Submitted 11 months ago by Supervillain@lemmy.world to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
With Night Country, there’s only one question: Was it worth resurrecting the long-dormant True Detective franchise — and without its original creator, Nic Pizzolatto?
Season 3 came out in 2019. I’m not sure that counts as long dormant…
Still I’m pretty excited for this one. I’ve liked all three to different degrees, although S1 is an absolute classic and the others aren’t quite at that level.
Really excited for this
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The new season, created, directed, and largely written by Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid), and starring Jodie Foster, answers with a resounding, “Hell, yes.”
Night Country injects a whole lot of female energy both onscreen — in the form of Foster and co-star Kali Reis, as Danvers’ reluctant partner Evangeline Navarro — and off, into a series that in the past wasn’t exactly celebrated for its use of women.
The plot — Arctic researchers disappear under mysterious circumstances, which Navarro believes is connected to an unsolved murder she once worked on with Danvers — has plenty of darkness of its own.
The energy between Foster (whose raspy growl is a perfect fit for an antisocial, my-way-or-the-highway veteran cop) and Reis (a former boxer with screen presence to spare) crackles throughout.
And López manages to occasionally let some small but badly needed glimpses of light shine through, particularly when it comes to Navarro and everyone else in Ennis telling Danvers how much they dislike her.
López, on the other hand, almost gleefully accepts the challenge of telling her story in a way that allows the audience to either take what’s happening as evidence that powerful spirits roam the ice up there, or treat all of the strange doings as products of the madness that can develop in such isolated, lightless conditions.
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I dunno. Maybe I’ll watch it for the writing and acting talent and not hyper-focus on the social boxes it ticks – even if that’s the lede.
Haven’t watched past one. I wonder if watching the second series after this time how it would go but I’m assuming it was rushed out to capitalise on the first.
I adored season 1, I’m a bit of a Lovecraft/Ligotti junkie and it scratched all the right itches. I found season 2 a bit dry,l because ai went in expecting more lovecraftian references, and really enjoyed season 3. I think I will give 2 and 3 a rewatch as AI don’t remember much from 2 at all and aive forgotten the plot of 3 enough that I could rewatch it.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Season Two killed it for me. First season was phenomenal. Then to do it like that just one season later was not cool. I’d be ready for another round though, I think.
Disco_Dougie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you watch season three? It was no season one, but it was pretty good. I would not recommend watching it immediately after season one (because you’ll be comparing them a lot), but it’s definitely worth watching.
Super agree about season two though. It’s crazy that they tried to follow a nearly perfect piece of television with… whatever the fuck that was.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s too bad too because I was a big fan of Taylor Kitsch after his performance in Friday Night Lights.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Season one might be the best single season of television I can think of. It certainly helps that it was apparently written over nearly a decade by a college professor of fiction writing. The story just works so well, and the career-defining performances of the two leads makes it that much better.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I take a couple of issues with this. One, I would agree it’s one of the best scripted tv seasons I’ve seen, but it doesn’t even come close to being number one for me. I would put the jinx above it, for one. Can’t say why, but it is just head and shoulders above it. Which I know is 110% subjective, but it’s what I think. And two, and I think this is a way more objective opinion than my prior one, there is no way that that series was the career defining moment for either Harrelson or McConaughey. I mean, Matthew has literally won an Oscar…
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I liked S2, but I’m a sucker for basically any noir (because we get so few of them) and also for Vince Vaughn playing in a dramatic role. It’s a shame that S2 was always destined to live in S1’s shadow; that first season was instant classic television. S3 was good, but I still would highly recommend not comparing it to S1.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
S2 would’ve probably been liked better if it wasn’t called True Detective.