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A decade has passed since
Nic Pizzolatto
shook the foundations of television with the first season of
True Detective
, a milestone that went far beyond its visible qualities to establish a series model limited to eight episodes, cinematographic values and actors that they could find prestige on the small screen without it meaning giving up projects destined for the Oscars on the big screen.
Netflix
had not yet arrived in Spain, the only active platform was
Filmin
and the authority was shared between AMC and
HBO
, who made a splash with something that no one expected.
Today everything has changed and considering a series as
an eight-hour movie
has become almost a cliché, and we are no longer surprised that
Jodie Foster
, winner of an Oscar for playing detective Clarice Starling in
The Silence of the Lambs
, is goal in a television product.
That is no longer special, although, fortunately or unfortunately, its anthology format has allowed it not to repeat itself too much in structures and, at the same time that the
effort to create its identity
has been noted , it has also been disappointing its users. fans.
For the first three installments, the essence of the series was its gritty detective stories written by Pizzolatto, regardless of the themes they dealt with.
What defined the
True Detective
brand was a concept and an author, but someone at HBO had to stop and think about
what it was about that first season that continues to attract viewers
and they haven't been able to repeat.
Therefore,
Polar Night
seems to have understood that a key element to win back its fans is to explore the most suggestive elements of Rust Cohle's research, the darkest areas that continue to create questions and are the origin of the existentialist disquisitions of
Matthew 's character.
McConaughey
.
To know more
Literature.
The ice beneath 'True Detective'
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The ice beneath 'True Detective'
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'True Detective' and 'Blood Line': shattered families and other destruction
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'True Detective' and 'Blood Line': shattered families and other destruction
The purpose is to rescue everything that worked so well in the original, despite having
a totally different creative team
.
It is the first time that Pizzolatto limits himself to being an executive producer and has passed the
showrunner
baton to director
Issa López
, who writes and directs all the episodes.
The Mexican stood out among horror fans thanks to her 2017 film
Vuelven
, a magical realism story about children trapped in a drug war in Mexico.
The surprising thing is that
Polar Night
was a completely independent script by López that had nothing to do with the HBO series.
The channel came up with the treatment and found that there were enough similarities with
True Detective
, so only a few tweaks were needed to turn it into the new season, defining a way of working that could be the key to the rebirth of the franchise.
The change of hands is essential, although it can cause confusion, since in that same logic it could have turned a series like
Mare of Easttown
, from 2021, into an equally compelling mystery to enter the brand's new anthology dynamic, but The difference is in the inspiration in Thomas Ligotti of those first episodes.
For López, as he comments in the promotion, what was missing was recovering
"that aroma of cosmic horror."
"
When the other seasons, which were great in their own way, moved away from him, I was a little disappointed," she admits.
Polar Night
wants to be the mirror of the most effective elements of that trip, changing the south for the icy Alaskan winter at the time of year when darkness is perpetual.
There's not so much a return to the ideas of
weird fiction
like Carcosa, but there is a community that believes in the land and in something much older and more powerful than outsiders can understand.
True Detective: Polar Night
introduces the supernatural, strange symbols and ambiguity by placing a team of police officers in a frigid environment.
It moves between the murders of natives that Taylor Sheridan exposed in
Wind River
and the mystery at a scientific station in John Carpenter's
The Thing
, but with a message about climate change.
Some of the
actual Dyatlov Pass incident of 1959
can also be traced back to the mysterious disappearance and discovery by investigators with no clear explanation as to why there are
frozen bodies without clothes
and some missing body parts.
The enigmas remain unfathomable, but López's point of view and Foster's protagonism give another nuance to
a series that had been accused of
cipotuda
, although its female protagonists are also rude and far from being perfect, like all the characters in other deliveries.
There are other details that open more gaps, such as the reduction to six episodes, and that in the credits of
Polar Night the recognizable
riffs
inspired by the blues have been changed
to the song
Bury a Friend
by Billie Eilish, which indicates to the public , a few minutes after the premiere,
we enter another generational territory
.
It remains to be seen if this new setup convinces those who continue to long for the King in Yellow.