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True Detective Season-Premiere Recap: The End of the World
Issa López’s reimagined True Detective plunges Jodie Foster into perpetual darkness.
The one early clue we’re offered as to how and why is that a researcher whispers — prophetically, hauntingly — “She’s awake.” The next time we see Tsalal, the men have vanished and the only evidence of wrongdoing is a severed human tongue on the floor under the kitchen island. “For we do not know what beasts the night dreams when its hours grow too long for even God to be awake.” That’s the epigraph at the beginning of the episode, basically the same question posed by Billie Eilish: “When we all fall asleep, where do we go?” It’s attributed to Hildred Castaigne, a name that meant nothing to me until I Googled it. It’s a fitting introduction, though I think I’d argue that the paradox López has swiftly established in Ennis is even more disturbing: God may be asleep, but what happens when night lasts so long man has no choice but to walk alongside the beasts.
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