For a series of just six episodes, it was expected that the third to last would bring more twists and suggestions for theories, but True Detective – Night Country preserves its secrets until the grand finale. This means that despite the deaths in the 4th episode, we do not make any progress on the three interconnected crimes that unite detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis).

It’s a cold Christmas from hell, as director Issa López warned on social media before the screening. I ended up sleeping, I confess. Someone still doubted that Navarro’s sister was going to kill herself, that the two of them would end up on the frozen ship, that the black water in the place suggests contamination from the mine, that Navarro and Danvers would have a tender moment or that spirits would insist on Navarro’s call?

It sounds like a lot has happened, and it’s true, just nothing that advances the investigation. The announcement that “we’re all in Night Country now” is just a redundant warning of the reality of winter in Alaska and the resulting collective delirium, apparently. Sleep…

The search for Ray Clark continues without success, both physical and metaphorical. He is the only one supposedly alive who can explain what is happening but is cunning at finding hiding places. That’s why the ghosts that torment Danvers (her son killed in an accident) and Navarro (the death of her sister and the murder of her mother) are having a party because the atmosphere is really gloomy. Danvers’s ‘edge’ is his aggressive skepticism in dealing with the pain of grief, in contrast to Navarro who gives in to soul and physical pain.

However Danvers, like anyone who still rejects the supernatural force of this season of True Detective will have to accept that oranges are symbols of a portal to the afterlife, at least in the series. Even more so insomnia due to the lack of sun is afflicting everyone (it had the opposite effect on me). That’s just what the story seems to suggest: an evil force awakened and collected souls by feeding what saddens people most to voluntary death. Apparently, when there is no suicide, the entity terrifies people until they expose themselves to the cold and die.

Investigations reveal that years earlier, in 1998, a German man named Otis Heiss was hospitalized with injuries almost identical to Lund’s, but later disappeared. He had mapped the ice caves near the Brooks Range, which closed 25 years ago after a series of collapses. The two believe that it was in the cave that Anne made her Blair Witch video, was killed, and then her body was thrown near the mine. My theory, as you know. Anyway, while Navarro is freaking out, Danvers finds the man, wearing Anne’s coat. He warns us that we are no longer in Kansas, in the “night country.” The obvious seems to retain all the information to solve the crimes. As long as nothing can be resolved logically.

The pace will have to accelerate next week as it will be the penultimate episode of the season. My theory remains the same for now…

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