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A new, fourth season of True Detective—subtitled “Night Country”— is out (in the UK, on Sky Atlantic). I hadn’t watched any of it, or seen so much as a trailer, before coming across heated discussion of the show online.
It began with some review bombing. This sometimes happens when a television show angers a particular kind of fan base, such as when The Last of Us featured a (devastating, beautiful) homosexual love story for a character that hadn’t had one in the videogame it is based on. Homophobic fans of the game flocked to rating sites such as IMDb to intentionally tank the show’s approval scores.