Years before “Euphoria,” director Catherine Hardwicke had the teenage milieu locked down with her film, Thirteen.
01.08.2023 - 17:15 / variety.com
Alison Herman TV Critic The last we saw of the Reservation Dogs, the friends were letting go of their grief on a Los Angeles beach. The protagonists and namesake of the half-hour series on FX were thousands of miles from home, a testament to the flexible, expansive world-building of co-creator Sterlin Harjo and his team. “Reservation Dogs” is rooted in its specific setting of Indigenous Oklahoma, but the show also gives itself license to experiment with focus, tone and, eventually, geography.
It’s a story with the confidence to go new places, and trusts the audience will follow. As a result, “Reservation Dogs” could’ve started its third and final season just about anywhere. Instead, the action picks up right where it left off: with Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) and Cheese (Lane Factor) stranded in Santa Monica without a car or a plan.
Before the events of the show, the crew of Native teens lost fifth member Daniel (Dalton Cramer, as seen in flashbacks) to suicide; without a center of gravity, the group started to drift apart, onto their own paths of mourning. At the end of Season 1, Elora abandoned Bear to take off for California with Jackie (Elva Guerra), the scowling, bleached-blond ringleader of a rival clique. By the end of Season 2, the Dogs had come back together to celebrate Daniel as one, locking arms in the Pacific Ocean.
Years before “Euphoria,” director Catherine Hardwicke had the teenage milieu locked down with her film, Thirteen.
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large In what may be one of the most powerful and stirring episodes of the entire run of FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” the series this week took on the horror of assimilation “Indian boarding schools” — and attempt by the government in the 19th and 20th centuries to erase Native culture from the country. It’s another dark chapter that is well known by most people with Indigenous heritage, but something that most non-Natives have either never heard about, or only have a passing knowledge of it. For “Reservation Dogs” co-creator Sterlin Harjo, there was a responsibility to tell the story right.
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Sterlin Harjo is surprised that you’re surprised “Reservation Dogs” is ending. The critically acclaimed FX series, which returns to Hulu on Wednesday with its third and final season, is a dramatic comedy about a group of Indigenous teens finding their place among family and friends as they grow up in Oklahoma. But the thing about coming-of-age tales, Harjo notes, is that eventually the characters come of age.
Reservation Dogs, has said the show would have been nominated for an Emmy if it featured an “all-white cast”.The series, co-created with Taika Waititi, follows the lives of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma following the death of their close friend. When the show launched in 2021, it marked a landmark moment for Native representation, with an almost entirely Indigenous North American cast and crew.Ahead of the show’s third and final season, which premiered on August 2, Harjo addressed why he believes the show has been consistently snubbed at the Emmys – despite receiving critical acclaim.“If we would’ve been an all-white cast, we would’ve definitely been nominated for an Emmy after getting called the best show of 2022,” Harjo told IndieWire. “I’m not bitter about that.
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