Jodie Foster mystery True Detective: Night Country scores season-high audience of 3.2 million for its finale on HBO and Max
The Jodie Foster mystery True Detective: Night Country finished its six-episode season strong, drawing an audience of 3.2 million for its finale on HBO and Max Sunday.
The broadcast was the season finale and the numbers were 57 percent higher than those of the January 14 premiere episode. Variety reported.
The show stars Foster as Liz Danvers, opposite Kali Reis’ character Evangeline Navarro, as law enforcement officers investigate eight scientists who disappear from the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska.
Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Christopher Eccleston and John Hawkes complete the cast of the crime mystery.
Sunday’s figures also indicated an 18 percent increase from the third episode of the series which aired on January 28.
The Jodie Foster mystery True Detective: Night Country finished its six-episode season strong, drawing an audience of 3.2 million for the finale on HBO and Max Sunday
The fifth episode of the season drew a total of 5 million viewers last week after it debuted in a special slot ahead of Super Bowl LVIII, the outlet said.
Ratings for the show’s fourth broadcast, which aired on February 4, have not been released by Warner Bros. Discovery, the outlet reported.
Overall, True Detective: Night Country averaged 12.7 million viewers across all platforms. According to the outlet, the numbers were boosted by Night Country’s production following the launch of Max.
The released figures reflect Nielsen statistics and information from Warner Bros. Discovery, starting with the first night each show was available.
The creator of the show, Issa LĂłpez, said this on Sunday Variety about the efforts she made to offset negative reviews (from fans of the show’s first season) when the latest installment of the series debuted.
âTo tell you the truth, at first it was a little disheartening to see a negative reaction,â LĂłpez said. ‘There are people who don’t like the series, that’s okay!
‘There are people whose opinions I trust, who do not like things that are sacred to me. But it was disheartening to see that at least some of them came from â well, automatic responses, let’s call them.
LĂłpez said she “thought that people who were positive about it should also speak out,” and that she came to understand “that it was useless to think about those reactions because they won’t change.”
The show stars Foster as Liz Danvers, opposite Kali Reis’ character Evangeline Navarro, as law enforcement officers investigate eight scientists who disappear from the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska.
Sunday’s broadcast was the season finale and the numbers were 57 percent higher than those of the January 14 premiere episode
The show’s creator, Issa LĂłpez, posed with Reis and Foster in London last week
She said that “the truth is that the series has been massively and beautifully embraced by people who were both familiar with the original series, and people who were not familiar with the original series,” as proven “by the reviews” and “according to the ratings .’
LĂłpez said of her work on the show, âI love the series so much. I enjoy making it so much. I love the actors, and we had so much fun.â
She said her favorite characters were Danvers and Navarro and the chemistry they displayed: “I just love how funny they are and how poignant and honest they become at the end.”