This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “Send It,” which is now streaming on Hulu. If you’re a Reservation Dogs fan who didn’t know that there are still two episodes to go, it would be hard to blame you for assuming that “Send It” was the …
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This post contains spoilers for “Wahoo!,” this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, which is now streaming on Hulu. Among the great things about Reservation Dogs is that there are no strict storytelling rules. Anything goes in a series which easily toggles between kitchen sink drama, magical realism, and broad comedy, …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “Frankfurter Sandwich,” now streaming on Hulu. A fascinating thing happens in the first scene of “Frankfurter Sandwich.” As Cheese’s adoptive grandmother Irene encourages him to leave the house and spend time with Elora and the others, she calls him …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “House Made of Bongs,” now streaming on Hulu. Earlier this season, Bear’s new friend Maximus showed him home movies from Maximus’ own teenage years, and it was hard to look at those images and not imagine a Seventies version …
Read More »'Reservation Dogs' Gets Breezy and Reminds Us Why We'll Miss It
This post contains spoilers for “Friday,” this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, now streaming on Hulu. And on the fourth episode, Reservation Dogs rested. Season Three began with the kids still in Los Angeles, and while most of them wound up back in Okern by the end of the premiere, …
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This post contains spoilers for “Deer Lady,” this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, now streaming on Hulu. “Just ’cause you can’t see something, don’t make it less real.” This was something Deer Lady told Big the first time she appeared on Reservation Dogs, back in Season One’s “Come and Get …
Read More »'Reservation Dogs' Season 3 Premiere: A Great Show Begins Its Ending
This post contains spoilers for the two-episode Season Three premiere of Reservation Dogs, which is now streaming on Hulu. “Bussin,” the first of this week’s two episodes, opens in typical, wonderful Reservation Dogs fashion. A tumbleweed blows across the plains, a Native warrior rides into the center of the frame, …
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Early in the new season of Dark Winds, a wealthy woman hires Jim Chee to help recover a lockbox that was stolen from her home. A skeptical Chee says that the job sounds simple, “Except nothing ever is.” You definitely cannot call Dark Winds Season Two simple. It features a …
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You’ve seen it a million times in a million different movies: A dude is cruising in his neighborhood, bumping bass-heavy tunes out of his car and dragging on a cigarette. His baseball cap is tilted, the heart tattoo inked on his cheek looks like a birthmark, and thanks to the …
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“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The adage comes from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, made by John Ford, the undisputed master of a genre that plays with the disparity between American myth and reality like no other. The new four-part Curiosity Stream docuseries The Real Wild …
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