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Issa López Responds to Nic Pizzolatto Criticism of True Detective: Night Country

“That’s his prerogative.”

Despite retaining an executive-producer credit on True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the show and the first installment to air in five years, Pizzolatto had no writing or directing responsibilities. Reddit has screengrabs of the comments in which Pizzolatto — whose second and third seasons of True Detective were nowhere near as critically successful or widely watched as the first — distances himself from Night Country, calling its narrative connections to earlier iterations of the show “so stupid” and declaring, “I certainly did not have any input on this story or anything else. She was specifically invited by HBO’s head of drama, Francesca Orsi, to pitch an idea for the fourth season that became Night Country, and both Foster and Reis have praised the collaborative process she brought to the series.

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