The last vivid memory I have of a series, a genre that was often left in a state of grace during the HBO era, is the first season of True Detective. What fear and tension it evoked in this dank and evil landscape as I watched this tormented, obsessive, suicidal, hopelessly honest police officer, played by the hypnotic Matthew McConaughey, search through the swamps and swamps of Florida in search of evil to fight against this devil who rapes and murders children and losers. The problem was that its creator, Nic Pizzolato, didn't consider that he had touched the sky with this disturbing masterpiece and tried to extend it. The second and third seasons were as tired as they were pretentious. And the beginning of the fourth part (True Detective: Polar Night) is nothing.
I only saw the first chapter. Enough. In the worst case scenario, things will get even worse. Thanks to the petty policy of Movistar Plus+, a payment platform that even inserts advertising into the soup and that has started programming some series that only offer you one episode per week. They treat their audience with absurd impositions. I imagine this in the name of mercantilism. They must think they are the same bloated viewers of the terrible general television networks. With this tactic they are doing me a favor in the case of “True Detective: Polar Night”. I view the beginning with infinite reluctance and definitely give up on developing it further.
Pizzolato has defected, the creator of the new nonsense is called Issa López. And you can see that the argument remains loyal above all to the quotas. There are murders in Alaska. Of women whose tongues were torn out. The protagonist is the actress named Jodie Foster, who has been extraordinary since childhood and who appears here with a face and image destroyed by time. And the script has to find a daughter for him, an Indian woman and a lesbian, a black companion, militant demands. Feminist inclusion and power are transparent and legitimate. The problem is that this fashionable approach serves a script and a production that has no interest at all and in which there is no belief.
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