Before the show runner accuses me of being a hating dude bro: I'm a woman.
I like the underlying mystery of the dead scientists but how are dancing ghosts more grounded in reality than what we've seen this episode?
Frozen bones don't just crack like that. Has nobody in the writing team ever handled frozen meat that's still attached to the bone? Sure if you flash froze it with liquid nitrogen you may make the bones brittle like that, but the temperature is apparently warm enough for the head, neck and lungs to unfreeze.
This is some real Gomu Gomu no freeze ass bs that could be in a light hearted One Piece adventure but not in True Detective.
And why is everyone so cool with seeing such a traumatic event?
Is everyone there a psychopath? That's nightmare fuel lmao.
We get so many throwaway scenes, how about one character acknowledging what they just saw. "Hey, about that human being we just saw scream like a zombie after we snapped off his hand... how are you dealing with that?"
And sure if this was a dark comedy it would work but TD season 4 takes itself very very serious.
The thing is I really like this season. I love the atmosphere, I like Jodie's role, I like the mystery. It's okay to like something but still acknowledge that it's not that good.