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This week’s episode of Night Country is as information-dense an hour of TV as I’ve ever seen, and it’s tempting to jump straight into logging the evidence (evidence that points in so many directions that police are still unsure a crime has definitely been committed against the researchers at Tsalal Station).
But Night Country’s second chapter is just as much about establishing the series’ thematic fault lines as it is about the scattered search for leads. There’s Liz, the small-town police…