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5 responses to “New True Detective: Hit or Miss?”

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   TomW

   March 2, 2024

   It’s a mixed bag. The setting is interesting and there’s lots of good acting, but the writing is very inconsistent. The dialogue in some scenes was so clunky that I am surprised the actors were willing to perform them. I was also annoyed by some supernatural stuff that just didn’t need to be in the story. It has some good moments, but you aren’t missing anything great if you skip it.

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      Clarissa

      March 2, 2024

      Thank you! I was very excited to see Jodie Foster, plus an Arctic setting. But supernatural is really not my thing.

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         TomW

         March 3, 2024

         Jodie Foster is always a big draw for me.

         Some of the supernatural stuff is just the misdirection you get in crime stories, but there also are multiple characters who see ghosts. It’s filmed so that the audience also sees the ghosts and as if the ghosts are real and not the fantasies of people going crazy in the 24 hour darkness. One of the ghosts even provides some key information that moves the plot forward at one point. It would have been so much better without the ghosts.

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   xykademiqz

   March 3, 2024

   I will second most of Tom’s opinions from above, but still recommend that you see it. I loved the Arctic horror setting and the perpetual night, and also the environmental aspects and many Native American cultural aspects. I found the supernatural aspects misleading and a bit off-putting (and they completely spoiled the show for my husband, FWIW). The dialogue was beyond clunky in places. However, there were some really nice bits of acting, for example the character Evangeline Navarro (the second lead beside Jodie Foster’s character) is captivating on screen, as is her long-suffering beau Qavvik, who has little air time but quickly became a universally beloved character. Young Officer Prior is excellent, too, as he fights to make a place for himself and tries to deal with young fatherhood. The character of reclusive Rose is also extremely well acted and very memorable despite little screen time.

   I personally would recommend that you see the season. It’s only a handful of episodes, and the perpetual night alone would be a reason enough for me as it so much different from everything else. It’s so weird to have these scenes of cops out on the crime scene, and you keep thinking why don’t they just come back tomorrow, and then you remember it’s permanight, so the scene is probably happening at 9 am and it’s all pitch black. Also, I know Clarissa loves snow, and it doesn’t get more snowy than this show.

   As an aside, I am a little peeved that a 61 yo Jodie Foster (who looks surprisingly wrinkly and frail and more like she’s 71) plays a woman who’s 50, tops, and a randy 50 at that. But that’s just me and it annoys me with other actors/actresses, too (e.g., Sandra Bullock in a recent movie with Channing Tatum who’s almost 20 years younger than her, and they were supposed to be contemporaries and each other’s romantic interests; Tom Cruise, also in his 60s a, playing a top-of-his-game action hero). There’s only so much suspended belief a person can take! LOL

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   cliff arroyo

   March 3, 2024

   If you want cold Canada police procedurals/mysteries, I watched and enjoyed Cardinal (first season, the second takes place in summer and I haven’t seen the third)

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5583512/

   There’s also La Faille (Quebec) murder mystery set in the extreme north in the large structure called le Mur in Fermont

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11577386/

   Neither sets the world on fire (so to speak) but both are entertaining enough.

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