This ‘True Detective’ Mystery Is Driving Me Insane

I'm desperate to prove that the forces driving True Detective: Night Country's story aren't supernatural. Throughout the three episodes we've seen so far, I've pointed to Ennis's isolated living conditions, the darkness, its residents' lack of sleep, and the town's clearly-the-wrong-color drinking water. I stand with Detective Danvers (Jodie Foster)! There can't possibly be some "voodoo E.T. cosmic coompa loompa bullshit" going on in Ennis, right?! Then, at the end of Sunday night's epsiode, a guy jolts out of his hospital bed and yells some nightmare-inducing words to one of our detectives. Can't really explain that one away, huh?

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