Night Country: Part 5

I've enjoyed the series so far for the central mystery. Having fast-forwarded through most of Leah's antics, I did not mind the subplots surrounding Navarro's curse, or the Priors' strained relationship.

However, throughout this whole show I've been quite bothered by Pete's behavior. His loyalty to Liz Danvers is totally unexplained and irrational. It's certainly not a personal loyalty because she treats him like dirt. It's certainly not out of professional loyalty because his commitment to truth somehow only applies to his own personal knowledge of Wheeler's true death. God forbid someone else finds out the truth behind a significant criminal misconduct, let alone your own father and fellow detective.

The event towards the end of this episode makes no sense. It tries to be a Better Call Saul Howie headshot moment, but totally falls flat. What the hell is Pete Prior doing? And how does he shrug the entire situation off? How does he, without coercion, come to the conclusion that he should help Liz and Navarro? What is wrong with this guy? I was so confused I didn't even feel like watching the finale. Why this was written in to the show is a bigger mystery to me than what happened to Anne Kowtok in the night country.

Where to start. This season has no idea what it wants to be, but it's not True Detective. BUT the best episode this season.

Jodie Foster is always solid, and let's admit she's the one pulling any audience at all since Nic left the series as a showrunner. Quite disappointing she is NOT the main character, as anyone would expect with a two time Academy Award winner.

Like somebody else wrote, all the subplots are just a waste of time and result in absolutely nothing. We wanna now if the murders are from paranormal activities or not. We wanna have a conclusion, world building and character development. All the revelations just doesn't hit you in the feels since the writers haven't made them worthwhile to be emotionally invested in.

Nah. True Detective really was one season only, maybe two with season 3 included. This season isn't worthy of the fancy title.

Yea this episode is leaps and bounds better than the past 3. It's still not perfect but the last 30 minutes are very good.

Our story has Liz and Navarro finally making ground on the case when forensic results push them into a hard place. Certain players have been tipped off but by who and why, a rising conflict of interest, Liz getting impatient and Navarro getting annoyed. Tensions rise this episode as information is uncovered and others want it buried.

A much better episode, stakes are felt, story is progressing much better and the whole cast is used together that feels more interlinked and meaningful.

Still a lot of filler in the episode but more strong points than weak, 7.5/10.

Don't understand the reviewers who say this is a boring show and nothing happens. It's a slow burn, which is what it's meant to be. That doesn't mean it's not good it means it's not the type these reviewers like that's all.

This was a gripping episode, several very important pieces of the puzzle came to light and it ended on a real cliffhanger, which I can't wait to see the conclusion of.

Things I like about this series include getting an insight into the lives of indigenous Alaskans, it shows a lovely culture of community and care.

What I don't like is Danvers lack of understand for her step daughter. If it was me I'd have walked out and never looked back but Leah hasn't yet. I feel like in the end Danvers is going to say she tried to keep her under control because she was scared of losing her. If that's the case it will be a lot obvious, if she doesn't then I'm not sure I understand that character much at all.

This episode was a lot to take but I can't wait for the conclusion. The acting here is excellent. Love the story and pacing and dialogue.

What I can't understand is people who don't enjoy it watching week after week only to come and complain that it's too slow. It's a genre, if it's not for you just say you like shows that are in your face and spell out the subtext for you instead of complaining about this excellent - female driven - show that is riveting, thoughtful and very intense.

There is too drama and irrelevant side stories to make the life of all characters miserable hence it's unreliable, as it's impossible that each and every character suffers but still manage to move on at work and in life.

The acting since episode 1 is 10/10, you can see that all cast members even actors with small parts are authentic and doing the best work possible, it's the bad script fault which could have been so match better.

Not sure if this was mentioned before but I guess it was, Kali Reis is doing almost identical character to the one she made in Catch the Fair One, I saw that movie yesterday and it felt like someone in the production of True Detective simply loved that movie and her, and casted her to True Detective, she is so powerful and authentic it that movie it's simply non-brainer that she can make the character is True detective, and she does a very good job indeed.

Still it's Foster that carries season 4, so amazing acting performance. She hardly act anymore at least in the past years , which is such a shame, would like to see more of her, maybe this is a beginning for a comeback.

Episode 5 seems to move to the right direction, at last, maybe too late as there is only 1 to go, anyways, any true detective season is a blessing for me, although each season is so different. I promise that for those who were wondering where is the true detectives in season 4 will find them in episode 5.