REVIEW: DarkWinds is a gripping, pulpy drama with a tangible sense throughout that the people telling this story know what is distinct about it.
arrives this weekend as the first of a trio of summer shows focused on indigenous characters and featuring largely indigenous casts. Peacock’sFalls, a comedy about the friendship between a WASP son of privilege and a Native woman who has had to struggle for everything she’s gotten, begins its second season next week. And FX’s wonderful, about a quartet of indigenous teens on a reservation in rural Oklahoma, will be back in August.
The first season, developed by writer Graham Roland and primarily directed by Chris Eyre — both Roland and Eyre have indigenous roots — very loosely adapts a pair of Hillerman books,It pulls the plots of the two novels back about a decade to 1971, the start of a period of significant social and technological change for Native communities across the country.
Zahn McClarnon has not exactly lacked for work in recent years, especially since he was one of the breakout stars ofSeason Two as the coldly seething killer Hanzee Dent. But if he appears in lots of places, it is usually in supporting roles; if he’s lucky, he’ll get a spotlight like theepisode in which his character figures out that he is part of a scripted, artificial world, and fights to tell his own story instead.
The PBS films went for an odd-couple dynamic: Leaphorn as a longtime city dweller with deep skepticism, if not contempt, regarding the more supernatural parts of Navajo culture, and Chee as a believer training to be a traditional Navajo healer.splits the difference with a more nuanced and compelling approach, presenting both as college graduates with an interest in science, but also as men who have seen enough in their time on reservations to not discount talk of spirits and witchcraft.
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