I agree, with so much debate a few weeks back about how S4 was a “return to form” I felt that conversation overlooked a very good S3. The acting was fantastic, Ali/Dorf had wonderful chemistry, and the dialogue felt a bit more natural than S1 (though that also made it a bit less memorable). Also, it balanced three…

Well I was planning on watching all 4 of them really, not like they’re that long anyhow.

The way Colin Farrell delivers that line with psychotic earnest while chewing the scenery actually works though.

I mean, Pizzolatto has always come off as an asshole and he’s done it again here, but that aside, I’m bewildered at how anyone can think Night Country is the BEST season of True Detective. Speaking for myself, my problems with this season have everything to do with the overall stupidity of the plot, the supernatural…

Thank you. I don't know what others in these comments were watching. This whole season was a hot mess. I hate sticking with a show hoping it gets better, only to watch it totally crash and burn in the spectacular fashion I suspected it might.

I’ve never seen the show but I actually like that line.  

I guess the question is if Hollywood has misunderstood him, or if there just isn’t enough quality work for someone like him. Agree with all the points about what makes him great. He owned The Knick, and seeing him and Paul Giamatti do their best Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd is one of the greatest guilty pleasures out there.  …

Or could they? Mwah hahaha!!!

Another question—if the Tsalal research had the potential to unlock a cure of cancer and all sort of diseases, why did they need a ruse like the mine to melt the permafrost and speed things up?. Why not just build something at the facility that, like, generated heat without poisoning an entire town and causing all…

Clive Owen seems to have somehow fallen through the cracks at one point 15 years ago, which is a real shame as he’s a really compelling actor to watch.

The real mystery is why someone would willingly pierce their CHEEKS. Don’t you leak saliva out of your face holes? I don’t get this at all.

....why would he do that?

there’s no explanation for the tongue being there that makes any sense, at all. the thing that connects the “annie k case” to the scientist murder and launches the entire story is a silly, improbable event that’s never explained. All the show’s attempts to link the present case to the past are like this; the heroin…

My understanding is that a lot of the supernatural stuff was based in Inuit culture. If so, the show made a mistake in delving into it. In fact, the show probably would have done better if they dealt with the culture a little bit more as Inuit women were the ones who killed the scientists and yet the whole plot point…

Always interesting to consider a piece of culture that is less than the sum of its parts. 

Who left Annie’s tongue at Tsalal Station? “Some questions just don’t have answers”

Lmao there were *far* more plot holes than 5 in this muddled mess.

I wouldn’t really call this season good. It’s got a good cast and that’s about it.

You can tell they couldn’t sell “Night Country” as its own standalone story to HBO. So instead, they shoehorn in several references to Season 1 that have *absolutely no* impact on the original story, slap “True Detective” into the title, cut a couple of filler episodes off the 8-episode order, and this is what we’re…

I mean, you’re not wrong about any of these. But “both of them have cases set years apart”? “Light versus dark”? Really? I know you needed to pad out the list a bit, but that's really stretching.