Kali Reis and Issa López respond to Nic Pizzolatto's criticism of True Detective season 4

[silverstarry]

Nic Pizzolatto, the creator of True Detective, has made it clear that he is not a fan of season 4 (which is the first season he was not involved with). When Night Country premiered, Pizzolatto changed his Instagram bio to read “True Detective S1-3 (NOT Night Country).” He has also been reposting negative comments like this about the show:

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[futile_devices]

Men are so

[deadendqueen16]

He sounds bitter as hell

[soul_amazinn]

I’m sure he’s bothered that s4 was so woman lead.

Reposting criticism just seems childish and bitter

[sarahvma]

Yeah judging by season 1 he likes his women to be barely legal and only relevant when sleeping with middle aged men, so.

[v_is_for_violet]

I remember years ago someone here called him Nicky Pizza and that has ALWAYS stuck with me lmaooo I just started this series for the first time last month, season one was obvious lightning in a bottle, season two was…weird and kind of cringe lol and I’m currently on season three it’s good but nothing amazing so far. But even in those inside the episode things he comes across as pretentious so I’m not surprised by this

[soul_amazinn]

Lmao Nicky Pizza

[blood_pressures]

Sorry, sorry, that's rude. Nic Pizzalatte.
- Lon Harris (@Lons) February 20, 2024

[pumkinbutter]

I didn’t see the new season, but my understanding was there were spirals, mentions of Rust Cohle, the Tuttles, and the “Time is a Flat Circle” line.

I didn’t realize she intended this season to be a reinvention, and had tied the story to the first season.

[sjazzmreow]

I don't remember Rust or the Tuttles being mentioned (they may have been, but not in a significant way. The spiral is a major motif, but time is a flat circle is said like once, not mulled over like in S1. It raises an interesting idea (the endless cycle fo violence against women), but isn't an explicit theme and isn't explored.

I read somewhere she saw this series as an inverse of the first in some ways - day vs night, hot vs cold, male dominated vs female dominated - which I really liked. But story-wise they don't feel particularly connected. I don't think having seen the first seasons added anything to viewing of the fourth.

[silverstarry]

Rose mentioned Rust when she talked about his father dying with Navarro. The Tuttle Corporation was mentioned a few times. The first time was when Liz had Peter dig around into who was funding Tsalal in one of the earlier episodes. It was mentioned again in the fifth or sixth episode when they figured out the connection between the mining company funding Tsalal and the pollution reports.

But none of the connections to S1 were necessary to understand the story (unlike, say, watching Marvel shows/movies these days). My friend (with a bike) has never watched any of the previous seasons of this show and loved S4.

[skeetertuskin]

Connections to S1 were forced and completely unnecessary.