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How Billie Eilish’s ‘Irony and Melancholy’ Influenced ‘True Detective’ Season 4

Billie Eilish's "Bury A Friend" serves as the title track for 'True Detective' Season 4 and also influenced showrunner Issa Lopez.

“I started writing it during the lockdown, and I was listening day and night to Billie Eilish,” Lopez told Indiewire on Monday following the show’s Sunday premiere. “The end result is a lean, mean, six-episode season that retains most of what was great under [original series creator Nic] Pizzolatto, while leaving behind the more self-indulgent or outright clumsy parts of those years,” Sepinwall wrote. “The energy between Foster (whose raspy growl is a perfect fit for an antisocial, my-way-or-the-highway veteran cop) and Reis (a former boxer with screen presence to spare) crackles throughout.”

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