True Detective: Night Country trailer takes Jodie Foster on a mysterious case in the cold darkness of Alaska

Last Updated on December 15, 2023

The new trailer for the upcoming season of HBO’s hit crime show True Detective has just been released courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. Season 4 of the anthology brings audiences to Alaska, where the location is known for having days of constant sunlight as well as constant darkness. Both extremes have been depicted in films like Christopher Nolan‘s Insomnia and the vampire movie 30 Days of Night. This new trailer has Jodie Foster back at odds with a mysterious killer, which will ring memories of Silence of the Lambs, and she pairs up with Kali Reis to solve a case that seems to tread on supernatural elements. It also looks as if this season is connecting to past seasons with the reveal of a spiral marking that has been featured in season one and season three.

The official description reads,
“When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”

Foster and Reis are joined in this season by an ensemble featuring Finn Bennett, Fiona Shaw, Christopher Eccleston, Isabella Star LaBlanc, John Hawkes, Anna Lambe, Aka Niviâna, June Thiele, Diane Benson and Joel D. Montgrand.

According to THR, “Issa López serves as showrunner on Night Country and wrote and directed every episode. She executive produces with Foster; Mari Jo Winkler; Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak for Pastel; Chris Mundy; Alan Page Arriaga; Steve Golin; Richard Brown; True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto; and season one EPs Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Cary Joji Fukunaga. Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Cathy Tagnak Rexford and Sam Breckman are producers.”