Selome Hailu editor“Reservation Dogs,” FX’s new comedy about Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma co-created by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo, is breaking ground for Native American representation in Hollywood.
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his forthcoming Reservation Dogs series – watch it below.The Jojo Rabbit filmmaker serves as an executive producer on the new comedy show, which takes its name from Quentin Tarantino’s film and shows plot similarities.
Waititi co-wrote the show alongside Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo.The series “follows four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma who spend their days committing crime…and fighting it”.A synopsis adds: “Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy that follows the exploits of four
.Selome Hailu editor“Reservation Dogs,” FX’s new comedy about Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma co-created by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo, is breaking ground for Native American representation in Hollywood.
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For Reservation Dogs co-creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, comedy is all part of putting a new, refreshing spin on media portrayals of Indigenous communities.
seems like there are so few Indigenous actors because the parts that Hollywood executives typically look to cast are not the most attractive. “The thing is, Hollywood makes a western every few years where Native actors get to come and get killed in front of a camp.
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe indigenous experience is not a monolith, but “Reservation Dogs” co-creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, who grew up in Oklahoma and New Zealand, respectively, still found a lot of commonality that they wanted to infuse into their new show.“I think one of the similarities in all those communities — indigenous communities — is humor,” Harjo said during a Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show on Wednesday.
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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIt’s rare to see a series that conjures up a sense of place quite as well as does FX’s new “Reservation Dogs.” The series, set in and shot in Oklahoma with a cast, set of directors and writers’ room made up entirely of Indigenous people, lets us into a world television too rarely goes. The title reservation, a rural place where the only fun is what one makes for oneself, is a place our characters are keen to escape.
“Can I be Mr. Camouflage?” A young punk asks his friends in the closing moments of the “Reservation Dogs” pilot, helmed by Oscar-winning writer/director Taika Waititi (“Jojo Rabbit,” “What We Do In The Shadows”).
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