True Detective season 4 viewers make same complaint about 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, regardless of (*4*)the bad-faith takes, with many praising its central performances – and going as far as to hail it pretty much as good because the vastly 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 observe. Season one was The Handsome Family’s “Far from Any Road”, whereas Leonard Cohen track “Nevermind”, taken from his 2014 file 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 observe “Death Letter”, which meant season 4 had loads to stay 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 observe that’s leaving folks underwhelmed, there’s a query mark surrounding the way it made the lower contemplating it’s utilized in so many different movies and TV reveals.

The track, taken frm Eilish’s 2019 debut file When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, was most just lately 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 yet another viewer wading in: “There’s like 10 needle drops in the new True Detective and they’re all so boring and colourless but worse than all of them combined is the title sequence song, which is the same Billie Eilish song they used in the Madame Web trailer.”

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