Nic Pizzolatto, the creator of True Detective, is not happy with True Detective: Polar Night, the fourth season of his work and which bears another signature: that of the Mexican filmmaker Issa López, known for works such as the horror film Vuelven. And, now that the HBO channel has aired the last episode (you can read about it here), it is not censored: like a true hater of the mystery starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, he has uploaded opinions of detractors to his social networks.
“You had Jodie Foster, a threatening natural atmosphere, and access to Nic, McConaughey and Harrelson and even then you were unable to bring the story to a successful conclusion or maintain the suspense without depending on the cheap resources that are scares,” uploaded a user who he quoted him on Instagram. And what did he do? Share this comment about the season written and directed by López, which moved the action to northern Alaska where some scientists were found naked and frozen in the ice.
Regarding the fact that López made references to dialogues from the first season, he also shared another impression of someone not particularly satisfied with Polar Night. “I want to send my affection to Nic Pizzolatto. I can only imagine how it feels to have a dialogue that is a classic be butchered,” noted the user in question, who added that the final episode had one of the worst scripts he had ever seen and that it was “insulting to call it True Detective.”
This behavior by Pizzolatto, for the record, should not be surprising because he already demonstrated at the beginning of February that he was an artist of passive-aggressiveness, warning from his profile on social networks that “he had not contributed to the story” or to anything in Polar Night . “You can’t blame me,” he said in reference to the possible dubious quality of the fourth season. López, who was commissioned by HBO to reinterpret the universe of True Detective, did not want to get into the mud when asked about the supposed hatred that Pizzolatto felt for Polar Night: “I wrote this with a deep love for the work he did.”
He also explained that “it is a reinvention, and it is different” and that it was done with the intention of having fun and awakening feelings and thoughts in the audience. But above all he defended Pizzolatto’s right not to enjoy his work: “Each storyteller has a very specific, peculiar and unique relationship with the stories he creates, and whatever his reactions, he has the right to have them.”
Who has not been so benevolent towards Pizzolatto, however, is Kali Reis, who has played Detective Navarro in this fourth season. “It’s a shame… but, hey, I imagine “if you don’t have anything good to say, shit on others” is the new fashion,” she lamented from her Twitter account.
It is not the first time that Nic Pizzolatto has proven to be suspicious of True Detective and its authorship over the other. The first season, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, was applauded and recognized in part for the direction of Cary Fukunaga, who was behind the cameras in all episodes. And his bad relationship with Fukunaga, who won the Emmy for his work, is well known, both during filming and, it is rumored, due to jealousy over criticism that the direction had contributed to elevating inferior scripts.
