‘True Detective: Night Country’’s Finn Bennett breaks down the end of ‘Part 5’ and what Peter Prior was thinking: ‘It’s a reflex rather than a decision. He’s defending Danvers.”
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and HBOI’ll admit that when I implored True Detective: Night Country to get its ass in gear by revealing some of the long-held plot secrets last week, I did not expect the next episode to be a full-on avalanche of narrative progress. Whether or not that’s a good thing is yet to be determined. We won’t have a sense of whether showrunner-writer-director Issa López was panicking to tie up loose ends with only one episode of the season
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/HBO“Is there anyone in this town you haven’t fucked?” asks Trooper Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) in the most recent episode of True Detective: Night Country.It is a valid response, as Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) sheepishly tries hiding behind Navarro when the pair is knocking on a woman’s door on Christmas Eve. No, it isn’t because the police are making a holiday call to ask for information to help a murder investigation. Instead, Danve