López, however, brings it back to the source with a chilly tale of murder and environmental catastrophe that evokes John Carpenter’s’ classic shocker The Thing and Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. In later years, TD steered away from the uncanny. The series arrives in advance of the 10th anniversary of the original True Detective, in which McConaughey and Harrelson partnered as Louisiana detectives battling a cult with Lovecraftian overtones. They will be able to quote the dialogue in question as if they heard it just yesterday. Suffice to say, fans of the original Matthew McConaughey- Woody Harrelson True Detective from 2014 will know what I’m talking about. That said, he gets the most meme-worthy moment when he says “the line”. However, isn’t an Irish person an odd choice as a metaphor for western colonialism? Clarke could have been British, French, Belgian or Dutch. López’s point about big corporations asset-stripping native communities is well made. He’s sort of the villain, embodying the imperialism of western corporatism and the disaster it brings to the native Inuit of Alaska. One of the more significant characters is Dubliner “Raymond Clarke”. Of all the names in all the world, why riff on Clare’s county town? What next? Star Trek reboot Deep Space Nenagh? A Succession spin-off in Athlone? For starters, the setting is the remote, entirely fictional settlement of “Ennis, Alaska”. She provides a steady drip of Irish references across a gripping six-episode thriller (debuting on Sky Atlantic on Monday, January 15th, at 9pm). What could be further removed from Ireland than Jodie Foster in a parka backlit by the alien fireworks of the Northern Lights?īut Night Country’s showrunner Issa López has a different perspective. Strictly speaking, then, this moody and, at times, terrifying serving of new year noir should be the least “Irish” show of the year. True Detective’s long-awaited fourth season takes place in Alaska, where Oscar-winner Jodie Foster teams up with professional boxer-turned-actress Kali Reis.
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