True Detective: Night Country - US Pace - HBO - (Spoilers)

ejmaztec · 21-02-2024 5:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121795700#Comment_121795700

Things that are left to the imagination are usually the minor things but the "mysterious" parts of the series weren't minor as they were a big part of every episode.

I wasn't comparing it to anything apart from well-constructed TV series, and this one fell short of the mark.

jj880 · 21-02-2024 6:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121796563#Comment_121796563

1 of the best HBO series in recent times.

Tony EH · 21-02-2024 7:28pm

We finished this out last night and have to say we thought it was really very poor. It kinda comes off as not really knowing what it wanted to be. Personally, I'd have dropped all the silly horror attempts and cheap sex and made the whole thing a much more straight forward procedural.

Could have been good, but they blew it.

So, we're back to square one, where the first series is easily the best. That being said, I still liked S02 as well. S03 was just dull.

Full_Circle_81 · 22-02-2024 9:03pm

Apparently this did gangbusters for HBO and they've signed Lopez on to showrun next season and also create other shows for the network. It seems to be getting high praise all over the net and I just can't see why.

Mr Disco · 22-02-2024 9:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121804665#Comment_121804665

There’s an element of wokery and wee lasses getting revenge on evil men that the libtards love.

mollser · 22-02-2024 9:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121804678#Comment_121804678

I don't get this, it's real chip on shoulder stuff. This was just crap, not because it was made by women etc, just because it was crap. Mare of Eastown was fantastic, not because it was made by women etc, but because it was just fantastic tv!

jj880 · 22-02-2024 9:37pm

https://twitter.com/TrueDetective/status/1760741248397189619?t=EFeJXok1KvrUs4Je0KhFsg&s=19

That was quick.

MICKEYG · 22-02-2024 9:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121804678#Comment_121804678

Wtf? Libtard?

Can you comment on the series without resorting to this rubbish.

Mr Disco · 22-02-2024 9:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121804743#Comment_121804743

It explains why a clearly crap show is getting rave reviews. Bit like that rubbish Ghostbusters movie reboot with all the birds a few years back. Dreadful but got great reviews.

Mellor · 22-02-2024 11:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121804894#Comment_121804894

Ghostbuster did pretty badly. So much so that they ditched the reboot. The went back to a continuation of the original series. With another sequel coming.

And this show is getting panned too. But none the less, you all watched it. which is all HBO actually care about. The woke/libtard comments are something I'd expect form RedPillers on reddit.

Potatoeman · 23-02-2024 1:22pm

Very weak ending that undermines the whole story. All their detective work was flawed and incorrect so it made all their work pointless. They also found no sign of all the people entering the area or building. How were the scientists so close to their cloths and so close together?

The video they had made it seem like the victim was lost in the tunnels and being followed but then the scientist tells us she was smashing samples in the lab when she was stabbed. So she’s not an innocent party either.

Navarro also has killed two people by the end, the first was justified but not the second. Danvers is also very blaze about Navarro just walking out into the ice. As a whole it’s kind of a mess by the last episode.

Edit: The police interview at the end was extremely suspicious, two dead colleagues and Danvers just shruggs, as if she didn’t care.

Cartman78 · 23-02-2024 2:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121796553#Comment_121796553

Finished this off the other night 😕

The finale struck me as something that had been rewritten multiple times by dozens of different people.

There was zero tension and tbh I couldn't have cared less about what happened as the whole thing was so convoluted.

The sprinkling of horror/mysticism only added to the confusion imho.

And Jodie Foster phoning it in from the start didn't help

odyssey06 · 23-02-2024 3:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121807161#Comment_121807161

Yeah like a dozen women charge in, no sign of them... what if somebody as the base noticed all the cars coming their way?

And what were the women going to do if the men just didn't refuse to be herded out? Would they have shot one of them? How would they have explained that?

jasonb · 23-02-2024 4:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121807161#Comment_121807161

Some very good points here, I forgot that the clothes were so close to the scientists when they found the corpsicle.

I'm guessing the time line is meant to be that Annie found all the cores etc., destroyed them, and then was using her phone when she was attacked and killed (and the video stopped when Clarke stood on her phone)? The lab had the bones in the curved shape in the ceiling, and that's what was seen during her video.

I'm confused by you saying Navarro killed two people though? She shot Wheeler in the flashback alright, but have I already forgotten the second one?

JP Liz V1 · 23-02-2024 4:54pm

Renewed

https://ew.com/true-detective-renewed-season-5-after-creator-criticized-night-country-8598827

MonkieSocks · 23-02-2024 4:57pm

A load of rubbish

Potatoeman · 24-02-2024 10:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121808540#Comment_121808540

The first was the drunk that beat his wife to death, which was understandable. The second was the scientist that she let freeze. It’s less straightforward as the victim was trespassing to destroy years of work for a discovery that was possibly world changing. How many lives would it save? It’s less clear cut. I thought the discovery could have saved lives of the locals after the pollution and would have redeemed them if they hadn’t killed them as a consequence of the murders which would have been an interesting turn of events.

Mr.Nice Guy · 27-02-2024 2:58am

I watched this to the end and was very disappointed. The storyline was a mess and I was sick of the lousy music cutting in so often, most of it breathy crap. The spooky stuff was way overdone and should have been more subtle.

I came very close to quitting over that episode where it turns out everyone just assumed Clark would be there under the ice, and nobody thought it might be worth investigating the possibility that the one guy unaccounted for might still be out there. And then the big dramatic sweep away with the camera as Florence and the Machine kicks it. Someone thought that was good drama.

Curse These Metal Hands · 27-02-2024 4:41am

They will never recreate the magic of season 1, even with tacky, on the nose references to it. "Time is a flat circle", he may as well have looked at the camera and winked.

gmisk · 27-02-2024 9:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121798767#Comment_121798767

I enjoyed it but I get the feeling it ripped off/riffed on Happy Valley without being as good imo.

Ezeoul · 07-03-2024 8:47am

I watched this for Jodie Foster.

But after watching all six episodes, I am still confused about what the hell was going on.

I kept watching, hoping it would all come together but it never did. So many questions, and so many plot points left unanswered.

Very unsatisfying.

ejmaztec · 10-03-2024 1:42pm

Renewing it for season 5 is like it's dead but it won't lie down.

It should be set around a TV studio where people start getting murdered one by one until there's no one left and the lead detective drinks himself to death because the person responsible is never found.