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The series is centered around Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro who are looking to solve the case of six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanishing without a trace, when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska. The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.

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Ok. Ok. I'm feeling this a little.

Has to be better than the last one.

For the record, this will be the first season in which series creator Nic Pizzolatto isn't involved. Which is either good or bad news depending on how you feel about seasons two and three. That said, Barry Jenkins is executive producing, and the plot description indeed sounds cool as hell. Combined with the Foster of it all, consider me all in for season four.

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Who had Jodie Foster on their True Detective S4 bingo card?!?!

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No, I had Kristen Bell in a ****ed up version of Veronica Mars / True Detective mash up.

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Has to be better than the last one.

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The last one was miles better than the Season 2 disaster.

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The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.

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Sorry, I can't read this without laughing.

And I think Pizzolatto is rather overrated at this point. His plots are basic and for the most part plodding. He just surrounds himself with incredible actors and allows them to do their thing.

True Detective Season 1 was a tour de force in acting surrounded by a paper thin story. Woody and MM were just so good that you didn't notice/care about the plot holes.

Season 2's solid acting couldn't save the story.

Season 3 was similar to Season 1 in that it had a great leading character but a story that just fell flat.

If they want to fix some of the issues of TD past then step one is to hire a director that will direct all of the episodes and have NP step aside and let them do their job. I enjoyed season 3, but it could have been better. Jeremy Saulnier was the perfect choice for that series, watch Green Room and Blue Ruin if you haven't done so. IIRC he was supposed to do the whole thing but stepped away after 2 episodes because he wasn't enjoying the experience.

Season 1 remains my favorite individual season of TV ever made, it's incredible.

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Southlake said:

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Has to be better than the last one.

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The last one was miles better than the Season 2 disaster.

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I know people like to sh** all over it, and it is certainly not without blemish, but I still maintain that Season 2 was better than the vast majority of shows on TV....just nowhere near the original, which was damn near perfection in all aspects. I found Season 2 entertaining. Although I absolutely HATED the ending. Really wanted his boy to hear that message...what a depressing gut punch.

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I can't even remember season 3. Season 2 had Colin Farrell, right?

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Yeah, and Vince Vaughn. That season was hot garbage. Season 3 had Mahershala Ali and was a bit better than season 2, but still nowhere near season 1.

Season 1

McConaughey and Woody
Louisiana prostitute murdered in ritualistic manner
screws up the lives of everyone involved
the highlight of the series was an Alexandra Daddario scene

Season 2

Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdamds
California corrupt city manager murdered

Season 3

Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff
missing kids in the Ozarks story covers several years from the 90's to the 2010's

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The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.

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Sorry, I can't read this without laughing.

And I think Pizzolatto is rather overrated at this point. His plots are basic and for the most part plodding. He just surrounds himself with incredible actors and allows them to do their thing.

True Detective Season 1 was a tour de force in acting surrounded by a paper thin story. Woody and MM were just so good that you didn't notice/care about the plot holes.

Season 2's solid acting couldn't save the story.

Season 3 was similar to Season 1 in that it had a great leading character but a story that just fell flat.

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Seriously? "Paper thin"? Not a chance.

Season 2 was not good.
I thought season 3 was solid though.

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I would watch the F out of this!

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Sooper Jeenyus said:

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Southlake said:

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Has to be better than the last one.

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The last one was miles better than the Season 2 disaster.

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I know people like to sh** all over it, and it is certainly not without blemish, but I still maintain that Season 2 was better than the vast majority of shows on TV....just nowhere near the original, which was damn near perfection in all aspects. I found Season 2 entertaining. Although I absolutely HATED the ending. Really wanted his boy to hear that message...what a depressing gut punch.

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Absolutely.

That mid season shootout is one of the most intense, well made action sequences out there.

They rushed season two out too soon after season one. I loved the cast, and there were certainly some highlights, but it definitely needed another few months to marinate in the writers room. Sky-high expectations were another issue, as I'm in agreement that season one is still the best season of television I've ever seen, and I was basically expecting more of the same, just in a different setting, except that's not at all what we got. Season three is more of a return to form, and incredibly solid in and of itself, but the three timelines were a bit much, and from what I remember of the ending, it was either wrapped up or too nice and neat and/or wasn't as satisfying as I was hoping.

I really like the clean slate/fresh start vibe of season four, though, and Foster's involvement hopefully indicates that they've got something special again.

I hear you, but that Carcosa set was incredible, and I loved how they incorporated Rust's hallucinations. Yes, how it played out was relatively familiar, but all the extra little flourishes really made up for it, I thought.

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I can't even remember season 3. Season 2 had Colin Farrell, right?

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Mostly Rachel McAdams' ass!

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I hear you, but that Carcosa set was incredible, and I loved how they incorporated Rust's hallucinations. Yes, how it played out was relatively familiar, but all the extra little flourishes really made up for it, I thought.

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Not to mention a brilliant ****ing season leading up to that moment. Season 2 must be the biggest drop off in television history (next thread topic? ). Vince Vaughn was a tragic miscast in that role. So bad…

Season 1 set the bar too high, Mcconaughey and Harrelson were so natural and charasmatic in their roles that I don't even see them I see Rust and Hart. The setting of Louisiana (not New Orleans) the plot of the ant Christian cults and the entire atmosphere was beautiful. It's up their IMO as one of the best TV shows of all time

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Season 1 set the bar too high, Mcconaughey and Harrelson wet so natural and charasmatic in their roles that I don't even see them I see Rust and Hart. The setting of Louisiana (not New Orleans) the plot of the ant Christian cults and the entire atmosphere was beautiful. It's up their IMO as one of the best TV shows of all time

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As time goes on, season 1 keeps getting more and more solidified as one of my favorite TV experiences ever and one of the best seasons of a show ever.

I agree with you on the actors. Season 1 was one of those "stars aligning" type deals where everything was firing and when I watch it I get completely immersed. I see Rust and Hart, not Matthew and Woody.

S1 was incredible, S3 was pretty damn good too. Excellent acting from Mahershala Ali and Steven Dorff

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Never seen this show but plot description on this one is all kinds of intriguing.

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Season 1 is incredible. Cinematography, acting, storyline, all of it. I want to revisit it soon, for a third viewing.