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This week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country leans further into the supernatural elements of Ennis, Alaska, or what Chief Liz Danvers would describe as that “voodoo, E.T., cosmic, choompa-loompa bullshit.”
“Part 3” is all about that bullshit. It has mysterious visions, ominous symbolism, severely injured scientists suddenly becoming possessed by a demon (I guess?), and whispers and white noise evocative of the thin veil that separates the living from other realms. Whispers aren’t what bookends this episode, though. It’s a pair of screams, first from a mother giving birth, with help from Annie K, in that flashback to seven years earlier, and again from Annie herself in that newly…
