Night Country: Part 2

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.

Bad Writing, meet your friend Bad Acting. Mix in a few Native clichés and you got some of Qavviks homebrew. Ennis comes alive!

It's Season 4 of True Detective. Everyone is having sex with everyone else and now we know why they hate the Beatles. Sure, there's now the bare bones of an actual cop procedural, but don't be fooled. This is a show where sisters have intimate conversations about mental health in the grocery store so that everyone in the small town can listen in and cold cases are solved by ghosts and convenient phone videos.

Truly Netflix-level stuff. Not a hint of the True Detective brand. And that's a problem because what distinguished TD from the gazillion other cop shows was airtight direction, great set design and fabulous acting. Too much of Season 4 is bad soap opera logic piled on top of head-scratchers like "why is there conveniently no ice on that window?" and "do people really talk like that?"

Can't wait for Jody Foster to pull the mask off the phantom to see who he really is...

Issa Lopez simply misses the mark, full of ideology and unnecessary sub plots, awfull dialogs, and sobrenatural ( not spiritual ) talk it's empty, even Jodie foster great acting can't change that, Issa didn't understand what make true detective great, the mood, the scenery, the real people, great dialogs, story seem recicled from lots of old movies, the two main actress don't have any chemistry together, I know it's unfair to compare with the first season but I don't think true detective is on the right path and add current ideology and progressive stuff doesn't did any good. Sorry HBO try again or bring back Nick.

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.