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Even True Detective: Night Country’s answers have mysteries

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True Detective: Night Country has come to an end, and while the finale revealed the answer to the season’s central mystery, there are plenty of questions left.
Despite the name, True Detective has really never been about tying up every loose end to a mystery. Sure, the detectives at the heart do their damnedest, but if you’re here for procedural and ethical police work, you’re probably barking up the wrong tree; this tree is more about glimpsing supernatural terror, refracted through the prism of human cruelty and violence.
But if you’re really in it for the mystery, and you desperately want a few more answers to the questions that True Detective: Night Country left you with, here’s everything as best we can put it together — including a few comments about the mysteries that the show smartly leaves unsolved.
[Ed. note: As you might’ve guessed: This post spoils the ending of True Detective: Night Country!]What exactly happened to the Tsalal scientists?
This is one of True Detective: Night Country’s best and most carefully unanswered questions. We know most of what happened to them, they killed Annie, and as revenge the women of Ennis forced them out into the snow to freeze to death. But once the women left, something else kept them there. We hear a few different people throughout the season repeat the phrase “she’s awake;” the show never clarifies who she is exactly or what that means, but it’s possible that whatever this seemingly supernatural force is also what really killed the scientists.

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