Night Country – True Detective

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Andrew B. Really great thriller ! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/18/25 Full Review Damobius T This was painful to sit through. I love Jodi foster but this is as big a fall from grace as anything could be . When I read any reviews saying that this rivals the first season, I laugh at how much freedom we have given bots to write reviews. This season is a slap in the face to true detective in pretty much every way . Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/04/25 Full Review Dwayne P If you enjoyed the mood, tone, and location of Icelandic series Trapped (Season 1). You will initially be attracted to the idea of Night Country. A far north village isolated from the rest of the world. Inhabited by locals for generations and a sprinkling of outsiders. As in Trapped Season one the seclusion brings a level of creep into a story that reminds you of the first Alien movie or a Joesph Conrad book (Heart of Darkness, The Rescue). The initial honeymoon and location wears off as this story rapidly falls apart. Night Country borrows heavily from Trapped Season 2. That story focuses on a local power plant illegally dumping waste into the local eco system. Then murdering people to cover up the discovery. This is very similar for Night Country. Night Country also borrows an important plot device from the 1963 movie The Great Escape (The water finds the hidden chamber). And finally, it borrows the conclusion (Everyone was in on the murders and gets away with it) from Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. A hallmark of great story telling is the protagonist and the antagonist get equal billing. This story is focused on telling a story where women rule. Men are either bullies, yahoos, or subservient. Anyone working in the resource industry is evil. There is no place anywhere on the planet where this is a reality. People can’t just suspend that much disbelief. If you are not female or indigenous you are not part of the cool kid’s club. This is the focus of the story. It’s not telling a story it is preaching a story. Plug in all the holes in the plot. There’s just not enough meat left on the bone for any level of enjoyment. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/15/25 Full Review Igor Z Terrible. Disjointed collection of long drives through the snow, rather disgusting sex scenes with people unfit to convince incarcerated for life prisoners to look at them twice, unnecessary demonstration of male genitalia on dead people and absence of logic throughout. I was delighted to find people praising the series because of women driving the action and being at the centre of that dismal show. There is more action in Miss Marple not mentioning logic and sense. The whole thing might pass for a low budget thriller with a never ending demonstration of overweight oval shaped women with face tattoos. But it is the sight of Jodie Foster imitating sex with a man while wearing a bra (Foster was, not the man, though he may have slightly benefited from that) that you will so much wish you'd never seen. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/29/25 Full Review Drew M Spoiler Alert: Compared to Season 2 or Season 3, this season isn't horrible. But writer and director Lopez intentionally set out to 'mirror' Season 1 and didn't do so hot. The snowbound atmosphere is thick with dread, the cinematography haunting. Acting is well-done. On the surface, this looks like a prestige reinvention of the series. But dig beneath the ice, and cracks appear everywhere. The procedural logic that gave Seasons 1 and 3 their backbone is absent: a “chief” who isn’t in charge, a town big enough for international scientists but too small for even a deputy coroner, law enforcement missing a giant hatch. The show gestures at realism only until realism would force hard answers — then it shrugs and calls it supernatural ambiguity. The supernatural elements themselves are half-baked. Where Season 1’s visions unnerved because they intruded on a grounded world, Night Country uses ghosts as narrative shortcuts. When things get difficult to explain procedurally, the show hand-waves instead of committing — neither fully embracing cosmic horror nor staying true to its noir roots. Lopez stated she wanted to mirror season 1----Danvers and Navarro are meant to echo Rust and Marty, but their bond is told, not shown, skipping the slow-burn evolution that made Season 1’s partnership iconic. Supporting characters, like scientists become cartoonish villains instead of menacing threats lurking...like the Tuttles and Ledoux's in Season 1. The finale crystallizes the season’s problems: instead of a crescendo, we get characters literally sitting around in the cold, as the script rushes to tie a contrived bow around a mystery it never properly built. The result is at once incoherent and too neat, managing to betray both the procedural and supernatural promises it made. Great acting and a wonderfully dreadful atmosphere cover up for a lot of questionable writing, but this is far inferior to the season it aspires to replicate and I would put it closer to Season 2 than Season 3. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/13/25 Full Review Elle H. PERFECT, NO NOTES. IM OBSESSED Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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