True Detective: How many episodes are in Season 4?
HBOTrue Detective Season 4 became the most-watched season in the show’s decade-long run.
True Detective Night Country – which is Season 4 of the TV thriller – ended last night. So how many episodes were in the fourth series?
Season 4 of True Detective came to a pulsating, heart-pounding conclusion last night if you are in the US. While the series concludes tonight if you are in the UK.
You can read our spoiler-free thoughts via Dexerto’s True Detective Night Country review here. Or for spoilers, check out our ending explainer here.
While an episode count can be found below, as well as details of how Night Country differs to previous seasons…
True Detective: How many episodes are in Season 4?
There are six episodes in True Detective Night Country, which is less than Seasons 1-3, as you can see below:
- True Detective Season 1: 8 Episodes.
- True Detective Season 2: 8 Episodes.
- True Detective Season 3: 8 Episodes.
- True Detective Season 4: 6 Episodes.
As for when those Season 4 episodes air on HBO/Max in the States, they are coming very soon:
- Part 1: January 14, 2024.
- Part 2: January 21, 2024.
- Part 3: January 28, 2024.
- Part 4: February 4, 2024.
- Part 5: February 18, 2024.
- Part 6: February 25, 2024.
What happens in Night Country?
Season 4 – aka True Detective Night Country – is directed by López, who also writes or co-writes all six episodes. Here’s the official synopsis:
“When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
Jodie Foster plays Liz Danvers, Kali Reis is Evangeline Navarro, while the rest of the cast includes Christopher Eccleston, John Hawkes, Fiona Shaw, and Isabella Star LeBlanc.
Season 4 airs on January 14 in the US, and in the early hours of January 15 in the UK, where it screens on Sky. For more coverage, head here, or check out the below articles:
