The episode was brought forward because in the United States, it was Superbowl weekend, and in Brazil, Carnival. If you’ve been following the fourth season of True Detective: Night Country, you’ll know that this is the first in the franchise without its original showrunner, Nick Pizzolattto, and that this provoked a misogynistic campaign while diminishing the fact that, weak or not, it’s better off with Issa López than with the author.

Mixing suspense and horror clichés, in the harrowing setting of a long night in Alaska, the series has easter eggs from cinema classics and the 1st (and best) season of True Detective, using the formula of two investigators who hate each other but work better together.

Liz Danvers’ (Jodie Foster) aggressiveness is the result of trauma and an excessive concern to protect those she cares about, obviously seen only as rudeness, distancing, and irritation. If you like true crime and horror (I have a sister who loves both), you’ve already figured out what connects the crimes of Annie K (Nivi Pederson) and the scientists, even six years apart. Yes, it has to do with the mines, it has to do with the Tuttle family and yes, there are corrupt police officers in the middle of it all. These subplots were finally stitched together at a pace that the first four episodes didn’t have, more concerned with style and suspense than actually telling the story. And as there is no ending, it didn’t cover everything there, nor did it have the image of Danvers underwater, a spoiler explored in the trailer, something curious if we stop to think about it.

It doesn’t matter. Thanks to Peter Prior (Finn Bennett), who stitched together the two crimes while Liz and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) dealt with their personal problems. Peter’s commitment to solving everything, including the crime that Navarro and Danvers cover up (the abuser who killed a woman and they killed, faking suicide), cost the young man his marriage – he is kicked out of the house – and now, his family.

Did anyone doubt that Hank Prior (John Hawkes) was a frustrated and corrupt macho man? Well, he’s involved in everything.

The mine has literally been the black heart in Ennis, poisoning the town’s water. The laboratory made false reports omitting the environmental crime. I stand by my theory that Annie K. gathered the evidence and was going to be killed by the scientists for it, but something supernatural awakened by them did the work. The answer to everything is in the network of ice caves outside the city, but they need the help of Otis, now addicted to heroin (how did he live hidden in the abandoned ship?), whom Hank is chosen to “shut up”.

While the detectives plan the impossible mission after all the entrance was destroyed by miners and another way to enter means dealing with the glassy instability of the ice and other potential dangers, Peter is the only one to deal with the general corruption: from his father, from Navarro and Danvers (who also covered up a crime), from the boss… there’s no one left! With nowhere to stay, he has options between returning to his father’s house or staying at Danvers’ house, and obviously, he chooses hers. Lucky for the detectives!

After all the work alone, it is Peter who obtains the file that definitively connects the mine to the Tsalal Research Station and the Tuttle group, now with Danvers. Hank is called by Kate McKittrick (Dervia Kirwan), the owner of the Mine, and tasked with erasing witnesses as quickly as possible. Tragedy announced.

The forensic report determines that the scientists froze to death when they gathered to see the last sunset before the long night, which makes Danvers realize that the danger is now greater for her, Navarro, and anyone else close to the truth. As she is threatened by the crime she and Navarro committed and covered up, she considers stopping everything, but now she is inertia and out of control.

Pressured by Navarro, by guilt, and by the fact that Prior now knows too, she still insists to Otis that they can get to the caves. That’s when Hank, an arrogant suicide, shows up to do “his job,” which includes causing Otis to have an accident and getting the two detectives out of the way. Who gets in the way? Peter. The young idealist does not want to let the corrupt follow. When his father kills Otis, he pulls the trigger and kills Hanks. Now there is no way, Danvers has to go to the end.

At this point… is it important to know more about the one-eyed bear? What awakened spirit is scaring the locals? We just want to get out of Ennis… and Sunday will be our farewell.

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