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I stuck with it and watched the entire fourth season of True Detective so I could review it honestly. I honestly believe all of the people who are raving about this season must've been paid off by HBO.

If you know anything about True Detective then you know that Nic Pizzolatto created it, he wrote the first three seasons and was showrunner also. Some people don't like season two but I actually enjoyed it. Issa Lopez approached HBO with her idea for a show called "Night Country" instead of letting her have her own thing they convinced (bullied) her into making it a part of the True Detective world.

So they threw in some references to season one (Spiral Symbol, Last name Cohle, Tuttle Inc) which made absolutely no sense whatsoever and slapped the TD name on it to get fans of the original excited. Then they made it seem like things were going the supernatural route up until the very end in which we get a logical explanation for the strange occurrences.

Anyone who criticizes S4 online is immediately called a misogynist because the two main characters were women. I'm a woman and personally I thought that Navarro and Danvers were practically interchangeable except for age and ethnicity. Neither of them were likable until the very end and instead of playing off one another they were basically the same character.

So it was a bunch of women who got revenge for Annie? How anti climatic. Out of all the endings that it could have been that's it? And they just took of their clothes and then died frozen naked in the snow? How frustrating. The entire first part of this episode was so boring as well. It would have been a better twist if it was Annie maybe possessing Navarro and she was doing it maybe unknowingly because she keeps blacking out. Or maybe someone else. Any body can else ... instead it was such a boring ending. What else can I say. Just bring us back Matthew and woody. Know one asked for these 3 seasons without them.

My girlfriend and I watched this episode last night, and the only way to make this bearable was to comment it a' la MST3K, pointing out the absurdities.

The two detectives go hunting for clues in the ice caves - alone, in the Arctic night, without equipment or backup.

The missing scientist killed the Inuit woman because she was messing with his research on life-saving bacteria; he probably never backed up his hard drive, nor knew how to grow the aforementioned bacteria in a petri dish in the comfort of a non-Alaskan laboratory.

The cleaning ladies avenged the killing by showing amazing SWAT skills and removing every trace of their presence so well that the forensic team never noticed tire tracks or the presence of a veritable mob on the crime scene.

The laboratory has a secret submarine-like hatch concealed under floor tiles. Because reasons.

Jodie Foster falls in the Arctic waters under the ice and survives without hypothermia symptoms.

Jodie Foster randomly finds the only handprint that can be traced to a specific person in the whole town without need for a forensic analysis.

I really, really have issues with two cops discovering clues by beating, torturing and finally killing the only suspect.

If you are wondering why I watched this, I can only say that I fell for the sunk cost fallacy - having seen five episodes so far, I felt that I had invested too much in this series to skip the finale.

Worse ending every!!! This is an example of no creativity or an extreme example of lazy writing!! Everyone did it so no one did it. The writers expect the audience to accept the conclusion that a band of tribal women rush the science lab and didn't leave behind not one shred of evidence that suggested a group attacked the facility. Also, all those women (who are not career criminals) are technologically savvy enough to avoid all camera, not leave footprints, finger prints, or DNA at the scene. Also a group of professional law enforcement office would not find any evidence of group involvement. Pretty far fetched. Also no one is arrested. Additionally, why waste the tie ends to season one if they didn't amount to anything? Why was Rust's father mentioned? Why were the Tuttles mentioned? Waste of resources and potential!!

I am not as down as some people were on this season, but this was not a fitting finale. They did an absurd excuse for what happened and what happened to Annie, that kind of gave me vibes of another HBO drama and not this one.

I feel like not all of the stories wrapped up and while I understand the ending for one of the characters being ambiguous, I just think there were many more paths to explore.

I like cut and dry murder mysteries and I feel like there were too many side areas that impacted this one. This was not a perfect ending or even a decent one, but maybe that is just me being bitter.

This has to be the worst finale I've ever seen. Throughout the entire season there has been very little in terms of plot development, I'd assumed this was because there'd be interesting reveals packed in at the end. Turns out the reason there was no plot development was because there was no plot. None of the things that may have left you guessing in previous episodes were explained. For example, the constant references to "twist and shout", meant nothing. The frequent supernatural sightings, meant nothing. The tongue on the floor, meant nothing. The whale bones, meant nothing. The things that were explained also made absolutely no sense. There's also a pathetic hark back to season one in the form of "time is a flat circle". And what? Is that supposed to be profound in this context? It really was a terrible watch.

If this was 8-10 episode season I would've stopped watching after episode 4. The horrific writing is the main reason this season never had a chance. Too many story lines that sucked time away from the plot destroyed the interest of 90% of each episode.

The way this season ends is just so underwhelming, the lack of any real detective work or even just a set of clues that just never really peaked your interest of wanting to solve this was just so dumb. It's what a crime show is all about, piecing together the clues and wanting to solve it with the detectives which Danvers and Navarro definitely were not. The way they try dump this ending on you like it's suppose to blow your mind and the way it was solved feels so unearned by the characters that in turn makes you not care or just roll your eyes.

The way Danvers and Navarro go into these ice caves with not telling anyone exactly where they would be and taking no gear just made my head burst. It's silly stuff like this that takes me out of shows and movies once they've piled them up a few times and tell you oh yeah this is a show/movie for idiots. You can forgive a couple things to move the plot but stuff like this kinda nit picking starts to happen when you write something so consistently bad.

The people defending this series I can only think are doing so because they're scared of being called a r*cist or s*xist? I'm not sure. This was a really bad season and will be one of my worst watched shows of the year.

I give it a 2 because the guy who played Peter did a great acting job this final episode and the only decent crime solver there...and also some lovely scenic shots at the end. True Detective has been killed and will never be seen again after this *insert doctor Ian Malcolm line*

Despite all the negative reviews of the past few episodes, I really gave this season a chance. I thought it was interesting, I thought it might connect to season one, which it was obviously hinting at, and I found the mysteries to be compelling. My biggest complaint is that nothing really happened for the first five episodes, and episode six does NOT fix this.

The episode is the length of a movie, and I swear, nothing happens. It's just character discussing their feelings and it is so, so tedious, because we've seen this a million times already in this show. This entire show is just characters talking about their feelings. The show has plot, it just won't give it to you, and when it does, it is in short spurts that feel unsatisfying.

The mystery reveal is equally as disappointing. While the first reveal that the lady was killed by the scientists was an interesting reveal, we really lacked the motivations to understand it and appreciate the reveal. All we get is just that the scientists wanted to cover it up to "protect their project", and that motive isn't developed at all. After that, the reveal that a band of women all killed the scientists felt like a punch in the face. The motivation is there, but it really wasn't an interesting conclusion.

If you want to watch a murder mystery similar to this, with equally as important messages about Native Americans issues, but that is 100x better, watch "Wind River" (2017). The film is actually fairly similar to this, but it is far better done and way more interesting, with horrific realism involved. It is basically what this season wanted to be.

My main annoyance is that they purposely brought up all these connections to season 1, knowing it was gonna get people interested in the show, only to have it all not matter. There really was no mystery, there was really no reveal, it was all nothing; a pointless show where characters talk about their feelings and nothing happens.

What a horrible season piggybacking under the exceptional title of "True Detective".

There was nothing TD in this season.

Garbage writing and directing, full of plotholes and goofs. Cinematography was decent, acting ok from Foster, this former boxer lady was cringey.

On to this episode:

Danvers and Navarro are in such a hurry to investigate the caves-in a storm, no less-that they leave Peter to clean up not only the corpse of the junky, Otis, but his own father who he just killed. He has to clean this up and then visit Rose, who is apparently just perfectly happy to help the poor young man cover up these deaths.

Danvers and Navarro go break through the ice and of course make it directly into the tunnel system nobody but the teacher guy had ever heard about somehow. They fall through to a lower section where-shocker of all shockers!-they run into Raymond Clark, the lone survivor of the scientists. They pursue him and come to a science room that we soon learn is directly below Tsalal station. Did I just miss how close they were to Tsalal? Because it seems like they walked about fifty meters or so and are directly beneath the base. Wtf.

They follow Clark up into the station and eventually catch him. At this point they have never spoken with him about what happened to Annie or the other scientists so naturally they sit him down and start asking questions. Oh wait, nevermind, they take the loop of Annie screaming and tape the earbuds to his ears so that he has to sit there hearing the sounds of the woman he loved screaming and probably dying over and over again. Danvers and Navarro have him tied to a chair and just leave him there to be tortured while they go have another tedious conversation. For all they know, remember, he was completely innocent in her death.

After he's been properly tortured they decide it's time to ask the right questions and go back to do that, though there's a confusing segment where it seems like they're just going to kill him instead, but then decide that maybe he'd actually make a valuable witness with the whole mine / Tsalal stuff. Crazy police masterminds we have here!

Clark reveals how Annie discovered what they were doing, which was actually pushing the mine to pollute as much as possible because it made the permafrost softer so that they could get to the miracle organism they were investigating. She tried to destroy their research and was caught and stabbed to death, though Raymond didn't participate.

When Raymond Clark said "Time is a flat circle" I had to restrain myself from scratching my face off. You got to be kidding with me.

They're basically stuck at Tsalal during the ice storm and at one point Navarro walks off into the ice (because that's what they do in Ennis) but then Danvers falls through into the icy water and Navarro somehow shows up in time to save her and warms her by a fire all while Danvers is still wearing the same wet and cold clothes.

Then they realize that it was the cleaning ladies who killed the scientists and since I guess the blizzard is no longer an issue, they go to where I guess all the women involved in scientists' deaths are conveniently hanging out. (Unlike previous seasons, which often have investigations that span many years or even decades, this one is wrapped up in two weeks!) Navarro and Danvers decide to cover up the whole thing, which basically just involved all these "Badass" Cleaning Ladies SEAL Team showing up to Tsalal and turning off the power (and Raymond randomly saying "she's awake!" for no reason) and then rounding up the scientists at gunpoint, driving them out into the ice, forcing them to strip and then run off into the night. Where they froze to death. They blame this on a spirit who, had it been merciful, would have let the men survive. I blame it on the women forcing them all out there at gunpoint and making them strip and run off into the ice. I guess the vet was wrong and the dudes really did just die by freezing to death.

Jesus christ.

The mine company wanted all of this covered up. Well it looks like the mine will get its way. Everybody wants it all covered up.

In the end, we get a little nod to earlier seasons with them interviewing Danvers about what happened and where Navarro and Hank disappeared to. It's all just wildly unsatisfying as far as resolution goes. None of the cringey supernatural stuff paid off.

The scientists murdered Annie, which was the first theory almost everyone had. People had guessed that the cleaning ladies were responsible for the scientists' deaths but the way it went down just came across as a massive, unearned head-fake that tried to have its supernatural cake and eat it, too.

Danvers and Navarro end up being some of the worst police on this show, turning directly to torture the moment they find the guy they've been searching for - not to mention leaving poor Peter to deal with his dead father.

I'm not sure how anybody walks away from this finale thinking it worked. None of the more interesting fan theories came true. As far as the murder mysteries of the scientists and Annie go, neither was much of a mystery at all.

If there is ever going to be season 5, I really, really hope we get to see Nic back in the writers' chair.

Only good thing about this season is, that it's over.

This season started off pretty good with a cool crime, but what followed was six episodes where nothing happened culminating in a final episode that made no real sense what-so-ever. It's pretty clear the people who made this show had no idea what was going on - and the story feels like it was written in a few drafts without much thought.

There was still good cinematography in this show, and the acting was ok enough. It was watchable. But, int he end, it was a lazy meaningless disappointment that was saying old tribal women overpower the patriarchy. (And the patriarchy are some scientists in Alaska.)

The cops in this show were terrible. Dreadful. No detective work whatsoever. They didn't solve any crime more than they stood around and learned about the crimes and did nothing. And, apparently, they were guilty of murder themselves.

Oh lort - this show as a mess.

This was an amazing episode. People who say "well nobody did it" are missing the point of the episode. The creators of this season are also, I think, saying that "truth" is subjective. These other people don't understand the way that the ending was explained. Because, as I see it, no ONE PERSON killed every one. This was a near Shakespearian tragedy. Also, the individuals who createdt this series more as a play, where everyone has a part play. To show an unassuming arch that no one else could see. It's a brave piece and I think that fits the puzzle together perfectly, and doesn't give you the one main evil villain, because there is an evil villain. It was several small groups of people who had awful grudges against each other, and I think they just felt this way too express themselves.

Either way, I get it a nine out of 10 overall with this last episode giving me a 10 out of 10 overall because I thought it was brilliant how they put it together just to work of brilliance.