrigued, but the second episode hooked me.

I was genuinely saddened that the third episode was not available for streaming immediately.

Danvers and Navarro had just a smidge of their backstory revealed, but that was enough.

Honestly, the first episode didn't really sell me on either of them as the two leads.

But the second episode has me dying to see what exactly happened between the two of them and how they will work together on this case.

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.

Come on in and look all you want. We'll also put this unarmed rookie police kid in charge.

Honestly, I never much thought of Jodie Foster as an actress but she's pretty dire in this even by her poor standards.

An absolutely train wreck of an anthology that has failed to recover even a slightest pulse after the jaw dropping 1st series.

The dialogue is hilarious, acting to make your eyes bleed and a drama so devoid of tension, charisma and credibility that it's enough to ruin careers.

I gave it a chance. The setting was promising, an isolated community in a sunless season in Alaska. Unexplained deaths unleash the most comical detective work on the face of the earth. Not carrying on after ep2.

When i ended watching this episode the first thing i tought was ok this is solid and its similar to the first season and they have a show running again. Then i saw all the reivews that say this is terrible and what not. It simple isnt true. I see alot of complaints about spiritual stuff. The same was in the first season its basicly a story about the church and this thing is connected to some native superstition. The season so far is interesting and its slow paced but so was the first season.

This episode we find out more about whats going on but in an hour we didnt really get any informations about the case which is why this episode get only 8/10.

Compared to the story and acting of season 2 this is a hit but compared to season one it can be better. I like judie forster and finn. They seem to be a good combo. Agent Navarro is pretty bad tbh. I guess shes in the show for diversity reasons and not because shes a good actor.

Anyway i hope the story will continue in this mistirous tone and we will have a good season. Even these two episodes its far better then the 2nd and 3rd season.

The central mystery is mysterious and there's enough general intrigue to keep things interesting. The season claims to be an inverted spiritual successor to Season 1. So far it isn't. It's a slickly-produced grim and dark television cop show with some possibly supernatural elements, and it's fine, but even with some callbacks and easter eggs it doesn't even belong in the same conversation as legendary Season 1.

And since the writer/director made a point of blaming the tepid audience response on a bigoted reaction to two female leads I have to ask: where are the female leads? Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are female actresses, but the two lead characters they portray are stereotypical alpha male dudebro pigs: stoic, emotionally repressed, confrontational, verbally and physically aggressive, crude, vulgar and always down for some empty fornication with whoever they can use. How can people be "review bombing" a show over its female leads when there aren't any?