This post contains spoilers for the finale of True Detective: Night Country, which is now streaming on Max. “Some questions just don’t have answers.” This is Liz Danvers, towards the end of the Night Country finale. In the moment, she is dancing around the questions of a pair of investigators …
Read More »'True Detective: Night Country': Silver Sky's Dirty Deeds and Death by Cop
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, now streaming on Max. Midway through our penultimate installment, the combined investigation of Annie K’s murder and the death of the Tsalal scientists seems to grind to a halt. The forensics team in Anchorage attributes the Tsalal …
Read More »'True Detective: Night Country' Recap: The Mystery of Otis Heiss
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, which is now streaming on Max. Early in our fourth chapter, Danvers comes upon Navarro’s sister Julia stripping off her clothes in the middle of the street. She flings her clothes behind her, unconcerned for the mess …
Read More »'True Detective: Night Country' Episode Three: The Monster Awakens
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, which is now streaming on Max. The third chapter of Night Country begins and ends with women screaming. The late Annie K is there for both scenes — the first a flashback, the second a shaky cell …
Read More »'True Detective: Night Country' Episode Two: Supernatural Murders?
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, now available on HBO and Max. When the first True Detective season concluded 11 years ago, a lot of the finale discourse revolved around the lack of any supernatural elements after the previous episodes had been laced …
Read More »Jodie Foster Says She Turned Down Princess Leia Due to a Scheduling Conflict
It’s no secret that Jodie Foster was once up for the part of Princess Leia in Star Wars — a role that became iconic for Carrie Fisher. But in a new interview on The Tonight Show Foster explained that the only reason she passed was because of a scheduling issue. …
Read More »'True Detective: Night Country' Premiere: Murder and Mysticism
This post contains spoilers for the premiere of True Detective: Night Country, which is now available on HBO and Max. Early in True Detective: Night Country, we are told that it is December 17, aka the date of the last sunset of the year in the remote northern town of …
Read More »'True Detective' Is Must-See TV Again Thanks to Jodie Foster and Co.
Liz Danvers, chief of police in the remote Alaska town of Ennis, and heroine of True Detective: Night Country, is fond of telling other cops they’re asking the wrong questions, prodding them over and over until they ask the right one. With Night Country, there’s only one question: Was it …
Read More »Jodie Foster, Kali Reis Crack Open Frozen Bodies Case in New 'True Detective' Trailer
In the latest True Detective: Night Country trailer, viewers get one important message about a particularly dark period in Ennis, Alaska: “the night country takes us one by one.” In the fourth season of HBO’s anthology series True Detective: Night Country, Academy-award winning Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star as …
Read More »The Hollywood Strikes Are Over. When Will TV Be Back to Normal?
Hooray, showbiz is back! Now what? Wednesday night, SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, bringing to an end to six months of Hollywood strikes, involving the writers guild and then the actors. The writers have been back at work for a month, and SAG leadership has told its …
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