TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY Ending Explained! 

What did you think of True Detective Season 4 and do you think it deserves another season? True Detective: Night Country Episode 1 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f2Md73DDLy8.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 2 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yKnbTpcwQ3Q.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 3 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u0vU8pOU1AI.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 4 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-efEAaRpG9gY.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 5 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lJM49r62UcY.html True Detective Season 4 Ending Explained: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YgNjecXl4sw.html True Detective Season 3 Ending Explained: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VQljeqzppjs.html

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My heart breaks for Qavvik😢

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.

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

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

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?!

disappointing ending would be an understatement

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

Even Hanks fiancee didnt want to be seen in this show

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This season makes S2 look like a masterpiece

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?

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

Ngl i've enjoyed listening to your analysis over the show itself!

I enjoyed your video. Season Four just wraps up the show for me, more questions than answers, but like whatever-it’s just a series and I’m not emotionally invested in any of the characters nor events; it was fun to watch.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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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

@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.”

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

“It’s Ennis, nobody ever leaves.” 😂

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

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. ☺️

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

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

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 🤓

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

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?

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

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?

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 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.

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?

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

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.

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

l literally just finished watching it hoping you would have a video ready to go!!!

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.

I assumed the ghost behind Navarro 10:31 was Annie - but your theory makes more sense. Very cool recap!

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.

So let me get this straight... Women CSI find out that men at the station are involved with a murder, but they don't know whom specifically. Instead of investigating and finding the person at fault, as revenge they decide to KILL EVERYONE there. Regardless of their job at the station. Let me remind you that THE WOMAN IN CHARGE OF THE MINE IS STILL ALIVE and got away with it! Also also, the man who is for sure the real murderer (Clark), SURVIVED THE WOMEN CSI hunt (because he hid in the basement ladder thing). To summarize, a bunch of women killed everyone at the station EXCEPT the person who murdered Annie (and they did this for revenge), and the other person involved with Annie is off scot-free.

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.

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.

Good breakdown. I like the little mysteries that are left to our own interpretation. I think the vision we see of what happened to Annie is the true account. I think Navarro knows and it’s why she doesn’t believe him when he says he didn’t kill her. It could even be her envisioning it. These men have all dedicated their lives to a cause they believe will change human life, living in almost total isolation. It’s believable they would kill her since if she’s set them back and is stop them from what they view as life changing work.

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

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.

great video

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

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.

Wow, someone made it to the end!

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

I loved watching a mystery built around women and indigenous culture. Not having tidy, certain answers makes me replay the story in my mind in different ways. Thank you for the thoughtful review.

Thank u - I thought the way he said Annie died was very unbelievable

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.

1. True detective but none of them was a detective. 2. Season 4 was all about women overpowering men, women empowerment. Over did it a little bit. 3. Navarro ending got me choked up and watery in the eyes.

True Detective: Native Lady Ninja Assassins Strike Back.

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

At first, I thought this season was X-Files themed. I assumed the scientists brought Annie back from death and was now possessed by the micro-organism.

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.

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?

This season was another heartbreaker. This show has never been able to reach the heights of its initial run

Just some quick thoughts after seeing the last episode. The circle, the polarbear, the visions are "real" and connects S1 and S4. But the main characters in S4 messed up as they are misses them completely. They are too occupied with their inner demons that they dont see the "real" demon lurking in the dark. Navarro and Danvers are to broken to comprehend the signs that are shown to them. Cole in S1 in contrast was a rational individual who perhaps through his ability to deduct and cold reason was the one who truly had the ability to see evil and the symbols conncted to it.

That really helped.