A beloved creator got dragged for dissing another peer. True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has not been quiet about his criticisms of Night Country, but people have drawn the line after his recent Instagram stories. He has been sharing negative reviews of the latest season that was created by Issa López.
Some people have been against the latest season due to it leaning into supernatural horror and for having connections to the sacred first season of the anthology season. Nic Pizzolatto previously called the connections between the first and fourth seasons of True Detective “stupid.” Now, he has shared some negative reviews that have also been praising his work on the first season.
True Detective Creator Nic Pizzolatto Slammed After Night Country Negative Reviews Shared on Instagram
As Instagram stories only last a day, it did not stop people from screenshotting the proof and spreading it on social media to shame the creator, who was the showrunner, writer, and director of the first three seasons. One X user called the move “pathetic.” Another called him “an enormous baby.” More chimed in, like one user writing that his behavior “has been increasingly embarrassing starting from Day One.”
The connections that rubbed Nic Pizzolatto and some hardcore fans the wrong way between the first season of True Detective and Night Country were varied in size. The connections included the symbol seen at the first crime scene in the Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson season, McConaughey’s character’s father, Travis Cohle, appears as a hallucination, and the Tuttle family has a financial tie to the Tsalal research facility.
The Night Country showrunner has responded to both the creator’s and the fans’ criticisms. At one point, she called for people to leave positive reviews after negative reviews came in to defend season 1 and attack her season for putting the two in the same universe. The other came from an interview with Vulture, in which she was asked about the creator’s criticisms. She said that “every storyteller has a very specific, peculiar, and unique relation to the stories they create, and whatever his reactions are, he’s entitled to them.” She “wrote this with profound love for the work he made and love for the people that loved it.”
All four seasons of True Detective are currently available on Max.
