True Detective viewers make same complaint about episode 1 of new series Night Country

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True Detective viewers are making the same complaint following the return of the HBO drama.

The anthology series is again for its fourth outing, titled True Detective: Night Country, which started on Sunday (14 January) with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis within the lead roles.

Reviews of the new season have been constructive, with many praising the central performances – and going as far as to hail it nearly as good because the massively acclaimed first season, which aired in 2014 and starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

However, there’s one complaint being levied towards the present, and it’s to do with its opening titles – extra particularly, the selection of track that performs over the credit.

To date, every season of True Detective – together with the derided second outing – has been praised for its title monitor. Season one was The Handsome Family’s “Far from Any Road”, whereas Leonard Cohen track “Nevermind”, taken from his 2014 document Popular Problems, was chosen because the opening for season two.

In season three, which starred Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff, the opening music was Cassandra Wilson’s cowl of Son Hous monitor “Death Letter”, which meant season 4 had quite a bit to reside as much as.

Those tuning in to look at True Detective: Night Country swiftly realised that, this time round, the track is Billie Eilish’s “Bury a Friend” – and whereas it’s not the standard of the monitor that’s leaving folks underwhelmed, there’s a query mark surrounding the way it made the minimize contemplating it’s utilized in so many different movies and TV reveals.

The track, taken frm Eilish’s 2019 debut document When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, was most not too long ago featured within the trailer for Madame Web, Sony’s Spider-Man spin-off starring Sydney Sweeney, which is due out subsequent month. Among different issues, the track additionally featured within the trailer for Carnival Row and Night Swim.

TV viewers can even hear the track in titles together with The Society, Dickinson and Big Mouth, in addition to the movies Kimi, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and Sing 2.

One viewer wrote: “My only ‘real’ gripe is that they chose that Billie Eilish song for the theme. I like Eilish! It’s a good song! But it’s SO overdone for every single trailer/score. NEW SONGS, PEOPLE. PLEASE.”

Another added: “Billie Eilish for the new True Detective intro song is…. a choice that was made…” with another viewer wading in: (*1*)

True Detective is on the market to look at within the US on HBO and within the UK on Sky Atlantic and NOW.