Review: True Detective: Night Country, "Part V" | Season 4, Episode 5
"Fuckin' family stuff."
So the Night Country has been there, all along. Sure, we learned the actual meaning of the term in “Part V”: As Qavvik’s buddy Kenny tells us, it’s the name given to the dangerous underground ice caves, the place where you could fall through the earth and never be seen again. But all of our protagonists fell through long ago. Even if Navarro was free of the visions plaguing her, even if Danvers wrapped up every case in Ennis with a nice big bow and received a transfer somewhere further south, these people aren’t going anywhere. The night swallowed them up, helped them give in to their fears and insecurities, and convinced them there was no other way—no other place—they could be. They wouldn’t know what to do with the daylight even if they were forced to walk back into it.
In some ways, a lot of the plot advanced here was the least surprising part of the show. (Not all of it, though; more on that ending shortly.) If you put an evil corporate conglomerate on t…