‘True Detective: Night Country’ Ventures into the Icy Unknown for an Unsettling New Case
The series returns with a mystery set in the darkness of Alaskan Winter. Meet the detectives in the new True Detective: Night Country trailer.
It’s been four years since we got a new chapter in the series. We’re moving far away from swampy Louisiana, corrupt Ventura County, California, and the woods of Arkansas. This new chapter takes us north to Alaska.
True Detective: Night Country centers on two detectives, Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro, attempting to solve a genuinely haunting case. Eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station have disappeared under strange circumstances. Beyond their shoes left on the ice, there’s no trace of them.
Even with some great performances, the last two didn’t quite live up to HBO’s promises. I’m not setting high expectations, but I’m interested to see where this goes.
There’s a little supernatural in there, with the sudden disappearances in the dark and the cold and mysterious symbols. The shoes pull up images of the shoes found around the Aokigahara forest. The location could play on all the weirdness surrounding the Alaska Triangle. It has the feel of the amazing first season that pulled all of us in. Let’s hope that True Detective: Night Country‘s writing can match it–the cast is undoubtedly there.
True Detective: Night Country Cast & Details
Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are this season’s detectives. The cast also incudes Christopher Eccleston, John Hawkes, Finn Bennett, Fiona Shaw, Anna Lambe, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Aka Niviâna, and Joel Montgrand. The story is from Issa López (Tigers are Not Afraid), who is also the primary showrunner.
The folks that made the first season so great–Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and series creator Nic Pizzolatto–are listed as executive producers.
“When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
True Detective: Night Country premieres January 14 on HBO and Max.
