Everything you need to know about 'True Detective: Night Country'

What's with the spirals? How does the corpsicle work? What's the connection to Season 1? Let's goooo.
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Shannon Connellan
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Are you watching True Detective: Night Country and have a lot of questions? You're in good, obsessive company if you're scanning for clues like we are.

In the depths of this cold, cold winter, Mashable has been spending "the long night" yarn-walling it, speaking to the folks behind the HBO show, and watching the series frame by frame so you don't miss a spiral, polar bear, John Carpenter reference, or confirmed fan theory.

In the fourth season of the HBO series, this time helmed by showrunner Issa López, police Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and state trooper Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) have one hell of a chilling investigation on their hands — and we've gone absolutely yarn-wall on it ourselves. Read it all!


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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.

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