Can’t say I even noticed a supposed ‘girl power’ theme like others did. Maybe I was too busy trying to work out what the feck was going on. Actually enjoyed it for the most part. The ending felt really messy though. There’s a lot of things unexplained and it kind of feels like there isn’t a logical explanation. It’ll just be accepted that logic got pushed aside for the ending that they wanted.
Television True Detective: Night Country | Season 4 | FINALE SPOILERS
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This was my biggest issue. Absolutely ridiculous
That was a bit weird. It seemingly came out of nowhere. Did I miss a set up for that line earlier in the season?
Awful. That’s all I have to say.
Not that I recall. I thought it was just Danvers putting a strain on their relationship but apparently it was more than that.
Then we had the cliché kiss and "Please come back..." between them at the end.
It was daft, but I liked it.
The amount of time Dumbfeck Danvers was running around with a map in the last 3 episodes you'd think she'd have noticed that the cave system of their new/old murder scene was literally a stones throw from the research station. Guess not.This was my biggest issue. Absolutely ridiculous
I've not been critical of the rest of the season but that was an awful finale.
Two different maps probably - and it was established very early on that she‘s just not a good detective.
Although we don‘t know for how long they‘ve walked through the cave system until Navarro heared voices in her head again. Could have been hours. I found it more funny that the half starving suspect who appeared some mere meters in front of them totally outruns her into his secret lap and can push that drawer back into place, getting up that metal ladder, closing the hatch totally unnoticed and without making any kind of noise. Fun thing is, this could have been super easily solved by showing the detectives quite badly hurt from falling down a hole a couple of meters but nope, they were totally fine.
True Detective hasn't been good since it's first season, not sure i understand why people have high expectations.
There isn't one. It's a really thick argument and undermines the very valid criticism of the series. Sadly, the insecurity of some men has turned this into a culture war issue. Well done.
Ultimately it didn't stick the landing, the set-up was great, but the explanation was a silly disappointment. You can't evoke The Thing and all these supernatural elements and deliver an empty mystery box wrapped in Series One paper. The reuse of the symbol and lines from the first series felt like the guiltiest excesses of JJ Abrams. The final shots had series 'Rey Skywalker' energy.
Great actors, setting, premise but completely fell apart in the final two episodes, the signs were probably there earlier, I watched the first five in one go and assumed we were only just over half way.
judging from this thread, when people say they love this show, what it really means is that they love only the first season. the same people bash S2 and the S4, and they usually say S3 is level below the first season anyway. so...
I liked the second season. The third season started out very well, but was a bit too predictable in the end. This was on another level of bad writing (but not because of the "female empowerment" culture war angle that some have taken).
Being a level below S1 is not saying it‘s not good though, it just may not be brilliant. I liked S3 a lot after finally coming around to watch it. But where S1 sped it up and introduced some proper action scenes it went completely the opposite way and slowed it down even further which I‘d guess most didn‘t like but I thought it great nonetheless- acting was top notch.
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It was suggested that it was the cops, Eccelstone or similar, as the scientists didn't cut it out.
How was it suggested? Or is that the only remaining iption
Only in so far as Clark seemed to genuinely deny that the scientists did it. Which suggested the cops did it.
Supernatural bollocks aside.
It‘s been said, that the corrupt cop (edit: Clark) staged the murder scene - implying that he also cut the tongue. It was never really established that more cops/officials were involved (which is a pity since why leave that possibility out of the equation) except very vaguely and it never had any consequences.
If you ask about who put the tongue into Tsalal station: no, idea and every possible explanation sounds pants to me.
Good point in one of those comments.
So the cleaners cut the power to the station.
Why does the recording smart phone cut out at the same moment?
So the cleaners cut the power to the station.
Why does the recording smart phone cut out at the same moment?
The scientist guy stepped on the phone when he ran over to save her
He's talking about the second time.
My question is why didn't the power get cut when Annie K was being killed, which it did in the recording (and they made a point about it)? I don't want to go back and watch the episode again, but I don't remember it happening.
I was thinking of the phone that was videoing the Spanish scientist cooking at the very beginning.
Same here. While obviously not as good as the 1st, it had its moments. A couple memorable shootouts and that scene where Colin Farrell goes to town with an 8-ball and a bottle of whiskey
I'd completely forgotten about this
I think the second enjoyable for what it is too.
First viewing was a big let down but that‘s like coming in first after Fergie.
Albeit a bit predictable for the final solution I thought the ending very satisfying in S3 - no huge twist but it made sense, how they wrote it with the alzheimer playing a big part, almost a bit heartbreaking imho, and how Ali acted in it. The racial theme was so much better written in it than now the natives / environmental / female angle.
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Absolutely. One of the great acting performances.
Of course. Like so many other things in this season it didn't actually have any ramifications.
Nonsensical.
Just finished it.
Wow. What a shitshow.
There were a few red flags here and there in the first 2 episodes, and episodes 3 and 4 were simply boring fillers, but I didn't expect such a let down.
From the fetishisation of mental health issues to the tokenistic approach to the local natives, the themes of this season were a huge miss. The plot ended up being completely nonsensical, with huge plot holes, and the characters were almost caricatures of what they were trying to be.
0/10 from me.
Wow. What a shitshow.
There were a few red flags here and there in the first 2 episodes, and episodes 3 and 4 were simply boring fillers, but I didn't expect such a let down.
From the fetishisation of mental health issues to the tokenistic approach to the local natives, the themes of this season were a huge miss. The plot ended up being completely nonsensical, with huge plot holes, and the characters were almost caricatures of what they were trying to be.
0/10 from me.
Also, what the hell was the Annie K video about that they found on her phone? She was killed twice?
In addition to being next to the research center the ice caves grow back each winter. They were 30cm beneath the ice ffs.
Oh my god, such an unbelievably silly show.
In addition to being next to the research center the ice caves grow back each winter. They were 30cm beneath the ice ffs.
Oh my god, such an unbelievably silly show.
After stropping off to have a power nap.
Was there ever any explanation as to why that Raymond Clark fella had a seizure just before the lights cut out?
There is an explanation, but it's even worse than not having an explanation.
He basically time travelled to the future, where he saw Navarro in episode 6.
Makes sense. I had a similar reaction to Episode 6.
Howd you come up with that?
