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Don’t know how many peeps here have seen the latest season of True Detective called “Night Country”, but so far I’ve really enjoyed it. However strolling over to lovely 
has a lot of blubbering manchildren upset about the new season which just so happens to have two female leads, focuses upon abuses of Native Alaskans and women in general (domestic abuse, murder, etc), and also has native empowerment over exploitation as a theme. Well I just watched the final episode and I fuckin’ loved it, so here’s kinda a short tldr of it marked as a spoiler as I encourage y’all to see the show first if you haven’t (it’s an anthology so really only Seasons 1, 3 and this one are worth it).
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Alright so the season began with a murder/suicide of a bunch of research scientists digging up ice cores to find microbes for eternal life or whatever (they had been found naked dead on the ice), however while checking the crime scene a human tongue is found and connected with the murder of a Alaskan Native woman several years ago by the name of Annie K (a woman that protested the activities of the local mining corp that was poisoning the town leading to stillbirths and other horrible stuff). Annie was a central figure to the town’s native population being one of the younger upcoming midwives and spiritualist (don’t know the proper term). She had been found stabbed and dumped over by the mine and her murder buried by the police and local politicians in cooperation with the mine to avoid public backlash.
Welp turns out she was murdered by the Tsalal scientists when she found out they were the ones responsible for the pollution in a bid to thaw the permafrost and ice to get to harder to reach ice core samples. This would later be found out by the local circle of Native Women who performed a lot of the menial labor in town (maids and so had access to a lot of areas such as the police station, the mining office and the Tsalal station), so in revenge the women staged a faked suicide on to the ice, forcing the men at gunpoint to strip and wander into a blizzard for the sins they committed (all the men were responsible for stabbing Annie K to death Agustus Ceasar style when she tried sneaking into Tsalal many years ago to find info on the pollution). Anyway the season ends with the current cop duo covering for the Native women and letting the murder go unsolved as well as resolving issues of mother hood and sisterhood (similar to how season 1 was about the lacking of fathers and brothers/comrades as a secondary theme).
So yeah gonna be a lot of 
in response to the show being turned into “Woke Detective”. Anyway it’s a pretty good season and is worth a try even though it does drag sometimes (but is thankfully only 6 episodes something I think was wisely chosen by the show lead).
Sounds like it has a better overall theme about policing and shit than the first season arguably does, where bullshit crooked bureaucracy prevent the REAL cops from doing the REAL work and taking down the REAL bad guys and winning back affection from the family they alienated by being violent cheating patriarchs.
I mean season 1 had Rust and Cohle pretty much only be able to actually solve the crime and begin healing once they left the police force and went independently after the murderer (somewhat exposing the Tuttles but still not truly “winning”), still though it really had weaker themes on fatherhood compared to season 4 regarding motherhood. I think what will make certain people made is this wasn’t bitter enough as a bittersweet ending as it ended more on a somber triumph over tragedy and learning to endure through living (living through our connections to those we love I think).
Sorta, but they still basically use cop tactics with breaking the law and torture on top of that, so it comes off less like critiquing the police from the outside and more closely approaches “if the good cops were allowed to do X that would solve things.”
I always got the feeling that the torture, such as Cohle beating the shit out of the two guys his daughter was with was more a reflection on how shit he was as a father (then again there’s peeps that also don’t get that shows like the Sopranos are about bad people doing bad things) and used masculine domination and abuse as a demonstration of his concept of “fatherhood” instead of actually being present with his family (instead of cheating on his wife and ignoring his two daughters as they grew up). The other torture that happened was similar enough to what was done in season 4 to a complicit enabler/accomplice that I feel it’s there to reflect how grim the setting is by pushing the sins in front of those that allowed it to happen (the VHS tape or the recording). All seasons of True Detective do however exhibit examples of “rogue cops/detectives good copoganda” and I feel season 4 is only redeemed because of how the mystery ends, i.e. —>
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how the true bad guys are dealt with via community defense/vigilantism as the women of the town know the cops aren’t going to do shit and so take things into their own hand.
Hot take: I didn’t really like the scene where they tortured Clark. They weren’t 100% sure he was in anyway responsible for either killings yet, it’s a reasonable assumption but they didn’t really try any other form of interrogation first before resorting to just torturing him. To me it almost came off like the two leads were just in a shitty mood over everything that happened and just took it out on this dude they thought MIGHT be the killer, which makes them come off a shitty investigators. I think it would have made more sense for Navarro to start torturing him but then… I forget her character’s name, Jodie Foster to hold her back and try a more traditional interrogation technique since her character was a more by the books cop motivated more by a desire to solve the case than justice or vengeance.
Well thats a gross narrative. REAL cops are bastards