Television True Detective: Night Country | Season 4 | FINALE SPOILERS

Had to check to make sure I wasn't misremembering. Season 2 had its moments.

 
Wibble said:
Not a very satisfying conclusion at all. A better script and a couple more episodes and they could have made this very good. But they didn't. So many things unexplained, even things that could have been easily explained. Not to mention so many relationships build to a point where you thought there might be a resolution but then they just disappear in the final episode. Not as bad as many are saying but sadly nowhere near what it could/should have been.

By far the biggest flaw was that the symbol from S1 featured heavily, so there must have been a link as such a specific symbol can't occurred in such linked places by chance alone. Yet an explanation wasn't even vaguely hinted at.
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Yeah they just sprinkled season 1 all over the place without any thought or intent to make it make sense.
Also I have to admire your ability to rate season 4 so highly. To me it was laughably bad, a show written by middle school kids.
 
I watched the first episode after our game yesterday but gave up in the middle of the second episode today. just to be clear, it certainly isn't bad to the point where even 6 episodes is too much. I could easily watch this and finish it. I simply won't, as I watch too much stuff already and I'm not wasting time when I don't see the effort.

what I got from first two episodes are uninteresting and weak characters with all of them falling apart since the start and of course, every one of the being utterly unlikeable. going from McConaughey & Harrelson combo and Farrell to this is... holly shit. obviously, male characters are basically officer Doofy from the Scary Movie. I feel pretty much all of the modern audience cliches have been thrown at me already and the atmosphere isn't really there which shouldn't be the case given the darkness and location. even the music is utter shit as well. if the goal was to make the most forgettable theme ever seen in TV shows, they succeded. if you have zero inspiration left, just use any classic song that you can bet majority will be glad to hear, not this crap.

but I'll be honest, even the very good S1 wasn't enough to put this show on my all time list or something close to that. it was always just an interesting, mostly good crime show that I don't really analyze that much or even think about once I finish the season. that's why I'm not so fussed about this season being so shit and I'll certainly try the next one regardless of this experience.
 
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The whole season was awful. Season 1 was exceptional, but since then its just been downhill.
 
Thought I'd give it a go after all the hype...gave up after 45 mins. Pure garbage.

‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show

Nic Pizzolatto’s reposted negative comments, publicly distanced himself and created a dedicated space for criticism on his Instagram – despite viewing figures getting better and better …

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...rue-detectives-creator-turned-on-his-own-show
 
Had a glimpse at that article but that‘s some very sloppy writing on its own. It‘s always been a staples of the series to extent the detectives obsession to their private lifes and family affairs. In fact it‘s a main point in each season so not sure how someone can say it‘s something Issa Lopez introduced with a straight face.
 
hobbers said:
Just the standard sort of Guardian bird brain who gets triggered by men complaining on the internet so wrote an article to complain about it.
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Shame on you Paul MacInnes!
 
I finally watched the full season after waiting for it to have aired, and yeah, that wasn't great at all. Season 1 was top notch, I actually enjoyed season 3, never watched season 2 cos of the bad things I heard, and season 4... so much meh.
 
Just watched the first episode of the fourth season and without doubt a big improvement over the last two seasons.

Looks like this one will have it's scares too which i should have known growing up near Enniskillen and watching the first ten minutes here of Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller.

No good was going to happen as a result of that
 
I didn't mind the finale but it's not a great look when a show peaks with its first episode. The fact they're bringing the same showrunner back doesn't fill me with hope for the next one but hopefully improvements will be made in response to the backlash. And if they don't, they'd better hope they can find somebody as awesome as Jodie Foster to carry the thing.
 
Held back watching it till all the episodes dropped. it can't possibly be worse than S2. I refuse to believe it.
 
George Owen said:
Come on, it is much worse.
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Nah, I'm not having the 2nd season revisionism. It was gash. Was that in part due to the expectation after season 1? Absolutely. Am I going to watch it again to see if it's actually a 5/10 rather than a 4/10? Absolutely not.

There was a lot to complain about in this season but I still had way more fun with it that the abject failure that was s2.
 
I think they were both equally awful and neither really had any redeeming features. The setting was probably a bit cooler in season four, I guess, but Frank's comically bad lines in S2 were at least funny.
 
Massive Spanner said:
I think they were both equally awful and neither really had any redeeming features. The setting was probably a bit cooler in season four, I guess, but Frank's comically bad lines in S2 were at least funny.
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The gun battle part makes S2 edge it at the end for me. That was quite an engrossing scene.
 
golden_blunder said:
Oh and what a depressing place to live
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I was thinking that throughout, and thought the same when I watched Insomnia all those years ago. I wonder what kind of mindset and life outlook you need to have to live in those places and be happy (assuming you weren't raised there, that is).
 
Rooney in Paris said:
I was thinking that throughout, and thought the same when I watched Insomnia all those years ago. I wonder what kind of mindset and life outlook you need to have to live in those places and be happy (assuming you weren't raised there, that is).
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To be fair it gets light in the day time during the polar night, not actual sun shine but a grayish light if you will.
In the show it seems like it's pitch black all the time, except for that one scene where it seemed be sunny outside.

During the summer in Lapland it's a major mindfeck to walk out the nightclub at 3am with the sun shining in your face.
 
Had hoped for a lot more in that finale. More than “it was the cleaning ladies who figured it out and hunted them out into the snow”, showing a cleaner picking up the tool and realising it was the murder weapon, feck off like :lol:

Navarro is the one ‘awake’ in the end, but decides to just feck off and walk around the place.

Just felt like they had to end it and no time to explain any weird bits the writers decided to put in along the way. Dodgey water like Fortitude. Felt stronger than season 2 but that finale went off a cliff like season 2
 
Mr Anderson said:
Had hoped for a lot more in that finale. More than “it was the cleaning ladies who figured it out and hunted them out into the snow”, showing a cleaner picking up the tool and realising it was the murder weapon, feck off like :lol:

Navarro is the one ‘awake’ in the end, but decides to just feck off and walk around the place.

Just felt like they had to end it and no time to explain any weird bits the writers decided to put in along the way. Dodgey water like Fortitude. Felt stronger than season 2 but that finale went off a cliff like season 2
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I think they just slapped cool and spooky stuff together without any further thought. Like the scene where Navarro had ear bleed in front of a neon light decorated xmas tree put up on an abandoned dredge by a lunatic junkie. There was no point nor any mystery to that.
 
Finished it and while the acting was fantastic so good in fact it never really hit me until the last episode that for a show called True Detective there was actually no detecting going on throughout the season.

The deaths happened in the first scene and for most of the time we watch the main characters and their personal lives while there is a lot of talk about a previous case we didn't see.

Then every so often they would remember oh yeah the case and wander round a cave.

Still very watchable for the performances but like the previous sessions nowhere near the first season.

Hopefully next time the cast might actually concentrate on working the case a lot more.
 
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Why did they all decide to climb on top of each other and stike a pose for thier death? Was half expecting Boba Fett to turn up looking for his bounty.
 
Bert_ said:
Why did they all decide to climb on top of each other and stike a pose for thier death? Was half expecting Boba Fett to turn up looking for his bounty.
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It‘s been explained in the show: Some kind of freak weather event. Nothing supernatural at all.

But could fully see Boba appear as well if they‘d the rights to it.
 
One of the very worst seasons of Television I've ever had the displeasure of watching.

Story, writing, directing, acting (seriously, everyone is absolutely terrible in this), characters, it's all absolute gash.
 
Thanks for reminding me about another way I wasted my time on earth.
 
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