Anyone else want to scream about True Detective: Night Country with me?

[sabotabby]

 They landed the ending. I know it's only February but this is going to be hard to beat for my favourite show of the year.

Spoilers in comments.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Things I loved:

1. I correctly guessed the motive for the scientist's deaths (revenge for Annie, who'd discovered the scientists' complicity with the mine), but was wrong about who did it. I guessed Rose and Kayla. It being the cleaners and other overlooked women was even better.

2. And Danvers grew enough as a person to let them get away with it.

3. ACAB no longer includes Evangeline Siqinnaatchiaq Navarro.

4. Danvers and Navarro are still gay for each other though.

5. There was no explaining away of the cosmic horror element.

6. The shot of the whale skeleton in the ice.

7. The shot of the hunter walking by the closed mine.

8. Leah getting her tunniit in the last scene with her.

9. Tanya Tagaq on the soundtrack.

10. Everything, really. 14/10, no notes.

[snickfic]

In fairness to Danvers, she'd already let vigilante justice prevail once!

There was no explaining away of the cosmic horror element.

I am FASCINATED by the variety of responses I've seen to the supernatural elements. They range from "Yay FINALLY" to "Ugh" to "yay everything can be explain by completely rational forces :)." I'm definitely one of that first group, haha.

[sabotabby]

I think you could read it either way but for me it was definitely. Well. Okay. I'm not sure Inupiat would view it as supernatural so much as an extension of how the observable world works. I don't want to speak for them. I feel like it was more-than-human, at any rate.

[kore]

I wated to binge it all and NOW THAT EILL HAPPEN

[sabotabby]

OMG you're going to love it so much.

[greylock]

My friend was similarly positive, but less effusive.
I was burnt by S1 (I was promised cosmic horror!) despite generally enjoying it.
Seems like I should give this a go!

[sabotabby]

I loved season 1 (the whodunnit and non-cosmic horror explanation were a bit of a letdown, but the characters were so good I didn't care). Season 2 sucked. Apparently I did see season 3 but completely forgot about it.

This slaps. It basically does the same thing season 1 does in terms of characters and setting, and then it does another thing that is very close to my heart.

[greylock]

S3 is apparently better than S2... but no one can remember either.

I reckon I'll give it a bad. You were right about Atlanta and Rez Dogs.

[lizbee]

THE WORKING CLASS WOMEN OF ENNIS DID NOTHING WRONG

[sabotabby]

THEY WERE 100% CORRECT AND THEY WERE FROM ENNIS BEFORE ALASKA WAS ALASKA

god I loved this ending SO MUCH

[lizbee]

IT WAS SO GOOD. I watched season 1 for the first time a couple of episodes into Night Country, and I was deeply underwhelmed by it. Issa Lopez transforming "time is a flat circle" from self-indulgent wankery into a metaphor for the abuse of women, especially First Nations women, was genius.

[sabotabby]

Ah, see I loved season 1 but this was better.

[greylock]

In case you didn't see it: https://www.avclub.com/true-detective-nic-pizzolatto-slams-kali-reis-responds-1851270516

[sabotabby]

Ugh, I'm disappointed in Pizzolatto. I mean I was after season 2 as well but writing a disappointing story is more forgivable than amplifying online bullshit.

[greylock]

I thought it was remarkably brave (ie dumb) for him to speak out.
Like shut up, and take the money, dude.
It just comes across as ego and sour grapes.

Still, his next film with Gina C and Jim C will surely be a banger.

[radiantfracture]

What I concluded, after watching season one and part of season two, was that season one was brilliantly directed (especially), acted, shot, and scored, and actually pretty badly written. Not to say I didn't love Rust's monologues. I did. But it was atmosphere, not writing, that made that show.

What I like about this season is that it takes all that violence and stylization and makes it about something real that actually matters.

[sabotabby]

I think atmosphere and acting. Both of them playing against type and having enormous chemistry. But the great lines were all lifted from Ligotti and the actual mystery resolution wasn't that good.

Versus exactly what you say re: this season. It's all the things I loved in S1 but it meant something.

[snickfic]

The actual mystery resolution wasn't good, AND the show ends with that absolute bullshit, literal come-to-Jesus monologue from Rust. What the fuck even. No matter what you think of S4, I am baffled anyone can seriously look at that final scene and claim Pizzolatto is good at endings.

[sabotabby]

I have a soft spot for the come to Jesus monologue; it felt like one of those things where I don't agree with the writer's belief system, but I'm okay with it for the purpose of fiction. Though of course I preferred S4 where I did agree with the writer's belief system.