True Detective Season 4

[jmar]

Rewatched the first season of True Detective again. There's a fourth season on the way January 14th. Supposedly set in Alaska but filmed in Iceland. Jodie Foster has the lead role. Different director, multiple producers.
Doubtful they recapture the intensity of the 1st but it could be entertaining. I got into the second episode of the 2nd season just to recall why I hated it. The story was just all over the place and I checked out.
Anybody have an assessment on season 3? I never saw it.




 

[wesfau2]

I liked 3 quite a bit.  Ali is really good.

Very much looking forward to season 4.

[jmar]

I liked 3 quite a bit.  Ali is really good.

Very much looking forward to season 4.

Watched three episodes of S3 last night.
Pretty good drama. Much easier to follow than S2 which had a very strong cast but just too far reaching to keep my attention.

[Jumbo]

I liked 3 quite a bit.  Ali is really good.

Very much looking forward to season 4.

I'll check it out tonight.

[jmar]

Watched three episodes of S3 last night.
Pretty good drama. Much easier to follow than S2 which had a very strong cast but just too far reaching to keep my attention.

Enjoyed S3.
Season 4 is so very different with a sci-fi feel including the Inuit spirituality angle and the symbols re-emerging from S1.

We KNOW that the mutilated corpse of the native girl who protested the mine was said to be "alive" or back as a ghost.
 
We have a frozen art exhibition of naked technicians from the isolated lab thawing in full view by which to extract clues and form connections with the townies of Ennis, AK.


Not much more to divulge.




 




 

[GH2001]

Honestly didn’t like the first episode of season 4. It’s just weird. I’ll keep watching but it seems to have a totally different vibe to it.

[jmar]

Honestly didn’t like the first episode of season 4. It’s just weird. I’ll keep watching but it seems to have a totally different vibe to it.

https://www.cbr.com/true-detective-night-country-creator-criticism/

I'm willing to roll with the innuit spiritualism, mine poisoning factors along with the Dad's hillbilly posse but not the whole symbolism connection that links it with S1.

[wesfau2]

It's not season 1 or 3, it's its own thing.  I'm willing to take the ride and see where it goes. 

I dig Foster in just about anything, but when she was "interrogating" Lund in the hospital, I swear she broke out her Clarice Starling voice.

John Hawke is great, and I like him in this role contrasted with his usual good-guy persona.

It's catching a lot of hate, but I think all that is unwarranted at this point.

[jmar]

It's not season 1 or 3, it's its own thing.  I'm willing to take the ride and see where it goes. 

I dig Foster in just about anything, but when she was "interrogating" Lund in the hospital, I swear she broke out her Clarice Starling voice.

John Hawke is great, and I like him in this role contrasted with his usual good-guy persona.

It's catching a lot of hate, but I think all that is unwarranted at this point.

I'm going to finish watching just to see how this  wraps up over the next three episodes.


Hawkes is hunting a reanimated human(s). Hesitate to call them zombies bc I have yet to see any flesh eating.


A select few of the townies (however connected to current/past victims) are receiving ghostly visits from the dead.


The town of Ennis depends on the mine for it's livelihood although the water (possbly only in certain areas) is tainted and there is at least from what we have seen, some evidence of stillborn deaths.


Anchorage will be handed the task of performing post mortem on the thawed bodies/corpses of the research team... minus one.


 














 
 
 
 

[WiregrassTiger]

I'm going to finish watching just to see how this  wraps up over the next three episodes.


Hawkes is hunting a reanimated human(s). Hesitate to call them zombies bc I have yet to see any flesh eating.


A select few of the townies (however connected to current/past victims) are receiving ghostly visits from the dead.


The town of Ennis depends on the mine for it's livelihood although the water (possbly only in certain areas) is tainted and there is at least from what we have seen, some evidence of stillborn deaths.


Anchorage will be handed the task of performing post mortem on the thawed bodies/corpses of the research team... minus one.


 

I’m going to stick with Andy Griffith and Gilligan’s Island. Maybe some Ironsides. But, thanks.

[wesfau2]

Hawkes is hunting a reanimated human(s). Hesitate to call them zombies bc I have yet to see any flesh eating.

I think this is true.  The scientist on the lam kept Annie's body in his trailer (which now just has an effigy in its place) and when they found the magic bacteria they're drilling for, he put some into Annie's corpse and she reanimated.

A select few of the townies (however connected to current/past victims) are receiving ghostly visits from the dead.

The vending machine guy made it sound like just about everyone sees ghosts.  But, to your point, Travis came back to show Rose the corpsicle.  Turns out Travis is likely Rust Cohle's (season 1, Matty M) father.

The town of Ennis depends on the mine for it's livelihood although the water (possbly only in certain areas) is tainted and there is at least from what we have seen, some evidence of stillborn deaths.

I think this is the likely explanation slapped on it by the folks you mention below.  Fuck it, mass hysteria/hallucination caused by chemical poisoning.  Put it in the X Files and let's head back to HQ.

Anchorage will be handed the task of performing post mortem on the thawed bodies/corpses of the research team... minus one.

Yeah, I don't think there's going to be a great revelation/wrap up here.

[jmar]

Yeah, I don't think there's going to be a great revelation/wrap up here.

Going to stick it out even though I don't expect any revelations over the next three episodes.


Re-watched Band of Brothers last weekend and have reached my fill of war and westerns. Saw Oppenheimer on the big screen, rented the Holdovers and enjoyed both but not wowed by either.


Considering some lesser known series to stream like Loudermilk or After Life.
Comedy and self help seem like a good change of pace.