Going deeper with True Detective, Curb returns, and more from the week in TV
A look at The A.V. Club's top television coverage from the week of February 5
True Detective: Night Country recap: “You’re not terrible”
Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) can’t sleep. It’s December 24, the seventh day of night, and the Chief is kicking off Christmas Eve by doom-watching that haunting ice-cave video of Annie Kowtok being killed. Adding to that holiday cheer is the unwelcome news that Captain Connolly (Christopher Eccleston) is early packing up the Corpsicle bodies for Anchorage—and is sticking around Ennis to mitigate the messy mine conflict—and the fact that Danvers discovers Navarro’s younger sister having a shirtless mental episode in the middle of a snowy street. Read More
Of course Apple TV Plus has a star-studded TV show lineup for 2024
Apple TV+ has quickly become a go-to platform for underrated dramas, big-budget franchises, and Emmy-winning comedies. This year is shaping up to be another strong one, at least if the upcoming content slate is any indication. At the Television Critics Association’s 2024 winter press tour, Apple TV+ unveiled its plans to keep audiences busy during the spring and summer. Read More
Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12 premiere: Larry is back and just the way we like him
Cue up “Frolic,” because Curb is back, baby! Larry David just choked out Elmo on the Today Show, then apologized, and now we’re ready to rock with some new episodes of his television program. And this is the season-12 premiere, so there’s a lot to establish. First of all, remember Maria Sofia? The horrible actor Larry cast on his show Young Larry in season 11 to smooth over a conflict with her dad? The first thing we get is a montage, showing us that she has since become a breakout star. She’s on the cover of all the magazines, winning the awards, giving the acceptance speeches: “I love you America, and you love me!” We see her on Jimmy Kimmel Live! getting praise for stealing the show on Larry’s sitcom. “Obviously confidence is not an issue with you,” Kimmel tells her. And of course she makes up her own lines. So there we have it: She’s definitely back here. But for how long? Will she fall from grace? Will her fame eclipse Larry’s? Read More
Time is a flat circle: All of Night Country’s connections to True Detective season one
True Detective: Night Country showrunner, writer, and director Issa López has told the story of how the fourth season came to be many times by now, including in an interview with The A.V. Club. She’s spoken at length about how she had a pitch ready to go when HBO came to her in search of ideas for a revival of the show, because she’d already been working on one. All she had to do was retrofit her original story about a pair of detectives investigating a mass death at an arctic research station into the universe of the show. One of the ways she did it was by going back to season one for inspiration, a “dark mirror” of the series she wanted to create. Read More
