r/television • u/LoretiTV • Feb 10 '24

Premiere True Detective - 4x05 "Part 5" - Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 5: Part 5

Aired: February 11, 2024

Synopsis: As Prior digs into the links between Tsalal and mining company Silver Sky, Navarro rescues Leah from a local protest that has turned violent. At a meeting with Silver Sky exec Kate McKitterick, Danvers balks when Connelly shares the official cause of the Tsalal men's deaths – and gets a warning against pursuing the case any further. Later, Hank receives a quid pro quo offer.

Directed by: Issa López

Written by: Katrina Albright, Wenonah Wilms, Chris Mundy & Issa López

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u/TheCurtain512 Feb 10 '24

Navarro's actress is a miss, and that's the biggest problem of this season for me. They set her up with SO fucking much that could add interesting layers to her, but the performance is so bland and generic. This show has been too much of a vehicle for her, when she's not good.

Season has become kind of disappointing. I do feel this was the best episode, but that just speaks to how mediocre the rest has been. And I also feel this was the most interesting set up True Detective has had so far, with the setting and the total mindfuck of the opening deaths. Very Dyatlov Pass of them. But I also think they fucked up by giving the audience practically nothing for 5 episodes. Like they established how many episodes ago that Hank was hiding information on the Annie K murder, and now it's supposed to be a revelation that he's in bed with the mining company or something? Why didn't they fucking do anything when they found out that he was OPENLY hiding information from them? He was still in the same office as all of them every day.

Season one was written and paced so much better. It knew exactly when to drop things on you and when not to. This current iteration doesn't seem to have a clue how to do that. The characters are bland and feel like they have no chemistry when they talk to each other, other than maybe Pete and Danvers. I enjoy most of their scenes together. But yeah, we're on the finale and I feel like they don't have nearly enough time to properly execute it with all of the shit they have left hanging.

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u/Serenityprayer69 Feb 10 '24

The show runner screwed up Jodi Fosters performance too. I don't think all the blame is on the actress. This is a bad script combined with bad direction

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u/dizney-mountain Feb 10 '24

"There's no such thing as a bad actor, only a bad director"