Episode 5 of True Detective: Polar Nightthe penultimate season, premieres this week on HBO Max Before the specified date This is due to the Super Bowl, which will be held on Sunday, February 11.
In the US, new episodes are scheduled to air on HBO on Sundays at 9:00 p.m., the cable channel's prime time slot for the cable channel's big series, but the premiere on HBO Max will be brought to Avoid competing with the NFL Grand Finalwhich this year also has the incentive of Taylor Swift's presence.
The fifth episode of the series will be available to stream on Max in the US on Friday, February 9 at 6:00 PM PT and 9:00 PM ET. In Spain it corresponds to 3:00 AM from Friday to Saturday, also on HBO Max. The episode will continue to air on HBO in its regular time slot on Sunday before the big Super Bowl LVIII.
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Common strategy
This isn't the first time HBO has used this early release strategy, the last of which was in 2023 with a series airing The last of us.
It gives viewers in the United States the opportunity to watch sports and series without having to choose. And the way things played out at the end of Monday's fourth episode will have a special impact on fans in the rest of the world Grateful to be able to make Episode 5 available sooner than expected.
“True Detective: Polar Night”
This fourth installment is set in Alaska The film's events take place on a long winter's night in Ennis, when eight men working at the Tsalal Arctic research station disappear without a trace.
To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Cali Reese) He will have to confront the darkness within and excavate the tormenting truths buried beneath the eternal ice. The cast is completed by Finn Bennett and Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who), Isabella Starr LeBlanc and John Hawkes (Dead wood).
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Nick Pizzolatto complaints
The season is written and directed by the Mexican director Issa Lopez (They are back). He is the first to not participate in it Nick Pizzolatto. It's also the first since its 2014 premiere to get good reviews, ratings that put it at or above the level of a film starring McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
Although as a signatory to the first three seasons, he continues to appear in this season's credits as an executive producer, Pizzolatto wanted to completely distance himself from the part, explaining to anyone who wanted to know that he “definitely I had no input into this story. Not in anything. “You can't blame me,” he wrote in the comments of an Instagram post.
Issa Lopez's elegant response
Major specialized media outlets tried to contact Pizzolatto through his representatives, but he did not want to make any official comment on the matter. The person who responded was Issa Lopez, the series' current director, who in addition to writing all the scripts also works behind the camera as director of the six episodes.
In an interview with Vulture in which he was asked about these statements, Lopez said: “I think every storyteller has a very specific, distinct, and unique relationship with the stories they create, and Whatever your reactions are, you have the right to them“.
he The season finale will air on Sunday, February 18 At the same time on HBO and can be seen streaming in Spain on HBO Max and Movistar Plus+ first on Monday the 19th.
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