r/TrueDetective • u/Sanctus_Poopabumsus • 21h ago
Finished Watching Season 4 Spoiler
Spoilers ahead!
So I finished watching Season 4 this morning and the resolution to this huge mystery, with paranormal overtones and references to the haunting Dyatlov Pass Incident was... a gang of disgruntled cleaning ladies forced guys to strip off and stand in the cold? Come on.
First of all, a bunch of full grown men would have torn those women to shreds. They knew that it was a life and death situation, and at least a couple would have wrestled the guns from some and then shot them, and/or beaten the shit out of them. True they would have likely shot one or two of the scientists, but they wouldn't have gotten them all. The writing in this show depicted all the men in this town as being a bunch of frightened rabbits. I know this idea that small women can overpower full sized men is a common trope right now, but come on.
Also, in terms of the disposition of the bodies- what happened to the vet who said that people who died in the cold basically looked like they had fallen asleep? After they had been herded by the disgruntled cleaning ladies out into the cold, naked, they would have just gotten cold and sleepy, gradually dying. The dramatically posed remains had proven that the dead men hadn't died of hypothermia in one episode, and then that point was completely forgotten at the end. Did the writer have memory problems?
This was a really cool concept for a season that was really, miserably underutilized. With all the cool paranormal stuff in it, I fully expected there to be some far deeper realization of the cause of death. Maybe something like a crazy reaction to the microorganisms they had found, unleashing an evil force that reanimated the dead. But no. All the paranormal stuff was probably mental illness and subconscious realization that led up to a group of angry women terrifying 8 full grown men into submission. Sorry- not buying it.
