True Detective: Night Country | Episode 02 | Bonus with Dean

Killer Casting

We all know how much Dean likes to run his mouth and be a smarty pants, especially with all the minutiae that he jazzes on joining dots hither and yon.

There was SO much to unpack in Episode 2 that even though we spent an hour with the legend Joel Montgrand, we still couldn’t cover all the twists and turns in that episode.

So if you don’t dig the digging deep, give this one a miss. But of you like getting down and dirty (or frosty) with all the easy-to-miss connections and fan theories looking ahead … then dive in !

Let us know what you think and ask Dean followup questions on our True Detective: Night Country Fan page on the Book of Faces here https://www.facebook.com/groups/3518353335092244

Episode 3 Preview/Trailer https://youtu.be/st_dixIqonc?si=Wz0Ow4kEH_yt92YQ

REPEAT OF LINKS FROM PREVIOUS EPISODE

Joel’s own podcast on First Nations talent in tv and film is called ‘Actors and Ancestors’ check it out here https://www.actorsandancestors.com/

Here’s a terrific interview with Jodie Foster and Showrunner Issa Lopez https://www.gamesradar.com/true-dectective-night-country-interview-exclusive-jodie-foster/

All about Kali Reis the astounding actress playing Evangeline Navarro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis

A wonderfully readable article on the locations used in this seasonhttps://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a46439515/true-detective-night-country-filming-locations/

Here’s a Buch of RECAPS from the likes of vulture, NYT, Variety and more …

https://www.vulture.com/article/true-detective-recap-season-4-episode-2.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/arts/television/true-detective-recap-episode-2.html

https://www.theringer.com/2024/1/21/24046238/true-detective-night-country-season-4-episode-2-recap

https://screenrant.com/true-detective-night-country-episode-2-recap-story-reveals/#the-researchers-have-spirals-on-their-foreheads

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a46410144/true-detective-premiere-recap-season-4-episode-2/

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/true-detective-night-country-episode-2-recap-spoilers-questions-theories-1235880441/

A brilliant resource called TuneFind which lists all the music used in tv and film and most importantly WHERE it occurs in the show ! https://www.tunefind.com/show/true-detective/season-4/246030

All about The Tuttle Cult as er Season 1 … and now introduced to this Season 4 https://true-detective.fandom.com/wiki/Tuttle_Cult

Horrific true life inspiration for the ‘Corpsicle’ of scientists from Tsalal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

And finally the IMDB page for Night Country with the complete cast list for this season, in case you need to remind yourself who is who … lord knows we do !

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29314270/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm