re: True Detective S4 Season Long Thread

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Agree, so they walked miles in the caves to end up under tsalal? Come the frick on

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You know how a lot of shows with mysteries will make the opening scene of the series be something that holds hidden meaning and is almost a hint at the answer to the entire story?

This show did exactly that except they never make any sort of connection and it just stands out as more weird shite they flung at the wall, no doubt with the intended excuse being “its up to interpretation” as if that is some sort of master stroke in storytelling.

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I actually think you’re giving the show too much credit. This wasn’t the show flinging shite at the wall; it was the show explicitly lying to the viewer.

We see a bunch of caribou suddenly run off a cliff, which is strange behavior. Not long afterwards, a bunch of scientists wander off naked into a blizzard and die, which is also strange behavior. They must be connected, right?

Nope! Actually the men are forced to run off naked before inexplicably freezing together in a corpseball, and the caribou, well… I guess pollution picked that exact moment to take effect on all of them simultaneously?

Awful. Just awful.

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This explanation for what happens in this season is a shitload of handwaving and saying “just turn your brain off”

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Simultaneous “turn your brain off” from fans and “it’s so layered, complex and deep” from critics.

Its success evidences Idiocracy as a prophecy coming to pass.

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Summary of season 4, it had an engaging mystery, a
extremely rich to be exalted and an excellent cast, they promised
everything and delivered nothing.

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So in one sense, Issa López didn’t have a very high bar to clear in order to resolve the intertwined stories of Night Country. But because this season leaned harder into questions of fact versus fantasy, she made the task more difficult on herself than Nic Pizzolatto ever did.

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From this vantage point, the finale soared over wherever the bar was set. It feels like the appropriate conclusion to these stories, and for these characters. It leaves some of its mysteries ambiguous, while at the same time does a far better job than the original season did in terms of distinguishing reality from otherworldly forces.

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Yet even within this, López and company leave a lot of wiggle room for grander explanations. Beatrice not only denies leaving Annie’s severed tongue at Tsalal, but seems mystified by the question. Even if you buy the suggestion that Hank — who, working on behalf of Silver Sky, spirited the body away from the ice cave — cut out Annie K’s tongue, the delivery truck driver found it at the lab long before any cops arrived on the scene. More likely, the entity responsible for the tongue is the same responsible for Navarro constantly being taunted by oranges (a beloved snack of her mother and sister, and something where, if you peel it all in one go, resembles the spiral symbol); for the visions that put both Navarro and Danvers into peril out on the ice; and for all the other weirdness lurking on the periphery.

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