MOVIE NEWS – The latest trailer for True Detective season 4 delves deeper into Danvers and Navarro’s investigation into the disappearance of eight men in Alaska… (WARNING: spoilers from the first episode!)

According to the trailer that introduces it, episode 2 of True Detective Season 4 will delve deeper into Danvers and Navarro’s investigation. After a five-year hiatus, HBO’s acclaimed anthology series returns for a fourth season. The subtitle is Night Country, a reference to the dark Alaskan winter. The series is set in Alaska and focuses on investigating eight men who disappear from a research station. Night Country stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as the two lead detectives, Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro. Fiona Shaw, alongside Christopher Eccleston and John Hawkes in the lead roles.

The trailer picks up immediately after Detectives Danvers and Navarro find the researchers frozen in ice, one of whom has the curved spiral symbol from True Detective season 1 drawn on his forehead.

They also found “burnt eyeballs” and “self-inflicted bite marks” on the victims. So it’s not long before Danvers starts treating the investigation as a murder case and agrees to work with Navarro for the time being.

What can we expect for the rest of True Detective season 4?

In usual True Detective fashion, the season 4 premiere sets the stage for the overarching mystery. Meanwhile, the lead detectives begin to confront the darkness within themselves. During the first episode, when Danvers nearly gets into a car accident with the drunk Stacy, the detective sees a traumatic event from his past flash up. Later in the episode, Danvers’ daughter Leah mentions a drunk driving accident that is never discussed. The rest of Season 4 will give us more insight into these events.

On the other hand, Navarro is a military veteran haunted by the cold case of Annie K, an Alaska Native and climate activist whose brutal murder he failed to solve.

Annie’s tongue was cut out in the murder and never found. This may be linked to the disappearance of eight people from the research station, as a disembodied tongue was found at the site. One of the researchers was wearing the same jacket as Annie. This strongly suggests a link between the two cases.

Annie’s body was also tattooed with the curved spiral symbol, the same one found on the victims of the “Yellow King” cult in season 1. If the researchers were responsible for Annie’s murder, they must have had some connection to the Tuttle family cult. Although much is still unclear after episode 1 of season 4, there may be a larger conspiracy in the making, dating back to season 1…

When is the finale due?

True Detective: Night Country airs Sundays at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on HBO. It is also available on HBO’s streaming platform MAX.

The season finale airs Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET. The six-episode series finale will be one of the most explosive and chilling endings in the entire series, surpassing even the dark genius of the original True Detective Season 1. Interestingly, the episodes of Night Country do not have separate titles, as the previous three seasons did. Instead, the title of each episode is simply ‘Part 1’, ‘Part 2’, etc. In any case, we are very curious to see what happens next…

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