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‘True Detective’ Gets a Rewarding Reboot in the Eerie ‘Night Country,’ Starring Jodie Foster: TV Review
Jodie Foster and Kali Reis serve as the first female co-leads of the anthology drama for a season set in Alaska with an emphasis on the supernatural.
In pairing Matthew McConaughey with Woody Harrelson on a journey through the bayou, creator Nic Pizzolatto elevated some of that genre’s clichés and left others intact — including a marginal presence for women, crowded into bit roles as wives and villains to make room for portentous monologues and four-minute tracking shots. Her only colleagues are a father-son duo: Hank (John Hawkes), a sad sack pining for his mail order bride, and Prior (Finn Bennett), a young father whose dedication to the job causes a rift with his wife Kayla (Anna Lambe), who’s putting herself through nursing school. Before the show’s realism trickles in, though, “Night Country” begins on a fantastically creepy note that resonates throughout the season, a tone sustained in part by a credits sequence set to Billie Eilish’s “Bury a Friend.” When a deliveryman stops by the station, all that’s left of the scientists is a severed human tongue and the parade scene from “Ferris Bueller” blasting on a loop.
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