Inspired By… Series | January 2024
True Detective: Night Country Episode 02
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Inspired By... True Detective: Night Country Episode 02 Continuous Mix
Inspired By is a collection of tracks that fit the theme of a film or TV show I’m watching. We start with True Detective: Night Country, which continued with another great episode last week. It included a corpsicle, Christopher Eccleston, Liz Danvers being an absolute menace about town, the worst pillow talk ever (everyone knows that you leave discussions about dead bodies for a few hours after sex), and connections with season 1. Beware, spoilers ahead!
Episode Summary
As Danvers and Prior set out to learn more about Tsalal, and find an unlikely location for the physical evidence, Capt. Connelly threatens to move the case to Anchorage; Navarro and Danvers separately find a connection.
Okay, so the NGO that funds the station, right, if you trace the taxes, you can trace it back to a shell company called NC Global Strategies, which, in turn, belongs to Tuttle United.— Pete Prior
Tracks
- Team Demo, Waid P & Method Man - Camera Flash (feat. Illa Ghee)
- The Dandy Warhols - Scientist
- Madonna - Frozen
- Doja Cat - Naked
- Phony PPL - Fkn Around
- J. Cole - Foldin Clothes
- Aqualung - Broken Bones
- Kurt Cobain - Scream
- carolesdaughter - please put me in a medically induced coma
- Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
- pranav.wav - I’m Seeing Ghosts Again
- MIST - Game Changer
- T.I. - Doin’ My Job
- Tank - Fuckin’ wit Me
- Bon Jovi - I Love This Town
- Barry White - You’re The First, The last, My Everything
- H. Scott Salinas - Start Asking Question
- Apollo Brown - The Answer
- Kehlani - melt
- Russ - Scared
- Bloody Civilian - I Don’t Like You
- LISA - MONEY
- Buddy Guy - Follow The Money (feat. James Taylor)
- Sade - Like a Tattoo
- Jim Reeves - Trying to Forget
- Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers
- Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out
- KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
- Jazmine Sullivan - Good Enough
- NAV & Lil Baby - Never Sleep (feat. Travis Scott)
- Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
I’m saying the work they were doing could end up curing genetic cancer, autoimmune diseases, genetic disorders. Just an absolute fucking game-changer.— Adam Bryce
We’re just not seeing it. Not asking the right questions.— Liz Danvers
Noticeable mentions
- The sex scenes highlight Danvers and Navarro’s personalities. Both want to be in control but in entirely different ways. Also, can we normalise people over 60 having sex? I know popular opinion would have you believe that once you pass the age of 40, you lay on the floor in the fetal position and weep until you die, but I don’t know how to break it to you; that’s not what happens.
- Add Corpsicle and Shit Bowl into the Oxford and Merriam-Webster Dictionaries. I will be using the term ‘shit bowl’ in my daily conversations.
- What is the ‘Wheeler thing’ that Navarro tried to talk to Danvers about? Whatever happened, Danvers was not happy. Navarro seemed fine with what went down.
- Danvers and Navarro were close once. Danvers did seem to know where Navarro used to keep her tinned food.
- What’s the deal with Blair? When Danvers returned to the factory to question the cleaner, Blair (the worker who was assaulted in episode 1) looked disturbed when she was shown the spiral. Her ‘no’ was not convincing.
- What was going on with those posters in what looked like a dorm room? - Anyway, Chuck is very dodgy. How can you claim to be Ryan’s friend but not give a shit about what happened to his sister?
- The number seven shows up twice in the music. Song To The Siren (Take 7) by Tim Buckley and Seven Devils by Florence + the Machine. There are seven scientists now that Raymond Clark is missing.
- Could Hank be the victim of the most obvious catfish in catfishing history? - I mean, he’s a detective and he can’t spot that?
Final Thoughts
Best Parts
I loved the shadow the corpsicle had over this episode. Having it thaw out, and the slow reveal that one of the scientists was missing was the chef’s kiss.
The scene between Danvers and Pete was also a highlight. It showed that even though Danvers is an absolute piece of shit for the most part, she’s an excellent detective and wants to mentor Pete. Let’s hope Navarro is wrong and Danvers doesn’t disappoint him.
I am intrigued to see how this all gets wrapped up.
Season 1 Revisionist History
There’s a hefty dose of revisionist history going on with season 1 of True Detective. I remember that people didn’t get into the show until episode 4. It’s been a decade since its release, and it’s reached ‘You must watch The Wire, Sopranos, Lost, Breaking Bad’ status.
The criticisms I’ve heard for this current season - slow and dull, but with great performances - were the same as back then. However, I noticed that some nastiness kicked in with Night Country when the critic reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Season 4 has its flaws. So did season 1, season 3, and sure as hell, season 2 did. No one has to like anything, and criticism should be welcomed, but the spite I’ve seen hurled towards the showrunner, Issa Lopez, and the two leads goes beyond anything constructive.
Seriously!?
I am baffled by the fact we’re in the year 2024, and there are chronically online people wondering why a lesbian actress is acting in a heterosexual role and love scene. It’s called acting for a reason.
Also, any reviews, commentary, or social media threads with the word ‘woke’ in them are an instant instruction for me to start checking windows to select the best one to throw myself out of. We are indeed in the most willfully stupid timeline!
Inspired By True Detective: Night Country Series
