‘True Detective: Night Country’: Creator Issa López On Drama’s Finale And What Really Happened To Navarro
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from the season 4 finale of True Detective: Night Country. HBO’s crime anthology wrapped its fourth season Sunday with detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) solving the murder of the eight men from the Tsalal Arctic Research Station who vanished without a trace.
Here, creator/showrunner Issa López — who came to the anthology after the writing and directing the award-winning Mexican film Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven) — talks about how she first broke the story about the men in the research station, who represented the drama’s moral center, and what it was like to work with Foster and Reis. DEADLINE So did Navarro become a ghost in the finale after she walked out on the ice? ISSA LÓPEZ I’m not saying that she’s alive, and I’m certainly not saying that she’s dead.
I very carefully crafted this as an ink block test for you to discover yourself as an audience member. I do love that Navarro states very early in the series that she has this impulse to just walk away and leave everything behind.
On the other hand, the entire series is an exploration of the fact that she feels a calling to the beyond. In the climax of the finale, and instead of fighting it and going in with pain and fear, she surrenders to it.
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