I’m not sure if many of you watched True Detective: Night Country, but I wanted to write a bit about the reception of it. The finale aired almost two weeks ago and quickly became a subject of online discourse. I personally very much enjoyed the season and while I started getting worried about showrunner/writer Issa Lopez’s ability to wrap all the mysteries up in only six episodes, I felt the finale was a satisfying conclusion that answered all my big questions. What I most appreciated about the show was that it was a feminist reimagining of a very male-coded show (the True Detective franchise) that revolved around two female cops, and dealt with themes of gendered violence, environmental racism in Native Alaskan communities, and female-centered spirituality. Unlike the other iterations of Night Country took the show's supernatural elements and thus Indigenous spirituality very seriously, and the finale, while answering the central questions of the murders/deaths that took place, was also purposefully ambiguous in certain ways.
Toxic male TV fans + Madonna + George Michael
Toxic male TV fans + Madonna + George Michael
Toxic male TV fans + Madonna + George Michael
I’m not sure if many of you watched True Detective: Night Country, but I wanted to write a bit about the reception of it. The finale aired almost two weeks ago and quickly became a subject of online discourse. I personally very much enjoyed the season and while I started getting worried about showrunner/writer Issa Lopez’s ability to wrap all the mysteries up in only six episodes, I felt the finale was a satisfying conclusion that answered all my big questions. What I most appreciated about the show was that it was a feminist reimagining of a very male-coded show (the True Detective franchise) that revolved around two female cops, and dealt with themes of gendered violence, environmental racism in Native Alaskan communities, and female-centered spirituality. Unlike the other iterations of Night Country took the show's supernatural elements and thus Indigenous spirituality very seriously, and the finale, while answering the central questions of the murders/deaths that took place, was also purposefully ambiguous in certain ways.