‘True Detective: Night Country’
The first must-watch series of 2024 is HBO’s latest Sunday night drama, True Detective: Night Country. The fourth installment of the True Detective franchise — and first season without original creator Nic Pizzolatto as showrunner — follows two brilliant Alaskan detectives as they tackle a wild case seemingly connected to a traumatic cold case from years before. Ennis police chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) is called in to investigate what happened to all of the scientists stationed at the remote Tsalal outpost. The case itself is a stumper, but only gets weirder when she discovers the tongue of a murder victim from years prior. This tongue draws in Danvers’s old partner Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), who is convinced the Tsalal mystery is connected to the question of who killed Annie K (Anna Lambe)? What follows is a tense, murder, spooky, and addictive delight.