The biggest unanswered question is why does this show have a high critical rating?

For anyone that want to clean their palate, I really suggest to watch "Wind River." It's ACTUALLY a excellent mature neo western movie that actually respects indigenous people in the reservation lands & give great exposure to a very IRL problems for the unsolved cases of missing &/or killed native woman.

When ideology is more important the quality.

Two things about the ending that annoyed me: 1. The cleaning lady breaks into the police station after the discovery of the drillbit to take pictures of Annie's file... but didn't Hank have the Annie K files in his house? Peter breaks into Hank's house to steal the files for Danvers in episode 3 I think, leading to Hank punching Pete in the face in the ice rink. So the cleaning ladies' version of events is inconsistent with the events of the show. 2. There is no reason for Annie's death to be 7 years before the show starts but it was. The cleaning ladies go to the lab and summarily kill everyone there (bar the one person most likely to be involved in Annie's death given Ray's personal relationship with her). How do they know that everyone there has worked in the lab for 7+ years? In the flashback to Annie's death, there are seemingly different people there to when the ladies break into the lab. If the idea is that the scientists deserved to die because of the pollution, rather than Annie's death, then why bring all the Annie/Sedna/She's awake stuff into it at all?

Hey but at least Qavvik got his SpongeBob toothbrush back 🪥. Glad that story arc was closed 👍

I love that all the scientists are white guys so that the indigenous (excluding Rose and the leader of the group who are both white women) can get revenge on the white man, but, had this story been about the scientists being the good guys, the group would've been comprised of every gender and race. Also despite this season being far more overtly supernatural, there wasn't one instance that evoked anything remotely close to the level of terror brought by Errol Childress, or for that matter even that first shot of a gas-masked Reggie Ledoux,. Both of these guys were genuinely terrifying in their performances and the way the show presented them. IN season 4 though we get cold zombie ghosts who just occasionally get a cheap jump scare in on the audience. Whats more, these ghosts are never meant to be malicious and are supposed to be helping Navaro, which completely juxtaposes their frightening appearance. I feel like the biggest letdown is that there is no true evil in this season. The scientists commit an evil act, but it is unearned, and feels like they just threw it in at the end. It also makes no sense at all for the scientists to display Annie's body the way they did. Perhaps because I'm an evil white man, and not a perfect and sinless indigenous (or white lady working with indigenous people) I just can't see the payoff. It seems like the only indicator that these guys have the capacity for such violence is because they are of the same race that colonized this continent a couple centuries ago. We get all this symbolism from the actual evil demonic death cult, but it ends up having less than nothing to do with the actual people in the show. In season one the detectives are up against everything, and the villains are truly depraved individuals. Here the villains are bad because the director and writers are just racist in a way that's currently acceptable, and lazy.

I really didn't understand the sudden capacity for violence all of the scientists had at once against her in that moment. Then what years later they are cowed completely by middle aged women that two of them could bum rush, knock over, and take their weapons?

Wish it was the polar bear so bad…

The biggest unanswered question is how this script survived editing. Oh wait, I know the answer. Another example of modern messaging over story which is ruining many shows, movies, and games

How did Hank get Annie up the ladder? Why bother? Why didn’t Danvers shoot the glass? How did the scientists all get down the ladder so fast? How did the ladies get all the photos and go all over the lab and not be seen? How did they kidnap the scientists at gunpoint and leave no evidence? No one resisted, fell, or knocked anything over? So many more.

How did Jodie Fosters character Danvers (in her late 50s or 60s) survive the plunge in the icy water during the icestrom? She was already freezing for hours and had to be reanimated in wet clothes in a non heated environment, then a few hours later being perfectly recovered without any negative side effects from hypothermia and possible inner lesions from the cold crystallising her lungs or necrotic damage on her extremities or eyes?? Give me a break. I doubt even a healthy man in his 20s would survive this without major collateral damage.

Annies Video not matching what they show actually happened is the absolute worst continuity error imo. How was that allowed to happen

The killing of Annie K was preposterous in its plausibility and ineffectual in its staging. Also agree about the pollution- I had the same thought about why didn’t they do direct application on the drilling hole

“Seal Team Swiffer”- you just made my watching that illogical mess worth it just to get the joke 🙏🏼

One of the most poorly communicated series I've ever seen. Even the the premise of a scientist killing a protester wasn't believable. So much potential so many missed opportunities.

All excellent points. It would take a year to pick all of the faults with this show, but I have one more.... Why was Clarke wearing Annik's coat, 6 years after her death? I thought the idea was to distance themselves from the killing not wear evidence linking them to it. Also, Gambino Grime Syndicate was hilarious! LOL!!!

This is one of the best critiques I've ever seen, about one of the worst pieces of shit passed on TV in the last 30 years. Thank you

Good breakdown. The bottom really fell out if this thing.

This video perfectly conveys my displeasure with all the faults of this season storylines /writing choices. When someone says, what was wrong with the seasons storyline? I can just direct them to this!

After reading all the comments I’m so glad I stopped watching at episode 2 😂.

SpongeBob toothbrush was the most interesting character in this series. And how did the toilet women know all the scientists killed what's her name, and not just one scientist killed what's her face? And why are all the toilet women in the same house at the end? It's like they all knew we have to be together to hear the "detectives" let us off scot-free. or do they all just work together and live together, that would be weird. In the end the show basically came down to this, MAGIC TOILET WOMEN!

Your assessment is spot on. What’s also both frustrating and perplexing is the amount of praise “critics” have given this show. Are we all just collectively stupider? I would’ve given this show a 5/10 before the finale and the finale was just THAT bad it dropped it to raging hot garbage.

Well, we all overthought how this would turn out. The native myths were ignored in the last episode. I figured that the guts went for a polar plunge to celebrate something and folded their clothes nearby. Then a real polar bear came at them and they stayed in the water too long and died of fright. The polar bear caused the car accident that killed Danvers’ family. The buildup/set up doesn’t explain what killed the elk at the beginning. I figured it would be nature that was the culprit in the end. It was an unsatisfying ending for Navarro to walk off and commit suicide. Native Americans are strong and the mythology of their culture pointed toward a better ending for her. The researchers finding were never explained. Their connection to the whale fossil was never really explored. I was disappointed at the ending. The cleaning ladies did it? Come on. Good points on the pollution being used to enhance the cell recovery of microorganisms. The story followed the Dyatlov Pass deaths of the young skiers out in the raw backcountry of Russia in 1959 until the last episode (what killed the skiers was thought to be an avalanche but their injuries don’t jive with that.) so I was expecting something along the lines of a polar bear scaring the scientists to death; and my ending is better than the one written and aired!😊

Why did the reindeer leap off the cliff? What did the polar bear signify? Why did Danvers and Navarro fall out for years if Danvers says she was going to kill Wheeler anyway? Why was Navarro sitting by the Christmas tree with her ears bleeding?How did Navarro overpower Clark when he had the drop on her and cracked her head open with an extinguisher? Why didn't Navarro just tell Danvers she got the confession from Clark before his death? How is it possible that the underground ice cave conveniently led to Tsalal?

"Seal Team Swiffer" 😂🎉 Bravo, Sir.

Tsalal was built on ice? The caves, Danvers falling through into the ocean 100 meters away. Ice that is melting, cracking and shifting.

at the end, they indicated BALLISTICS that killed the Weiss guy, or whatever his name is, came from the gun of the Prior (FATHER), but he shot the guy with jodie fosters characters gun

The biggest unanswered question of them all is how you could possibly imagine anyone behind this show being conservative and thus attempting to push some sort of contrived conservative message. A truly Olympic-level feat of mental gymnastics.

I posted this on another analysis video, but it's still relevant here. After season 1 had so much suspense they just went into trying to fake everyone out with red herrings from season 1. It was still entertaining, but this is just another case of not sticking the landing. I came into the last episode open to whatever explanations they offered, but I couldn't write a more disorganized mess. It reminds me of the Family Guy episode that Peter is the producer for a bastardized version of "The King and I". I feel like Lois after she sees "Peter Griffin presents The King and I." , this blows. Copy/paste from other video. The ending seemed very forced. For all the fantastic acting, the writing was just meh. I think there was another ending that didn't test well and they made up this disjointed and wonky ending. I'm far from a red-pill guy, but the whole strong female lead and female posse was bordering on the trope that only women are intelligent/united to figure it out. Every man in Ennis was an absolute idiot? 7 scientists and not a single one of them was rational enough to know that killing Annie was going to go badly. And the most unrealistic part to me was that a crew of 6 or 7 scientists had no departures or new employees in 6 years. Every real world employer has turnover and despite best efforts at least one or two would have gotten out of there because they knew they murdered someone. I have heard of killers going back to the scene of a crime, but working there everyday as if nothing happened? The tie-ins to season 1 and Rust were just red herrings and there is still no closure on the spiral cult or pedo ring. I wanted to like it, but it just lost me. For the absolute lack of closure on so many of the plots, they should have just ended it after Peter tossed his father into the icy depth and just left it ambiguous for another season. Ending it like that just cheapened it into another season 2.

Probably on an island here, but a video essay on Mainländer would be pretty sweet. Or a long-form piece on how Sam Neill's wardrobes over the years are currently haunting all media. (Maybe i just miss Mark Fisher...)

I think Clark made the tape in exchange for Navarro letting him die in the snow.

Also why the counterclockwise spiral in this one and clockwise symbol in season 1. Prob just to get fans talking thinking there was a connection. 😮

I couldn't bring myself to even finish episode four. I started watching Shogun and haven't regretted a moment since.

I was along for the ride up until the finale. The atmosphere, cinematography, and performances were all outstanding. But that finale just made so little sense and completely marred everything else the show did well.

I told you bruh... We are thinking too deeply & too logically when this show is a mud pool that as deep as a puddle. Not even considering the esoteric stuffs, even a mere common sense already out of the door when it comes to the storytelling. I would argue, this season finale is the worst TV Show Episode of The Year.

Great videos on this series! Interested to know your take on Marcus Aurelius and his meditations being so profound and relevant today, as we see in Oscar nominated film; The Holdovers. The other dives you recommended sound interesting keep making content 👍🏽

...and on, and on, and on. Yeah. It shows real laziness on the part of the writers - not to mention contempt for the audience - that they didn't even try to make anything make sense.

About the spiral drawing.... Lund was the first to injure Annie and that was her tattoo. The women knew about it (tattoo), as the tattoo wasn't a secret among them. They marked the scientist so maybe Annie's ghost (Sedna or whatever) knew that these were tributes.

Comfortable existence as a ghost 😂😂😂😂

Just watch Wind River. Its awesome

We are coring in ice because that's where the magic bacteria is frozen and preserved because it's frozen so let's make sure it's not frozen when we core it.

I would love to see some Cohen brothers content from you!

Thanks for the questions.

Your video is poetic.... Ethan Coen just had a big flop so maybe he needs a little cheering up.

I agree with you about Jodie Foster.

How about Outer Range series 1 as an essay? Ferrari by Michael Mann. Or an analysis of Killers of the Flower Moon. Without watching other 'explained' videos, an analysis of Zone of Interest.

Finally, I was waiting for that video to come out since the season finale. Started following your channel because you crafted with profound care interesting theories with all these little details left in each episode. And it's disappointing to see how it didn't pay off, since the showrunners gaslighted the audience with crumbs of bread that ended in dead ice. I didn't always agree with all of your takes: plenty of times I was on board with a few commentors saying your premises were a bit cynical regarding the female gaze in the script, but io and behold...the show's ending only served to create a grotesque caricature of what was, up to that point, a more nuanced take on tradition vs modernity, etereal vs material, woman vs man etc I think the actors will be fine tho, if anything, they were the show's few saving graces. Plus, the exposition + "certified" critic's approval will shield them properly. What concerns me is López returning for a season 5

the Lethal Weapon movie the gang made on It's Always Sunny was considerably more cohesive and well-written than the finale

Good work shiva

👍👍👍

I enjoyed the series.

A video on Slacker, please!

‘True Detective’ Renewed for Season 5 at HBO with Issa López to Return López has also signed an overall deal with HBO and will produce other content exclusive to HBO and Max.

If you’re sad like me, because Night Country is over, I have something good for youse. I found Fortitude, and its feel is very much the same. Even better, it has loads of episodes in a season AND three seasons! 😃 You’re welcome. ☺️ #NightCountry #Fortitude

Hate to be the bringer of bad news but somehow it’s been approved for 5th season with the same writer.

So much wasted potential! Even if this wasn't true detective, it still would have had more plot holes than swiss cheese! Like the last 2 seasons of GOT, too many unanswered questions and loose ends!

when clark finishes annie... he is shirtless.. BUT there is NO spiral tattoo!!! wtf with that???????????

Was their feud just over the fact that Navarro killed Wheeler instead of Danvers?? Was she pouting this whole time??

I vote for Coen brothers.

not allowed to have different opinions on suicide

That ending was so trash! The first episode went too hard for that dumb ending.

#1 Who ok'd the idiotic script?

I wanted to like this show. I love Jodie Foster. I loved Pete's actor. K'lei the boxer was great for her first big acting gig. But the writing and pacing made this show unforgivably bad.

this show was so ridiculous. I don't understand the glowing reviews. it was a confused, slow, supernatural voodoo, piece of social justice porn cloaked in the trappings of a dark moody murder mystery.

First rate take on this trash... so sad that the same production team and mines are returning

I'm disapointed I wasted my time watching this shitty season. nothing make sense, Lopez have mixed all of her thoughts into this season.

It was just too ridiculous for any analysis; it’s simply horrible writing.

yea the show doodoo but u doodoo too

Sour grapes. You were wrong and so you hate it. 😂

Cut the cristion shit

ur obsession with making everything male/female is cringe

wtf the spiral is not specific to Annie? Literally every complaint you have is unfounded. You need to accept that some of the answers are supernatural.

Gosh it was fantastic! The whole season was amazing and I was happy that my theories didn’t come true… but you say it was contrived and ridiculous because you didn’t understand it? lol. Sad bud/ Let’s see what questions you didn’t get…

Again you didn’t pay close enough attention. You keep using your opinion as fact and your assumptions as reasons why the answers are “ridiculous” no. It’s really really good, too bad you wanted to complain. Yawn.