True Detective Season 4: Night Country has just completed its run on MAX, and it is totally worth stealing your neighbor’s MAX… I mean, BUYING a month of MAX… to binge the series. As satisfying as it can be to binge a series, having this as a weekly water cooler show was a great way to build anticipation and chatter. Chatter like our Spooky Time 26!
The buzz is certainly earned, and MAX rarely fails to deliver when they put the proper care in. Jodie Foster and Kalie Reis make up a terrific odd couple detective pair. This mystery is bathed in Lovecraftian lore even more than the first season. The mark of Carcosa is back! Spirals! So many Spirals! And snow. Not to mention lots of ice.
I have given a more thorough review of the series HERE. Long story short: it’s great. Whether it’s as good as Season 1 is up to the beholder. And Liz will highly recommend Season 3 with Mahershala Ali, though that show is not horror-themed. The good news is that you get legendary actors putting in some of their very best work in all the series (perhaps except Season 2). MAX-level production values and a supporting cast that, down to the smallest roles, deliver the goods. Feel free to catch up on all the True Detective series while you are at it. After all… you will have purchased a month of subscription, right?
If you want to get some spoiler thoughts, I have developed some musings on our Spoiler sidebar.
Listen to Robert, Eric, and Liz discuss their thoughts and predictions of True Detective Season 4: Night Country. There will be spoilers in the Podcast, so perhaps the best thing to do is to binge the show, listen to our evaluation to see if it matches your opinions, and then marvel at how right or wrong we were for the final two episodes.
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