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 worth resurrecting the long-dormant True Detective franchise — and without its original creator, Nic Pizzolatto?
The new season, created, directed, and largely written by Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid), and starring Jodie Foster, answers with a resounding, “Hell, yes.”
It’s been a decade since the anthology cop drama’s first season, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. In the moment, it seemed like a bolt from the blue, thanks primarily to McConaughey’s haunted performance and the hypnotic direction of Cary Joji Fukunaga. But the ending disappointed…
