Reservation Dogs Kept Opening Its Arms
The FX/Hulu series taught its characters how to embrace community, culminating in Wednesday's stunning series finale.
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The FX/Hulu series taught its characters how to embrace community, culminating in Wednesday's stunning series finale.
Showrunner Sterlin Harjo wants you to know that the characters’ lives still continue, even if the show is over.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/FXIf there’s one turn of phrase that Bear, Elora, and the rest of the Reservation Dogs cast love the most, it’s gotta be “shitass.”For three seasons, characters young and old have spouted it back and forth, up and down the fictional streets of the fictional Oklahoma reservation town of Okern. Sometimes it’s used as an insult, sometimes as a term of endearment. More often than not, however, “shitass” is something in between—a call-out that spe
A bittersweet finale captures what made this irreverent, sincere comedy so spectacular in the first place.
In this depressing and precarious year for television, there have nonetheless been a few small, isolated miracles. Fresh off the disappointment of an expensive Lord of the Rings spin-off whose viewership took a nosedive after its ballyhooed premiere, this summer Amazon somehow managed to produce I’m a Virgo, Boots Riley’s Communist fantasy series about a 13-foot-tall Black teenager going to war against the Oakland police. In May, the screenwriters went on strike, at least in part over the creepi