More than 30 years after Jodie Foster gave us one of the most memorable law enforcement characters in movie history as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs,” Foster remains at the very top of her game playing a cynical and world-weary Alaskan detective who is the polar opposite of Starling in just about every way imaginable on “True Detective: Night Country.”
In the fourth season of Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology crime series, Foster is never less than commanding in her portrayal of Liz Danvers, the police chief of the fictional and remote town of Ennis, Alaska, who has an uncanny ability to puzzle out crimes — and a remarkable propensity for offending and ticking off nearly everyone on her radar.
