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Grab your warmest winter parka because we\u2019re headed up north. After half a decade off, the dark cop anthology series created by Nic Pizzolatto<\/strong> returns to HBO with a new installment, True Detective: Night Country,<\/em><\/a> and a new showrunner, Issa L\u00f3pez<\/strong>*.<\/strong>* This season, two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster<\/strong><\/a> and newcomer Kali Reis<\/strong> join forces to solve a cluster of grisly, freaky murders in their hometown of Ennis, Alaska. As Foster\u2019s Danvers and Reis\u2019s Navarro attempt to get to the bottom of what\u2019s going down, VF\u2019s<\/em> Hillary Busis,<\/strong> Richard Lawson,<\/strong> and Chris Murphy<\/strong> will also attempt to crack the case on a brand-new season of Still Watching<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n We open True Detective: Night Country<\/em> with a bunch of male scientists hanging out at their headquarters, the Tsalal research station, watching the \u201cTwist and Shout\u201d scene from Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em> and making sandwiches. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, one of the scientists whispers, \u201cshe\u2019s awake,\u201d and the lights cut out. After Billie Eilish\u2019s<\/strong> appropriately creepy \u201cbury a friend\u201d plays over the opening credits, we learn that the scientists have vanished seemingly without a trace, though they are eventually found stripped naked and frozen solid in a \u201ccorpsicle\u201d on the Alaskan tundra. But that\u2019s not the only murder mystery that needs solving on True Detective: Night Country.<\/em> Navarro is convinced that the severed tongue found at Tsalal belongs to a Native woman named Annie K, who protested the town\u2019s mine, was brutally stabbed to death six years before, and whose murder was never solved.<\/p>\n