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The cleaning lady following a drip of water past a tile, through a submarine hatch and into an underground bunker where she solves the crime in under 35 seconds during her mopping break is one of the best pieces of writing i've ever come across.

The cleaning lady that found the drill bit is clearly The True Detective in this season.

I am so pissed that the creators of the show baited the audience by bringing in details from season 1 (travis, Tuttle, spiral) for no good reason.

According to scientific research, this season had a serious case of Gameofthronitis: crammed too much into too short of a season. Nothing was fully developed, and too many plotlines were left untouched/unresolved.

Clark's version of Annie's death doesn't line up with the video she made because in the video she is in the process of trying to explain what she found and suddenly starts screaming. In Clark's version, she is smashing everything when the scientists find her, she does not have her cell in her hands, making a video.

I would of been down if Clark just said “ya we are trying to wake Cthulhu”

My favourite part was Navarro waking up from being knocked unconscious with a fire hydrant and immediately overpowering her attacker.

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t" is True Detective: Night Country.

My heart breaks for Qavvik😢

So the scientists' clothes were barely covered with snow when Narravo found them, but no sign of or tracks from the big a$$ truck the hit squad cleaning ladies took them out there in?!

The aggressiveness in which the scientists killed Annie was ABSURD and even more unbelievable considering how pathetically submissive they were to Eskimo cleaning women…

disappointing ending would be an understatement

Well, we all overthought this one. None of the mythology of the native culture came to fruition. Navarro’s hallucinations not explained. “Night Country” was an overly ritzy name for a tunnel of ice caverns. We still don’t know what the scientists really found in their work. The spiral was never explained except perhaps as a fossil under the ice. Some characters did not really add to the story. Jules character was wholly underdeveloped. Everyone here was an unreliable narrator. The cleaning crew as killers? I don’t know but I had expectations to be blown away in the finale. Wasn’t.

The things they leave unanswered are the most unexplainable things that happened on the snow. Why did the carabou jump off a cliff? What was the deal with the polar bear? What was with the hallucinations? Why does Liz see a hub cap, a necklace in her hair and wtf was with the tongue spot having an expanding ice spot. Even the thing with Navarro seeing into the past to what Clarke did made no sense. What about Navarro getting bleeding ears at the dredges and on the ice? What about what happened with Heiss in his freak accident that he initially survived? Bizarre choices imo for them to leave those things so vague and ambiguous.

great review Think Story! always a joy hearing the summary of this show! Keep it up! 🎉

The tattooed hand is Julie, her sister. We saw her tattoos earlier this season.

Even Hanks fiancee didnt want to be seen in this show

So my theory is that Navarro was able to pass the test to be spared by the spirit when she crossed the desert landscape in that hallucination. When Navarro began bleeding from the ears, she closed her eyes. I think, had she kept them open, she would have suffered the other effects of the spirit such as the burnt corneas, and would have lost her life. There was wailing happening as her ears bled, as if terrifying images of violence and death were soon to be seen. Perhaps the doctors' faces frozen in fear were another indication of them having their eyes open and seeing what made those screams.

Absolutely have loved your breakdowns this season. They have been slightly longer which is perfect

You effing nailed this one…. almost like we shared completely unrelated (but equally traumatic) experiences and mind-melded. Bravo 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I think there’s a small element of time travel/alternate parallel universes…Clark mentions something about time being a loop, the first thing I thought was how is twist and shout still playing when Danvers ripped it out in episode one. Could also explain why the tongue was still in such good shape 6 yrs later.

You do a really good job on your breakdowns, they’re really entertaining to watch. Your breakdowns on the first two episodes actually persuaded me to watch the entire show as I had not seen any of it before then.

Excellent and comprehensive video.. I watched all 6 episodes twice - but you still filled in a couple of small gaps for me.. I got my arms around all the nooks and crannies of the plot now because of this video.. thank you.

i think you absolutely nailed it here and i gotta thank you for helping me understand the finale a HELL of a lot more.

Raymond talked about time being a flat circle. When Navarro saw him after his death, it was her seeing the past, while he saw her in the future in that moment.

I don’t think Navarro is dead. I think she went wherever Oliver Tagaq went. That’s probably her on the porch. She went looking for her roots with her new name.

One thing I noticed was, once Liz fell bellow the ice, her repressed memories of her son came to light. She had buried them below the surface. The shot itself represents this.

I don't think Raymond made the shrine to Annie. I think it was the women that made the shrine to commemorate her, it seems more fitting with all the animal bones, native decorations, and the spiral on the roof

I wanted to like this season so bad, but the writing and pacing were unforgivable. This season had so much going for it on paper and I'm left wondering what it could have been in the hands of a competent writer

Is Navarro Alive? How did Annie’s tongue get there? What is the relevance of Twist and Shout? What does “ She’s awake” mean? What happened while Navarro was in combat? How were Otis Heis injuries sustained? What’s up with the polar bear, the pointing ghosts, the cross necklace and the visions?

I think the "Hawaii" coffee mug from Danvers' debrief scene is the same one they were drinking from at Tsalal Station at the end. Like did Liz keep it as a souvenir?

Back in ep 4 Liz deduced about a generator existing in the ice cave based on Annie's death footage where the power goes out yet after revealing the power outage was caused by the women cleaners before the scientists' deaths, it doesn't match w the murder reveal of Annie since the power never went out and there's no relation between these two events. Also, Annie's video stopped recording as we find out that Clarke had stepped on the phone that ended the recording which I find inconsistent based on the time it took Clarke to get to the caves and interrupt her murder. I'm going to assume it took Clarke at least 3 minutes or so to get to the caves from his bedroom AFTER Annie's screams took place. End of ep 3, we were shown how Annie died and her screams went on for a good 10 seconds I believe and followed by ep 4 as Liz was closely viewing the footage the video ended 2-3 seconds after Annie's scream due to the power outage (or Clarke stepping on the phone) which originally the video should last longer than that. The writing feels sorta lazy how the caves was deduced by Liz due to the discontinuity of the footage and the two separate events that took place.

There’s a moment in S7 of Game of Thrones when they’re beyond the Wall and Barrick suggests killing the Night King to defeat every single White Walker and Wight. The camera ominously rotates to the Night King, and Jon Snow says, “You don’t understand.” As if there’s some epic mystery yet to be revealed. Of course, there wasn’t … just crap writing for a cheap thrill in the moment. This season of True Detective is best summed up by Clark’s quote in the middle of the finale … “Time is a flat circle…” Uh, what?? That was nothing more than a mindless Easter egg. What wasted potential.

So the people who clean and found the hatch didn't clean their own prints?

I really enjoyed the series. I also enjoyed your clarifications of some of the events. Thanks for your insights.

Other than season 1 no other seasons of true detective has reached that peak of perfection.

The best breakdowns on True Detective this season by far. Thank you for the videos

I just love when every theory out there is better than what we all saw on the screen.

To everyone who has all of these questions that they feel were left unanswered: You're asking the wrong question. The question is why did you waste your time watching this show?

@9:11 bear with me on this but I think this is the answer: I think Raymond was seeing Navarro during this scene. Not that Navarro was there during the murders BUT he was seeing Navarro standing there in the future. He was merely freaked out by her “presence” because, well, “Time is a flat circle.”

Like everything else, the twist reveal of the killer was stolen from season 1. Errol Childress was an easily overlooked menial worker who was questioned by detectives repeatedly on unrelated questions. Same with the killers in this season. They even threw in the minor bad guy hitting them with "time is a flat circle" right before dying. Who wrote this, Claudine Gay?

it’s kinda funny thinking about all the theories and twists everyone was coming up with when the actual ending could’ve been guessed on episode 1

I enjoyed the whole season, had a lot of fun trying to figure out what was going on. I’m ok not having all the answers wrapped in a bow at the end, that’s part of the fun, open to interpretation and intriguing discourse. Acting was also phenom! The setting was different and a character in itself. Really enjoyed the women centered plot as well as the indigenous people and historical fiction that’s such a big part of our country. Plus supernatural/spiritual/ origins of life/ science stuff… what more do you want?! Although I would have loved to explore the caves a bit more 🤓

I loved the show even more after the way u broke it down! Lots of stuff I wasn’t sharp on and your attention to detail was amazing on connecting season 1 to 4! I’m a glass half full kind of guy so I enjoyed it a lot! My fav season since the first

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Thank you for finally clearing up the connection to season 1 for me.👍🏽

This was such a thorough and brilliant breakdown. Love it!

Man, this season was kind of a mixed bag for me but ultimately great performances by all the leads. I hope to see Kali Reis in more acting ventures soon.

More questions are left than answers. Season 1 is still the goat. Seeing the indigenous perspectives was pretty cool.

Vitamin C from oranges and sulfur-limonene can absorb mercury so if the mine is polluting the water supply it’s got to be linked to how Julia and Navarros mom loved oranges and peels, perhaps triggering psychosis?

Someone said Annie’s tongue was Clark’s attempt to bring her back to life with what they found in the ice, that’s why it looks fresh and not decayed

I would not have gotten through this season without your explanations. Thank you!

I need to watch the first season to get this taste out of my mouth

“It’s Ennis, nobody ever leaves.” 😂

Thank you for the work you've put into this, I wish season 4 was as good as the fan content created around it

A few things I noticed : 1. The trailer and the abandoned ship where they found Heis was very reminiscent of Carcosa from season one. The underground ice caves reminded me of that too. Carcosa, Night Country. Time is a Flat Circle. 2. I think the spiral as a warning of thin ice, could also be a warning of a thin "veil" to a portal of time. Season 3 also represented a thin veil in time. 3. The drawing that prior's son made based on the story his grandma told him, makes me think that is the spirt they were talking about.

The whole cleaning ladies turned CSI hit squad was pretty ridiculous. And to your point if i witnessed my colleague/friends viciously murdering someone I dont think my 1st thought would be to jump in and help. Lol.. Maybe he was lying, idk. Decent season overall.

I don't find it hard to believe the scientists would kill Annie to keep their secret since they were already gradually poisoning & murdering an entire town.

I had to watch each episode a few times to catch all the clues I missed, and I still didn't figure out what was happening until the last two episodes

Fun little thing is that "Hawaii" mug is the same one that Navarro and Liz are drinking from at Tslala Station after Liza recovers and they determine it is safe to leave.

One of the killer women has a grim reaper tee shirt on. Also Prior has Sgt stripes at the interview.

i cant beleive all the men just ganged up and killed annie

Louisianna (S1) is very, very oil rich. Makes sense that the Tuttles are there *and* in Alaska (also oil rich).

My favorite part is when Danvers is trapped in the walk-in freezer with the glass door and despite the fact that she has a gun in her hands and Clark is about to kill Navarro, she holsters her gun and looks for something to break the glass. Some of the best and most air-tight writing right there.

We were told all season how important the mine is to the town. Even Annie's brother worked there. And then, in the end, the town just shuts down the mine. So no more mine jobs, no more Tsalal Station jobs. Everyone just works at the crab processing plant, I guess? And then they're just going to continue to live in a toxic waste dump with pollution levels 11 times higher than normal that causes cancer, stillbirths, and genetic defects? Even if they sue the mining company and win a huge settlement. No one can live there any longer. At least not for a very long time.

I’m sorry but doesnt Clark have the tattoo of the spiral on his chest?? I didn’t see it in the finale episode. Correct me if I’m wrong

I don’t mind questions being left unanswered. I mind season finales leaving me with 5x more questions and fewer answers than the previous episode.

Thanks! I did have some trouble putting all the story lines together, this helped. I missed some of the clues, like how Liz's son died.

Your video was a very comprehensive breakdown. I really enjoyed this season. Thanks for covering it so extensively.

Unfortunately, I think the only thing I'm gonna remember from this season is "Cleaning Lady Girl-Power Hit Squad"

finally! a review of night country without the crashing sense of impending collapse so many people had after the 1ST EPISODE. i have been watching 5 or 6 'reviews' for each episode, but not this time. i know what happened and it's time to move on. thank you, whoever you are.

The best part was how Danvers broke the glass of the refrigerator by repeatedly hammering on it with the iron bar. She even had to hoster her gun to take a full swing with both hands... when she could simply have shot the glass. A close second is how the handprint on the hatch can be matched to exactly the one person in the whole town who had mangled fingers - talk about a lucky break! Oh and the hatch leading to the ice lab, that was conveniently hidden under floor tiles so the forensic team in Ep1 couldn't find it, but was also conveniently left unlocked so the cleaning lady could get to the lab in Ep6.

This season makes S2 look like a masterpiece

The way I was stalking your page for this ..... thank you love your channel ❤❤

A lot of unanswered questions, or iffy answers provided to those questions. Maybe subsequent seasons will reveal more, seeing as there is connectivity between seasons, places, and people.

How far this show has come down from the first season, amazing. I wont be wasting my time with this show.

Defended this show the best I could lol but after that shit show of a season finale…there is nothing more I can do

at the very end... I have a question about that video confession (on Navarro"s cell phone) that they said Navarro got from Raymond Clark. (the leaked video) When could she have recorded it? In the video he looked cleaned up, very coherent & not crazy at all. In E6 from the first contact, Danvers & Navarro had with Clark...until he died... he looked crazy, filthy. Then he was bloodied & messed up when they were interrogating him. When/how? could he have been recorded confessing what the scientists/mine were doing?? I'm confused.

The hand was her sister Julia's who knew she didn't know her real name> This was her sister's way of telling her she reunited with their mother and was able to get that information. It could of also been Annie and her way of letting Evangeline know she's at peace now and Thanking her.

"oranges. my mom loved oranges." orange you glad this season is over?

18:40 I felt something similar when I used to live on the shore of Lake Michigan. There was something about the lake in the wintertime that makes you want to run as far as you can. Past the horizon. Almost like a pull.

I think the ladies put the tongue there. The lady that does the cremation could’ve saved it. She said it’s just a story, so maybe she lied about that part of the story 🤷🏾‍♀️. Why those women didn’t have that same energy for Liz’s boyfriend?

Bee specifically tells the story of finding the underground lab, so if the tongue was kept there she could have found it. I tend to think she would have wanted to bury it with the rest of Annie K's body, but it is possible.

Alright so there are obviously too many things wrong with this season to list all of them, but something I see no one mention is - wtf happened to Lund, the sole survivor of the Corpsicle? Did the writers forget about him? Ever since the reveal that he is alive I kept wondering when that would pay of, but of course it never did. Like wtf, they whole mystery of what happened could have been solved by just ASKING the guy who was actually there??! There were so many lazy mistakes in the script I cant even believe it, but this has got to be the biggest one.

Is no one going to talk about how Navarro had a different colored hat when she was at the bon fire at first and walking out on the ice, then had a different green hat after pulling Liz from the ice?

My theory was that Annie was contaminated by the organism on the drill bit functionally giving her immortality and letting her be the killer.

Even the very beginning scene with the deer or caribou running off the cliff? What was that from?

Small detail and maybe it’s reaching but I like how Navarros name meaning ‘the return of the sun after the long darkness’ could be a play on words referring to Danvers’ son Holden

**POSED THIS QUESTION BEFORE I WATCHED THIS VIDEO**Did I miss it or was it never explained how Danvers son & husband died? And was the step daughter her husband's biological child? I kept waiting for those dream sequences/fever dreams to explain it whenever the child appeared.🤷🏾‍♀️

I think the best parts of this season involved Liz’s grief. There were some nice sentimental moments. Great acting by the leads and nice cinematography. That’s what kept me watching up to the last episode. The plot was awful. The scientist murders could have been solved based on the fingerprints already from episode 2 (most KZfaqrs caught this one). The scientist motivation to have the mine pollute more the water does not make any sense from a physics point of view (it was really hilarious😂). Assuming that these guys were truly looking for a microorganism, we are talking about some high level research. And Annie managed to understand everything just based on scribbles?! Having goddess Sedna lead Annie to the truth is actually a way more realistic explanation 😂😂😂 this is a very weak plot when it comes to the actual mystery. And it’s a pity for a show called true DETECTIVE.

Oh wow! This is beautiful. Im a fan of jodi foster, but when I first heard there was a supernatural element to this show, I didnt want to bother watching it. Hearing your analysis of it makes me want to actually watch it now. thank you.

Remember Jack Crawford telling Clarice 'Your father sees you,' at the end of Silence of the Lambs? So does Holden.

I liked the ending. It explained enough and the rest was left to your imagination. It should have been 8 episodes to fill out some of the other storylines tho.

Maybe she killed rusts dad?? But the no hospital records doesn't point to that. Rusts dad was a "survivalist" and they lived in the middle of nowhere. Didnt seem to have a lot of money. So its very likely he just never got treated. "Shes not on the ice" is referring to her NOT ending herself. Thats what shes saying. And we see her st the end for whatever reason, and they should just be her. It makes no sense. Its nonsense Tha avalanche thing was completely wrong. Like completely confirmed wrong. It was just part of the cover up. Did you miss that part? It was beyond shady. The mine lady was there when they told her and everything. Plus they'd never be frozen like that in that position, plus they weren't on a hill, plus they went over it with prior. Like when thry did the "ask questions" and determined that made no sense. "some answers dont have answers" is such a cop out. They didnt explain shit. This was a MASSIVE let down. The first season had such a good finale. They did NOTHING with the spiral, nothing with that weird worm, nothing with the Rust cole connections, just wtf.

I got coule of thoughts that can kinda tie some things up: - spiral - being a reference to 1st season. There it symbolises a god, hence the brutality of the sacrafices, murder and child abuse. Here the spiral can refer to Sedna, the inuit goddess, she takes people who freeze or fall into the ocean. Same symbols appear in different cultures and are interpreted differently. With this, I think the show wanted to point out that the inuit goddess is not requiring bloody and awful sacrafices, the women let the scientists in the cold, saying if they are not taken they can come back for their clothes and survive. That makes me think they left them at the mercy of elements (cold, ocean, animals) that can personify the goddess. This season being focused on 'female energy', it shows that male god (season 1) was awful and required active sacrifices, here, the female goddess is more passive and represents the danger of the environment. - people in Ennis seeing dead people. It can be of course a comment on the fact that western medicine calls it hallucinations/maddness but in other cultures it just means that you are connected to your loved ones. Also, if this amazing, life-saving/resurecting bacteria (whatever it was) was trapped under the permafrost, it can still impact the area. People will not be cured by it (this is why scientists were digging) but it might have 'ressurected' the spirits, sort of half ressurection, helping other people see the wandering souls.

I quite enjoyed this season. Nothing can ever touch season one. But I was happy they answered all my questions

An important piece of symbolism that many may have missed was the change of Navarro's hat from orange to blue.

Having rewatched the final episode, here are my thoughts …. Things that made me laugh/feel warm and fuzzy: • Longest cold open ever! 😃 • Didn’t they drive reeeeaaaally far, just to end up right underneath Tsalal? 🤣 • Why couldn’t Danvers just shoot out the freezer door?🚪 • The power outage on the road out of town was brilliant! • So many parka changes! 😄 • The way Danvers says, “fuck” is hilarious. 😆 • “I am not merciful.” Beauty! 👍 • The hubcap …. good jump scare. 😱 • Bea’s story: scientists were killed by the great spirit, because they dug into the ice, woke her up, and killed Annie. The spirit took the the scientists, when offered: “I guess she ate their fucken dreams from the inside out, and spit their frozen bones. But …. it’s just a story.” Love it! 🥰 • The fact that the corrupt coverup actually ended up absolving the Iñupiaq women is delicious. Mwah! 🤓 • Danvers kept the Hawaii mug from the New Year’s toast with Navarro at Tsalal. She’s sentimental, now. 😊 • Holden can see her through the bear - I love that! ♥️ …. Infuriating true things: • Virtually every man who ever killed his significant other claims to have loved her, and states, “I would never hurt her.” They ALWAYS say that, and it’s always a lie. • Clark forgot to mention suffocating Annie with his t-shirt. 😒 • Such arrogance! Clark still claims he loves Annie, but clearly nothing was more important to him than his ‘world-changing’ work. • It all smacks of colonialism, racial condescension and gender bias. Clark and the other scientists believed that their work was so important that the lives of the villagers were just the cost of ‘their grand quest.’ 🙄 …. Some things I’ve gleaned: We assumed a single person/entity was responsible for leaving/moving the items, and for the visions - but turns out it’s busy in the land of the dead …. • Navarro’s mom was responsible for the whispers, Navarro’s visions, the oranges and the necklace; • Holden was responsible for the polar bears 🐻‍❄️ (both stuffed and gigantic), both women’s bear visions, and finally for bloody “Twist and Shout.” 😆 It was SO obvious, and yet I missed it. The song was playing on the boombox in the pivotal “I see you” scene. And that’s why Danvers hates it - because it reminds her of her loss. I was certain it was going to be playing in the crashed car, but since she wasn’t there (see further down), she wouldn’t have heard it. • Annie must have been responsible for the tongue. 👅 No one else had access to it, nor had knowledge of its connection to Tsalal. • It’s good that Lund suffered the most, since he was Annie’s original attacker. • The woman screaming in the generator background was Navarro’s mother, trying to tell her what her Iñupiaq name is. The soldier with half a head missing was so close to death that her mom could break through the veil. She attempted to say her Iñupiaq name, but failed for some reason. 🤷🏼‍♀️ • The sound of the screaming appears to make the ears bleed. • Danvers didn’t see anything, once she was in the water - she was just dying. • In her vision of the car accident, Danvers is wearing the same blanket she has on at Tsala, so she’s not there. She wasn’t there when it happened, and she agonizes about Holden’s last moments. • Rose has seen and done some things. 😳 She knows what “comes after .… forever.” So, she’s clearly killed somebody, likely Travis (with his permission). • Navarro is dead. She was no longer afraid of the calling/screaming, once she realized it was just her mother trying to “tell her something she needed to know,” per Rose. • Navarro did “come back” to both of the people who asked her to, mainly to return their stuff. 😁 • Dead Navarro was responsible for returning the stuffed polar bear to Danvers (the final time), the phone with the confession on it, and the Sponge-Bob toothbrush to Eddie. • I realized that “come back” and “try to come back” both were intentionally referring to after death. • “This is Ennis; nobody ever really leaves.” Navarro is gone, but not really gone. …. Things I don’t know for sure: 🤷🏼‍♀️ • Whose baby was that at Wheeler’s? Was it Darwin?! I think it’s Darwin! Does the timeline work? Because no one ever says anything about Kayla having been pregnant. And the “He doesn’t really look like you” comment about Holden could easily also be applied to Peter and Darwin. Darwin doesn’t resemble Peter at all. So, when Pete tells Kayla, “I ruined your life. You never wanted the baby,” he could well have been talking about bringing home an orphaned child. • Is the orange that leads Danvers to the tongue imprint on the floor important? Was it Annie taking credit? Navarro’s mom? 🤔 Was it just a spiritual psych gag? 🤪 • How did Clark end up buried to his waste in ice? 🧊🤨 • Why didn’t Navarro tell Danvers right away that she had gotten a recorded confession from Clark? 🤷🏼‍♀️ • Navarro’s whispering mother stopped her going outside to freeze, then showed her a replay of Clark’s seizure - why? • the women who were at Bea’s house “super- early:” do they all live there? They had coats on, so did they all just show up? Did somebody call them? Are they ALL victims of domestic violence? • May 12, first long day of the year - any relevance? • Same hunter at the beginning and end. Meaning? …. One thing that bugged me a little: • I know it was cold 🥶 out, but Navarro could’ve tried harder to get the generator going. And it really should have started easily - it’s for emergencies, after all. That is all. ☺️

When exactly did the mob of Cleaning ladies take pictures of the case file of Annie K. Wasn't the file at Hank's home since "the great flood". We don't know when that happened, but it seems to be a while ago.