Unearthing a Friend—True Detective: Night Country (2024) Impressions
After recently, finally, watching the new season of True Detective , I wanted to put together some thoughts, but I’m going to call these “impressions” rather than “thoughts” since I’m not approaching this assessment as really comprehensive/final. If I was to write such a thing, it would probably need to come after some time has passed. I just revisited season three prior to watching season four, and I found my feelings about it significantly improved after some time away. I would assume my evaluation of Night Country could similarly change with time. Honestly, I’m a little driven to write this now out of relief—My Twitter feed was nothing but negative reactions to the show at the time of its airing, and I was actually surprised that it performed so well in terms of ratings based on the impressions I was seeing. Certain big complaints seemed consistent: that the mystery wasn’t compelling (or didn’t progress in a compelling way), that the show was too overtly supernatural in contrast...