Thinking about how Issa Lopez is a woman who was born and grew up in Mexico, a country where you are hyper aware and exposed from a very young age to violence, especially the sort violence men perpetrate against women and how those women never get justice (especially indigenous women) because either the justice system doesn't care, it's corrupt or it participates in this violence , so she gave us a story of women taking justice into their own hands after the system has failed them and i think its fucking amazing
Come on Night Country lovers! Let's get it out of its rotten audience score and defeat the racist/misogynistic losers complaining about it being "woke"
Can't stop thinking about Night Country. That feminine rage is cold and hard; old, older than everything else, and buried deep. That a woman alone is a dead woman; a woman alone is the most dangerous thing. That a man's ego is more important than a woman's life. That a woman who speaks up isn't silenced, she's destroyed. That women are strongest when they're together, when they speak, when they sing. When they're seen.
That what men want for themselves is reason enough to lay waste to everything else. That when it's weighed on the scales, their chance to live a little longer is worth more than a baby's first breath. That they'll do whatever it takes, even when it poisons all of our water.
How a mother dies and her daughter dies too, but a son can't live until he's killed his own father. How women only have power when they lie, assume the role of men, align themselves to men, or die.
And when they will no longer clean up after them.
When they honor who came before, paint the protest on their face, and learn their real name. When they emerge from the ice, leave the night behind and walk toward the sun instead of into the sea. When they shape their own stories. When their tongue is returned to them.
What a fucking masterpiece.
I guess she wanted to take them. I guess she ate their fuckin' dreams from the inside out and spit their frozen bones.
Wow! Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) is a force. If Night Country can stick the landing with its final episode it'll easily be one of the best shows I've seen. Haunting, subversive, super fucking cool. Big time recommended.
An inverse of the first season's sweaty Louisiana masculinity, this season is set in frozen darkness during the annual month-long period of continous nighttime in a remote Northern Alaskan town as López both enhances and subverts what intially drew audiences to pulpy detective drama.
True Detective: Night Country will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 9 via Warner Bros. The fourth season of HBO's anthology crime drama series is currently available on Digital and Max.
Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) serves as writer, director, and showrunner. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star with Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, John Hawkes, and Christopher Eccleston.
Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Meet the True Detectives – Cast Q&A
New Chapter – Showrunner Issa López and cast discuss Night Country's unique role in the series
Exploring Indigenous Themes – Delves into Alaska Native culture and how it has informed this season
Max Inkblots – Get to know cast through show-themed inkblot interpretations
Setting Featurette – Sets up Alaska as a pivotal character in the story
Atmospheric Teases – Social environmental shots to tease key moments from the series
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When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
learning that nic pizzolatto isn’t the writer for the upcoming true detective season has me tentatively optimistic for it…
also the fact that it’s written and directed by issa lópez 👀 tigers are not afraid was so bleak and magical… can’t wait to see what she’ll do with true detective
"While searching for Clark, Prior asks Danvers about the case that strained her partnership with Navarro. Sifting through Clark's trailer, they find a lead about another Tsalal worker. Danvers clashes with her stepdaughter"
i don't care what anyone says, True Detective: Night Country has the best winter atmosphere of anything i've seen in a long while. it's such a powerful season and i can't wait to see how they conclude it.