TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY Ending Explained!
In this video we take a deep dive, review, recap, breakdown and explain the ending to season 4 of HBO's critically acclaimed TRUE DETECTIVE starring Jodie Foster.
Intro 0:00
The Secret Lab 0:44
What Annie Discovered 2:09
The Tongue 5:37
The “Spirit” and the Spiral 8:30
Navarro’s Past, Her Mother & The Cross Necklace 10:00
Raymond’s Confession & Death 11:33
Liz’s Past, The Car Accident & Transformation 12:12
The Deaths of the TSALAL Scientists 13:51
Peter & Rose Aguineau 17:37
What Happened to Navarro? 18:34
Conclusion 20:17
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What was the tongue about? What was the spirals about?the cleaning ladies out them on the ice so Annie could take revenge? I still don't get how resale was connected to the mine. Was it them causing the deaths in Ennis? This season started out so good yet the finale was really a let down.
season was crap and it just solidifies in my mind that there shouldn't have been any more seasons after the first
Hopefully this was a one off for the ladies
@@nikkirobertson2341the video and the season literally just answered all that
Season 4 was a waste of time. And I’m saying that as somebody who loved season 1, and really enjoyed season 2 and 3. The writing sucked in this.
The cleaning lady that found the drill bit is clearly The True Detective in this season.
😂😂😂 right
Lol, "I saw water go in the floor" , "it's the drill bit" I know what happened...yes what a sleuth 😂
And also the coast guard.
Lets not forget about the bucket of water that spilled 😂😂😂😂
Banger
Clark's version of Annie's death doesn't line up with the video she made because in the video she is in the process of trying to explain what she found and suddenly starts screaming. In Clark's version, she is smashing everything when the scientists find her, she does not have her cell in her hands, making a video.
Oh so Hank carried Annie’s body up a 100 foot ladder and then cut her tongue out in the hallway just for fun, this show sucked
Good catch 👍🏽
@@GonzoGolf Love how the explanation for the tongue was, “Who knows? LMFAO”
Easy catch
The best part is the idiot writer/director is going to be responding to tons of comments on Twitter on her horrible writing and will just lazily call people misogynists for asking questions.
I am so pissed that the creators of the show baited the audience by bringing in details from season 1 (travis, Tuttle, spiral) for no good reason.
No way to confirm yet, but I don't think the references to season one was pointless. If the creators wanted to subtly keep building up the Tuttle family as villains to be explored in future seasons, establishing them as pharmaceutical giants looking for shady ancient microorganisms as to extend human life for themselves is a pretty good way to start.
This x infinity
It's a nice call back and a tribute to the 1st and 3rd seasons and shows all 3 stories share the same universe
"This is a world where nothing is solved..."
That’s what happens when you have a bunch of diversity hires more interested in pushing their personal political agenda than telling a component, compelling story.
My favourite part was Navarro waking up from being knocked unconscious with a fire hydrant and immediately overpowering her attacker.
well she IS a former world champion boxer..in 2 weight classes
hahaha yes we didnt even need to see the fight the overpowering was ofc no problem @@SPIKESPIEGEL1969
@@SPIKESPIEGEL1969 riiight, well the character Navarro wasn't and if you really want to bring real life into it she could have won 10 world titles no-ones getting beaten unconscious with a fire hydrant, waking up and overpowering her attacker.
Overpower? She nearly beat him to death. Because boss chicks have no time for reality.
@@SPIKESPIEGEL1969 her vharacter isn't though
I would of been down if Clark just said “ya we are trying to wake Cthulhu”
would have* not "would of"
I was hoping for that.
@@bulbasaur1232 don’t you dare
@@bulbasaur1232ugh 😑🙄 do you really have to nitpick grammatical errors?
@@ckotcher1of coarse
So the scientists' clothes were barely covered with snow when Narravo found them, but no sign of or tracks from the big a$$ truck the hit squad cleaning ladies took them out there in?!
yeah i noticed the trucks and tracks too. i figured the snow covered the tracks but forgot about the clothes.
I too was wondering about all the tracks of the heavy trucks in the snow, they really whiffed on this one
But not enough clothes for the men, where are the rest? Oh we don't care about that plot hole 😂
I think because it snowed all night
The flash avalanche almost buried the men. It would have certainly covered any tire tracks.
According to scientific research, this season had a serious case of Gameofthronitis: crammed too much into too short of a season. Nothing was fully developed, and too many plotlines were left untouched/unresolved.
The plot was so dumb they had to mask it with a lot of supernatural visions of ghosts and innuendo to keep the audience intrigued until the end. Unfortunately they eventually had to reveal the actual story, and that's when the whole show comes crumbling down like a big pile of stupid.
Horrible script!
lol I like the name of that case because it’s soo true
the entire season could have been two episodes
@@TheBasedDogg It might as well have been. Everything that happened in all the other episodes turned out to be pointless.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t" is True Detective: Night Country.
lololololololololollol so TRUE!
I think was a really cool and interesting story . The final clues were really well done and I love the indigenous ppl getting their revenge 😊
Exactly!
From the playbook of the makers of Lost.
yep
My heart breaks for Qavvik😢
I know. I hope she’s not dead but I think she is 😢
Yeah he lost a lover and a bar waitress
same. He was such a likable character. hope the actor gets a lot more good roles.
He was a secondary character that had like 3 scenes 🤣
My heart breaks for everyone who watched this season
Well, we all overthought this one. None of the mythology of the native culture came to fruition. Navarro’s hallucinations not explained. “Night Country” was an overly ritzy name for a tunnel of ice caverns. We still don’t know what the scientists really found in their work. The spiral was never explained except perhaps as a fossil under the ice. Some characters did not really add to the story. Jules character was wholly underdeveloped. Everyone here was an unreliable narrator. The cleaning crew as killers? I don’t know but I had expectations to be blown away in the finale. Wasn’t.
Yeah the prehistoric skeleton just left alone..." It's a danger sign" ridiculous...you blatantly abused season one lore
@@autk the comparison to the Dyatkov Pass incident was dead on until the last episode and that disappeared into the cleaning ladies murder?? The polar bear was given short shrift. Under developed polar bear!? Just a lot of red herrings. Annie’s tongue not explained.
Stupid ass show! Ending was a bunch of swifties as the heroes.
@@skylark1250 Facts..True Detective "Red Herring Country"
Nah. Some of you overthought this one. I wanted them to do more with the supernatural and hoped they would, but if you were still championing one of these Sedna theories after episode 5 when the name hadn’t been mentioned in the show then I don’t know what to say.
disappointing ending would be an understatement
I was very disappointed ☹️
Disappointing season, it really went downhill after ep 1
@@boost3188 But Ep 5 was really very good too.
@@moniqueengleman873 Me too!
@@hansborne4929 true, it raised my expectations hoping the season could be salvaged by a strong two episode finish
The tattooed hand is Julie, her sister. We saw her tattoos earlier this season.
The things they leave unanswered are the most unexplainable things that happened on the snow. Why did the carabou jump off a cliff? What was the deal with the polar bear? What was with the hallucinations? Why does Liz see a hub cap, a necklace in her hair and wtf was with the tongue spot having an expanding ice spot. Even the thing with Navarro seeing into the past to what Clarke did made no sense. What about Navarro getting bleeding ears at the dredges and on the ice? What about what happened with Heiss in his freak accident that he initially survived? Bizarre choices imo for them to leave those things so vague and ambiguous.
The only thing I can answer here is the hubcap. Liz was seeing flashback/visions of the car crash her husband and son apparently died in.
Right, and how did Navarro know about the half peekaboo game that Liz and Holden played...she couldn't have! I was NOT wanting a supernatural explanation.
I’m not trying to defend the season( cause it’s a mess) but 🤓, the caribou jumped off because of the environmental damage from the mine maybe, polar bear was just cause of the doll?, hubcap explained below, necklace in her hair was Nazarros sisters or moms. I think that spot is like a time portal. The tongue leaving a frozen spot, Navarro seeing Clark and him seeing her(mistaking her for Annie). My guess is people are time traveling and being injured by the time travel/ maybe ghosts. It was weird
The caribou were affected by the pollution, driving them mad or whatever, thus jumping off the cliff. The polar bear signified Holden's stuffed bear. The hallucinations could be a result of the pollution, I guess? The hubcap was related to the accident that killed Liz's husband and son. The necklace and spot where the tongue was found? No idea about those. Navarro seeing Clarke in the past was pointless, for sure.
The pollution impacted the wildlife.
So my theory is that Navarro was able to pass the test to be spared by the spirit when she crossed the desert landscape in that hallucination. When Navarro began bleeding from the ears, she closed her eyes. I think, had she kept them open, she would have suffered the other effects of the spirit such as the burnt corneas, and would have lost her life. There was wailing happening as her ears bled, as if terrifying images of violence and death were soon to be seen. Perhaps the doctors' faces frozen in fear were another indication of them having their eyes open and seeing what made those screams.
This is a fun theoy! Admittedly I’m not smart enough to figure out what happened to Navarro on my own 😂 but this feels better than her dying so I’ll go with this!
That's good. I also think in that moment you're describing, she finally had control too. Over her emotions and reactions. She was finally truly "listening"
@@gemmagemma-wx2bsYea, I got that too. She finally seemed at peace with all that had been afflicting her, so by the end it seemed she felt internally found and would not commit suicide. I’d like to believe she’s with Oliver Tegaq in peace, in nature, her true home, where her spirit truly belongs.
i like this
You are looking into this horribly written show way too much. Sorry.
One thing I noticed was, once Liz fell bellow the ice, her repressed memories of her son came to light. She had buried them below the surface. The shot itself represents this.
So deep. Like a ice cave! See what i did there? Can i get a show too now HBO? I promise only strong women. What a joke.
That’s a really good point!
You effing nailed this one…. almost like we shared completely unrelated (but equally traumatic) experiences and mind-melded. Bravo 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Even Hanks fiancee didnt want to be seen in this show
Lol
lol she was there in spirit they just ran out of episodes.
😂😂😂
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@travelinlight1141 you meant she flew back away in SPIRIT AIRLINES on that Xmas eve
The aggressiveness in which the scientists killed Annie was ABSURD and even more unbelievable considering how pathetically submissive they were to Eskimo cleaning women…
This is the secret research facility in which no one comes and goes. Except the vending machine guy and half the women from the Eskimo village. Bravo
They’re men. Don’t you know all men are just bloodthirsty killers in disguise? Women are all good
Mob effect..it can happen
@@ErickaWilliamsCC Even if it could happen, this whole season was so little about the scientists and so much about Annie K, so it's hard to understand their sudden motivation based on a few seconds of flashback. We never really knew who they were, what relationship they had with each other, how it was working there for them. So in essence - bad writing regardless. Good writing would've been making it make sense. Just like Daenerys going mad in GoT. It could've worked, if they showed how it happened successively during the show. Not if it's just built up very suddenly with little to no grounds for it.
Wow. Sounds like you have nothing but contempt for "Eskimo" cleaning women. Yes, that story Raymond told was probably not entirely true.
great review Think Story! always a joy hearing the summary of this show! Keep it up! 🎉
Excellent and comprehensive video.. I watched all 6 episodes twice - but you still filled in a couple of small gaps for me.. I got my arms around all the nooks and crannies of the plot now because of this video.. thank you.
Is Navarro Alive? How did Annie’s tongue get there? What is the relevance of Twist and Shout? What does “ She’s awake” mean? What happened while Navarro was in combat? How were Otis Heis injuries sustained? What’s up with the polar bear, the pointing ghosts, the cross necklace and the visions?
"She" is referring to the spirit that the cleaning ladies let decide if the scientists would live or not. She may or may not exist depending on your interpretation. However, Clark was a nut and believed "she" was Annie K.
ssshhhh... "men bad, women good". gn
she’s awake equals she’s woke lol
Sometimes supernatural things happen. Grow up
She is not alive, when she comes to screen at right side, Jodie Foster didn't turned his head to her
I think there’s a small element of time travel/alternate parallel universes…Clark mentions something about time being a loop, the first thing I thought was how is twist and shout still playing when Danvers ripped it out in episode one. Could also explain why the tongue was still in such good shape 6 yrs later.
Nice Touch! I also thought Navarro was the one who freaked out Clarke in Episode 1 seeing him in Episode 6 - it was a closed time loop.
@@Ramiroocampothat’s make sense
Episode five talks about the flat Circle of Time, Wen McConaughey and Harrelson find the two guys holding the two children hostage. The one guy in handcuffs talks about “the flat circle of time”
lol
Ok i love this theory i hope this thread expands lol i also thought there was some time travel sci-fi stuff going on with that weird clark/navarro scene, and i caught the tape still playing i was like “are they BOTH trippin right now being back in time??” This has always been the case with the series, theres hints and bits of cosmic horror & weird fiction thrown in, blended with the spiritual and grounded with human experiences
i think you absolutely nailed it here and i gotta thank you for helping me understand the finale a HELL of a lot more.
Absolutely have loved your breakdowns this season. They have been slightly longer which is perfect
I wanted to like this season so bad, but the writing and pacing were unforgivable. This season had so much going for it on paper and I'm left wondering what it could have been in the hands of a competent writer
Honestly, I am not sure I believe you wanted to like it. You wanted it to be season 1, right? Been there, done that. This was different and also very good.
@@kathryncainmadsen5850this person did not even mention season 1 and is clearly not saying that lol
Wimminz write drivel..
i'm sure they'll fix it when the game comes out "Night Country - Rewind"
@@kathryncainmadsen5850 I hoped this would be like season 1 as well since the creators baited on season 1 so much saying it would be "coNnEcted" and all that shit. After the first episode I gave up on that and tried to enjoy the season as a stand alone, but it didn't do well even on it's own. This season was just terrible.
Raymond talked about time being a flat circle. When Navarro saw him after his death, it was her seeing the past, while he saw her in the future in that moment.
Isn't the flat circle another call back to Season 1? I think Rust said that to the detectives during his interview.
@@boomslangCA Yes, it's perhaps the most obnoxious and out of place reference to season 1 in the whole season
It's just a shit throwback, dude.
@@boomslangCAthat's it. The reference to the spiral is above the king in yellow or the Tuttles. It's the flat line existence. We just got drawn there because people wanted so badly for the connection to be another, that they were utterly disappointed, when both are the same in the two seasons.
@@susanavieira8009no, the writers blatantly used it as a Red Herring, abusing season one folklore for interest whilst taking a dump on the same and making a joke of season one.
To everyone who has all of these questions that they feel were left unanswered: You're asking the wrong question. The question is why did you waste your time watching this show?
Most of the fans were jebaited by spiral symbolism & other "supposed" season 1 connections.
Someone said Annie’s tongue was Clark’s attempt to bring her back to life with what they found in the ice, that’s why it looks fresh and not decayed
I don’t think Navarro is dead. I think she went wherever Oliver Tagaq went. That’s probably her on the porch. She went looking for her roots with her new name.
I love this. I hope it’s true.
@@rebeccaclark1018 So they having season 6.1 soon?
@@NorNor-bb6dnthere are unfounded rumors of them making this into a series. Depends on the ratings or whatever they use now lol.
Yeah I think its meant to be open ended. I was assuming Danvers was covering and she was with her but I like your theory better.
@@mattlombardi54but where would the story go from here? just a normal cop show? i doubt jodie foster will want to keep doing more seasons of this.
You do a really good job on your breakdowns, they’re really entertaining to watch. Your breakdowns on the first two episodes actually persuaded me to watch the entire show as I had not seen any of it before then.
I really enjoyed the series. I also enjoyed your clarifications of some of the events. Thanks for your insights.
I don't think Raymond made the shrine to Annie. I think it was the women that made the shrine to commemorate her, it seems more fitting with all the animal bones, native decorations, and the spiral on the roof
That makes more sense.
They could have really used you and this idea in the writers room on this show, not gonna lie, I do not believe they thought this story out that far, as this idea could have easily made it into the ending house scene reveal.
@@CobblesteinSwobblepopyeah it just didnt make sense for him to have made it. Like the teacher that Liz had the afair with even said how they "never left the station". I was really enjoying the series but the more I think about it, the more holes I pick in the plot. Shame.
So the people who clean and found the hatch didn't clean their own prints?
Hahaha good one. You are the true deceive this season
The fingerless gal removed her gloves, the others didn't.
I'm saying that how did Clark not tell the cops who killed the scientists since the cops helped cover up the murder of the girl and were involved with the mine cover up. Clark saw the woman come in. This makes no sense.
🤣
Ennis PD can't investigate their own asses so why worry about that?
There’s a moment in S7 of Game of Thrones when they’re beyond the Wall and Barrick suggests killing the Night King to defeat every single White Walker and Wight. The camera ominously rotates to the Night King, and Jon Snow says, “You don’t understand.” As if there’s some epic mystery yet to be revealed. Of course, there wasn’t … just crap writing for a cheap thrill in the moment. This season of True Detective is best summed up by Clark’s quote in the middle of the finale … “Time is a flat circle…” Uh, what?? That was nothing more than a mindless Easter egg. What wasted potential.
They used s1 Easter eggs just to bait the audience
I cringed when he uttered that line.
You are missing all the metaphysic, quantums and neutrons here. You're not trascending to the next life form. Kai'Sa K'Sante Rek'Sai!!! 🙌🏻☀️
The redeeming Easter egg was Jodie Foster. She is the most mis-applied under-appreciated talent in all of Hollywood history. She is quite possibly one of the best actors of all time. But that can't ever be proven due to all the crappy roles she has accepted. We really didn't need her stealing the show in "Nyad", an after school special about trying to swim yourself all the way to death. Other than that, and now this, you have to go back a few years to see them really casting her, say Hannibal back to Sommersby or all the way back to Taxi Driver. Before most people here's birthdate. Long blanks in the timeline. Maybe she just didn't want a ton of roles and pursued the directing instead, as stated on her Wiki. But she was really good in this one.
I think the "Hawaii" coffee mug from Danvers' debrief scene is the same one they were drinking from at Tsalal Station at the end. Like did Liz keep it as a souvenir?
Back in ep 4 Liz deduced about a generator existing in the ice cave based on Annie's death footage where the power goes out yet after revealing the power outage was caused by the women cleaners before the scientists' deaths, it doesn't match w the murder reveal of Annie since the power never went out and there's no relation between these two events. Also, Annie's video stopped recording as we find out that Clarke had stepped on the phone that ended the recording which I find inconsistent based on the time it took Clarke to get to the caves and interrupt her murder. I'm going to assume it took Clarke at least 3 minutes or so to get to the caves from his bedroom AFTER Annie's screams took place. End of ep 3, we were shown how Annie died and her screams went on for a good 10 seconds I believe and followed by ep 4 as Liz was closely viewing the footage the video ended 2-3 seconds after Annie's scream due to the power outage (or Clarke stepping on the phone) which originally the video should last longer than that. The writing feels sorta lazy how the caves was deduced by Liz due to the discontinuity of the footage and the two separate events that took place.
it’s kinda funny thinking about all the theories and twists everyone was coming up with when the actual ending could’ve been guessed on episode 1
It is a very bad sign when fan theories are so much better than what is actually happening on screen that people become invested in them instead. Dear HBO, in case you missed it people want light supernatural stuff and delving in the mythos of the Yellow King Cult. Not whatever nonsense your edgy creator wants to make season 5 about.
@@donkeysaurusrex7881 the first episode i myself thought someone forced the scientists outside and made them strip, but then i thought nah there’s no way it’s that obvious
And then dying on the ice is a freezing falling asleep death, not dying in an instant with terror on your faces
I personally think it was a joke on the audience who thought they were the "true detective".
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Why even include the cool Easter eggs from Season 1? Oh yeah … 💰
I just love when every theory out there is better than what we all saw on the screen.
Lol. True
No you guys just thought to hard and didn't let the show just be the show. You needed a logical explanation for everything so you ruined it for yourself
@@Pilot646 You're probably right. The people that don't think, most likely, did enjoy it more. An excellent point.
@@nightfall902 nah the people that came here and dug and dug ruined it for themselves a friend of mine enjoyed it and didn't watch a single KZhead video.
@@Pilot646 But....were they thinking about it as they watched? It's like a Tom and Jerry cartoon....we know that Jerry hitting Tom with a frying pan, should be fatal or at least cause severe injury...we just don't think about that part. You're not supposed to think about it. If you raise questions, however; you expect the audience to think about possible answers.
How far this show has come down from the first season, amazing. I wont be wasting my time with this show.
I enjoyed the whole season, had a lot of fun trying to figure out what was going on. I’m ok not having all the answers wrapped in a bow at the end, that’s part of the fun, open to interpretation and intriguing discourse. Acting was also phenom! The setting was different and a character in itself. Really enjoyed the women centered plot as well as the indigenous people and historical fiction that’s such a big part of our country. Plus supernatural/spiritual/ origins of life/ science stuff… what more do you want?! Although I would have loved to explore the caves a bit more 🤓
I’m with u, I enjoyed it
Me too, I really enjoyed it! Loved it so much I had to see some videos talking about it!
More questions are left than answers. Season 1 is still the goat. Seeing the indigenous perspectives was pretty cool.
Agreed. The setting was really cool too.
Their perspectives are the same as always. This season was horrible in every way nearly. The ending was absurdly disappointing also.
The best breakdowns on True Detective this season by far. Thank you for the videos
Do check out Pete Peppers
@9:11 bear with me on this but I think this is the answer: I think Raymond was seeing Navarro during this scene. Not that Navarro was there during the murders BUT he was seeing Navarro standing there in the future. He was merely freaked out by her “presence” because, well, “Time is a flat circle.”
I would not have gotten through this season without your explanations. Thank you!
Unfortunately, I think the only thing I'm gonna remember from this season is "Cleaning Lady Girl-Power Hit Squad"
Lol ...and why use all the "The Thing" character references...Cheap plot device
And one has her CDL
such bs I was laughing during the feral gurl power screaming in the background when they were rounding them up. I was like of course a bunch of middle aged to granny level chicks some missing fingers took all those guys out.
😂😂
Set the new year stare down wakeup timer!
“It’s Ennis, nobody ever leaves.” 😂
Literally made me cringe 😂😂
I had to watch each episode a few times to catch all the clues I missed, and I still didn't figure out what was happening until the last two episodes
I loved the show even more after the way u broke it down! Lots of stuff I wasn’t sharp on and your attention to detail was amazing on connecting season 1 to 4! I’m a glass half full kind of guy so I enjoyed it a lot! My fav season since the first
Show Name: True Detective Main Characters: Bad Detective(s)
Of course Denver’s is the true detective… she’s the last one alive. Supernatural detective is Navarro
@@robertdavis5753 for a Supernatural Detective she solved absolutely no mysteries except her Cherokee name or whatever lmao they were both useless
@@robertdavis5753both trash useless girlboss
Pure trash!
Plot summary: Grumpy detectives argue with each other while they wait for frozen people to melt.
Like everything else, the twist reveal of the killer was stolen from season 1. Errol Childress was an easily overlooked menial worker who was questioned by detectives repeatedly on unrelated questions. Same with the killers in this season. They even threw in the minor bad guy hitting them with "time is a flat circle" right before dying. Who wrote this, Claudine Gay?
i liked this a lot but the season 1 references should have been left on the chopping block block
@@SPIKESPIEGEL1969 Agreed. Wasn't this story originally submitted as it's own unrelated project and then "tweaked" to fit into True Detective?
@@urielthelesserwell season one had the Alaska reference in it
@@Ramiroocampo yes it did. So?
Errol Childress was just one of the killers. The audience never finds out who the other killers are, except for maybe Reverend Tuttle. Tuttle was involved, but it’s never made clear if he killed anyone.
Man, this season was kind of a mixed bag for me but ultimately great performances by all the leads. I hope to see Kali Reis in more acting ventures soon.
The best part was how Danvers broke the glass of the refrigerator by repeatedly hammering on it with the iron bar. She even had to hoster her gun to take a full swing with both hands... when she could simply have shot the glass. A close second is how the handprint on the hatch can be matched to exactly the one person in the whole town who had mangled fingers - talk about a lucky break! Oh and the hatch leading to the ice lab, that was conveniently hidden under floor tiles so the forensic team in Ep1 couldn't find it, but was also conveniently left unlocked so the cleaning lady could get to the lab in Ep6.
I don't find it hard to believe the scientists would kill Annie to keep their secret since they were already gradually poisoning & murdering an entire town.
I do. There's nothing in this story to indicate these scientists were so desperate to keep their secret as to kill someone. They could just have her arrested for destruction of private property by the corrupt cops.
That's stupid there was a group of scientist from all over ther world. It is hard to believe that all the cointries just let slide their death and shut down the lab in which was invested millions already.
Yes, they were killing babies and didn't care for their work. Why wouldn't they get a woman who ruined years and years of work that they thought was changing the world
I quite enjoyed this season. Nothing can ever touch season one. But I was happy they answered all my questions
finally! a review of night country without the crashing sense of impending collapse so many people had after the 1ST EPISODE. i have been watching 5 or 6 'reviews' for each episode, but not this time. i know what happened and it's time to move on. thank you, whoever you are.
I need to watch the first season to get this taste out of my mouth
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You still mad it's two women solving the mystery 😅
@@SACosby-lp5td No it was just bad.. The entire mystery wasnt solved at all.. The video Annie took as she was murdered didnt match up with the retelling of her murder.. so we dont know what actually happened with Annie or why her tongue was cut out or who did it or why it appeared 6 years later.. We also dont know why Navarro's ears bled, or the scientists ears bled or what killed them considering they said they died before they froze.. and they had the same condition that the drug addict had after an "accident" that also wasnt explained.. So we dont know how any of the victims died.. we dont know who killed anyone.. we dont know how.. So what mystery did the women solve? Im left with more questions after the finale than i had after episode 1..
@@SACosby-lp5tdiam a women too. But this season it just flopped. Not because it was just two women but the screenplay was lazy. Don't bring cheap white feminism into everything. Not everything is about it.
@@SACosby-lp5td Im mad at the writer, he wrote them like buffoons, do you know how shows work? You realize the women are not just improvising? You must be slow
i cant beleive all the men just ganged up and killed annie
No one can. It makes no sense
The cleaning lady with CSI skills to solve the murder in 60 seconds was super believable
It was staged so badly and without apparent motivation; Clark watching and “agonizing”, then suddenly strangling her was just stupid. No, worse: it was STOOPID.
He had to be the one that killed her. He knew she was going to die. It could have been someone else to finish the job and he did not want to live with what could have happened. He did it as a twisted way to show mercy
i don’t believe clarks story at all. he was a nut. i also don’t think ALL those nerdy scientists, from different nations, would all have agreed to instantly kill her. Sandwich dude didn’t seem like a killer…
Oh wow! This is beautiful. Im a fan of jodi foster, but when I first heard there was a supernatural element to this show, I didnt want to bother watching it. Hearing your analysis of it makes me want to actually watch it now. thank you.
Jodi was amazing in it, as always. Worth your time as long as you are aware the ending is a letdown.
Other than season 1 no other seasons of true detective has reached that peak of perfection.
How could you
Season 3 was a million times better than this bullshit
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Your joke is not funny
3 was close. 1 was just the best 8 episodes of television ever.
Thank you for finally clearing up the connection to season 1 for me.👍🏽
One of the killer women has a grim reaper tee shirt on. Also Prior has Sgt stripes at the interview.
I didn’t catch that! TY. ❤️
Good catch
Omg that’s so wholesome. Sgt Prior
Thanks! I did have some trouble putting all the story lines together, this helped. I missed some of the clues, like how Liz's son died.
Fun little thing is that "Hawaii" mug is the same one that Navarro and Liz are drinking from at Tslala Station after Liza recovers and they determine it is safe to leave.
Your video was a very comprehensive breakdown. I really enjoyed this season. Thanks for covering it so extensively.
Vitamin C from oranges and sulfur-limonene can absorb mercury so if the mine is polluting the water supply it’s got to be linked to how Julia and Navarros mom loved oranges and peels, perhaps triggering psychosis?
Interesting,but wouldn't that require one grows oranges in Alaska? There's a reason Florida's the state famous for oranges...Is the affinity between mercury and vitamin c such that washing oranges off in the sink could be enough to contaminate them? Unfortunately I think your idea is more interesting than anything that was ultimately written into the show...
@@whitekony1006they were probably California oranges.
@@whitekony1006I don’t see the need for growing them there when everything is imported. In the finale in Tsalal you see oranges stockpiled in the fridge. When Danvers peels one it drops where the tongue was. A silvery substance (mercury) is on the floor where Annies tongue was and starts to pull toward the orange like a magnetic field. Danvers is fixated on this before Navarro startles her and bumps her head.
@@whitekony1006lol ...this comment actually made me lol-- very loud!
@@patrickpeterson5835 huh,I missed that I guess. I thought the silvery substance was frost,and more supernatural bait and switch. I think your idea is interesting and compelling, but I don't see how imported oranges are going to absorb dangerous quantities of contaminants if they aren't in direct contact with them through the water supply or wherever else....I mean, generally I don't keep my oranges packed in mine tailings,maybe they do things differently in ennis. For the record,though I crack wise I'm hoping you don't take it for insult. I think your theory is really neat and the interaction is scientifically fascinating subject in its own right. If there were a plausible way for the oranges to absorb the contaminants I think that that your idea may indeed be a purposeful Easter egg that was placed for canny viewers like you.
Thank you for the work you've put into this, I wish season 4 was as good as the fan content created around it
My favorite part is when Danvers is trapped in the walk-in freezer with the glass door and despite the fact that she has a gun in her hands and Clark is about to kill Navarro, she holsters her gun and looks for something to break the glass. Some of the best and most air-tight writing right there.
The whole cleaning ladies turned CSI hit squad was pretty ridiculous. And to your point if i witnessed my colleague/friends viciously murdering someone I dont think my 1st thought would be to jump in and help. Lol.. Maybe he was lying, idk. Decent season overall.
It wasn't just their "colleague/ friend" they are a community with deep ties to one another and sick and tired of learning a corporation was poisoning them. Their entire group suffered like 8 stillborn babies among them because of this. Is it really that hard for you to grasp?
@gemmagemma-wx2bs I was referring to the scientist killing Annie. Is it really that hard for you to grasp?
@@gemmagemma-wx2bsJesus, did you even read what he wrote????
clark was clearly lying
@@gemmagemma-wx2bsprecisely. you don’t mess with small town folk. them scientists done Fd up
We were told all season how important the mine is to the town. Even Annie's brother worked there. And then, in the end, the town just shuts down the mine. So no more mine jobs, no more Tsalal Station jobs. Everyone just works at the crab processing plant, I guess? And then they're just going to continue to live in a toxic waste dump with pollution levels 11 times higher than normal that causes cancer, stillbirths, and genetic defects? Even if they sue the mining company and win a huge settlement. No one can live there any longer. At least not for a very long time.
People don’t think like that. They are convinced this was a satisfying well thought out series when in fact it was like the show Lost towards the middle of the series where writers just threw ideas at a wall and just pieced episodes together after they knew there were far too many subplots that didn’t make sense when they lined up later. Lazy writing to make it a possible connection to season one too. It didn’t move the plot or change anything from season one. The writers were in over their heads after episode 2. And I don’t buy the it was so confusing because it’s deep and left to the viewer to decide. It reminds me of going to a concert and the lead singer just holds the microphone towards the crowd and it becomes karaoke instead of a live show with the band. Your reply hit the nail on the head and it’s a shame more people don’t see that. Even the young deputy killing his father. That was your only option a shot to the head instead of interrogating him later and just shooting a non lethal shot. Nope he just kills his dad. 🥴 Overall it could and should have been great. 8 episodes were needed and the direction was all over the places. Jody Fosters daughter goes from full on hate to just forgiving her with no contex why she would when they hadn’t talked since she left. I will be generous because I kept watching but only because I had hope the show after episode 3 would get really good. And the company was tight with the senior officer that Jody Foster was having relations with so why let her near the case if they didn’t want her snooping around. Answer? No answer. He never returned in the last episode so he probably killed himself …… who really cares? 🥴🤦♂️🤣
The town didn't shut down the mine, the government did. It's on the sign on the fence. And yea, those who can't afford to move will just get what job they can. Those who can afford to move, will do so. Having severely polluted water in a town and people still stay is not unheard of. That very thing happened in Flint, Michigan where the water was so contaminated it could technically be qualified as hazardous waste. And yet, people still lived there.
@@rolly1288 the townspeople, by their actions, shut down the mine. Navarro, Danvers, all of the mob that murdered the Tsalal scientists. They all had a hand in shutting down the mine. And yes. Flint is a shit show. But it's not a one industry town that can't survive without a specific company. Ennis Alaska could become a ghost town and it wouldn't affect anyone except it's small population of locals,.unlike Flint Michigan, which is a larger city surrounded by suburbs. And even then Flints population dropped from about 200K to under 80K due to the pollution.
yup all good points . @@rolly1288
Alaskan natives are eligible for several government, state financial and medical programs.
A few things I noticed : 1. The trailer and the abandoned ship where they found Heis was very reminiscent of Carcosa from season one. The underground ice caves reminded me of that too. Carcosa, Night Country. Time is a Flat Circle. 2. I think the spiral as a warning of thin ice, could also be a warning of a thin "veil" to a portal of time. Season 3 also represented a thin veil in time. 3. The drawing that prior's son made based on the story his grandma told him, makes me think that is the spirt they were talking about.
Bee specifically tells the story of finding the underground lab, so if the tongue was kept there she could have found it. I tend to think she would have wanted to bury it with the rest of Annie K's body, but it is possible.
Is no one going to talk about how Navarro had a different colored hat when she was at the bon fire at first and walking out on the ice, then had a different green hat after pulling Liz from the ice?
i did see that! i think it was set designers mistake, the people who are responsable for making the diff scene be excastly as the last. Like a modern water bottle was visble in the scene og GOT, and nor edited out, because no one caught it in postproduction
I believe it represented her going from the logical/rational/living/yang realm to accepting her role in the ethereal/mysterious/dark/yin realm.
The way I was stalking your page for this ..... thank you love your channel ❤❤
I enjoyed your video. Season Four just wraps up the show for me, more questions than answers, but like whatever-it’s just a series and I’m not emotionally invested in any of the characters nor events; it was fun to watch.
Ngl i've enjoyed listening to your analysis over the show itself!
I’m sorry but doesnt Clark have the tattoo of the spiral on his chest?? I didn’t see it in the finale episode. Correct me if I’m wrong
He did he had the tattoo
He got it after her death
@@ErickaWilliamsCCah gotcha
My theory was that Annie was contaminated by the organism on the drill bit functionally giving her immortality and letting her be the killer.
drill - naaree (Hindi) is Woman, in Somali it's Hell Woman Female -a daughter of eve- dril -NAARI- NarI Beatrice Literary: beloved heroine of Dante's "Divine Comedy" and of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". So for me there's plenty of esoteric elements here, the sign; a helix is Kundalini in Hindi. It reminds me of The X files, always about black oil, aliens= strange woman, aliena in Latin. It's the 9/11 awakening of the feminine kundalini energy, which supposedly leads to enlightenment...''pure consciousness''. So the esoteric was there for those looking, others just saw a police procedural plot, it's up to the viewer to decide...the Last circle in Dante's Inferno is the 9th for Treachery..Trapped in the ice, each according to his guilt, are punished sinners guilty of treachery against those with whom they had special relationships.
Thank you for the Super Thanks Ibrahim! :)
@@ThinkStory Thanks for the videos
This was such a thorough and brilliant breakdown. Love it!
Louisianna (S1) is very, very oil rich. Makes sense that the Tuttles are there *and* in Alaska (also oil rich).
18:40 I felt something similar when I used to live on the shore of Lake Michigan. There was something about the lake in the wintertime that makes you want to run as far as you can. Past the horizon. Almost like a pull.
Beware the ice mountains.
@@quinnzyker6521 feels like Mountain of Madness
@@conq1273 it felt like it. Happens when ice sheets push together. Never tried to go up to them on my snowmobile. I was afraid the ice was too thin
@@quinnzyker6521 is it true Frozen Lake can 'sing' ?
@@conq1273 they can.
l literally just finished watching it hoping you would have a video ready to go!!!
The hand was her sister Julia's who knew she didn't know her real name> This was her sister's way of telling her she reunited with their mother and was able to get that information. It could of also been Annie and her way of letting Evangeline know she's at peace now and Thanking her.
Having rewatched the final episode, here are my thoughts …. Things that made me laugh/feel warm and fuzzy: • Longest cold open ever! 😃 • Didn’t they drive reeeeaaaally far, just to end up right underneath Tsalal? 🤣 • Why couldn’t Danvers just shoot out the freezer door?🚪 • The power outage on the road out of town was brilliant! • So many parka changes! 😄 • The way Danvers says, “fuck” is hilarious. 😆 • “I am not merciful.” Beauty! 👍 • The hubcap …. good jump scare. 😱 • Bea’s story: scientists were killed by the great spirit, because they dug into the ice, woke her up, and killed Annie. The spirit took the the scientists, when offered: “I guess she ate their fucken dreams from the inside out, and spit their frozen bones. But …. it’s just a story.” Love it! 🥰 • The fact that the corrupt coverup actually ended up absolving the Iñupiaq women is delicious. Mwah! 🤓 • Danvers kept the Hawaii mug from the New Year’s toast with Navarro at Tsalal. She’s sentimental, now. 😊 • Holden can see her through the bear - I love that! ♥️ …. Infuriating true things: • Virtually every man who ever killed his significant other claims to have loved her, and states, “I would never hurt her.” They ALWAYS say that, and it’s always a lie. • Clark forgot to mention suffocating Annie with his t-shirt. 😒 • Such arrogance! Clark still claims he loves Annie, but clearly nothing was more important to him than his ‘world-changing’ work. • It all smacks of colonialism, racial condescension and gender bias. Clark and the other scientists believed that their work was so important that the lives of the villagers were just the cost of ‘their grand quest.’ 🙄 …. Some things I’ve gleaned: We assumed a single person/entity was responsible for leaving/moving the items, and for the visions - but turns out it’s busy in the land of the dead …. • Navarro’s mom was responsible for the whispers, Navarro’s visions, the oranges and the necklace; • Holden was responsible for the polar bears 🐻❄️ (both stuffed and gigantic), both women’s bear visions, and finally for bloody “Twist and Shout.” 😆 It was SO obvious, and yet I missed it. The song was playing on the boombox in the pivotal “I see you” scene. And that’s why Danvers hates it - because it reminds her of her loss. I was certain it was going to be playing in the crashed car, but since she wasn’t there (see further down), she wouldn’t have heard it. • Annie must have been responsible for the tongue. 👅 No one else had access to it, nor had knowledge of its connection to Tsalal. • It’s good that Lund suffered the most, since he was Annie’s original attacker. • The woman screaming in the generator background was Navarro’s mother, trying to tell her what her Iñupiaq name is. The soldier with half a head missing was so close to death that her mom could break through the veil. She attempted to say her Iñupiaq name, but failed for some reason. 🤷🏼♀️ • The sound of the screaming appears to make the ears bleed. • Danvers didn’t see anything, once she was in the water - she was just dying. • In her vision of the car accident, Danvers is wearing the same blanket she has on at Tsala, so she’s not there. She wasn’t there when it happened, and she agonizes about Holden’s last moments. • Rose has seen and done some things. 😳 She knows what “comes after .… forever.” So, she’s clearly killed somebody, likely Travis (with his permission). • Navarro is dead. She was no longer afraid of the calling/screaming, once she realized it was just her mother trying to “tell her something she needed to know,” per Rose. • Navarro did “come back” to both of the people who asked her to, mainly to return their stuff. 😁 • Dead Navarro was responsible for returning the stuffed polar bear to Danvers (the final time), the phone with the confession on it, and the Sponge-Bob toothbrush to Eddie. • I realized that “come back” and “try to come back” both were intentionally referring to after death. • “This is Ennis; nobody ever really leaves.” Navarro is gone, but not really gone. …. Things I don’t know for sure: 🤷🏼♀️ • Whose baby was that at Wheeler’s? Was it Darwin?! I think it’s Darwin! Does the timeline work? Because no one ever says anything about Kayla having been pregnant. And the “He doesn’t really look like you” comment about Holden could easily also be applied to Peter and Darwin. Darwin doesn’t resemble Peter at all. So, when Pete tells Kayla, “I ruined your life. You never wanted the baby,” he could well have been talking about bringing home an orphaned child. • Is the orange that leads Danvers to the tongue imprint on the floor important? Was it Annie taking credit? Navarro’s mom? 🤔 Was it just a spiritual psych gag? 🤪 • How did Clark end up buried to his waste in ice? 🧊🤨 • Why didn’t Navarro tell Danvers right away that she had gotten a recorded confession from Clark? 🤷🏼♀️ • Navarro’s whispering mother stopped her going outside to freeze, then showed her a replay of Clark’s seizure - why? • the women who were at Bea’s house “super- early:” do they all live there? They had coats on, so did they all just show up? Did somebody call them? Are they ALL victims of domestic violence? • May 12, first long day of the year - any relevance? • Same hunter at the beginning and end. Meaning? …. One thing that bugged me a little: • I know it was cold 🥶 out, but Navarro could’ve tried harder to get the generator going. And it really should have started easily - it’s for emergencies, after all. That is all. ☺️
This is a brilliant and underrated comment 🙌
@@sarahlpw Thank you! 😊
All of that stuff didn’t get wrapped up because the writing was sloppy. Tried to fit too much in. Season 1 Easter eggs just to drag people to watch it. Then not answer anything about it. Then had to madame web it at the end. I actually liked all the girl power stuff. Until the jumping of the shark when a bunch of elderly obese women kill everyone. So the native men have no balls or don’t care about their own? They just rolled over and took it? Natives matter but only native women apparently.
That's good, now get back in the kitchen
This season makes S2 look like a masterpiece
My god S2 💤🥱
@@fabianortiz2481agreed. Couldn’t keep my eyes open for S2
Season 2 was by FAR the best season of then all, especially the burning dumpster fire that was s1.
@@Xiphos0311you gotta be trolling
@@saucelord780 It's a contrarian troll.
Defended this show the best I could lol but after that shit show of a season finale…there is nothing more I can do
I liked the ending..
@@georgewashington3555 The avengers vs Thanos lol, one of them should have said I am Iron Woman or Avengers assemble
@@georgewashington3555either you’re joking or you’re clearly fktarded.
Navarro walked out onto the ice WITH CLOTHING, peeps. If she was headed to The Spirit World, she would have done so buck-azz neked lol Honestly, it was such a hoot to come to know that The Ladies Club was responsible for what initially happened to the men, but that "Annie" did come back for them at the later half of that, forcing the men to bite themselves with delirium (giggles). The actress who portrayed "Rose" was astonishing -- why are The Brits (persons from England, Wales, Ireland/North Ireland and Scotland) so fucking good at Acting? True Detective 2025, bring it on... "we ready for y'all"!
i kept on saying in every review of episodes that it was a star-bit but nobody listened to me. People kept thinking snow boots and polar bear. i also kept saying the cleaning ladies had access as well as all of the scientists since star bit drills are made for restricting access to most people. i'm glad my sanity was restored in the finale.
The tool was a drill bit.
The drill bit was a weapon
I think the ladies put the tongue there. The lady that does the cremation could’ve saved it. She said it’s just a story, so maybe she lied about that part of the story 🤷🏾♀️. Why those women didn’t have that same energy for Liz’s boyfriend?
Now that they know no one cares he’s gonna be a goner. Why were all of them living in one house?
The women couldn't have cut out her tongue though. They attacked the scientists after her body was found with her tongue cut out.
@donkeysaurusrex7881 they weren't just came over when they saw police.
I’m pretty sure her tongue was missing when her body was found. They reference her tongue being cut out when they found her body.
I assumed the ghost behind Navarro 10:31 was Annie - but your theory makes more sense. Very cool recap!
great video
Welp… season one remains undefeated and uncontested, after tonight I want to walk into the ocean myself from the disappointment. Still came for the break down to cope 😂
you wrote a better series than the writers.
On the scene at the car with Liz, Leah has her chin tatoos, an indication that Liz made peace with her stepdaughter embracing her native origins
There would’ve been size 5 boot prints all over the place
I think the best parts of this season involved Liz’s grief. There were some nice sentimental moments. Great acting by the leads and nice cinematography. That’s what kept me watching up to the last episode. The plot was awful. The scientist murders could have been solved based on the fingerprints already from episode 2 (most KZheadrs caught this one). The scientist motivation to have the mine pollute more the water does not make any sense from a physics point of view (it was really hilarious😂). Assuming that these guys were truly looking for a microorganism, we are talking about some high level research. And Annie managed to understand everything just based on scribbles?! Having goddess Sedna lead Annie to the truth is actually a way more realistic explanation 😂😂😂 this is a very weak plot when it comes to the actual mystery. And it’s a pity for a show called true DETECTIVE.
Yeah man,I was looking for this comment; if you need samples so pure,rare,ancient and unusual that you have to drill into arctic ice caps to get at them, in what world are toxic contaminants going to help with that? Especially if it's supposed to be fragile genetic material? What did the pollutants do to the ice that made extraction easier without harming the samples? I could go on and on, it's so ridiculously unscientific, and poorly written from a whole multitude of story angles-they never really established what they are even looking for or what anyone could do with it in the first place beyond a school teacher shooting a load at the idea of some vague anti-senesence macguffinry. What a giant let down. This was an insultingly stupid resolution and the whole "multiple interpretations" handwaving isn't making this a smartly executed, mysterious experimental narrative, I swear dude the three comments I've seen defending this abortion seem to think they've just watched a David Lynch film and think we're stupid for wanting some things explained to us, when we noticed that this shit doesn't fit back together very well and that that isn't an explanation in and of itself when it doesn't serve the narrative.
Excellent
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"oranges. my mom loved oranges." orange you glad this season is over?
I got coule of thoughts that can kinda tie some things up: - spiral - being a reference to 1st season. There it symbolises a god, hence the brutality of the sacrafices, murder and child abuse. Here the spiral can refer to Sedna, the inuit goddess, she takes people who freeze or fall into the ocean. Same symbols appear in different cultures and are interpreted differently. With this, I think the show wanted to point out that the inuit goddess is not requiring bloody and awful sacrafices, the women let the scientists in the cold, saying if they are not taken they can come back for their clothes and survive. That makes me think they left them at the mercy of elements (cold, ocean, animals) that can personify the goddess. This season being focused on 'female energy', it shows that male god (season 1) was awful and required active sacrifices, here, the female goddess is more passive and represents the danger of the environment. - people in Ennis seeing dead people. It can be of course a comment on the fact that western medicine calls it hallucinations/maddness but in other cultures it just means that you are connected to your loved ones. Also, if this amazing, life-saving/resurecting bacteria (whatever it was) was trapped under the permafrost, it can still impact the area. People will not be cured by it (this is why scientists were digging) but it might have 'ressurected' the spirits, sort of half ressurection, helping other people see the wandering souls.