According to ComicBook, since True Detective season four debuted on Jan. 14th for HBO, the season is quickly becoming massive hit. The second episode of True Detective: Night Country aired on Sunday with great ratings. The new episode outperformed the best episode of HBO’s other grand anthology series The White Lotus.
True Detective: Night Country is the first season to air in five years. The season, alike the others, tells a brand new story with original story lines and characters unique to each individual season. Even with the long break and new storyline, the first two episodes of the new season have already exceeded expectations.
“Part 2” of Night Country saw a 28% spike in viewership from the season premiere last week. 2.6 million people saw the second episode, which includes same night viewership from classic HBO and streaming. In comparison, in two seasons of The White Lotus, the highest-rated episode the series has had was 2.3 million same night viewers. According to ComicBook, the viewership statistics put True Detective: Night Country alongside Succession‘s final season.
According to ComicBook, the reason behind True Detective popularity continuing into Night Country starts with the tradition of fans acting as detectives themselves. Stringing through theories with clues that began with the first season back in 2014. Fans think there is a connection between the new season and the original, thinking the writers are trying to connect all the seasons together.
Per Deadline, HBO stated the series has became the streamer’s top title a week before the premiere of season four.
The official logline for True Detective: Night Country via Deadline reads: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers [played by] Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs Signals) and Evangeline Navarro [played by] Kali Reis (Black Files, Catch the Fair One) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”