{"id":286570,"date":"2024-02-18T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/?p=286570"},"modified":"2024-02-18T21:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T02:37:01","slug":"true-detective-night-country-part-6-recap-the-return-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2024\/02\/18\/true-detective-night-country-part-6-recap-the-return-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"True Detective: Night Country Part 6 Recap \u2014 The Return of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following recap contains spoilers for\u00a0True Detective: Night Country<\/strong>\u00a0Part 6 (written by Issa L\u00f3pez and directed by Issa L\u00f3pez).<\/em><\/p>\n\n
Does True Detective: Night Country<\/em> have a happy ending? Do all stories deserve happy endings?<\/p>\n
More specifically, do stories immersed in—maybe embedded in<\/em> is a better phrase—death, grief, violence, loss, and regret deserve happy endings? Does a prolonged night, that seemingly never ends, deserve the daylight to come? Is it possible that a place like Ennis, Alaska, and a story like the one that happened from December 19, 2023 to January 1, 2024, can realistically move from a horrid, frozen tundra littered with dead bodies to the peaceful serenity of sitting by a lake in spring with a warm coffee?<\/p>\n
As Liz Danvers might say, these are the right questions we should ask ourselves after the events of a 75-minute finale that saw many, if not most, mysteries resolved in True Detective: Night Country<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Perhaps as expected, the more esoteric pieces of the story are left dangling. We now know what happened to Annie, to the dead Tsalal researchers, and to Raymond Clark. We know what happened at the Wheeler house. We know Pete and Kayla can reconcile.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know, and perhaps we shouldn\u2019t know, what the spirals mean and what exactly<\/em> they do. We don\u2019t know the significance of the oranges (orange peel spiral alert!). We don\u2019t specifically know what happened to Holden (Danvers\u2019 son) and Holden\u2019s father, although there are some clear clues. We don\u2019t know the finality of some characters that were shockingly absent from this finale, although that makes for interesting speculation. And do we actually<\/em> know what happens with Evangeline Navarro? I don\u2019t know that we do.<\/p>\n