Warning! Spoilers ahead for True Detective: Night Country episode 4.
Summary True Detective: Night Country episode 4 features the death of Julia, Navarro’s sister, prompting Navarro to get into a fight.
Star Kali Reis explains that anger is Navarro’s first response because the character feels like she has failed her sister, and Julia was the only thing keeping Navarro together.
Julia’s death mirrors what happened to the Tsalal researchers, adding further mystery to the potential supernatural events occurring in Ennis, Alaska.
The following article contains mentions of suicide.
True Detective: Night Country actor Kali Reis explains Navarro’s angry reaction to episode 4’s big death. Premiering on HBO last month, the hit crime thriller series follows detectives Navarro and Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) as they investigate the mysterious deaths of men who worked at an isolated Alaskan research station. One of the show’s subplots is Navarro’s relationship with her mentally unstable sister, Julia (Aka Niviâna), and episode 4 sees Julia remove her clothes and walk out onto the ice, killing herself. Navarro reacts to news of her sister’s death by getting into a bloody brawl.
In a recent interview with Variety, Reis explains Navarro’s reaction to True Detective: Night Country episode 4’s big death. According to the star, Navarro’s angry reaction is the culmination of a lot of complicated feelings coming to the surface all at once, including feelings of failure. Check out her full comment below:
“Navarro in that moment, the only thing holding Navarro together — besides the fact that she has an insatiable passion for fighting for justice, especially for women — her sister Julia is the only thing holding her together, for her not to go completely off the deep end. So once her sister is gone, she feels like she failed. She’s scared because she knows she’s about to unravel. But she wants to feel something. What’s the best thing I can feel? I’m pissed. I’m gonna go pick a fight. “Anger is the top layer of so many emotions. It’s the easiest one to get to first. And she’s quick. Navarro’s a quick trigger, so all that goes into anger. That’s where she wants to feel something. Because she knows Julia was going through so much pain. She knew this day was going to come, and she just wanted to save her sister. She wanted her sister to be okay. But she knew she wasn’t going to be, so she needs to feel that pain physically, that she knows her sister Julia’s been going through her entire life.”
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Julia’s decision to remove her clothes and fold them neatly into a pile topped with her boots matches what the Tsalal researchers did before they met their own ends out on the ice. The similarities between the two events are most certainly not a coincidence, and it suggests that the Tsalal researchers, like Julia, willingly removed their clothes and stacked them before their deaths. The major difference between Julia and the Tsalal researchers, however, is that it wasn’t the elements that killed the researchers.
The first four episodes of True Detective: Night Country are currently available to stream on Max, with subsequent episodes releasing on Sundays at 9 pm ET.
As for Navarro, Julia’s death has clearly had quite an impact on her. The episode ends with Navarro in something of a trance-like state with her eardrums ruptured, further reinforcing that there could be a supernatural power lurking in Ennis, Alaska. Navarro also tells Danvers that her family is cursed and that she’s going to be the next to go after Julia, potentially setting up a tragic end for the character in the remaining True Detective: Night Country episodes.
Unlike previous seasons, True Detective: Night Country is only 6 episodes long.
The show, however, keeps the possibility alive that what’s happening in Ennis isn’t supernatural. One popular theory posits that the apparent supernatural events that are occurring are actually the result of the town’s polluted drinking water. It remains to be seen what ramifications Julia’s death will have on the episodes to come, but the True Detective: Night Country mystery continues to be an unpredictable and haunted affair.
Source: Variety