EntertainmentStreamingMy favourite sci-fi in years set to return after major success – but fans are dividedFollowing the success of True Detective: Night Country, the show is confirmed to be returning for a new chapterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
EntertainmentStreamingMy favourite sci-fi in years set to return after major success – but fans are dividedFollowing the success of True Detective: Night Country, the show is confirmed to be returning for a new chapterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Following the success of True Detective: Night Country, the show is confirmed to be returning for a new chapter
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I’ve just finished watching myfavourite sci-fiin years. Well, if it could truly be called an out-and-out sci-fi – you could label it a crime drama in the same breath, although you’ll need to get to the end of all six episodes to decide for yourself. But after the major success ofTrue Detective: Night Country, the show is confirmed to return for a new season, with the writer Issa López back on board.
However, not all fans are happy about it. Indeed, the creator of the original series, Nic Pizzolatto, has already publicly slatedNight Country, calling it “stupid”. You can make your own decisions, but with the new show screening a decade after the original and clearly linking itself to that series – the original threeTrue Detectiveseasons are famously standalone, with no links between them – it does therefore have a different feel about it.
Still, I really enjoyed it, right to the last. So did many critics, with thefull season netting a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes. But, as I say, fans didn’t agree: the same page shows a much lower 58% audience score, so the idea of a follow-up season is certainly dividing fan reception. You don’t need to dig long inReddit’s TrueDetective subto see the mixed reactions.
The show stars Hollywood favourite Jodie Foster, as Chief Danvers, alongside newcomer Kali Reis, as State Trooper Navarro, the two key detectives in an unusual case that’s set in the ‘days of night’ in Alaska, where the sun doesn’t rise for many weeks in a row (hence the series' name). That dark backdrop is the ideal setting for some of the horror-esque sequences and other-worldly scenes that commence.
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As with allTrue Detectiveseries, while the story inNight Countryis built around an unusual case, perhaps even a supernatural one, the real grit comes from the human relationships on screen. Danvers is almost immediately unlikeable, yet brilliant throughout. Good as she is, however, I wouldn’t want the next series to feature the same characters – I’d much rather it honour the tried-and-tested standalone series approach.
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