It’s cold everywhere right now. Outside on the street and inside on our screens. It’s better on screens, isn’t it? In fact there’s just something about freezing winterscapes that makes for effective locations for films and TV shows, as well as thematic ideas around isolation, alienation and survival.
In just the past few months, we’ve had A Murder at the End of the World, an almost-good Disney+ show in which Emma Corrin slouched around Iceland as a Gen-Z hacker/sleuth, but the real deal has now arrived in the form of True Detective: Night Country.
