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Spoilers follow forTrue Detective: Night Countryfinale Part Six.

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Its just one story, concludes Rust, still recovering from injuries sustained while capturing serial killer Errol Childress.

In both finales, the protagonists discover weapons that match the wounds on victims in long-unsolved murder cases.

They have too much to risk.

Thats why the parallels between these seasons are so important.

Its set in frigid Ennis, Alaska, instead of swampy Lafayette, Louisiana.

What did you want me to do?

Log every dude she was banging in the region?

the show does not.

Wives and sluts and daughters none with any interior life.Night Countrydoes the opposite.

Even its sly pop-culture Easter eggs take the masculine and turn it on its head.

Do you remember the name of Ryans character in that movie?

Thats an assumption the viewer makes, for understandable reasons, but one the show leaves open to interpretation.

They just manifest themselves differently depending on the culture and climate that gave birth to them.

Someone once told me time is a flat circle, Rust Cohle famously declared inTrue Detective.

Night Countryalso demonstrates that there are truths in every narrative that get left out of the official history.

When more voices get to tell stories, they only become richer and more illuminating.

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