An inverse of the first season's sweaty Louisiana masculinity, this season is set in frozen darkness during the annual month-long period of continous nighttime in a remote Northern Alaskan town as López both enhances and subverts what intially drew audiences to pulpy detective drama.
True Detective: Night Country will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 9 via Warner Bros. The fourth season of HBO's anthology crime drama series is currently available on Digital and Max.
Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) serves as writer, director, and showrunner. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star with Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, John Hawkes, and Christopher Eccleston.
Special features are listed below.
Special features:
Meet the True Detectives – Cast Q&A
New Chapter – Showrunner Issa López and cast discuss Night Country's unique role in the series
Exploring Indigenous Themes – Delves into Alaska Native culture and how it has informed this season
Max Inkblots – Get to know cast through show-themed inkblot interpretations
Setting Featurette – Sets up Alaska as a pivotal character in the story
Atmospheric Teases – Social environmental shots to tease key moments from the series
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When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
John Barth's brief description of Donald Barthelme's so-called postmodernist dinners
Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940)
In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called postmodernist dinners, both of which I’ve written on this blog before.
…though [Barthelme] tsked at the critical tendency to group certain writers against certain others ”as if we were football teams” –…