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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]] [[spoiler: Danvers is talking to a surgeon about a person being operated on just afterwards, but it is not clear to whom they are referring. It is found out in Episode four that it was Anders Lund and he survived the operation, although horribly scared and amputated along with being shellshocked by the events on what happened at the ice. It is heavily implied that he dies at the end of the episode.]]

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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]] [[spoiler: Danvers is talking to a surgeon about a person being operated on just afterwards, but it is not clear to whom they are referring. It is found out in Episode four episode three that it was Anders Lund and he survived the operation, although horribly scared and amputated along with being shellshocked by the events on what happened at the ice. It is heavily implied that he dies at the end of the episode.]]



* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 2, when all of the corpses are thawed, it's discovered that two of the researchers are missing. One was previously accounted for as the screaming corpse; the other, Raymond Clark, becomes the prime suspect.]]

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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 2, when all of the corpses are thawed, it's discovered that two of the researchers are missing. One was previously accounted for as the screaming corpse; the other, Raymond Clark, becomes the prime suspect.]] [[spoiler: In Episode 3 we find out that the screaming man was Anders Lund and he somehow survived the ordeal and the surgery, despite being horribly scared. He does not react well when he wakes up.]]
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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]] [[spoiler: Danvers is talking to a surgeon about a person being operated on just afterwards, but it is not clear to whom they are referring.]]

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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]] [[spoiler: Danvers is talking to a surgeon about a person being operated on just afterwards, but it is not clear to whom they are referring. It is found out in Episode four that it was Anders Lund and he survived the operation, although horribly scared and amputated along with being shellshocked by the events on what happened at the ice. It is heavily implied that he dies at the end of the episode.]]
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Alaska Police Force, the organization that Navarro is a part of as a state trooper, doesn't exist.
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The third season stars Creator/MahershalaAli, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff and Creator/RayFisher in a story line about missing children throughout the state of Arkansas. It premiered on January 13, 2019.

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The third season stars Creator/MahershalaAli, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff Creator/CarmenEjogo, Creator/StephenDorff and Creator/RayFisher in a story line about missing children throughout the state of Arkansas. It premiered on January 13, 2019.
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* NotQuiteDead: The Ennis Police are understandably shocked when they accidentally break a whole forearm off one of the frozen scientists... and he starts screaming in pain.
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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Several years ago, Navarro and Danvers worked together on the Annie Kotwok murder case. Kotwok was an Indigenous activist and Navarro, who is Indigenous herself, points out that had she been White, the case would have been solved quickly.
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* ArcWords: "She is awake."

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* CallBack: Apparently the Tuttle family from the first season was funding research at Tsalal Station.



* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 2, when all of the corpses are thawed, it's discovered that two of the researchers are missing. One in particular, Clark, becomes the primary suspect.]]

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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 2, when all of the corpses are thawed, it's discovered that two of the researchers are missing. One in particular, was previously accounted for as the screaming corpse; the other, Raymond Clark, becomes the primary prime suspect.]]

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* AlwaysNight: Semi-realistic example, since Ennis is in the Arctic Circle, it has about two months of total darkness, where the sun doesn't rise, in midwinter.


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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Semi-realistic example, since Ennis is in the Arctic Circle, it has about two months of total darkness, where the sun doesn't rise, in midwinter.
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** The bodies of the Tsalal Crew are found by a woman who's led out on the ice by what may be the ghost of her dead husband.

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** The bodies of the Tsalal Crew are found by a woman who's led out on the ice by what may be the ghost of her dead husband. The delivery driver who discovered Tslalal Abandoned in the first episode outright says that the dead wake up during the long winter in Ennis, but this could just be local folklore.
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The fourth season titled ''True Detective: Night Country'' is set to premier on January 14, 2024. Set in Alaska, it stars Creator/JodieFoster, Kali Reis, Creator/FionaShaw, and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.

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The fourth season season, titled ''True Detective: Night Country'' Country'', is set to premier on January 14, 2024. Set in Alaska, Alaska and it stars Creator/JodieFoster, Kali Reis, Creator/FionaShaw, and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.
Pizzolatto. The series premiered on January 14, 2024.
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* Detective Liz Danvers is revealed to be hated by the women of Ennis, Alaska for sleeping with many of their husbands. She's also had a sexual relationship with her boss and keeps a Tinder account to use for hookups when she gets lonely during the cold months in Alaska.

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* ReallyGetsAround: Detective Liz Danvers is revealed to be hated by the women of Ennis, Alaska for sleeping with many of their husbands. She's also had a sexual relationship with her boss and keeps a Tinder account to use for hookups when she gets lonely during the cold months in Alaska.
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* Detective Liz Danvers is revealed to be hated by the women of Ennis, Alaska for sleeping with many of their husbands. She's also had a sexual relationship with her boss and keeps a Tinder account to use for hookups when she gets lonely during the cold months in Alaska.

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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]
[[spoiler: Danvers is talking to a surgeon about a person being operated on just afterwards, but its not clear who its referring to.]]

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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]
]] [[spoiler: Danvers is talking to a surgeon about a person being operated on just afterwards, but its it is not clear who its referring to.to whom they are referring.]]



* PoliceAreUseless: Evangeline Navarro, an officer from the Alaska State Troopers, has this opinion of Ennis's police force. After the murder of Annie Kotwok, an Alaskan Native activist protesting against the mining operations in Ennis; she claims that if Annie was a white woman, the police would have solved the case in a matter of months.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Evangeline Navarro, an officer from the Alaska State Troopers, has this opinion of Ennis's police force. After the murder of Annie Kotwok, an Alaskan Native activist protesting against the mining operations in Ennis; Ennis, she claims that if Annie was a white woman, the police would have solved the case in a matter of months.
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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]]
[[spoiler: there is talk about a person being operated on and will be in a coma just afterwards, but its not clear who its referring to.]]

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** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: Evangeline Navarro, a trooper herself, has this opinion of Ennis's police force, after the murer of Annie Kotwok, a Native activist protesting against the mining operations in Ennis; she claims that if Annie was a white woman, the police would have solved the case in a matter of months.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Evangeline Navarro, a trooper herself, an officer from the Alaska State Troopers, has this opinion of Ennis's police force, after force. After the murer murder of Annie Kotwok, a an Alaskan Native activist protesting against the mining operations in Ennis; she claims that if Annie was a white woman, the police would have solved the case in a matter of months.
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* ActorAllusion: Danvers slams off ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' because she "never was much a fan of Music/TheBeatles." Mark David Chapman killed Music/JohnLennon to impress Danvers' actress, Creator/JodieFoster, in 1980.
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* AlwaysNight: Semi-realistic example, since Ennis is in the Arctic Circle, it has about two months of total darkness, where the sun doesn't rise, in midwinter.
* AmbiguousSituation: Danvers had a son at some point who seems to have left behind a stuffed polar bear as a TragicKeepsake, but it's unclear if he's actually dead; Danvers is established to be a divorcee, so he could simply be living with the other parent.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Ennis is potrayed as being in total darkness from mid-December to at least mid-January; the only town in Alaska with comprable conditions is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utqiagvik,_Alaska Utqiagvik]], whose darkness starts in mid-November, and have some level of 'civil twilight' where some sunlight is visible. Once the sun sets in Ennis, it doesn't seem to rise, which simply doesn't happen outside of the Poles.
* EerieArcticResearchStation: Tsalal Research Station was completely abandoned by its crew on the first day of night, and when a delivery of food comes in four days later, all that's found is a tongue, sans body.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: There are hints of the supernatural from the first episode this time around, but it's ambigious whether or not they're real.
** Both Navarro and Danvers hear eerie voices tell her "She is awake"; in the case of Danvers, she hears her son, who might be dead.
** The bodies of the Tsalal Crew are found by a woman who's led out on the ice by what may be the ghost of her dead husband.
** When the bodies are in the process of being excavated at the start of episode 2, a hand gets severed, and the body it's removed from starts thrashing around and screaming. Rigor mortis and the howling winds, or did they somehow survive? [[NothingIsScarier This is never addressed or elaborated upon.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 2, when all of the corpses are thawed, it's discovered that two of the researchers are missing. One in particular, Clark, becomes the primary suspect.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Evangeline Navarro, a trooper herself, has this opinion of Ennis's police force, after the murer of Annie Kotwok, a Native activist protesting against the mining operations in Ennis; she claims that if Annie was a white woman, the police would have solved the case in a matter of months.
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* ActorAllusion: Danvers slams off ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' because she "never was much a fan of Music/TheBeatles." Mark David Chapman killed Muisic/JohnLennon to impress Danvers' actress, Creator/JodieFoster, in 1980.

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* ActorAllusion: Danvers slams off ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' because she "never was much a fan of Music/TheBeatles." Mark David Chapman killed Muisic/JohnLennon Music/JohnLennon to impress Danvers' actress, Creator/JodieFoster, in 1980.
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* ActorAllusion: Danvers slams off ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' because she "never was much a fan of Music/TheBeatles." Mark David Chapman killed Muisic/JohnLennon to impress Danvers' actress, Creator/JodieFoster, in 1980.
* TongueTrauma: The discovery of a missing, severed tongue (without a body) alongside a mass disappearance triggers the mystery of this season.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The date on Danvers' computer is December 21, 2023, exactly one month before the episode's airdate.

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[[folder:Season One]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The date on Danvers' computer is December 21, 2023, exactly one month before the episode's airdate.
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The fourth season titled ''True Detective: Night Country'' is set to premier on January 12, 2024. Set in Alaska, it stars Creator/JodieFoster, Kali Reis, Creator/FionaShaw, and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.

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The fourth season titled ''True Detective: Night Country'' is set to premier on January 12, 14, 2024. Set in Alaska, it stars Creator/JodieFoster, Kali Reis, Creator/FionaShaw, and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.
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The fourth season titled ''True Detective: Night Country'' is set to air in 2023, set in Alaska. It stars Creator/JodieFoster, Kali Reis, Creator/FionaShaw, and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.

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The fourth season titled ''True Detective: Night Country'' is set to air premier on January 12, 2024. Set in 2023, set in Alaska. It Alaska, it stars Creator/JodieFoster, Kali Reis, Creator/FionaShaw, and Creator/ChristopherEccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Well, half-sister, anyway. Errol's, specifically.]]
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** [[spoiler:Cohle and Hart admit at the end that they could never have caught all of the cultists, most of whom are never even identified, let alone apprehended or punished, and are shown to still posses a vast amount of power and influence in Louisiana due to the lofty political positions of many members of the cult's core family.]]

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** [[spoiler:Cohle and Hart admit at the end that they could never have caught all of the cultists, most of whom are never even identified, let alone apprehended or punished, and are shown to still posses possess a vast amount of power and influence in Louisiana due to the lofty political positions of many members of the cult's core family.]]

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* DaylightHorror: While many of the more terrifying scenes take place at night, plenty take place during the day where the bright Louisiana sunshine just makes the horror worse. The series opens with a dead woman found in broad daylight. [[spoiler:The scene where Rust and Marty confront Ledoux also takes place in broad daylight.]]



* DeepSouth: Season 1 takes place in Louisiana.

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* %%* DeepSouth: Season 1 takes place in Louisiana.


* SaltAndPepper: Roland and Wayne naturally are this, although they (at first) pointedly flip the character types: Wayne (black) is the extremely cool and ''deeply'' stoic cop, while Roland (white) is the hotheaded

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