I spent an off-season weekend in ANCHORAGE (allegedly an actual city) and it was miserable. Also very dangerous. I walked out of a restaurant ten minutes before someone else walking out of the same restaurant got shot in the doorway. The next night, there was a shooting in the street outside my hotel. The NEXT night, there was a police standoff in the alley next to my hotel that I watched from my balcony. Shots were fired, but I don't think anyone got hit on this one.
Anyway, I found Night Country interesting because of the performances, production values, mood. But there were too many threads left untugged while the main plot both didn't make a whole lotta sense. You could see a better show hiding under a lot of unnecessary complexity. Oh well.
I would agree with you if our heroes deduced something and asked an incisive question that blew the case wide open. But all they do here is ask the culprit "so why'd you do it" and they get their confession on a silver platter.
Almost everything is handed to them. Where'd the bodies end up? A ghost (lol) told a lady who told the cops.
How'd they die? A vet tells them they died of fright*.
Who murdered Annie K? The ONE suspect they had the entire series tells them, then spells out everything else (the mine's involvement, the murder cover up, etc).
I guess Danvers finds a handprint and connects it to an Inuit woman. So there's that. Then, rather than lying or playing dumb or pointing out that of course their handprints are all over Tsalal station, they are the cleaning ladies--they just proudly lay out their mob justice murder plot for the cops Murder on the Tsalal Express style because how else are they going to solve this thing?
*Which I guess ends up being wrong, unless you wanna assume a spirit killed them before they froze to death.
I think this can be best summed up with a single clue on the show: The severed tongue. How did it get there? We don't know, because our heroes asked two people, and neither of them could it explain it to them.
I spent an off-season weekend in ANCHORAGE (allegedly an actual city) and it was miserable. Also very dangerous. I walked out of a restaurant ten minutes before someone else walking out of the same restaurant got shot in the doorway. The next night, there was a shooting in the street outside my hotel. The NEXT night, there was a police standoff in the alley next to my hotel that I watched from my balcony. Shots were fired, but I don't think anyone got hit on this one.
Anyway, I found Night Country interesting because of the performances, production values, mood. But there were too many threads left untugged while the main plot both didn't make a whole lotta sense. You could see a better show hiding under a lot of unnecessary complexity. Oh well.
I'll have T-shirts made: I SURVIVED "NIGHT COUNTRY" AND A DAY *IN* THE NIGHT COUNTRY
The lack of authority was an interesting choice. The lack of actual detecting by our leads was, in my opinion, far less successful.
Related, I think, though I totally understand how the "finally asked the right people the right question" approach to crime solving is unsatisfying.
I would agree with you if our heroes deduced something and asked an incisive question that blew the case wide open. But all they do here is ask the culprit "so why'd you do it" and they get their confession on a silver platter.
Almost everything is handed to them. Where'd the bodies end up? A ghost (lol) told a lady who told the cops.
How'd they die? A vet tells them they died of fright*.
Who murdered Annie K? The ONE suspect they had the entire series tells them, then spells out everything else (the mine's involvement, the murder cover up, etc).
I guess Danvers finds a handprint and connects it to an Inuit woman. So there's that. Then, rather than lying or playing dumb or pointing out that of course their handprints are all over Tsalal station, they are the cleaning ladies--they just proudly lay out their mob justice murder plot for the cops Murder on the Tsalal Express style because how else are they going to solve this thing?
*Which I guess ends up being wrong, unless you wanna assume a spirit killed them before they froze to death.
I think this can be best summed up with a single clue on the show: The severed tongue. How did it get there? We don't know, because our heroes asked two people, and neither of them could it explain it to them.
You're not wrong! I think this is a story where you're not supposed to *know* what happened, and that works for some people and not for others.
We love Jodie! Not in a Hinckley Jr. way though...