The investigation falls to the local detective, Liz Danvers (Foster), who reunites with a former colleague, Evangeline Navarro (boxer turned actor Kali Reis), to try sorting out what happened.ĭanvers isn’t your run-of-the-mill cop, prone as she is to affairs with married guys, drinking a little too much and mouthing off at superiors and subordinates alike. The story gets set in motion by an inexplicable event at a nearby research facility, in what begins as a missing-persons case and eventually involves what looks like murder.
Set in Ennis, a remote Alaska town described as “the end of the world” (an inadvertent echo of “A Murder at the End of the World,” which recently landed on Hulu), the show is filled with eccentric characters who would reside in such a place, and who, thanks to the relatively small community, all seem to possess history with each other. The fourth installment, “True Detective: Night Country,” features a showy (and snowy) role for Jodie Foster, but after a promising start this series too often feels more like a weird variation on “Twin Peaks” than its namesake. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey still receive producer credits on “True Detective,” an unintentional reminder this unlikely franchise peaked with its first edition a decade ago.
