Is Night Country a Direct Sequel to Season 1?

Two episodes of True Detective: Night Country have now aired, and the connections to True Detective Season 1 preserve coming. The references appear to transcend easy nods or homages they usually have followers in every single place questioning if Night Country is definitely a straight-up sequel to the unique installment. WARNING: This article accommodates MAJOR SPOILERS for True Detective: Night Country! Continue studying at your individual threat…

The Spiral

Let’s get the plain one out of the way in which first. The spiral drawing that marked the cult on the heart of True Detective Season 1 is already a point of interest of Night Country. The mark was drawn on the top of a useless researcher and tattooed on the again of Annie Ok, a native lady who was discovered useless six years prior. Another researcher, Clark, was revealed to be in some kind of relationship with Annie, and bought the identical mark tattooed on his chest after her dying. 

There are extra oblique references to the spiral as effectively, like when Danvers spreads the pictures of the researchers round they usually make a spiral on the ground beneath her.

On its personal, the spiral can simply be chalked up to a piece of creepy occult artwork that makes reference to the overarching True Detective motto, “Time is a flat circle.” It’s consultant not simply of the recurring evil on the planet, however how our historical past tends to repeat itself repeatedly. 

When paired with one other huge Season 1 connection, nonetheless, the spiral in Night Country turns into much more of a head-scratcher.

The Tuttles

The look of the spiral appears to coincide with the presence of the evil Tuttle household. In Season 1, the Tuttles are the household behind the cult that Rust and Marty have been making an attempt to cease. One of their followers, Errol Childress, was the killer on the heart of the thriller.

The Tuttle household had a lot of energy and cash, with one in all their members (Edwin) concerned in politics. The one-time Governor of Louisiana went on to develop into a US Senator. The household has deep roots and deeper pockets, which leads us to Night Country.

Peter mentions in Sunday’s new episode that the TSALAL analysis lab, the place the scientists went lacking, was being funded by Tuttle United. Even if that is simply an Easter egg, it is undoubtedly not a coincidence. The lab was reportedly researching an historical microorganism that would assist remedy most cancers and sickness. Some referred to the enterprise because the seek for the “origin of life.” Pouring limitless quantities of cash into that form of enterprise has “cult” written throughout it.

Travis Cohle

There was a idea floating round after the primary episode of Night Country that Travis, the ghost who led Rose to the our bodies of the researchers, was truly the daddy of Season 1’s lead character, Rust Cohle. After all, Rust did declare at one level that his father went to Alaska and was dying of most cancers. Not to point out the 2 males share a resemblance.

Night Country Episode 2 all however confirmed that connection. Rose revealed to Navarro that Travis was dying of leukemia earlier than he walked out into the ice to die years prior. She additionally referred to as him by his full identify: Travis Cohle (spelling confirmed by HBO’s subtitles). 

Everything we find out about Rust’s dad traces up with the mysterious Travis character in Night Country, additional bringing the DNA from Season 1 into the brand new installment. It’s unlikely Matthew McConaughey reveals up or something, however there are undoubtedly some deep connections to Rust’s story. 

How related do you assume True Detective Season 1 and Night Country actually are? Let us know within the feedback!