What the hell did I just watch? I understand that true detective as a series can be very ethereal... Or just plain weird... But I have no idea what just happened.
I just finished episode 6 which I guess is the final episode, and I have no idea what happened, other than the fact that it was a parent that the scientists at the research facility were abusing the indigenous girl, and they were taken to task by that women's group. What is with all the supernatural stuff? Was it all because of the pollution?
These shows are so hit or miss with a heavy lien on the miss aspect of it. The third season which I thought was good, took me forever to get through because I was trying to keep up with the chronological shifts. The second one I stopped watching after. I think episode 3. The first season was a masterpiece. This season I almost feel like I watched a combination of a Stephen King movie and stranger things.
Every now and then I watch Season 1, Episode 5 and just marvel at how great it is - the whole season was great, but that hour is one of the best hours of TV I've ever seen. The "unreliable narrator" revelation about what went down at the Ledoux house, the cover up, Rust realizing in the 2002 timeline that the killer is still out there (the interrogation scene about the Yellow King), Marty's monologue about losing his family, and the present-day detectives confronting Rust and Marty with believable circumstantial evidence that Rust is the killer - the whole thing was perfectly executed.
I font think I could have summed it up better. Cleaning lady mafia for the win!
I hung in there hoping for a rousing last few episodes with a Inuit Witch doctor drugging people into weird homocidal zombies... Kinda like how season 1 finished. Nope.
And what was with Navarro on the deck with Danvers at the end? Did she kill herself too?
I would have liked a clearer answer on what happened to Navarro, a little more detail on Danvers' son. I thought Jody Foster did a great job in a very unglamorous role. I think the director wanted to leave all the supernatural stuff as possible explanations but didn't think it really worked. I agree that Mare of Eastham was MUCH better than this
So, sacrifice the locals/natives at the cost of the "greater good"
something like that anyway.
when you have a season 1 like True Detective, it's hard to meet that bar, but man they are looking like one-hit wonders with this franchise. I think all the seasons after season 1 were pretty bad.
5hats why I think she killed herself and that was her spirit or whatever. She was wearing the same clothes and he character was all fucked up given the relationships she had
I liked Night Country until the last episode. The solution was a chaotic mess and episode 6 dragged like the Eagle.
You remember the herd of caribou jumping over the cliff at the very start of Night Country? What was that about?
I liked Night Country until the last episode. The solution was a chaotic mess and episode 6 dragged like the Eagle.
You remember the herd of caribou jumping over the cliff at the very start of Night Country? What was that about?
retrospectively, I took that scene to be metaphoric, something about the caribou running from the darkness and I think in the end that was one of the shows themes.
I liked Night Country until the last episode. The solution was a chaotic mess and episode 6 dragged like the Eagle.
You remember the herd of caribou jumping over the cliff at the very start of Night Country? What was that about?
I think the idea was that they were supposedly frightened by the sea goddess Sedna, like the men at TSALAL supposedly had been. Which is the question never answered - if the veterinarian earlier in the season was correct that the TSALAL guys didn’t die of hypothermia, what did they die of? I guess we’re left to believe that Sedna got to them.
I found it entertaining, unpredictable, and somewhat culturally informative. The lack of plausibility and ambiguous ending didn't bother me as much as others.
As an aside, it would be wonderful to spend the long night with the hippy redneck character Rose. A woman with knife skills intrigues me.
what a disjointed mess.
and I at one point got in trouble with the Mrs because I said I wasn't sure if it was Jodie Foster or Michael J Fox in the lead
ouch
I also liked the paranormal angle, and they seemed to really lean into it in Episode 4 - then just completely back off it.
I thought Season 2 was awful. I liked Season 3 as well. Nothing can come close to Season 1 IMO.
Even though one of the primary themes is "womyn," they didn't do what a lot of gender swapped garbage does nowadays where 90lb. Tinkerbells are tossing Navy Seals around like pillows. The one woman who is physical, Evangeline, was an actual professional boxer in real life and it's not breaking the immersion seeing her taking and giving punches.
The season itself pretty much follows the True Detective formula: teases the supernatural and the occult, has lots of exposition, and finally comes around to a surprise prosaic explanation of the murders in the end (plot holes and all).
Biggest gripes off the top of my head:
- What was the point of tracking down the indigenous dude sitting in his shed with a shotgun? Why did he disappear later? I forget how he was involved at all.
- Why did Jodi Foster put her gun away after getting locked in the glass freezer to go look for something to break the glass?
Even though one of the primary themes is "womyn," they didn't do what a lot of gender swapped garbage does nowadays where 90lb. Tinkerbells are tossing Navy Seals around like pillows. The one woman who is physical, Evangeline, was an actual professional boxer in real life and it's not breaking the immersion seeing her taking and giving punches.
The season itself pretty much follows the True Detective formula: teases the supernatural and the occult, has lots of exposition, and finally comes around to a surprise prosaic explanation of the murders in the end (plot holes and all).
Biggest gripes off the top of my head:
- What was the point of tracking down the indigenous dude sitting in his shed with a shotgun? Why did he disappear later? I forget how he was involved at all.
- Why did Jodi Foster put her gun away after getting locked in the glass freezer to go look for something to break the glass?
I thought the same thing with the gun. Ricochet?
I thought this season was fine, there was always the flirtation with supernatural vs logical explanation in all of the seasons.
It was a complete embarrassment. I remember it being such a huge deal too - A-list movie stars desperately wanted those roles.
Definitely picked up the Micheal J Fox vibe from Foster and it was off putting.
The question that left me wondering was what happened to Navarro at the end. It seemed like she disappeared after turning Raymond Clarke’s confession video. I read that some people took it as her following her mother and sister a d dying in the cold temperatures of the artic.
The actress for Evangeline was so hit or miss to me. In some scenes I thought she was great, in other scenes it felt like she was mailing it in. And I recognize that the character was supposed to be going through the motions in some scenes, but it felt like the acting did as well.
This is another great take. The writing was atrocious. Its almost like she woke up one morning and vomited the script into a 1dt draft and ran with it.
Yes, the junior officer was the one character that you could root for and in the end, he simply buried his Dad who got suckered by a mail order bride. WTF?
The question that left me wondering was what happened to Navarro at the end. It seemed like she disappeared after turning Raymond Clarke’s confession video. I read that some people took it as her following her mother and sister a d dying in the cold temperatures of the artic.
It def seemed like she committed suicide. She def didnt go live with Danvers on that lake, so that scene of her in her same clothes tells me she killed herself (another "WTF" as she at least seemed grounded).
But also, what was with the oranges? Were they hallucinations? Same thing with Rose or whoever seeing her dead lover walking around the ice at night.
So weird and not in a good way.
You must have not seen "John from Cincinnati". Talk about hate watching. I still can't believe I watched all the episodes of that crap. Gross!
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Really badly executed with bloated meandering plot, and questionable choice of some actors. Cleaning lady mafia explanation was at least comically bad in an entertaining way. But HBO managed to get me to hate watch the full 6 episodes so they accomplished their mission. They could have just called Mare of Easttown True Detective Season 4, as it was an exponentially better show than Night Country.
You must have not seen "John from Cincinnati". Talk about hate watching. I still can't believe I watched all the episodes of that crap. Gross!
I believe that was a consolation for the crew of the cancelled Deadwood. All those actors still had plenty of contract left so they threw that together. It was almost surreal how off that show was.
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Really badly executed with bloated meandering plot, and questionable choice of some actors. Cleaning lady mafia explanation was at least comically bad in an entertaining way. But HBO managed to get me to hate watch the full 6 episodes so they accomplished their mission. They could have just called Mare of Easttown True Detective Season 4, as it was an exponentially better show than Night Country.
You must have not seen "John from Cincinnati". Talk about hate watching. I still can't believe I watched all the episodes of that crap. Gross!
the only good thing about John from Cincinnati was the theme song they used from Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros.
...anyways I enjoyed the show, really liked John Hawkes character just a broken man who gets caught in the tragedy of trying to rebuild his life. An in the end trying to salvage the one good part he loves most his actions also destroys it.
Ending had some holes but that's ok, I think that was on purpose and pointed out when Evangeline asks the cleaning lady leader who "cut Annie's tongue out" and she basically claims that as another unknown in this mystery.