there is only one true detective. And that is season 1.

Peter is actually a really competent cop. Just all of his competence, which is a lot of the detective work, happens off-screen. He unlocks the phone, tracks down the TSLALAL funding to show it’s connected to the mine, finds a vet to do an unofficial post-mortem…

The conclusion was horrendous. You find out all the supernatural stuff was just used as a crutch for bad storytelling. The funny part is that the “realistic” reveal at the end was more unbelievable than the supernatural element.

You described exactly how I felt. I was actually intrigued despite the red flags about the forced Hollywood take on the world I was hopeful right up to the finale. Then I felt like the joke was on me, what a letdown.

Why would you have metal in your face in freezing, artic weather?

So, the great mystery was it was bunch of cleaning ladies all along. Scooby Do has more mysterious stories..

Also like people in the writers room proposed lets do an X-Files like story but with an ending where Scully is right.

Season 1 of True Detective is some of the best tv to ever be created.

The worst part is that the indigenous women had all the information they needed to make a case against the scientists. But they royally screwed it up by being very stupid. Annie the victim just screams and makes a fuss when she sees the evidence, basically insuring that the men would catch and kill her. As for the cleaner and her possee - did no one see the tire tracks leading to the lab? The trucks full of guns? CCTV? And the detectives not taking them in, in the end?? I really felt cheated in the end. I hate these kinds of twists.

Whiteout with Kate Beckinsale is a much better crime thriller (based in Antarctica) with similar vibes. Check that one out if you haven’t seen it. 😊

Lauren binge watches these terrible shows just so you don’t have to. A true warrior champ!

They never explained the tongue. The plot threads never really came together. Even the ham fisted “cleaners get revenge” was so poorly laid out considering all the other evidence that was left or the evidence that would’ve been left after a large group of weapon wielding people stormed the building and took them out into the snow. And that still didn’t explain how they got buried in a pit.

The show has an absurd amount of both questions and plotholes. The folded clothes were found next to the scientists, but scientists were shown to have been stripped far away. Early on, it was concluded that scientists couldn't have died from freezing, but then the autopsy report and the ending revealed that it's what had actually happened, which makes no sense given the state they were found in. Then we have the tongue, which has no concrete answer and makes no sense. What happened to Otis? How did he survive? How does it relate to any of this? No answer. Annie K's phone footage? Completely out of sync with the actual events shown in the ending.

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made”

There should be a season 5 where they investigate how horrible season 4 was.

The ending had three different themes and was a disjointed mess. First it wanted to be a scary thriller. Second, it wanted to be an emotional journey into accepting oneself and learning about who we are. Finally, it wanted to be some weird feminist heroic narrative where a bunch of machine gun toting cleaning ladies doomed the human race by killing off genius men RIGHT before they were able to make some of the greatest medical breakthroughs in human history. Also they shoehorned something in about pollution and the scientists were bad because they encouraged it, blah blah blah. Girl Power?! Additionally, the murdered victim turns out to be the villain the whole time because she single-handedly destroyed years of research into medical breakthroughs in a temper tantrum thus initially dooming the human race before her cleaning lady friends could finish the job by killing off a bunch of geniuses while trying to argue spirits did it (even though they clearly made them run into the snow naked, which is murder).

If you are looking for stuff featuring Alaska I would recommend 2002 movie Insomnia by Christopher Nolan. Its a murder mystery with Al Pacino and Robin Williams. This is set during Alaska's all day/no night season, which gives the characters insomnia hence the name. And there is an awesome vampire movie set during Alaska's all night/no day season called 30 Days of Night from 2007. As you can imagine, when vampires don't have to worry about daylight they can just completely go crazy, and they do!!!

This was the shortest season and they couldn’t even maintain a cohesive story or engaging plot for that long. It’s also the only season with a subtitle, which is telling of either the director/writers egos, or the creator’s reluctance to be associated with it, regardless of his belated defense of this monument to incompetence.

Jodie Foster will always be Clarice Starling to me.

What I also found interesting is that despite Pete being portrayed as the incompetent one, he’s the only one who does anything as like an actual investigator. He cracks the phones, finds out connections with the lab and businesses and the researchers, does pretty much all of the main heavy lifting while Danvers and Navarro deal with their own issues. She walked ass backwards into undermining her own point that women are strong and capable as men when realistically I found Danvers and Navarro childish and immature dealing with their own bullshit while Pete did nearly all of the actual detective work.

For myself these days, I won't read/play/watch anything produced in the mainstream after 2017 unless I get a very strong recommendation from a reviewer I trust. that goes triple if words like "diversity", or "empowerment", or "representation", get tossed around. Every time I gave something woke a chance, believed quality could exist side by side with agenda, or remembered all those great stories prior to this era with female leads or gay characters, I ended up getting burned! Putting up with the misandry and the racism just plane isn't worth it! Not when there's so much good, none-woke pre-2017 stuff still out there to enjoy, and some good none-woke indi stuff produced now! As Stephen King said: "go then, there are other worlds than these!"

Honestly from the trailer my woke sense was tingling! So didn’t bother.

Im a HUGE True detective fan (actually liked S2). I was rooting for this show to succeed up until like episode 4 and lost all hope. This is a totally soulless, AI written mockery of the first season. The show would have been better off not having any connection to true detective tbh.

It didn't ruined. That show was already crap. Makes the third season looks great.

Season 4 is like somebody's memory of a good show and the memory's fading.

I recommend on the hulu tv show Only Murderers in the building. Great killer mystery each season and the cast is awesome. Thanks for the video ❤

I'm glad you covered this Lauren - you watched it so I don't have to. I loved the first season. Never watched the others.

I often watch KZfaq reviews to justify my apathy for and indifference to modern Hollywood. In the last six years I have not yet returned to the cinema or subscribed to any of the big streamers. I thank reviewers like Lauren for helping me save money. They are on the front lines of the culture war. I am certainly grateful. Thanks, Lauren!

The problem with a lot of movies and tv shows these days is that they focus too much on the 1st act, minimize or disregard the second act and make a convoluted third act that doesn't make sense!

the first episode already had me tuning out. i stuck with it though, just to see where it went. it was sad though, as i wasn't even looking forward to it, each week. i won't even watch the final episode. i caught the last 15-20 minutes of it, and didn't even want to go back to watch the start of it. something i just watched, explains partly why it turned out such a mess. it was suggested that this show was actually another script completely, that was then sprinkled with season 1 teasers, to turn it into a TD season. a guy was suspecting that, from just how messed up it was, and he was then convinced, when clarke's tattoo was missing at the end. and then, someone said that, apparently, issa had actually admitted such, on a podcast or something, before. that she had written a script, and then this series was offered to her. she mentioned that she had a script, unrelated, and hbo said to just add some stuff to it and make it true detective. i have no idea if this is true, but it certainly would explain how terribly messy it was. but it's still no excuse for it.

My feelings mirror yours, there were elements I liked, and a lot i didn't. Jodie Foster was a highlight, and if it wasn't for her that character would have been unbearable. Somehow she made her appealing. I'm not sure Kali Reis is a good actress, but I really liked watching her. I liked the atmosphere and concept. But, the story was awful. The drama with the Junior Detective was unnecessary. Foster and Reis's characters, mirror Rust and Marty from season 1, beat for beat. Both partners have similar flaws, struggles (though flipped, Foster doesn't cheat on her husband, she steals others. Reis isn't having drug flashbacks, she has real visions). Both partnerships share a secret involving a past murder. Both partnerships are very combative. Both partnerships end up having similar bonding moments. It was like AI created these story elements to imitate Season 1. You described the ending better than i could. It was just dull and flat.

Objectively it was bad. Beyond me how the critic score for this is so high and makes me a little worried for the integrity of this industry. I totally respect that you changed your mind on this! Not everyone is capable of that and shows you are not just pandering - so respect for that.

Murder mystery fan here. I HIGHLY recommend you check out these British shows - "Endeavour," "Line Of Duty," "C.B. Strike," "Inspector Morse," "Happy Valley" and "Shetland" (seasons 3 on)...

Thank you 🙏 for explaining the ending. It was so convoluted I didn't fully understand it. I thought I must have missed something.

The director really thought it would be a cool 'feature' if they didn't reveal who put Annie's tongue at the crime scene... Then they gave her a new contract.

That whole season's existence is an abomination. The series has become an embarrassment and pure TV excrement.

Good take on this season Luaren. We covered each episode as it premiered on our podcast as well and we are also disappointed in how it turned out as we thought it showed great promise with its setting and its general plot. Personally, I would place this season in last place out of all of the other seasons. Supposedly, the writer Issa López will be returning for the next upcoming season; what are your thoughts? Also, if you are looking to cover a murder/mystery show, I know it's an old one, The Killing is a great one, specifically the first two seasons covering the Rosie Larsen case.

All these chicks killed some dudes and kept it a secret because they're a tight-knit community of strong women... but Annie couldn't go to this group after discovering the lab and getting them to help with exposing and/or ruining it? She'd risk her well-being and her life destroying the lab herself. These dudes would, instead of bribe this chick, kill her and actually think they'd get away with it? They thought the close-knit sisterhood wouldn't know, or worse, wouldn't already have bad vibes about a bunch of White academic guys just showing up to their secluded community all of a sudden... And of course the pollution thing. That's a reach. Just use the mine's machinery to break the ice... whatever.

Fargo seasons 1 - 4 are exquisitely awesome. Also: Justified 1 - 6 Yellowstone is incredible. Ozark was great. Lost - I know it isn't true crime, but it's my favorite show of all time. Nothing like it. 🤖👍

Thank you for being honest. I had high hopes but quickly started having multiple mini strokes as the episodes continued. They hurt the idea of strong female leads.

You are the best. Your movie and TV reviews are so funny to watch I wish they were longer lol

I've been thinking about starting this, even though I had very similar experiences with earlier seasons as you did. Now I'm not so sure about this one.

I gave up on the series in a season 2 but gave season 4 a try. Captivating horror mystery drama, with a very disappointing ending.

It was shit from start to finish. No women writers. No women directors. There, fixed it.

Can you ruin something terrible to begin with? Night Country was a pandering DEI nightmare from the first epi.

First vid of yours I have seen and I could not agree more(* I do think season 1 is one of the greatest shows ever made though).SUBSCRIBED.

Once I saw two female cops I lost interest

They trained some AI neural network to create this shitfest, same with Lord Of The Rings - Rings of Power. Its all so bad it cant possibly have been created by a human.

I quit the show after 2, or 3 episodes, can't even remember, i can't stand anymore the "women are great, smart and tough, men are stupid or a**holes or both"

It wasn’t originally a true detective show. It was a movie pitched to HbO who asked that it be made as a season of TD. It was then rewritten to be a female mirror of season 1. (All from interviews with the writer)

A summer home in Alaska?? You want to spend Summers in Alaska 😂

From not knowing anything about corporate activity (if you have a billion/trillion dollar project, you have security and cameras everywhere and you don't give local mopsweepers keys) to basic science (if you have an important microbe existing in stasis for a million years, the very last thing you would do is pollute and melt the whole environment just to make extraction easier, which itself isn't even true - permafrost is easier to cut and handle than looser samples), the basic premise of this show is bone cold stupid, leaving out the failure to generate any mystery, pertaining to murder the viewer might care about.

5 racial slurs in the 1st two episodes! Disgusting

Congrats on 111k subs 🎉

When i saw the Cleaning ladies tells the men to take there clothes off and walk off into the night, MY EYES ROLLED ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK OF MY HEAD...

The show was already ruined from the beginning. Feels like the whole season was written by Errol Childress

Wow, brilliant summary. I stopped watching after episode 3. It was just so bad and disappointing. I'm a huge fan of TD1 and TD3, so I was really looking forward AND I'm a huge Jodi Foster fan. But even she couldn't save it. Like you said, everybody was just highly unsympathetic. Please do me a favor: watch TD season 3. It really is excellent!

This show was terribly written from the first episode. It was driven by ideological tropes.

not long ago on a road trip while staying in a motel in a well populated area with high-rises other motels and stores and such I clearly heard gunshots coming from one of the nearby high-rises the sound coming from higher up then silence..........then what seemed like 5 minutes three more rapid shots .......a sinking feeling came over me as it was easy to think someone had just done a horrible act. and it felt really grim for the rest of the stay/night. rush hour traffic in the morning just went on a usual and I went on my way😔

Everything about that show felt like it was designed to ruin your ability to suspend disbelief. On average, you're allowed to ask an audience to suspend their disbelief once or twice, and that's with fantasy and science fiction (In Harry Potter you're asked to believe in a world where magic and fantastical creatures exist. In Star Trek, you're asked to believe in a future where alien races have been met, and a federation has been created to serve all peoples), but this show isn't fantasy or science fiction. It's supposed to take place in the real world, but we're supposed to believe a police force doesn't have a dress code, because no police officer on Earth would be allowed to wear piercings on duty, let alone two facial piercings (not to mention that having metal in your face in a frozen environment is just begging for frostbite); that a man so frozen that his blood becomes solid to the point that his limbs snap off is not only still alive, but still conscious; that a cop with a gun in her hand, can get locked in a glass room, allowing a suspect to escape because she needs to find a metal pipe to break the glass instead of shooting the glass; that a severed tongue that is found during the inciting incident was made such a huge part of how the story unfolds, only to be left as a unsolved mystery in the end. I've read online where people are bitching about the ghosts and such, but honestly, the ghosts were more believable than most of the other shit in the story. Like, every episode bothered me so much. True Detective Season 1 felt real and authentic, as well as smart and well-thought out, and now we have this turd, that felt like it was written using Mad-libs and a set of dice. Nothing mattered, nothing paid off, and every character was an idiot.

Thanks for the review- slogged through two episodes and already was pushing myself to continue, nice to know not to waste more time on it! Also, thanks for giving me a digest summation of how it ended, for the small amount of curiosity I still had!

Season 1 is True Detective. Season 2-4 is False Detective.

Lauren, watch some Korean shows. I'd love to hear your opinion on things like Moving, Youth of May, My Name, My Mister, or The Worst of Evil. I thought all those shows were great, but they cover a pretty big range (super heroes, romance, revenge thriller, straight drama, and undercover cop/drug cartel respectively).

Thank you for the review. The show was so polarizing that a “luke warm” review would have been welcomed. I was much the same way. I liked the character element’s because they were individuals dealing with personal and professional struggles throughout. For me there were issues with the story. Maybe the abbreviation of the season from the past series and the effort to tie in season 1 created anticipation that for many was disappointing and unnecessary.

As an Alaskan, the best Alaskan movie I’ve seen would have to be “Insomnia”. It seems like most of the movies nowadays are overly-woke productions of Hollywood-stereotyped natives and Alaskans. It usually wraps up with an unrealistic ending of a mustache-twirling rich white guy that was the murderer, rapist, thief, or overall villain the whole time. It’s insulting how frequently Hollywood makes movies about Alaska, and clearly didn’t hire consultants or ignored them. Most movies give a bizarre and totally unrealistic view of AK

Season 1 of Prodigal's Son was amazing. Season 2 threw out everything good and went full woke.

I felt absolutely the same. Well said.

I messed up, because i watched S1(goat season by the way) and jumped to S4 lol, I was so confused and pissed off. S4 was probably written by Chatgpt because there is no way bro

One of the worst things of this show was how easy was for everyone to commit murder. Real people can't commit murder so easy. In this show everyone was ready to murder someone like they eat breakfast. It is not realistic.

Review monsieur spade on am. Brilliant and beautiful so far. Taking an established character and not ruining them is major accomplishment. Clive Owen is producer but clearly French production. Best entertainment coming from outside USA these days

i watched a few videos to get the vibe how people were feeling i feel like you perfectly described how i feel about this show. oh man was that finale a stinker i wanted this show to stick the landing and at least that would make up for some of the non sense. also we need justice for peter prior that man got done dirty start to finish and kept rolling with it.

Man I love those canvases behind her. Are they actual paintings or prints/screens? The Black-Caped Chicadee was always one of my favorite birds.

Pretty much the same that was my impression as well. I was willing to overlook the wokey stuff as I found the location and the murder/supernatural elements combo intriguing, up to I even suggested the show to a couple of friends. Then the men got even worse and then there was the season finale. I even spent the time to write a review on Imdb about all this and naturally, in this day and age, they squashed it

I felt like the show spent so much effort making the writing female, the leads female, the main antagonist female, having a Billie Eilish intro (might as well had been Beyonce), making all the men dumb, incapable, or forgetable, THEN actually writing a well crafted story that goes somewhere!

I completely agree with this, and when watching I remember the writer of the show and HBO were advertising to people to "not blink" and "pay attention or you'll miss it".

I enjoy your videos, you are entertaining and make really good points. True Detective season 1 was great. 2, 3 and especially 4 was boring.

If I wanna watch Jodie Foster in detective mode I'd rather watch The Silence of the lambs

As someone in their 30s from a poor neighborhood in Cleveland OH (probably one of the most evenly diverse[actually diverse not Hollywood diverse] places) the SJW stuff hurts me My whole life I believed and still believe that a person's race,religion,gender and creed doesn't matter, their heart and minds and actions do. Anyone could do anything. Your culture is respected and appreciated but not better or worse than any other culture. So it hurts me to see what seems like the whole world suddenly change into believing that race and gender is the only thing that matters and defines someone, and that it's ok to openly disparage a gender or skin color (from the actual writers perspective too,not just a character's ) Aside from that and the hypocrisy that it's the same people that expect total sensitivity in regards to their beliefs. It hurts to see that this is causing so many people to actually develop racist and sexist beliefs in rebellion of that agenda. I don't agree with those people but I understand that they feel attacked so they in turn attack, but in doing so they validate the first groups agenda. I don't see how people are so blind

I actually really liked season 3. But the mystery was an afterthought. It was really more about Purple’s relationships and him dealing with memory and dementia.

John Hawkes was great in "Small Town Crime"

They didn't throw it all together. If you're someone who was paying attention to the dynamics of the small town, and know the importance of the cultural class and the socialpolitics of indigenous communities, as they put right smack dab in front of your face, you'd know they did a great job. The clue to solve the mystery was there right at the beginning: _who_ had access to the lab? Right at the opening scene we see the delivery person needing to do something for the upkeep of the lab. It shouldn't be too hard to ask "well who cleans it?" Didn't you, the audience assume that whoever murdered Annie, must've also murdered the men? So you probably silently assumed it must have been someone, probably male, probably not within her community unless it was a love-lorn link? Well, turns out that bias didn't help open your mind to ask the prior question -- who had access: cleaning people. The fact that you call it "cartonnishly social justice" shows your embarassing ignorance of the matter. You had no problem all season long believing that all of the scientists who would agree on months long isolation in Alaska were all white males -- either without family or enough distance from them. That's not a surprise is it? It's not hard to believe that the cleaning staff in such a town are probably going to be women, non-white. So it isn't a surprise that they are the ones who discovered the secret, and felt most passionately about fixing it. Black Panther Party was the original "take matters into our own hands with our 2nd amendment rights. Native American communities are similar with their guns. The events that played out were pretty well thought out. If there is a complaint, the biggest one is in believing that all of the scientists woud have jumped in on murdering Anna when she initially discovered what was oing on. If your issue is the social political understanding, you're showing your ignorance of the subject matter at hand. The reason the season wasn't for you wasn't due to worse writing, it was because of your lack of giving a shit. Maybe the random supernatural bits aren't well explained, Annie's tongue, the eccentric behavior of one of the scientists before they were forced out into the cold. That doesn't all make sense, but it all doesn't have to.

I agree with you that is wasn’t made well. But you said there were no hints that the indigenous women did it but there were… bad hints… but there were hints as they kept showing the woman with missing fingers and her defender a few times.

Navarro sort of reminded me of Lola Teariki from the Arliss Cutter novels set in Alaska. The first one "Open Carry" is a good read anyway. That would be a nice thing to adapt.

I couldn’t agree more with your opinions and how you arrived at them. I started out so hopeful that I willing to try to look past the overt “men are bad, white men are the devil” aspect of the show until it ultimately ended exactly how it showed us it would.

The young cops dads name is John Hawkes. He is in a good murder mystery called "Small Town Crime", check it out.

Season 2 was put down since it wasn’t as strong as season 1 but it was still great also probably more realistic compared to season 1

Honest and fair review here. The critics who got advanced copies and raved about it should be ashamed of themselves.

This is the part where I have to say, duh. All the signs were there before the show even came out.

Is it possible to ‘ruin’ a season that was never good to begin with?

A show I think you would like is called The Woman in the Wall. It has Ruth Wilson in it and it's on Paramount Plus.

Legit exactly how I felt. The show was actually okay (but had quite a few issues) before it got to the final episode. Then boom: so many plot holes. I'm curious what other plot holes people found! First: Would a mine polluting more actually cause the permafrost to melt faster in the local area and in such a fast speed? Personally I believe in climate change, but I don't it work like that at such a local level and at such a fast speed? It's a global phenomena that has built over centuries ... not a few years from a local mine. The permafrost isn't going to melt faster due to one tiny local mine, and due to how far North they are wouldn't melt for decades probably. Second: Why are there Ice Caves? Someone please prove me wrong, but I don't think caves like that naturally form in real life? The only place I can think of where a cave would form like that is a glacier potentially, but the whole point of the finale is they are digging into permafrost ... so clearly they aren't on a glacier. I was just very confused by this and it took me right out of the show. Third: Even if we forget about the existence of Ice Caves, when the two of them discovered the location of the caves wouldn't they have realized the cave entrance was right beside the research facility? Like it was RIGHT THERE. Fourth: Getting back to the scientists, it makes no sense that (ignoring the pollution plot hole) that they'd be okay with additional pollution in exchange of melting the permafrost faster to find this magical cure or whatever it was they were looking for. Like, I'm pretty sure scientists who essentially give their life to advancing human knowledge would not be okay with bribing a company to pollute more. I just can't fathom a reality where that would occur. Sure, maybe one bad apple, but for 6 people to be okay with that just doesn't add up. Sixth: Also, the kid killing his dad, and then magically being okay with it afterwards. It did not seem realistic for him to even kill him, and then afterwards the fact that he ended up being okay (mentally) and was able to clean it all up was just ... silly? It's crazy that professional writers come up with stuff like this. I too would have been fine if this show was "just okay" ... but the finale was so atrociously bad that I searched online to see if anyone else was as disappointed as I was.

If we want to get rid of wokeness, I think we’re gonna have to stop watching tv series and movies. This 💩 in everything now. If 2 dudes aren’t kissing within 30 minutes of a movie or by episode 2 in a series then they ain’t making that show. It’s just horrible that everything needs to be about being gay or women are the best.

There's kind of a weird story behind season four. They asked a Mexican director (she made the spanish "Tigers Are Not Afraid") to take her other movie screenplay and turn it into a True Detective 6 episode season. Maybe it was a bad decision to accept it, but now she gets to work on season 5 too. I think season 4 had high ratings at least.

So I actually didn't finish Night Country because I thought it was so boring. I got to the episode where Jodie Foster and her partner fall into the ice caves, but at that point I kinda just stoped caring. What got me interested in it was that some people were saying that it would link into the S1 Tuttle Cult in some way. And the first episode was interesting and creepy, in spite of the weird ghost guy rain dancing. But as I kept watching, the show was just mostly personal issues between the characters. Yeah, S1 had that, but the detectives were also actively working a case in between their own conflicts. Like you said, it's like they totally forgot they were trying to solve a murder mystery until the last minute. Needless to say, with what I was expecting from the show, I am very disappointed.

This show was only created to check all the D.E.I boxes

And also, I showed my sister the trailer & told her “this will be woke garbage”. She was you never know blah blah but I bet her 100.00. Got to fill my tank and get some in n out 4 days later with that 100.00😂 I mean cmon after yearsss ppl really still think Hollyweird is going to release a non woke, well written gorgeous looking well acted etc. movie nowadays? Just watch Korean and Japanese stuff. And Japanese games my dudes

I'll guess you've watched John Carpenter's masterpiece "The Thing" starring the great Kurt Russell. If not, watch that as soon as you can. It has all the creepy mystery vibes you're looking for, and much more. Plus, it's set in Antarctica. Brrrr

Jodi Foster, all by herself, is a red flag with flares, warning lights, red alert sirens, fireworks, high-power searchlights, red fire engines, cancer warning labels, chernobyl stop signs, and pink nuclear mushroom clouds. Other than that, I don't know what to say. Have a nice day. =].

If anyone wants to watch a programme that is similar to Night Country but done well. Watch a series from a few years ago called Fortitude. Recommend it to you Lauren.

Lauren, when the series is finished do a review of “Masters of the Air.” I think you’re going to find it interesting.